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A bit disappointed with the Ray of Disintegration
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I just unlocked the Hysperian ship tonight and I feel an opportunity was missed with the Ray of Disintegration. Even though the icon looks different the weapon visuals look exactly like a normal disruptor beam array. What would have been cool is if the weapon actually disintegrated it's target.
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The old temporal lobi and ship sets would probably suit the Hysperian ship, especially now that they're not ship-specific. Summoning duplicates and rewinding time is very space-magic after all.
But, if you're really set on gibbing enemies the Omega plasma torpedo and the Digitiser torpedo will serve you well. They even have that whoomph sound we all love.
But even though disintegration is interesting to see visually, i think its better for builds and dps for you if they had core breaches. Which contribute to the fight. If they disintegrate, they just disappear, if they core breach they cause damage to surrounding enemies to help you sweep clear the field. As well as it creates crystals from the tholian warp core, disintegration doesn't do that.
"Ray of Disintegration" = Disruptor Beam Array. In all its various flavors.
I put together a build for the Event ship based on all of the Undine Reputation gear. Which works nicely for a build using Radiation damage as a secondary attack. Next I put together another build for it using Coalition Disruptors, The Bajoran space set, and some cold-based Consoles and BOff abilities. I am delighted with the results of both builds
According to throwaway dialog in the shows both phasers and (at least most) disruptors are nadion weapons, and phasers have a molecular disruption setting, so chances are the TNG-era type depicted in the game are mostly just variations on the same thing.
The terms do not have 100% correspondence though since the definitions have parts that stick out from each other, with "phaser" probably referring to a wide range of nadion effects while "disruptor" is probably a variant that only uses that one more specific nadion weapon setting.
Also, there is more than one type of weapon called "disruptor" in the show since some people use sonic disruptors (which would probably be considered more of a kinetic/physical weapon), in the shows.
And yes, you CAN use sonic disruptors in space, you just have to use some other medium than air to transmit the vibrations, like a modulated tractor beam, though the only ones actually shown using (specifically) sonic disruptors as space weapons were the Eminian Union in A Taste of Armageddon.
Considering Balok's trick of using a modulated tractor beam to vibrate the Enterprise's hull to talk in a way the heroes could not shut off, like they could if it went through the normal communications system, they probably use tractor-based sonic disruptors as well, though it was neither shown nor spoken of in dialog.
In DS9 when Kira was teaching Zyal about energy rifles (the Trek take on the classic M-16 vs. AK-47 comparison) she introduced the Cardassian disrupter rifle formally as a "phase-disruptor" and said they were pretty much the same except that the Federation went for versatility with 16 settings and other neat toys at the expense of ruggedness while the Cardassians went the opposite way with only two settings and the ability to function with less maintenance and a lot more abuse (like dragging it through the mud).
The mud thing was probably because Mikhail Kalashnikov used to say that the AK-47 was designed for people whose idea of cleaning a rifle was dunking it in a river and shaking it till all the mud washed off.
The Hysperian "ray of disintegration" is apparently a pretty straightforward nadion phase molecular disruptor like the Klingons, Cardassians, and Romulans favor over the Swiss-knife, as-much-tool-as-weapon, approach to nadion weapons the Federation Starfleet likes to use.
I meant that "Ray of disintegration" is probably just fancy and more "magic" way of saying "disruptor" and it's really just bog standard disruptor the Hysperians either bought or built themselves, no different tech then the ones mounted on Klingon warship or a Romulan Warbird (or the half a dozen other races who use disruptors).
Generally... no. The stock gear a ship comes with cannot be upgraded. Only special equipment like Maelstrom Quantum Torpedoes or Advanced Phaser Arrays can. But if its basically "Standard Issue" then no.
Yes, they can be upgraded. They start as common level less the first time you upgrade they become mk xii common and can be upgraded like normal equipment from there. Tested it myself getting a white mkxii to uncommon(greeen) mkxiv by wasting some upgrade tokens on one.
But as I pointed out, the weapon looks identical to a normal disruptor beam array when in combat. Just the icon for the weapon looks different.
It only having a generic look is a disappointment. Does it at least disintegrate the target like the Dark Matter torpedo or something to make a play on the name?
Nope.
I'm using Digitizing Plasma Beams on one right now though.
This follows the gag of the ship in renaming every component they can to fantasy technobabble. Apparently though art time wasn't available to do more. Call it a statement of priorities for the team. That FX effort is going to go somewhere else, but whether that'll be as fun as what could have been done here remains to be seen.
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> Yes, they can be upgraded. They start as common level less the first time you upgrade they become mk xii common and can be upgraded like normal equipment from there. Tested it myself getting a white mkxii to uncommon(greeen) mkxiv by wasting some upgrade tokens on one.
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> But as I pointed out, the weapon looks identical to a normal disruptor beam array when in combat. Just the icon for the weapon looks different.
Thanks for your feedback,it’s a shame they didn’t change the look