Author Topic: Ascendancy Daily Screenshot Thread (Read 245836 times)

tlmiller · « **Reply #480 on:** November 03, 2015, 07:28:09 AM »

Quote from: Brutoni on November 03, 2015, 04:16:32 AM

I really do look forward to it. Sins doesn't handle fighters like I would want to handle them!

In what way? When you start getting a good number of fighters, they can be quite destructive. I was playing a game as the PA last night, and my bombers stripped the shields of a ISD-I in a SINGLE PASS because I had so many of them.

Brutoni · « **Reply #481 on:** November 03, 2015, 01:31:53 PM »

Quote from: tlmiller on November 03, 2015, 07:28:09 AM

In what way? When you start getting a good number of fighters, they can be quite destructive. I was playing a game as the PA last night, and my bombers stripped the shields of a ISD-I in a SINGLE PASS because I had so many of them.

Exactly. Once you reach a certain mass of bombers no amount of fighters will stop them. Ie fighters do not "intercept" bombers so much shoot at them as they move. Due to the size of gravity wells and the speed of fighters it makes it very difficult to stop bomb spam with equal (or even greater) numbers of fighters. You need to use anti-fighter escorts. At that point why bother with fighters at all. Just anti-fighter frigates and combat ships with a good mix of support ships. Winner.

tlmiller · « **Reply #482 on:** November 03, 2015, 03:10:41 PM »

No, I've found if you have decent fighters (not Tie Fighters), they do a fairly decent job. In a giant battle my Interceptors were definitely keeping the bombing runs to a minimal on my ships (2 fleets of ~50-60 ships each side; fighter:bomber ration on my fleets is close to 1:2), and I experienced only minimal losses due to their heavy frigates and caps combining fire on my poor nearly defenseless Dominator cruisers.

Brutoni · « **Reply #483 on:** November 03, 2015, 04:05:23 PM »

Quote from: tlmiller on November 03, 2015, 03:10:41 PM

No, I've found if you have decent fighters (not Tie Fighters), they do a fairly decent job. In a giant battle my Interceptors were definitely keeping the bombing runs to a minimal on my ships (2 fleets of ~50-60 ships each side; fighter:bomber ration on my fleets is close to 1:2), and I experienced only minimal losses due to their heavy frigates and caps combining fire on my poor nearly defenseless Dominator cruisers.

Hmmm. Well I've played Republic in this game more than Imperial and all I can say is that the Republic almost inevitably seem to lose the fighter battle in anything other than a knock out situation. Tie Interceptors coupled with the sheer number of squadrons + so much larger supply mean you really do struggle. This is only exasperated by the fact that Sins doesn't seem to support shields on fighters so republic craft simply cannot be as strong as they should be.

tlmiller · « **Reply #484 on:** November 03, 2015, 04:53:23 PM »

I'm sure Corey&Co have drastically upped the health points of the NR & EoTH fighters to make them significantly more durable than the IR/PA ones. I've played a lot as the NR, and while it is harder to win through military, that's as it should be. The NR had a much smaller focus on that, but I've never noticed that IR bombers were able to wreck my fleets, it's those freaking ISD-II's w/ VSD's supporting them that usually trash my ships. In my experiences their bombers are quite decently contained by my fighters. But that's my experience, and why Corey's going to be having more people testing (not trying to sound cocky, but I'm rather good with the NR in this game, which is why everyone ganged up on me when we recorded the very first multiplayer) to get the balancing right.

Brutoni · « **Reply #485 on:** November 03, 2015, 08:01:15 PM »

Quote from: tlmiller on November 03, 2015, 04:53:23 PM

I'm sure Corey&Co have drastically upped the health points of the NR & EoTH fighters to make them significantly more durable than the IR/PA ones. I've played a lot as the NR, and while it is harder to win through military, that's as it should be. The NR had a much smaller focus on that, but I've never noticed that IR bombers were able to wreck my fleets, it's those freaking ISD-II's w/ VSD's supporting them that usually trash my ships. In my experiences their bombers are quite decently contained by my fighters. But that's my experience, and why Corey's going to be having more people testing (not trying to sound cocky, but I'm rather good with the NR in this game, which is why everyone ganged up on me when we recorded the very first multiplayer) to get the balancing right.

Fair enough. Well I'll try using the fighter ratio you talked about. Also how carrier heavy do you go in terms of warships. How many of your capitals do you use as carriers vs the carrier cruiser? If you don't mind me asking is the A-wing always better than the X-wing or does it depend? I assume in Sins the Y-wing is a flat out bomber rather than bomber/fighter. Sorry for the 20 questions. Just keen to get some knowledge from a NR player as NR/EoTH will be the 2 races I probably end up playing the most.

tlmiller · « **Reply #486 on:** November 03, 2015, 10:03:17 PM »

OK, for the Alliance, I go completely differently. Ships that have any of the "elite" ships I build them (K-Wing, E-Wing). Of ships that have basic A-Wing, X-Wing, Y-Wing, B-Wing I will go 1:1:1 A-Wings:X-Wings:B-Wings. I will not build Y-Wings once I have researched the B-Wing, it's simply too slow and is absolutely chewed to PIECES by Interceptors. So if a ship has only X or Y, I build X's always. Then offset by building a bunch of B's in another ship.

Carriers, as the PA I spam them like insane, like a full 25% of the entire fleet (between Acclamators, Venators, and Secutors). But currently, they get no elite bomber, so I'll probably back off once they get that. For the NR, I do ~15%-20% carriers.

As far as the A-Wing vs. X-Wing, the answer is maybe. If you're going against enemy fighters, the A-Wing is always superior to the X-Wing. Yes, it has less weapons, but it's faster and more maneuverable so actually harder to kill. If you're trying to take out ships, then the X-Wing is always superior, as it has proton torpedoes instead of concussion missiles, so does more damage (legends-wise, in the game I just assume this is still the case).

Corey · « **Reply #487 on:** November 14, 2015, 08:22:36 PM »

Redone Battledragon, by our new 3D Artist Robin.

kucsidave · « **Reply #488 on:** November 14, 2015, 09:33:14 PM »

It's just WOW.
Nice job, Robin!

Mat8876 · « **Reply #489 on:** November 15, 2015, 03:55:51 AM »

This is amazing good work.

Pali · « **Reply #490 on:** November 15, 2015, 08:05:23 AM »

Very nice indeed.

tlmiller · « **Reply #491 on:** November 15, 2015, 10:51:13 AM »

Yeah, I was looking at this closer when I played the other day, very nice looking.

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #492 on:** November 15, 2015, 08:18:39 PM »

I don't look forward to seeing swarms of these coming after my Iron Fist

Brutoni · « **Reply #493 on:** November 16, 2015, 03:21:45 AM »

That looks gorgeous. Lovely lovely work. Omg cant wait for 1.0!!

tlmiller · « **Reply #494 on:** November 19, 2015, 10:32:10 PM »

In celebration of the new model, and because I thought it would be funny and it was possible with how Corey is testing the new BD model, here's a picture of a space whale, being escorted by entirely too many Battle Dragons...

Mat8876 · « **Reply #495 on:** November 20, 2015, 02:44:34 AM »

That looks so good, can't wait for 1.0

Delta · « **Reply #496 on:** December 01, 2015, 07:33:32 PM »

Great model, always loved the Hapes Consortium especially the Battle Dragon's design. Is the new Battle Dragon model going to be added to ICW for EaW too?

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #497 on:** December 01, 2015, 10:18:20 PM »

Quote from: Delta on December 01, 2015, 07:33:32 PM

Great model, always loved the Hapes Consortium especially the Battle Dragon's design. Is the new Battle Dragon model going to be added to ICW for EaW too?

I am quite fond of the Battle Dragons design myself

Dr. Knickers · « **Reply #498 on:** December 02, 2015, 11:56:22 PM »

Some screenshots I took while testing stuff

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #499 on:** December 03, 2015, 01:52:48 AM »

Muunificent is Magnificent!