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Discovery Weapons and Beam Overload
toddmillhouse
Member Posts: 59 Arc User
Having tried all the Discovery ship weapons, with both Fire At Will and Beam Overload, I find they are most effective with Fire At Will. I'm not seeing the same damage with them compared to standard phasers when using Beam Overload. Plus honestly the audio and visuals of them just don't have any impact. So with Lower DPS and Audio and Visuals that are lacking I highly recommend Fire At Will if you are using Discovery Weapons, Sensor-Linked, Integrity-Linked, Emitter-Linked or the 32c phasers or 32c refit phasers. Sadly this also applies to the Kelvin Timeline weapons. None of these shot weapons work well with Beam Overload.
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Looks wise, that's all subjective. Under Beam Overload: I like the 23C Discovery Phasers' blobs, am kinda neutral on 32C Discovery, and actively dislike the Kelvin Timeline weapons' red comet-like looks.
It's either this or they're likely bugged...
What kind of test you did? Because I use the wide-angle beam bank from the discovery faction and is pretty effective in my beam overload build.
But I agree they have both VFX and sound effects that are not really impactful. I avoid as much as I can using any of those phaser variants.
For me, the worst offender was and always is the Kelvin Timeline torpedoes, especially since they have such a distinctive, consistent (and pretty cool) sound in the movies and apparently it was even explained how it was made it.
That and the Tommy Gun.
That would take an insane amount of bravery. Or a coma state.
I just finished re-watching S2 of Disco last night, and I enjoyed it quite a bit more than I did when it was new, and I noticed a lot of little things that escaped me the first time. The aggravating parts are still aggravating. For example -
It's the battle for the survival of all sentient life in the galaxy, every second counts, but they make time for Stamets to have a romantic reunion with his doctor boyfriend, that goes on and on. Or at the last second, Michael and Spock have to take time for ham-handed emo dialogue. But that's TV for you, I suppose.
I then watched E1 of S3, and I will admit to having mixed emotions about that, but I suppose they're doing the best they can.
Or maybe Disco just seems not-so-bad to me because Picard was so painfully lame.
Back on topic, I don't use phasers. I'm a science guy, and beam weapons are an afterthought for me, mostly there for set bonuses.
Funnily enough, this is something I agree with - the way they have them presented makes them feel like flare gun shots; I know they were trying to mimic the style of phaser from the KT movies, but they really should've gone the opposite direction and make the beams more Freespace-style, so they actually have some impact to them...ironically enough, both the S31 ships and the Enterprise's during the S2 finale WERE like that, and they did indeed have impact.
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