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sennahcherib
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can we expect one day 360° weapons for all the energies ?. they could be like the antiproton 360°, 1 by ship. there are 360° turrets, so why not 360° beams?
if a poll could be created; i vote YES -> i want 360° weapons
if a poll could be created; i vote YES -> i want 360° weapons
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And no most likely never.
They would be too powerful & it would be too efficient to NOT run a beam boat then..
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So I don't know. I'd say MAYBE? They seem open to exploring new weapon options and mechanics.
as the author stated one by ship so I vote yes
it would not take the game out of balance at all. its restricted like a lot of unique weapons
I don't think people think before they post ,or they just troll.I refuse to believe simple things like what you said are too hard to understand even for the new player who only played the tutorial.
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yeo full borg is win on any ship. borg tractor cutting beam buff 360 anti proton watch the cube die.
eh the days in sto where the borg where a threat long gone. only 1 borg stf where the borg will kick your TRIBBLE the one where fight the diamond.
Question, is the turret restrict to factions like disruptor for KDF, phaser for FED or you can pick both?
However...this doesn't make money, so Cryptic will never use this idea. If an idea doesn't make the greedy devs richer than they are, they won't do it.
You have to understand, the devs have a compulsive need to throw money in the air, shouting "I love money". They can't help themselves.
As much as I want to see 360 beam turrets, it will never happen.
From what I've seen and read on Tribble, it's not restricted. So Feds can use disruptor. And Klingons can use Phaser.
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Can I fill the entire aft section with Omni Beam arrays? No? Well...that is not what we want. I want my duals and Omnis...the ability to equip as many Omnis as I want.
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It wouldnt be to powerful. I'd love my a** off anyone who makes a pure 360 degree beam boat. Even with the slowest ships like carriers its easy to hold any enemy within the firing arc of all weapons if you go for full beams now.
360 degree beams would have to be balanced = less damage. Therefore, they would be a joke compared to current beam boats.
The charm in 360 degree beams would for escorts who do not want want to use any cannons to utilize the aft weapons.
I HATE putting cannons on any fed ship but the defiant. for purely aesthetic reasons.
So a dual beam focussed escort ship would use the "support damage" turrets give the dual cannon escorts. Thats what 360 degree beams would be for, and to me it sounds like an excellent idea.
Nope. No faction restriction.
ATM it takes, IIRC, a 4 tac console ship (or 3 with the best of the best items??) to make a turret of your (non AP type that matches the consoles) do more dps than the omni beam. So having 3-4 omni beams (or similar) with 4 or 5 DBB up front is a serious dps increase --- esp if they match your type.
Also, even if they don't match your type... if you can have 1 omni and 1 cutting beam and 1 (whatever else it is) beam and 1 (something else again) beam ... its more dps (on some, even most??) than turrets.
Which mostly is reiterating that turrets are terrible --- but they need to either limit to 1 360 beam (cutting beam excluded), not add any more of them, or something if a dps boost (and the final coffin nail for cannons) are not desirable.
My take on it is "yes, with limits" or "no" or "yes, but same dps as turrets".
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And you forget that using the assimilated tractor beam on a target hit by the KCB, grants you extra damage from the KCB.. lol.
Yea I'll take 8 of them right now please!
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LOL. In 3 of my 6 ships thats what i have.. lol.
I wonder if some day we will see special turrets dealing more damage, or any special turret weapon from a rep or a mission.
I really need to see turrets revamped or at least, complemented with some booster or something else. I want to use em, but they are so stupidily useless that you need to put 3 of em at once to be worthy.
If we did, I'd go try my turret/mineboat out again, was fun in PVE/PVP, but not quite as effective as what I currently have.
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It would take all of the strategy out of playing a beam boat, and would make turrets practically obsolete.
Never got this. Hell make them WEAKER than cannon turrets so they are basically a low yield return. But in return you get to use beam attacks. Make my torp/ mine laying sci ship able to still use the science sub section attacks but I don't do a lot of DPS that way.
Basically make it so using 8 of these would be less effective than using 8 cannon turrets. But now atleast we have 360 array turrets to use.
BAM problem solved.
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Well they would have to be weaker wouldn't they? Beams fire 3 volleys each fire right? Cannons don't?
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
Has to do with powers and abilities. With A2B and FAW and tack on EP2W you can sit there and just unleash hell with 8 360 arrays, even with them just as strong as normal cannon turrets, they could pump out some impressive DPS without having to angle their ship at all. Just fly in and fire.
That's why I think that if they put in 360 array TURRETS, they need to be weaker than standard cannon turrets.
Now the current arrays, are specialty items like the antiproton beam and the kinetic borg array. Those are diffferent.
But if they put in full on 360 array turrets, they all can't be that strong otherwise we'll have FAW raging from here to christmas.
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Yes, we already have the Omnidirectional Antiproton Beam turret available, but we would like for there to be versions of it for the other energy types--Phaser, Disruptor, etc. to match with whatever energy type we are using for our ships. Being limited to mounting only one Omnidirectional Beam Turret would keep the normal aft Beam Arrays from being made totally obsolete.