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Sargon was wondering what they looked like. Hard to get a good screenshot because they move pretty quickly, but this is the general idea. Three separate emitters firing.
I just bought a few out of curiousity; only single and dual cannons, DBBs and turrets listed so far (granted I didn’t look very hard) and after trying them out I’m very underwhelmed – the proc/damage they do is sub-par to say the least (against NPCs).
But they look and sound nice 🙂
"Boldly bashing Borg to bits since 2012..."tried a set of polaron emitters (beams) ….I was kind of disappointed….will try them again later to see if I feel the same about them
I’ve loaded up my Sheshar with six of the emitters (plus a wise-angle quantum torp and a rapid-fire missile) for some broadsidey goodness. Yeah, not optimal, but it looks pretty great and is a lot of fun.
The missile launcher is kind of an experiment. The rate of fire is very high (2 sec reload), and it triggers projectile officers. Rough estimate is that it should increase the rate of fire of the wide-angle quantum by about 60% with a single projectile doff. And as it has the same targeting arc, they can both fire full-time. We’ll see how it works out. I may wind up replacing it with another emitter.
Regarding the related discussion some of us had in-game the other day about shield hardness, and the fact that nobody really knows for sure exactly what it is: Geko confirmed for me on Twitter last night that shield hardness is indeed resistance. Not certain of exact mechanics. E.g., does 10% hardness multiply damage to shields by 0.9, or divide it by 1.1? He didn’t answer that, but said he may go into the math on an upcoming podcast. (I realize this may all seem unimportant given that NPC shields are not a significant concern, but I figure deobfuscating mechanics is always good.)
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