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Omni-Directional Antiproton Beam needs a fix
darramouss1
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Hello.
When you parse a match, the Omni-Directional Antiproton Beam damage is included with the damage registered by standard Antiproton beam damage. This makes no sense, especially when you consider that Antiproton Dual Beam Banks have their own damage category.
Cryptic, thank you for the new gear. I'm highly impressed. Yes, I understand that you guys are busy but is there any chance you can give the new weapon a unique tag so that its damage shows up under its own class on combat parsers?
Anyone agree/disagree?
When you parse a match, the Omni-Directional Antiproton Beam damage is included with the damage registered by standard Antiproton beam damage. This makes no sense, especially when you consider that Antiproton Dual Beam Banks have their own damage category.
Cryptic, thank you for the new gear. I'm highly impressed. Yes, I understand that you guys are busy but is there any chance you can give the new weapon a unique tag so that its damage shows up under its own class on combat parsers?
Anyone agree/disagree?
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Also, doesn't the 360 antiproton beam array have a lower dps than a standard antiproton beam array? I looked at it, and it appears to do more than a turret, but less than a beam array. Unless it's bugged and not doing enough damage, that's probably intended.
But it is just a normal AP beam array, just because it doesnt have the same icon as a regular beam array doesnt make it not a beam array. And to be honest why should a 360 beam array have the same icon as a 250 degree beam array.
The romulan plasma array fires 2 different energy types plasma and disruptor. The Chroniton fires a unique shot and benefits from antiproton mods. the Elachi heavy cannon is unique because it has the chance to ignore shields and 50% damage resistance.
The 360 AP array is just a normal beam array with an [arc] modifier.
A "normal" 360 antiproton beam array with lower damage output. So technically, yes, it has [Arc] since the added angle means lower damage to compensate.
Jesus just be happy you have a 360 deg beam weapon!
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In my original post I asked for a little change and you think that's whining? What, when you were small and you asked your Mum for some orange juice did she accuse you of whining?
Agree, and to the people that can't read the OP, he doesn't want to change damage, ect but a own damage category in the parse so we can see how it does in a match.
Like most, he wants to compare the beam to the other weapons on his ship.
(I don't know the OP and if im wrong im sorry)
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You are 1,000% correct. The weapon is wonderful how it is. All I want is to be able to see it's damage output on a separate line in a combat parser.
On a separate note, in order to see whether the new weapon is worth replacing a standard array I tried this little test. My current ship has the chrono dual beam, a standard AP array and chroniton torps on front, two AP arrays and the temporal disruption device on rear. I wanted to see whether it would be prudent to replace a rear array with the omni-directional array.
As the omni-directional can't be independently parsed, I took off my AP consoles, replaced the front AP array with a phaser array, one of the rear AP arrays with a plasma array and swapped the last AP array on the rear with the omni-directional. This way I could directly compare the omni-directional with a rear mounted array.
Every parse test I've done has the omni-directional doing more damage than the other rear array. It may have less damage but the [arc] more than makes up for it. If you have an AP beam boat that likes to face forward against an opponent, it's definitely the way to go. If you prefer to broadside AND you're not going to use the special warp core then I'd not use it.
I do agree though - it is a bloody awesome weapon
I'm pretty sure that neither the new mission or the AP beam turret were on Tribble.
no, you're making a mountain out of an anthill. Can't you just be happy we now have a 360 degree phaser bank? Hasn't been out what 3 days and people already think it needs fixed?
Yeah that's whining.
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He politely asked for a quality of life fix, a perfectly reasonable request. *You* are the one being unreasonable here...
I have a Fleet Torkhat that runs an all AP beam build with 2 dual beam banks and two arrays fore and 4 arrays aft. I replaced one aft array with this puppy as well as mounting the companion warp core and saw a 3k DPS increase, overall, with no other changes made. Love it. :P
Man, that was the bummer for me.
For those of us that want a 360 degree beam weapon, the idea is to use DBB forward and beam turrets on the rear to get basically a beam-escort layout on something like a science ship or fast cruiser.
Use 3X DBB front. Cutter/Omni/ Maybe Mines or turret? rear
For ships with a decent turnrate, a nice high damage torpedo is great as a rear slot weapon.
If you have an exceptional turnrate, go for a slow moving high damage torpedo (I use Temporal Disruption Device) because you can launch it point blank in an enemy's face.
Charge at them, cannons/DBB blazing, U-turn and deliver a torpedo, darn away U-turn, guns blazing again just in time for cooldowns.
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