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When I first saw the artillery in action on the osprey
That was a holy crap moment.
I was like... Hmmmm what does this do? Bzzzzzzzzzzt (dead enemy is dead)
*play holy music*
I CAN DESTROY THE FLAGSHIP WITH THIS THING!
Yeah... I under estimated it by a lot... Still fun to have an extra random grave beam

erumsey wrote:When I first saw the artillery in action on the osprey
That was a holy crap moment.
I was like... Hmmmm what does this do? Bzzzzzzzzzzt (dead enemy is dead)
*play holy music*
I CAN DESTROY THE FLAGSHIP WITH THIS THING!
Yeah... I under estimated it by a lot... Still fun to have an extra random grave beam

Ah the Buzz Beam. Such a trap. Such a trap.
I tend to leave that thing depowered, even in the final battle. Mostly because I had actual guns.

stylesrj wrote:

erumsey wrote:When I first saw the artillery in action on the osprey
That was a holy crap moment.
I was like... Hmmmm what does this do? Bzzzzzzzzzzt (dead enemy is dead)
*play holy music*
I CAN DESTROY THE FLAGSHIP WITH THIS THING!
Yeah... I under estimated it by a lot... Still fun to have an extra random grave beam

Ah the Buzz Beam. Such a trap. Such a trap.
I tend to leave that thing depowered, even in the final battle. Mostly because I had actual guns.

6 (+/- of course) damage every 20 seconds is nothing to be scoffed at. That's a nice trade for 4 power.
3 power, the beam is just passable against big ships. 2 or 1 power is wasted on the beam. But 4 power? Oh yeah gimme gimme.

That beam is a beast mainly because it ignores shields.the flak artillery thing on the federation C though was like a 50 second flak 2 that destroyed many ship with my boarding crew inside.

dark33hawk wrote:That beam is a beast mainly because it ignores shields.the flak artillery thing on the federation C though was like a 50 second flak 2 that destroyed many ship with my boarding crew inside.

Did you make the huge mistake of trading the clone bay in for an inferior med bay? On a ship with a teleporter and a powerful, untargetable weapon that autofires?

5thHorseman wrote:

dark33hawk wrote:That beam is a beast mainly because it ignores shields.the flak artillery thing on the federation C though was like a 50 second flak 2 that destroyed many ship with my boarding crew inside.

Did you make the huge mistake of trading the clone bay in for an inferior med bay? On a ship with a teleporter and a powerful, untargetable weapon that autofires?

Hey the medbay has its uses. Up until you get a Reconstructive Teleporter then you space that crappy thing.
Although if your ship comes with a Clone Bay at the start, don't swap it out for a medbay... ever. Because the medbay probably can only heal one person at a time.

I get 3 "Holy crap!" events in a row! First one I get a Ion Blast II, then I get two Burst Laser Mark II's.

5thHorseman wrote:

dark33hawk wrote:That beam is a beast mainly because it ignores shields.the flak artillery thing on the federation C though was like a 50 second flak 2 that destroyed many ship with my boarding crew inside.

Did you make the huge mistake of trading the clone bay in for an inferior med bay? On a ship with a teleporter and a powerful, untargetable weapon that autofires?

Look that was for one run only, Okay? When i figured out my mistake i stopped playing for a week and i am sorry for posting that.

PiratedChaos wrote:I get 3 "Holy crap!" events in a row! First one I get a Ion Blast II, then I get two Burst Laser Mark II's.

Pics or it didn't happen

Because there's no way someone would ever get two Burst Laser II's in a row.

I know I once got a Heavy Laser on Hard after boarding and killing a Mantis ship, followed by a Holy Crap which gave me an Ion Blast, followed by a friendly programmer giving me a Defense Drone I schematic, followed by landing on a Pulsar where I got killed by a Rebel ship with beam drones.

Holy crap

stylesrj wrote:

PiratedChaos wrote:I get 3 "Holy crap!" events in a row! First one I get a Ion Blast II, then I get two Burst Laser Mark II's.

Pics or it didn't happen

Because there's no way someone would ever get two Burst Laser II's in a row.

I know I once got a Heavy Laser on Hard after boarding and killing a Mantis ship, followed by a Holy Crap which gave me an Ion Blast, followed by a friendly programmer giving me a Defense Drone I schematic, followed by landing on a Pulsar where I got killed by a Rebel ship with beam drones.

Holy crap

Just recently I was playing the Red Tail and I wanted to slowly trade my 4 basic lasers in for 4 Flak 1s. I went to a Lanius sector and the first jump, I bought a Flak 1 at a store. The 2nd jump, the lanius were making things and I could pay 45 scrap for a weapon. I figured why not? Got a 2nd Flak 1.

Sadly I "only" ended up with 3 Flak 1s and traded my 4th basic for a heavy laser. I killed the final boss in 2 volleys in the first phase, 3 in the 2nd phase, and (once the shield was down that took like 4 vollies grrrr) 2 more in the 3rd phase.

It was glorious. I only took damage in phase 3 because his shield and random amazing dodge kept him alive longer than it should have.