Endless sky fighter bay free#

Ships on the whole 'feel' like they just don't quite have enough OP to fit what you want on them. Missiles are especially valuable for Safety Overrides ships due thier ignoring the range restriction. But they also allow ships to reach out and attack things from a distance. Especially for assymetric builds.Įxcepting some specialised loadouts missiles will always be fitted wherever possible because they are just too valuable a tool, and as pointed out above they (usually) don't generate flux. I generally don't downsize weapons if I can help it. Late game once blueprints have been found and caches recovered, ships will tend to become more specialised around a single weapon / role. Odyssey usually has several smalls empty.Įarly / mid game this is by using 'cheaper' weapons due to lack of availability, and building for saturation rather than finesse. Dominator also sometimes gets a medium in the large slot, even though it looks silly - a Heavy Needlers in particular actually works quite well because the ship sometimes runs into flux trouble and none of the large kinetics are efficient. Dominators can lose a few of the front/side smalls if I'm using flaks in the turrets (though I've been doing that less lately) - same with Onslaught, its front smalls are a bit suspect. Condors I guess I 'undersize' the hangar bays in that I almost always put very cheap interceptors in. Herons I nearly always run out of OP to use more than a few of the smalls because I like putting heavy bombers and expanded deck crew on. Medium missile pods are fonts of wonderful death that I would never skimp on. For small mounts, Reapers are nearly always a good choice even if nothing else seems attractive, while Sabots in are basically 'extra life!' tokens in destroyer level combat. With the exception of a few very tight OP builds I do put missiles on ships. I usually use few hullmods so have comparatively more OP, and I firmly believe that gunships should run flux hot.

Endless sky fighter bay free#

Its also decent anti fighter - fighters going for the target ship often fly past other ships, which then get free damage in before the fighters ever fire. It sounds dumb right up until that deadly swarm of 24 Harpoons from a station coming for your overloaded cruiser is targeted by 4 ships and eliminated without a single hit. The idea isn't so much to make a single ship invulnerable as it is to create a net of moderately effective PD. Usually this comes in the form of LRPD lasers (optionally + IPDAI), sometimes IPDAI tacs.

I'll add one more state of PD: area support. All of them I use are completely unarmed, and rely totally on fighters for combat. Use lots of blasters or other cheap weapons, or fewer electron beams, particle cannons, or expensive alien stuff. Starsector is not the only game that works like this those who play Endless Sky probably do something similar. When player wants to use elite weapons, mounts probably need to be left empty. It seems filling in all mounts is mostly for cheap (or undersized) weapons with low OP and flux costs. It looks stupid with only two significant guns, all on the left, and most mounts empty, but it is bizarrely effective. With enough combat skills, it is probably among the top two capital-sized brawlers. Like the three lance Odyssey from 0.8.1a, two plasma Odyssey with tons of dissipation and little else is highly effective as a playership. Two plasma cannons, some beam PD (seven burst PD or twelve normal PD), Xyphos and Longbow fighters. Special mention and worst offender is Odyssey. Partly to keep flux use under control and partly to have enough OP to get more important stats. Only two heavy weapons, two dual flak, and maybe a heavy needler. Legion has the majority of its mounts empty. (800 range in the rearmost turret is not very helpful if ship fires most at 900 range, and I need more OP for Expanded Missile Racks to power Locusts). Conquest only gets three ballistics out of four per side. Later, I started doing likewise for other ships, trying to keep them close to flux neutral. Lately, while trying to make Onslaught better enough at surviving and killing things in endgame fights, I started to remove luxuries like Vulcans on small mounts, and downsizing a heavy to Heavy Needler because it was more efficient than the heavy weapons. Either no weapons in mounts or even putting smaller weapons in oversized mounts.