Sithrak Ships

Vortex · #1 January 23rd, 2004, 02:50 AM

Well I've just got the Sithrak mother ship to destroy then I think I'm done.
What's nagging me though is how useless the Sithrak ships are.
I'm flying a MkIII Abbidon Battle ship, with level 20 through 22 weapons, shields, and armour.
Against a Xiati Battleship I have to work reasonably hard and generally my 2000 point front shield has about 600 points left by the time the Xiati ship is wasted. Against a Xiati Battleship and Cruiser I'm into the armour.

However 2 Sithrak CriUsers plus a Sithrak Battleship can't even remove 10% of my shields before they're all toast.

Given the power of their weapons they should rip me apart but they don't. I now have fitted 2 null space beams and a pshyic flailer and they're devastating against most other ships, especially the flailer.

Is this another bug?

Still looks like the Meson cannon is the best weapon in the game. Good job its relatively low damage and low range, as its damage/weight/recharge rate isn't matched by anything else - even those wonderful Tachyon cannons.
Why anyone would fit Graviton Launchers, Gapital Missiles, or any other form of torpedos rather than plasma missiles I'll never understand.

Norfleet · #2 January 24th, 2004, 02:47 AM

Sithrak ships have crappy weapon arcs. Xiati ships have all-forward and all-rear weapon arcs. I think the Xiati BB has like 7 forward guns and 5 heavies that are aimed at you. It's mean.

Baron Munchausen · #3 February 1st, 2004, 07:53 PM

And they use Emissive Armor now. I am running up against Xiati battleships with all emissive armor, and it's cumulative! Argh... you can pound and pound on them and it only does incremental damage. Very nasty opponents.

Renegade 13 · #4 February 1st, 2004, 09:48 PM

By "now" you mean with the latest patch?

Baron Munchausen · #5 February 1st, 2004, 10:53 PM

Yeah, I don't recall seeing them use Emissive Armor much before. Maybe it was a bug in the AI ship design process rather than a change to the data files?

dHay · #6 February 2nd, 2004, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by Vortex:

Still looks like the Meson cannon is the best weapon in the game. Good job its relatively low damage and low range, as its damage/weight/recharge rate isn't matched by anything else - even those wonderful Tachyon cannons.
Why anyone would fit Graviton Launchers, Gapital Missiles, or any other form of torpedos rather than plasma missiles I'll never understand.

Toxic Injectors. Kill anything. Put 2 on your ship, get something to distract the point defence, and everyhing dies. Destroyers die on 2 impacts. Cruisers take 4. Battleships die in 6.

Personally, I think Toxic Injectors are unbalancing. There is no defence against them that works well.

I've run into my own TI missiles. And killed off half my crew. Ouch. (Ship was faster than the missiles...)