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Please get rid of the shared torpedo cooldown!
peter1z9
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It makes me sad that torpedoes don't work like energy weapons and fire in sequence. I would LOVE to have both the Romulan Hyper-Plasma and Omega torpedo fire forward together at almost the same time. Unfortunately when I slot them both up front (in whichever position along with a beam), the Omega Torpedo will happily pew pew away while my Hyper-Plasma just sits there because of the shared torpedo cooldown. The only way I can occasionally get the Hyper-Plasma to fire is to either endlessly mash buttons with manual fire or force the Omega to cooldown with a THY.
And yes, I am using 3 purple torpedo doffs. (Overkill I know, but I like to drain the borg into submission and make them burn!)
Torpedoes already have enough problems with the insane lack of shield penetration (even with only a tiny sliver of shields on the target). But the shared cooldown makes them even worse.
And yes, I am using 3 purple torpedo doffs. (Overkill I know, but I like to drain the borg into submission and make them burn!)
Torpedoes already have enough problems with the insane lack of shield penetration (even with only a tiny sliver of shields on the target). But the shared cooldown makes them even worse.
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Definitely kind of annoying not to be able to fire them all at the same time like somebody could do with their energy weapons...but it would take a lot of work on Cryptic's part to try to balance it out, no?
No. Your fun makes everyone else's fun wrong by default.
I agree with Virus here. For all the issues this game has, keeping a 1 second delay between torps helps balance them out.
Now mines on the other hand...
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What the OP is asking for is to get it into a sequence. I.E. if you have 5 torps, it isnt blasting 5 at once, its pop, pop, pop, pop, pop in a sequence. With the current global of that one second its (next to) impossible to get a secquence acheived.
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Exactly. It's less noticeable but beam weapons and even cannons do the same thing with sequence firing. However, if you have more than one torpedo forward or aft, the torpedo shared cooldown doesn't allow them to fire in sequence without one suppressing the other one's firing cycle. You can see this in action especially with multiple photons or any projectile along with the omega plasma torpedo. Even when I put the Omega in the last (rightmost) forward slot, more often than not it will continually override the other torpedo in the first (leftmost) forward slot.
This sounds like an autofire fail.
You have to pay attention to the firing priorities of the weapons you've configured on autofire. When you set your Romulan and Omega Torpedoes on autofire, you must right-click you Romulan Torpedo (to set it to autofiring) before you right-click your Omega plasma. This establishes firing priority, and lets your Romulan torpedo fire first whenever possible. Otherwise, your Omega will always assume firing priority and will always suppress your Romulan torpedoes.
I was trying to follow outdated information that said "Weapons auto-fire in the order they are placed in the Weapons Tray". However, I didn't even consider that the order of right-clicking to enable autofire mattered. I just tested and it really does. Thank you!!!!!!
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