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I would like to see a weapon system added to the game: a Single Beam Bank. Almost as powerful as Dual Beam Bank, the SBB as the same narrow fire arc but is one beam instead of two.
Many ships canonically fire a single powerful beam forward (such as the D'Deridex, Vorcha, Jem'Hadar fighter). Equipping the Beam Array is not as powerful and the wide firing arc makes the weapon look weird.
Many ships canonically fire a single powerful beam forward (such as the D'Deridex, Vorcha, Jem'Hadar fighter). Equipping the Beam Array is not as powerful and the wide firing arc makes the weapon look weird.
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like Phase Cannons from Enterprise?
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Would be easier just simply asking for them to change dual beams to heavy beams instead of bending backwards to add a new weapon that isn't really any different from another other than just a visual change.
Amen to that!
I imagine the solution to this would be, ultimately, if the weapons were not unique and the ship hardpoint determines the type of fire, rather than the type of weapon.
I think a heavy-hitting, slow-firing energy weapon on the Defiant should end up as a cannon emplacement, and on a cruiser, a beam.
I'm not sure how to manage this technologically, but it would look more like the shows...
Beam Fire at will would remain single target and just increase refire rate? Beam overload could have its multiplyer reduced to compensate for the higher initial damage value but fire twice and peirce through multiple targets. Subsystem targeting could have a longer duration or effect.
I'd disable the visuals of all beams except one on the front and one on the rear of my ship. It'd look a lot better.
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It is a peculiar phenomenon that we can imagine events that defy the laws of the universe.
Maybe something more simple meaning massive increase on cruisers forward shields, and while only forward weapons are activated, those weapons receive a 50 percent increase in damage, but as soon as aft weapons are activated there damage is reduced to normal. Most of the time when a cruiser is about to go boom, not all the time, but most of the time its from rear attacks or attacks on the Nacelle. Just a thought. It would still make cruisers vulnerable to attacks by other ships on the rear and right/left side of the ship.
Then again you can disregard my post if your talking purely visual.
However I do like beams on a ship in the form of a single, forward mounted mega death ray and this idea certainly fits the bill.
Almost sounds like a Beam Array using Beam Overload.
Or maybe there could be something like a Linked Beam Array that connects the firepower of the other beam arrays on the forward or rear weapon arcs that could either allow for a long duration beam attack (similar to the Vesta's) or multiple powerful short beam bursts that we saw the Enterprise D do on TNG several times.
Then they could create charge animations for Federation ships with array strips.
If that's the case, wonder why they never made WoK Gattling Phasers?
Could see it be like a cross between beams and canons. Where they are beam attacks, but have the faster rate of fire and range limitations of canons.
This could add to the possibility of Beam turrets that allow some ships to be more competitive with escorts without loading up turrets.
And there are other weapons they could add. Like
- TOS Phaser Proximity blasts
- Energy Beam Phasers (weapons that could be use to transfer energy)
- Photon Pulse Energy Beam
- Powerful Red Disruptors Beams Klingon D7s used in DS9
- Heavy Blast Disruptor Canon Fire (Canon Overload).
- Lasers (yes, Lasers)
And there are a tons more opportunity that Cryptic really yet to touch on.I wonder if a solution to this problem doesn't lie in how weapons drain weapons energy. What if instead of being left to a 'fixed' level of weapons energy drained per weapon, each weapon would drain as much energy as you let it, up to a maximum of the number of slots available for that type? You could then decide if you want refire rate of multiple weapons or single-firing weapons. This would obviously benefit beams (which could be mounted fore and aft), albeit with some commensurate tactical disadvantages which the player would have to be careful of.
For example:
Cruiser:
Fore: Beam/D, Beam/D, Beam/A, Torpedo
Aft: Beam/D, Beam/D, Beam/D Beam/D
In this configuration, all beams "D" are deactivated, and beam "A" is activated. Beam A does 7x as much damage and drains 70 weapons power per shot. However, Beam A can only target the forward 250' arc, and only refires as fast as a single beam: in essence, it concentrates all beam firepower on the ship.
Basically, any ship should be able to pump all of its firepower for a single weapons type through a single weapons battery. This would provide a useful flexibility to cruisers and science ships that they currently lack while not actually changing the damage paradigm much. Just expanding tactical options.
It would also make ships "look" more like ST ships do on screen, if the players want it: they fire one or two beams at once, no more.
The ability to assign firing modes would be nice too.
Be able to fire in volley mode (each weapon fires 1 shot at the same time)
Salvo (each weapon fires once in sucession)
Ripple (each weapon fires it full load in sucession)
Full release (each weapon fires as soon as its able)
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I'd personally like a setup similar to what Starfleet Command 3 had, but with the same weapon variety (different types with associated criticals, modifiers, etc). Having hardpoints with arc restrictions would be an interesting twist. Cruisers would finally gain an advantage, since the smaller escort-level ships are mostly oriented to the front.
Make it so !
Uhhh, kinetic cutting beam ring a bell? :P
This! So much this! Arc restrictions AND what squishkin said about weapons power!
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
But most important is limited arc so that it's possible for Galors, D'Deridex's. Bugships, Andorian ship, Vorcha etc all at least have the option for a weapon that looks like the screen version. A Beam that fires and then doesn't rotate to fire out of the front at a funky angle when you turn.
They might be able to do that with making a visual change to the ships.
If you mount any DBB onto a Galor-Class for example, they will always fire as a single beam from the main deflector/big central phaser emitter.
http://i.imgur.com/O9gOISs.jpg
firing a Disruptor-DDB. The upper one is BO, the lower one regular fire.
I wouldn't say that is a single beam, the two beams are likely very close together. Plus I don't think there are any ships in the game which have dual beams so close.
The Andorian ship has recoiling wing cannons, though, which looks pretty cool. I really hope some of the BoPs will get that treatment.
Not entirely sure, but think this might have to do with game balance as well as server memory space. (More weapons on a ship per player = less memory).