Early weaonry?

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Graviton Hellbores have no use. They do about half the damage of APBs, and have the same range.

I really don't get the graviton hellbore. By the time you research physics 3, and gravitational weapons, you should have a better weapon.

Maybe if graviton hellbores skipped shields and armor, but we have null space for that. Maybe quad damage to armor? What I'm trying to do is apply some technobabble to this weapon -- it's focused gravitions, it should do damage to anything that has mass, maybe armor has more density and is affected more? Meh, I'm just being stupid here. Maybe if graviton hellbore was earlier on the research tree, or a racial tech, or I dunno if you found it as a ruin tech when everyone else had APB4, you'd be pretty bad ***, but ...

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The key to APBs is that you don't research them in the early-mid game. Use DUCs, then PPBs, then APBs + Shield Depleters (not Disruptors).

Don't scoff at the disruptor out of hand, if the opponent has shield regenerators or crystaline armor, you may want to take out shield generators as well as drain the shields, or theyll be back up again the next combat round