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genethitami
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Hello,
I don't really know if there was a post about this since the search engine didn't show any at all.
Basically, I'd love to see some hardpoints in the game, even if only visually. I mean, we do see them in the game on the textures of ships, IE torpedo tubes, phaser lines, cannons on ships. And for the most part it does work.
Dual beams, dual, heavy and quad cannons work for the same part. But when you're flying a ship with 8 turrets, it is a little weird to have them all shoot from a single spot, especially if you are flying something bigger, like Voth Bastion. The same goes for singular beams, too.
My idea would be, that each ship would have, let's say 2 hardpoints front and 2 back (for beam arrays and turrets) and the hardpoints would be chosen based on where you fire (as in, if you fire front with turrets + dual beam + torpedo, you'd fire from dual beam as usual, two hardpoints would fire turrets and torpedo would also work as usual).
I'm unsure how much of this is intended balance-wise (as you can pretty much tell easily what kind of weapons a ship has when it fires on you - PvP wise), and how much of it is just... Well, being like it is. But I think it'd be a nice improvement.
Anyone else has any thoughts on this?
I don't really know if there was a post about this since the search engine didn't show any at all.
Basically, I'd love to see some hardpoints in the game, even if only visually. I mean, we do see them in the game on the textures of ships, IE torpedo tubes, phaser lines, cannons on ships. And for the most part it does work.
Dual beams, dual, heavy and quad cannons work for the same part. But when you're flying a ship with 8 turrets, it is a little weird to have them all shoot from a single spot, especially if you are flying something bigger, like Voth Bastion. The same goes for singular beams, too.
My idea would be, that each ship would have, let's say 2 hardpoints front and 2 back (for beam arrays and turrets) and the hardpoints would be chosen based on where you fire (as in, if you fire front with turrets + dual beam + torpedo, you'd fire from dual beam as usual, two hardpoints would fire turrets and torpedo would also work as usual).
I'm unsure how much of this is intended balance-wise (as you can pretty much tell easily what kind of weapons a ship has when it fires on you - PvP wise), and how much of it is just... Well, being like it is. But I think it'd be a nice improvement.
Anyone else has any thoughts on this?
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I ~would~ like to see weapon firing from the correct places, though: phasers from the arrays and torpedos from the tubes.
That's my point exactly, aside other things.
Have you tried using DHCs/DBBs?
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Yeah, only the quad cannons are using the wing mounted cannons, the DHC's and the DC's just come from the bits under the "head".
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10052253
Why are you not rejoicing?
And for that we are thankful. BSGO is pure PvP and ruled by strikes.
I was actually thinking about this recently...I was thinking that they should move the DBB hardpoint from the DHC point to the DC point...since no one uses DC's anyways.
But I suppose switching the hardpoint to one DC's and DHC's use would make more sense.