SEV DEMO IS OUT!

[StarShadow]

Hey...correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like it's possible to trade unique/racial techs in SEV, that's pretty cool..

[Jayalin]

Question: I tried the "ALLTECH" cheat someone mentioned in some thread somewhere, as I wanted to see what sort of technologies are avaliable later in the game. I have to say, I hope that a lot of techs aren't included in the demo, because the results seemed pretty sparse, even in comparison to SEIV. Is this the case?

Also, a lot of the weapon damage formulas seemed to be weird, because it looked like at max level pretty much everything is inferior to anti-proton beam, including all the high-energy weapons and so forth. I thought this was pretty weird?

[arthurtuxedo]

Jayalin said:
Question: I tried the "ALLTECH" cheat someone mentioned in some thread somewhere, as I wanted to see what sort of technologies are avaliable later in the game. I have to say, I hope that a lot of techs aren't included in the demo, because the results seemed pretty sparse, even in comparison to SEIV. Is this the case?

Also, a lot of the weapon damage formulas seemed to be weird, because it looked like at max level pretty much everything is inferior to anti-proton beam, including all the high-energy weapons and so forth. I thought this was pretty weird?

If you look more closely, you'll find that even the APB is inferior to the Meson Blaster, which has the same damage and range, but is smaller and uses less supply. Also, the Meson Blaster version of point defence is a slam dunk compared to the other two forms of PD. Because of the way the formulas are written (Meson Blaster starts at lower damage but gets the same amount per level), I'm going to make an early call and say that the Meson Blaster will be the best weapon in the game, the Phased Polaron Beam of SEV.

Anyway, only some of the techs are actually included in the demo, and I suspect that some of the techs we did get are disabled (people are reporting that emissive does nothing, for instance, which I hope means that it's disabled for the demo rather than bugged).

[StarShadow]

Nah..if you want a really strong (direct fire) weapon, you need a maxed out telekinetic projector, range 12, and it does 1000+ damage unmounted...

In any case, you have to take into account the space each weapon takes up, and the fire rate, and the range(it's always nice to get the first shot). For example, you can fit 3 meson blasters in the space 2 APB's would take up, plus the meson blasters have range 12, APB's have a max range of only 9.

[StarShadow]

@arthurtuxedo

not quite right..the meson has a longer range(12) vs the APB(9).

As for the award of Best Weapon, I nominate the Kinetic Projector (Psychic Weapon), it has a range of 12, and a max damage of over 1000, unmounted.

[arthurtuxedo]

Yes but you can fit 2 Meson Blasters for every Kinetic and they cost 1,000 starting points, so I still give the nod to Mesons.

[Captain Kwok]

Warning. Do not look for logic or balance in the data files! Your brain will overload and your body will shut down.

[StarShadow]

Actually, the Kinetic does exactly twice the damage of Meson, the starting points aren't even a factor. So in the end, you end up with equal damage (vs space), at a cheaper overall cost. Advantage: Kinetic.

[Captain Kwok]

You could argue though that you need to spend 1000 racial points to get the Telekinetic Projector, which in turn might reduce its advantage...