Proportions 2.4.2 released

[Fyron]

Temporal Scanners. You get them much sooner than you would get Hyper Optics, Tachyon Scanners, or Gravitic Scanners.

[PvK]

See how many neat things Temporal has? But one of their most powerful and I think usually overlooked hasn't been mentioned yet. ... unless I'm nuts.

PvK

[dumbluck]

I hate guessing games. Why don't you just let us in on your little secret?

[oleg]

In standard SE IV small time distorsion bLast is IMHO the best fighter weapon. It is weaker than say small telikinetic projector or small electric discharge, but against heavily shielded battlecruisers and battleships, sTDB performs much better.
In Proportions it is not as powerfull though.

On the other hand, regular TDB is a nice weapon. In normal SE IV PPB is a no-brainer before phased shields but then everybody would have decent shield depletors. Hence, there is no much use for TDB. In proportions good PPB take a long time to research and TDB certainly has its use.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by oleg:
In standard SE IV small time distorsion bLast is IMHO the best fighter weapon. It is weaker than say small telikinetic projector or small electric discharge, but against heavily shielded battlecruisers and battleships, sTDB performs much better.
In Proportions it is not as powerfull though.

On the other hand, regular TDB is a nice weapon. In normal SE IV PPB is a no-brainer before phased shields but then everybody would have decent shield depletors. Hence, there is no much use for TDB. In proportions good PPB take a long time to research and TDB certainly has its use.

I agree about the small TDB. Size, damage & range same as small DUC (well, actually the small DUC has worse range at level 1); however, that 4x damage to shields still holds. So a Small TDB 3 will do 60 damage to shields at range 2, in a 3kT package. And the small shield depleter 3 will only do 15 kt damage (in a 2kT package).

However, I'd have to disagree about TDB not being as useful as shield depleters + another weapon. The TDB does almost as much damage as the shield depleter at highest levels (TDB is better than the shield depleter at level 1 ! ), and goes on to do internal damage as well. Besides, by the time everyone else has phased shields and the standard shield depleters, temporal has the shield accelerator...

[oleg]

I did not check it myself yet but wonder if anybody can answer this question: fighters use shields as part of structure (related thread - http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=006412 ), so what happens when TDB or small TDB hits fighters stack ? Does 4X shield damage have any effect ?

[oleg]

Well, it seems like 4x shield damage is completely ignored against shielded fighters.
All this business about special treatments of units makes me sick.