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giving the borg a taste of their own medicine

darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
edited December 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I snagged the omega torp today... apparently its one of the few things in the t4 rep rewards that's working properly. Anyway, I gotta say, this torpedo launcher is awesome.

Firstly, you get 5 charges that you can fire in rapid succession (minus global cool down, course) but they're all lil mini vger torpedo balls, not the standard green plasma torp. With a high yield shot comes the big slow moving vger ball, complete with the sound effect as from the unimatrix ships.

The thing i'm loving, in addition to the pew pewness of this launcher, is the high yield shots do dissolve their targets. A quick run of ISE saw spheres just vanishing into nothingness, even the cubes went through the animation, though they still asploded as well so... hrm on that

but still, credit where credit is due. This is truly a fun weapon to have, and its practical! It's got some pretty high dps on it, andcoupled with projectile doffs, the thing recharges fairly quickly so a single launcher up front with this can fire fairly often.
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  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Do proj. weapon doffs recharge the "ammo" when they proc, or just allow it to refire more quickly?
  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    it recharges the ammo which is where it gets its firing rate from, but its not a slow recharge.
  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Nice.

    Follow up, does a multi-proc (IE more than one proj officer proccing on a single torpedo shot) regen multiple "ammo" units?
  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    honestly, I haven't paid that much attention to it, all I know is when the counter reads 1, then a few seconds later when I glance at it, its back up to 4, its gotta be charging pretty fast.

    *edit

    just for reference, im running a green blue and purple projectile doff so, I really donno exactly how much they're affecting it. I'll get around to testing it in detail at some point, I just know at this point, its destroying stuff like there is no tomorrow and has one helluva plasma burn. Granted, its still not like the magical 1 shot torpedos but still, its nawty.
  • olivia211olivia211 Member Posts: 675 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I read the title of this post and for a second I thought maybe we were assimilating the Borg into Americans....

    I will let you all assume what properties come with that. (wink)
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  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    hmmmm I stand corrected >.>

    [Combat (Self)] Your Plasma Energy Bolt dealt 8608 (40035) shield damage to Mogai Escort.

    [Combat (Self)] Your Plasma Energy Bolt deals 4448 (44483) Kinetic Damage(Critical) to Mogai Escort.

    [Combat (Self)] Your Plasma Energy Bolt deals 40114 (48249) Kinetic Damage(Critical) to you.

    I vaporized the mogai and myself in one go!
  • captrott1captrott1 Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Back to the drawing board for those torpedoes.
  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Can the small torpedos be shot down?
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  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    negative. they're like other standard projectiles.
  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Dammit, I guess I'm going to switch from quantums to Omega fore and Hyper-Plasma aft if that's possible.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Spiffy. Hows it work with Spread?
  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Spiffy. Hows it work with Spread?

    From what I remember bort (or possibly flakes, don't remember off the top of my head) saying it would function as a volley of smaller projectiles (basically the same way a generic plasma torp functions with Spread).
  • erraberrab Member Posts: 1,434 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Thanks for sharing the info on that Torpedo!

    Now I want's it....... Precious :D
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  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,987 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    The big High Yield ones can be shot down like the Plasma Torpedo?
  • allmyteeallmytee Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Also what, if any, console increses it's damage?
  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    the ambiplasma envelope or w/e they're called.

    and yes, the hy can be shot down
  • hroothvitnirhroothvitnir Member Posts: 322
    edited December 2012
    Have not tested it myself yet, but from the text it looks like the embassy science consoles with +X% plasma damage would probably work as well.
  • kitsunesnoutkitsunesnout Member Posts: 1,210 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    How much is this thing costing though? I am getting very close to reaching tier IV, but want to know if I need to catch up on anything I may be short on for it. I have been lusting after this weapon for a long time! My most wanted of all time!
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Same as the Cutting Beam. 500 Omega Marks and 15,000 dilithium.
  • kitsunesnoutkitsunesnout Member Posts: 1,210 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Wow, that's a bargain, I was expecting at least 30k dil or even 60k. Excellent, I was afraid I was going to be short!
  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    kitsunesnout wrote: »
    Wow, that's a bargain, I was expecting at least 30k dil or even 60k. Excellent, I was afraid I was going to be short!

    Me too actually. I'll reach tier 4 later this week, so I'll certainly pick that up for sure.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I am basing the cost of the Omega Torpedo Launcher on the cost of the Cutting Beam and Assimilated Console. There is the possibility that it will cost more, but since all sets that we have seen have the same Marks and dilithium cost, then it is highly unlikely.
  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    no, that's right. I think there was also some commodity cost in there as well but it wasn't much if any. I was unlocking other things at the time as well so can't really remember, but ya, 15k dil and 500 marks for sure though.
  • nileight1nileight1 Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited December 2012
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