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Building the Vaadwaur

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Captains! In our latest developer blog, learn about how we built up the Vaadwaur fleets from the ground up! Check out our blog with behind the scenes concept art for the Vaadwaur ships.

Read up on 'Building the Vaadwaur' here.

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  • psyloafpsyloaf Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Secret weapon we're not supposed to see yet?
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  • szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Very interesting blog. Thanks to everybody involved. I was wondering about those purple dots as well... Mines? Attack shuttles? Pity it got censored...
  • ruffgeniusruffgenius Member Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    They look really good well done so when are they on sale :)
  • locutusofcactuslocutusofcactus Member Posts: 651 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Whoever is responsible for the graphics can't tell if the Vaadwar ships are comming or going. The shield facings are backwards on half the Vaadwaur ships so when you shoot down the shields, the other side goes down.
  • mandoknight89mandoknight89 Member Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    szim wrote: »
    Very interesting blog. Thanks to everybody involved. I was wondering about those purple dots as well... Mines? Attack shuttles? Pity it got censored...

    It looks like the firing nodes for their signature weapons. If you've fought them, you probably know what they are. (But I'm not sure why they censored them, it's not like that weapon is their big secret)
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Great job on all the NPC ships. It couldn't have been easy to make so many of them.
  • s101shikens101shiken Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I think those are the signature weapons ports. I thank the Devs for a great implementation of the Vaadwaur. The first time I got hit with those weapons I was like, WTF why am I dead (BoP captain at the time). Was hilarious!
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  • chk231chk231 Member Posts: 161 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    The battleship is AWESOME!
  • crypticquackcrypticquack Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    locutusofcactus wrote: »
    Whoever is responsible for the graphics can't tell if the Vaadwar ships are comming or going. The shield facings are backwards on half the Vaadwaur ships so when you shoot down the shields, the other side goes down.

    Thank you for reporting this! This should not be happening, as it was bugged and fixed. I will check in with QA. Again, thanks!

    [EDIT] This is fixed and going in with a near future patch!
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  • mosul33mosul33 Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Nice blog, thank you. I enjoy these blogs :)

    The ships do look awesome. You guys did a great job. And its neat that we get to see one of the ships landed. You can get a better understanding of the ship's scale, and also how big the rest of Vaddwaur ship types are, by comparison.
  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    i really liked their ships in game, and the unique approach to their weapons. they have no beams, but their single cannons are all heavy single cannons, and their turrets have the stats of beam arrays, and fire from beam array hardpoints.

    at first i thought their ships were prototypes for side mounted weapons tech, but you get to use one of them in a mission and see their weapons on the ship equipment window.

    with these concept pictures pointing out mister hardpoints on the sides, i think i might have been on to something after all.


    and ya its that battleship npc that has its shield facing displaying backward. if you shoot them in the TRIBBLE, it look like their front shield is weakening, but its actually showing the status of the rear shield. its not the front facing actually taking damage.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    They look very tough. Good job on making them just going by the fighters. I hadn't faced them yet in battle or saw one in game. But I'm looking forward into seeing them.
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  • pweistheworstpweistheworst Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'm just looking forward to the day when I can fly Vaadwaur ships and buy a cool Vaadwaur uniform.
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I like how these ships turned out very much. When I got to fly the frigate, I just sat there and stared at it for a bit. Love the engine trail fx as well. Good stuff.
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  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Awesome work on the vaadwar they are a cool enemy. I love the new weapons and ships they bring to combat. Thanks so much for putting out these behind the scenes blods, they are fun!
  • giliongilion Member Posts: 686 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    locutusofcactus wrote: »
    Whoever is responsible for the graphics can't tell if the Vaadwar ships are comming or going. The shield facings are backwards on half the Vaadwaur ships so when you shoot down the shields, the other side goes down.

    Just to make sure, are you sure about this? I've never seen this happen. Are you sure that the ships arent just redistributing shield power? All of the Vaadwuar frigates tend keep their fore shields up, so they'll transfer shield power from their other shield facings, Birds of Prey also do this.

    Also personally I think that the so called 'Artillery' ships should have actually been some kind of long range artillery. They could have been as stupidly defensive as they are now, but instead of normal weapons they had just one forward facing uber lazer the fires like 15-20km like how it looks in the 4th picture.
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    gilion wrote: »
    Just to make sure, are you sure about this? I've never seen this happen. Are you sure that the ships arent just redistributing shield power? All of the Vaadwuar frigates tend keep their fore shields up, so they'll transfer shield power from their other shield facings, Birds of Prey also do this.

    Also personally I think that the so called 'Artillery' ships should have actually been some kind of long range artillery. They could have been as stupidly defensive as they are now, but instead of normal weapons they had just one forward facing uber lazer the fires like 15-20km like how it looks in the 4th picture.

    Seeing as he got a dev post on the first page confirming it as well as having a fix for it coming soon, I'm going to go with him being sure about it. ;)
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  • jake477jake477 Member Posts: 527 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    The Vaadwaur vessels at the beginning were like the Borg vessels were for Picard, extremely hard to figure out how to kill them, which is a testament to the design team. Their tactics seem to emulate that of an Imperial Armada where all the smaller ships attack forward while the big ones take big pot shots at you with those blast cannons. Those tric mines are totally deadly and thankfully I have tractor repulse and normally return them to sender. There seems to be two class of ships, normal and Interdictor. The normal assault vessels are relative easy once you get the rhythm down but the Interdictor series is really hard to grasp at first and puts you right on the defense. The only thing I have found is that they don't like the Hazari Plasma weapons from the lockbox. They seem to be very effective. I haven't tried thoron but I am getting there.

    btw what kind of weapons DO the Vaadwaur uses? Bullets like the T-116 or some sort of new energy?
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  • coolheadalcoolheadal Member Posts: 1,253 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    All I know is that heavy battleship that Vaadwaur have that cloaks sends out assault vessels is fun to take them all down including that heavy battleship. They have a weakness, but only with that alien race though.
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  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    jake477 wrote: »
    btw what kind of weapons DO the Vaadwaur uses? Bullets like the T-116 or some sort of new energy?

    They use some kind of polaron.
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  • killdozer9211killdozer9211 Member Posts: 919 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I want those ships in a lockbox so bad... That escort looming over everything on Kobali Prime is so beautiful
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,485 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    Captains! In our latest developer blog, learn about how we built up the Vaadwaur fleets from the ground up! Check out our blog with behind the scenes concept art for the Vaadwaur ships.

    Read up on 'Building the Vaadwaur' here.

    ~LaughingTrendy

    Building the vaadwaur.. isn't that when a papa vaadwaur and a mamma vaadwaur hold hands?
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  • icevixenicevixen Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    killdozer9211 wrote: »
    I want those ships in a lockbox so bad... That escort looming over everything on Kobali Prime is so beautiful

    I have fallen in love with these ships, especially after you get to take one out for a joy ride, they just look deadly as well as being able to give you a good kicking.

    So i have to agree the idea of you being able to pick one up would be a great addition to my ships.
  • stomperx99stomperx99 Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    edited October 2014
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Thanks for the write-up!

    The attention to detail is fantastic and the progressive renders really do show how something like the artillery ship came together over time(the removal of nacelles and evolution of the port batteries).


    As a side note, that ship really does fuel my desire for playable broadsiders!
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    gilion wrote: »
    Just to make sure, are you sure about this? I've never seen this happen. Are you sure that the ships arent just redistributing shield power? All of the Vaadwuar frigates tend keep their fore shields up, so they'll transfer shield power from their other shield facings, Birds of Prey also do this.

    He is correct indeed. When you down the rear facing of the Artillery vessel and start hitting only hull (yellow damage numbers), the visual for the facing is still there and the one in front disappears. The shield facings on the ship targetting icon show correctly however. (Or, maybe I remember wrong and it's the icon that shows them wrong and the shield facing visuals are correct? Either way, one of them is bugged.)


    Btw I like those larger ships (not so much the attack vessel and attack cruiser). Particularly the dreadnoughts you get to see in all their glory when flying undercover in a REDACTED ship and closing on the planet. Sadly, you don't get to fight them much at all.
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  • eradicator84eradicator84 Member Posts: 1,116 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    psyloaf wrote: »
    Secret weapon we're not supposed to see yet?
    http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/arc/b4/07/b40776f7048b6602c3c919630cf0f61d1413999825.jpg
    (Purple dots)

    From the moment I encountered them in game I suspected it, and this imo essentially confirms it. Vaadwaur cap ships are the first in game with broadside weapons.

    Expect to see T6 broadsiding cruisers down the track.

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  • psyloafpsyloaf Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    xiaoping88 wrote: »
    They use some kind of polaron.

    Yeah, it seems to be a hybrid polaron/kinetic according to the stacked resistance I'm getting with Shield Harmonic Resonance.
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  • akpaakpa Member Posts: 250 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    killdozer9211 wrote: »
    I want those ships in a lockbox so bad... That escort looming over everything on Kobali Prime is so beautiful

    i hope they will make a vaadwaur lockbox. the battleship looks really awesome, it reminds me of the eve ships.
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Btw. a lockbox with at least some of these is definitely incoming. If you finished all the Delta Q. missions, you should know why.

    There are precedents for that. It may be the next lockbox or the one after it, but Vaadwaur ship(s) are incoming.
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