The Intelligence Captain - A fourth potential captain type for Delta Rising?

usshannibal

As we have already seen from previous Dev-Blogs, a new Boff class with complete new abilities is going to be established, besides the new intelligence type ships with their unique hybrid Boff seating, coming online with the approaching major update.

Will this addition be a preliminary stage to pave the way for the introduction of a further type of playable captain having access to a bramdnew set of innate captain abilities?

If the Devs are planning to do so, how could it affect the future pvp-environment, especially for team-based pvp and how would its innate skills look like?

Since we know from descriptions and announcement, what roles they should serve as, I guess such a captain might serve more as a support role for the offensive-based tactical captains.

Its main task is to gather Information about its foes by achieving reconnaissance and espionage with the objective to figure out potential weaknesses and vulnerable areas of its opponent.

In order to accomplish such a mission it is required to be absolutely invisible for any Kind of enemy and designed for reaching high velocities if he finds a way to detect the scout vessel. It could resemble a stealth aircraft in modern warfare: Lightly armed and armored, versatile, agile and nearly undetectable for radar equipment.

Assumingly, all those factors must be fulfilled, such a captain might be composed of abilities like:

- Intel Fleets (AoE Intel team) providing a stealth bonus to all
your team comrades, an immunity of opposing Intel debuffs or vulnerability exposures
and bonus to inertia and defence as long as it remains active.


- Probably something like a powerful innate "Intel cloaking
ability" that enables the user to get completely invisible even for outmaxed
snooper builds on any ship for a certain duration in order to retreat if it'll get heavily
focused during combat.

- An extended version of the kinetic magnet which doesn't reduce kinetic damage
resistance but even applies a hull resistance debuff to all damage types temporarily like
a general "hull-destabilizing magnet"

and so on....


As a result it could play a role as a massive debuffer or disabler and acting more from the "background" due to its highly developped stealth for instance.

The downside: Everyone would have to create, level up and equip a new captain type from 0 which's going to be enormously time-consuming and takes plenty of efforts.

However, it would be definetely interesting to see our 3 already existing captain types getting reinforcements from an Intel one.

What's your impression? Could the implementation of this idea be realizeable, due to the clear pointers of what cryptic has been announcing and integrating into the metagame for some months ?

dontdrunkimshoot

in the newest P1, geko said they considered intel captains, but decided to just make it a specialization type of thing instead. and that they would make new captain classes, but nothing from the IP really exists that could be half convincing enough to warrant an entire new captain type about it, but they would take suggestions if anyone can think of something. but like with intelligence, there are several sub carrers that could be represented by specializations instead. the new ships can have intel powers, and you unlock intel ground power kit mods in the new reputation, i think you can run nothing but those even, on any of the 3 captains.

grandpadxx

Hi Hannibal, ..


turn your computer off .. go swim .. get yourself a wife .. buy yourself an ice cream or whatever, enjoy your holiday. ^^

greetings

playhard88

pvp meta will be ruined before that, don't worry.

usshannibal

grandpadxx wrote: »

Hi Hannibal, ..


turn your computer off .. go swim .. get yourself a wife .. buy yourself an ice cream or whatever, enjoy your holiday. ^^

greetings

Luckily, we are living in modern age where the internet can be accessed outdoors and on the move by various electronic equipment like tablets, smart phones and so on. A device such as a PC is a luxury good in the region where I am located, currently , the connectivity is barely sufficient to check out forums.
However, I had to chuckle about your statements, thx for pointing these out, Daddy Lilu.

thissler

As so many items from old posts have come to pass, I hope that what we are actually seeing is the end of the captain by class era. So far that's the last of the 'suggestions' that hasn't happened yet. Although they DID take a half step by implementing the ship traits.

So more like three less captain types. That would be good.

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