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The very best part about the Hyper-Plasma Launcher.
fulleatherjacket
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If you kill a target with your torpedoes still flying around, they re-target. I've had awesome luck firing high yield plasma torps at a fighter while turned away from a battleship, then zapping the fighter and having the torps go after the battleship next. By then you can swing aroung for another volley. I've had countless fights with strings of green beads all over the damn place, burning everything to a crisp. Best torpedo evar.
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When you fire it in a small escort like I do the projectile just looks so over the top huge with complete unique death animation and sound effects. Total respect to the people who made it.
I might try the romulan torpedo out on another character sometime down the line
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Been that way for a few patches now.
Only targetable ones. Photons, Quantums, Transphasics, Chronitons and non-hy Plasmas don't.
Woahwoahwoah hold on a minute, you CAN use torpedo spread with the hyperplasma launcher?:eek:
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Yeah, did it on Tribble and a whole mess of torpedoes came out. Was crazy!
I guess that would be the final straw to make me abandon my quantums.... But now I'm afraid that Cryptic will "fix" it.... Well, I wanted at least one for my delta flyer anyway so I guess I'll requisition that tomorrow and try it out.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
You have to scream 'fire everything' at the same time or it wont work.
Well that goes for any torpedo using Torpedo Spread against a single target.
But the Hyper is really good with spread, and won't be surprised this gets nerfed.
It's not as good as you're making it out to be. It's a solid torp though. I'd use an Omega on an escort and a Hyper-plasma on a Cruiser/sci ship. The travel time of the torpedoes causes you to leave a ton of damage on the table when the target dies before they hit.
Now this isn't a final decision, he said there is the option of having it only target mines, but still... wtf.
FFS...
FRAKKING PvPERS Are some of the most vocal, biggest whiners out there; they hold unnecessary influence and sway with Borticus and the changes they blather on about usually suck
There...I said it.
And there goes my desire to try the STFs again.
Why the **** have these things in the game if you're going to disable them in broad contexts?
NPCs can already shoot down targetables if their weapons aren't stuck on cycle from attacking something else, just like players...
Do you have a source for that? Because that would make me seriously mad and it almost seems too stupid to be true. Unfortunately my trust into Cryptic has suffered enough that I believe it.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=491391
But it's just something they're considering, and most people, PvP and PvE, are against this particular fix. If Cryptic is listening at all, they won't use that one.
You sure about that? 'Cause I just got it last night, used spread on a Breen ship doing the dailies and my Armitage was just spitting out torpedoes...
I have never felt bad for an NPC before...
edit: I have 3 purple projectile DOffs, so I might have just had really good luck there with reload and fire. Either way... Lotta baked Breen.
500 years in the future and we still look like schmucks when getting our ID photos taken...
Even if they make the PvE mobs aoe only affect mines, they would render the mines useless, and it's one of the most underwhelming weapon ofthe game. It's situational at best, and useless most of the time.
Even considering it is so incredibly *bleeeeeeeeeeeeep* that I feel the need to farm elite STFs until I have the adapted MACO gun, shove it in my mouth and pull the trigger.:(
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Yep - you said it - and you're wrong.
Tric Mines are stupidly overpowered even for PvE - I was in a CSE just a few days ago when someone Tric'ed a cube and blew it away with a crit whilst all the probes were untouched.
That's just dumb and broken - it's as broken as the Heavy Graviton Beam was when it disabled the transformers so you could nuke the gates.
PvP is just as valid as end-game content as the STFs are (and way more interesting and challenging than herding bunnies on New Romulus) so I strongly support any efforts on Cryptic's part to bring balance to PvP and fix all these exploitable, broken systems.
While I agree that PvP problems are generally not limited to PvP (it's just that NPCs can't come to the forums to complain about balance issues), wouldn't it make more sense to adjust the numbers away from 'stupidly high in some stacked cases' instead of rendering the items useless scrap when performance actually counts?
Every single time something fun comes around they go and **** all over it.