Postby stylesrj » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:08 am
I hate to be that guy who wants ships nerfed but on second thought about the ship's firepower, the Obelisk fires too rapidly.
While not ridonkulous like the Kodiak's Ion Cannon (before it got changed) it's still able to zap up to 3 rooms on most ships.
Most of my combat scenarios went like this:
Regular Combat:
1) Enemy sighted!
2) Guns charge up.
3) Enemy fires Missile (always a missile)
4) Cloak through for 10 seconds, fire laser.
5) Shields down, zap Shields (or Weapons)
6) Enemy guns are on charge, laser ready. Hit weapons
7) Ship now easy meat or destroyed. No damage to me.
Drone ship:
1) Enemy sighted!
2) Guns charge up.
3) Beam Drone about to fire (always a Beam Drone)
4) Cloak through for 10 seconds, fire laser.
5) Shields down, zap Drones, grab Shields in the mix (because they're usually close together)
6) Beam Drone no longer works, ship now easy meat or destroyed. No damage to me.
Whereas if I played the Stealth B:
1) Enemy sighted!
2) Guns charge up.
3) Enemy fires.
4) Cloak through for 10 seconds.
5) Missile/laser misses.
6) Enemy beam charged once Cloak wears off.
7) Ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod, please don't hit Weapons...
8) Weapons hit avoided. Enemy laser ready to fire again.
9) Ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod, please don't hit Weapons...
10) Phew! Another miss. Glaive Beam charged and...
11) Enemy beam hits Weapons and lights it on fire.
12) FUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFU!
13) Restart.
If it was facing a Drone Ship, it would be:
1) Encounter Beam and Beam Drone
2) Get torn apart before Glaive Beam is one quarter charged.
3) Restart.
There is a significant difference there.
So the Obelisk sort of removes the tension I get when flying a Stealth ship, considering it does 2 damage rather than 1, which in early sectors is enough to disable anything on an enemy ship. Plus Stealth Weapons mean I don't have to wait for my ship to reveal itself before firing, giving me maximum potential to wreck the enemy before they can shoot me.
Even the Halberd Beam leaves just enough time to feel the tension of hoping that the next shot doesn't destroy your guns.
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I dunno.
Also, is it just me or does the Nod Laser start fires very easily?