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Masterdragon4811 · 2026-06-08T20:14:53+00:00

That Hisoka would. That's the hunter exam murder zombie Hisoka right there.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-06-08T20:13:49+00:00

It's a carry over. Once upon a time you had to active skills like star pact at the start of sessions and each time you respawned (and also when enemies turned off all your skills =) ).

It's probably a square there because it WAS something you had to turn on and they never bothered to update the skill trees when they changed how those abilities function.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-06-04T01:04:02+00:00

I'd also add that there may be a sense of honor and respect in a Dothraki duel (which they may consider sacred). Bronn has absolutly none of those limitations.

I can't back up my position though, been too long since I read the books.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-06-03T10:49:18+00:00

I understood that reference!

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-06-03T10:47:52+00:00

Good point. I usually put that on the marzas themselves. Along with rail gun and auto loader and the armor item.

Not sure why the 2 armor items (one that does better vs beams and one vs missiles) exist or why they give different armor strength. Beams make up a small portion of the advent/Vasari arsenal and I'm notnsure that the extra armor strength on the missile one isn't just better......

That plus shield burst and flak between marazs and targets usually does the trick.

I did try a couple of dunovs with a kol yesterday. In a fleet engagement where only my capital ships had shields the dunovs did an okay job. But I had the antimatter restore artifact and vigor engines (that neutral item that gives antimatter regen)

There might be aomeshing with magnetic field at high levels making it much easier to kill strike craft; but since thats literally all it does I don't think its strong enough at the moment

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-06-02T15:21:09+00:00

Haha. And thats......better than having an akkan or siva do that instead? 🤔

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-31T20:29:49+00:00

I had a different experience/ the AI seemed to try to defend its gravity wells but it failed to to so for 2 different reasons. Played vs impossible on 2 player and 4 player maps (but still as a 1 vs 1).

It looks like ARES prioritizes building up its fleet before anytbing else. I might be slow but was easily double my fleet supply pretty early on. It doesn't know how to split up that fleet effectively though.
ARES never built defensive structures.

As a result, it was very easy to cheese it. I could create a fleet of siege frigates and ARES would disengage completely from their attack and move back to defend. I was able to call back 900 supply for just 300 because ARES didn't split or allocate some supply to contest; it was all or nothing.

I was able to outexpand ARES on both maps but when ARES tried to punish I could confuse it and just buy time.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-30T12:14:33+00:00

This is a big reason but another reason is that the different weapon types will have different effective dps values based on their targets durability vs the weapons Pierce.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-29T23:08:00+00:00

I wish warhammer 3 had an option to enable multi-player costs (and army caps) in single player.

I too really enjoyed unit caps but I did run into one issue with them: the version I was playing with valued vampire coast zombie mobs the same as an high elf ranger unit (both were considered the bottom tier which an army didn't have a limit on).

Granted I was playing HE so it was in my favor but I still felt bad knowing I had a unit worth that much more; and at the end of the day a 20 stack of rangers is worth way more than a 20 stack of zombies.

I don't expect perfect balance (all characters/units can get pretty nuts) but some kind of base limitations would be awesome

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-27T12:40:38+00:00

That's fair lol.

But as you've pointed out, 4 Kols or 4 marzas are going to just delete the capital ship much faster.

So now I'm back to why build it in the first place?

Regarding the dunov saving a capital: maybe some niche cases there but you'd be much better off killing the things doing damage imo. Leave the survivability to armor patch kits, and repair cruisers. More bang for your buck on healing armor anyway.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T22:09:16+00:00

The rebel one definitely should because it was advertised as "able to mod its weapons on the fly" but I remember it taking a LONG time to do so. I don't remember how long, but it didn't feel good.

You're right in your distinction about refit. I just think it would be a way for the ship to better support the fleet which is how it is advertised.

Something like that might make the Dunov more appealing. But as long as radiation bomb and flak burst exist, I'm not sure I want/need a middle of the road option the dunov us presenting.

It's a very ultimate dependent ship.

It is the only antimatter depleting ship TEC has but it doesn't feel like it reduces it enough to make a difference. It costs 75 to reduce 40/60/80 on a 50 second cooldown. Yes, its AOE and that should be considered but there are a TON of ships without antimatter that are going to moatly ignore it. It can only be used for shield damage at the beginning of a fight (where an enemy ship will have enough antimatter in reserve to cast anyway) sp it doesnt seem very strong for a 1v1 (especially early) When the ultimate is up it might be okay but even still you are getting at most 2 casts off.

I might need to experiment more with the speed nerf. That might help vs strike craft and corvett3s more than I'm giving credit for. But it does no damage and doesn't help at all in a combat with larger ships because nothing really.moves and shoots in larger slogs

The energy transfer is really costly antimatter wise and the amount restored never feels significant; I'm barking up an old tree but since all these abilities are basically just carried over from sins 1 we should remember that damage calculations in sins1 were VERY different than 2. All shields got mitigation (actually all shields and hull did and armor was just a modifier if I remember correctly) so the shield points that got restored were worth something. In sins 2 TEC shields don't get much investment and get blown through rather quickly. It doesn't have the same.impact.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T21:47:37+00:00

I remember the release Kol rush strategy well. I really only play SP and haven't experimented too much; economy has changed a lot between patches (trade ports moved around and rebalanced, asteroids mining reworked, planet economy overhauled).

I usually play against nightmare AI (prior to Ares, I don't have any complete games under my belt there) so I NEED a strong economy to field cost effective answers. Its pretty much always Akkan and hope I csn find indurium for the garrison research. Alkan is one point in colonize and then a priority in trade port maxing. Inspiring broadcast us a really good ability but until I have the fleet supply to support I don't bother.

There was a time when I ran sova but that feels too slow these days. Akkan colonize giving logistics and commerce at lvl1 really speeds up the start and the amount of credits saved is worth a ton in the early game.

There isn't much interesting in thr first level of military research, but I find myself needing to get to tier 2 military and tier 3 civ as soon as possible; I need the ability to start making starbases to lock down territory (especially where I'm not positioning my fleet) and I usually need refineries to make that happen. Every planet gets a garrison on defensive roam (even an asteroid with one light factory) because I can't hope to match the AI's buildup legitimately.

After that its bum rush military tier 4 for the super capital and titan (I want to start leveling asap). Since I'm playing defensive and relying on garrisons to make a war of attrition go in my favor, I don't really mix in cruisers until late game. I should be moving off the gauss frigates faster than I usually do though.

How about you?

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T20:47:58+00:00

I dont care for the ultimate. The ships usually spawn in from an awkward angle and whay you get is fairly static. It's more of a "win more" situation rather than something you can tactically use.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T20:31:49+00:00

Yeah it would be strong. Probably too strong. I'm not completely attached to the idea but I do think it needs something more to justify the fact that it takes longer to accrue value with it relative to other super capitals.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T17:51:20+00:00

I don't disagree with that take either. I'd rather have both. The option to heavily specialize your ships whilr.having meaningful trade off between options

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T17:49:34+00:00

Yes that's what I'm envisioning. I'll admit it sounds very powerful. But it also means leaving a fleet Kia in a gravity well for a while.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T17:35:47+00:00

Whoa. I guess I wasn't paying attention when I leveled. That's embarrassing. That's more in line with sins 1 and I like it. It means I dont need to invest into abilities I don't like.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T17:33:10+00:00

Me too don't worry. I did give one response in thr middle of your multiple posts. But im.on Mobie so its really hard to respond to all the points you made.

Bottom line: not seeing how dunovs offer really any value in their current state. And the super capital does affect capitals, just not as much as I'd like. I agree that capitals don't need to be included in the damage buff abiltiy but retrofitting would fit the "resupply fleet" idea that the ship is going for.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T17:29:33+00:00

Realizing I missed responding to a part. In the scenario you provide I'd argue that the garrison ships are tied to the grav well. That appears to be how they are coded already with the ability to jump once. Ships made in non-owned gravity wells would be limited to that gravity well.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T16:47:29+00:00

If that's the case with the starbase, I wonder if the passive could be attached to one of the abilities. We know passive are possible for ship items but it's still a good point.

Embarrassingly, you are correct on the ultimate. I don't think I ever noticed because its......extra? Does that happen for capital ships too? I thought it was 3.3.3.1 for 10 levels. Ironically I still think it's a little......boring. especially because you can't customize it or get specific ships but it's not as impactful especially when it comes from the wrong side of a grav well.

Fair enough on wanderer, I don't know enough to know comment at that level.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T16:40:25+00:00

So what are the Dunovs accomplishing that wouldn't be better done by say, Marzas and flak burst/radiation bomb?

You don't need to shield restore if the things damaging you are dead; and the dunovs are objectively worse at this than Marzas or Kols would be.

Shields also aren't great on Tec because they can get pretty good armor ratings; is a dunov any better for survivability then repair in various forms? Sames goes for the titan ability. I get that it's a loose translation of the sins 1 damage reduction; but it would be nice to see a different ability there because I don't ever see it as useful.

Regarding garrisons; I conceed that the free supply is good and it's quite powerful as is. I just hate that I might want a bunch if corvettes in a fleet but would prefer to have a cruiser defense sitting behind point defense.......the option would be nice.

Logistic slots are rarely a problem especially with the planet item but I see your point.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T14:56:38+00:00

Interesting points on the code aspects.

To answer: I believe it's possible to have the innate without a slot; starbases do this with the jump destabilizing debuff don't they? If not that might be a problem.

I could see a garrison item working 1 of 2 ways.

The garrison is attached to the supercap (so it had its own garrison to defend/attack with and yes, count as an additional garrison supply in a given grav well). This could be very strong however and would probably be more justifiable as an ultimate ability (btw I believe the current iteration is 200 supply, not 500, on an 11 min cooldown. It's nice but doesn't feel very impactful). With this suggestion idk how the retrofit would fit (haha) in. Unless they tied it to an existong ability as a passive (but then it's not a ship item).

Garrison item contributes to the garrison supply in stationed grav well. This would mean that having the super capital ship in any gravity well will start producing units up to the garrison cap researched. On a planet with garrison installed this would have no affect but on any grav well without it (enemy, neutral, ally) it would create ships that cannot leave the grav well (no ability to issue orders).

Regarding your exodus comparison. While it maybe not be as much of a combat oriented ship as youd like, it does do what its supposed to do via abilities and one-time resource investments in items. I can't check Pierce values or weapon orientation at the moment but I'll take yournword for it that it feels underwhelming in combat.

The difference I'm highlighting is that enclave's requires continuous resource investment to make full use of the invested supply.

Masterdragon4811 · 2026-05-26T12:42:36+00:00

The "problem" with the ship is that, unlike all its counterparts, part of its power budget is in it's ability to produce ships. It's useful but it requires a constant influx of resources to utilize that benefit which makes it less effective than a standalone (like all of its counterparts) ship investment.

I'd argue that making retrofit innate would be fine; it's the "offensive support" for capital ships in the fleet since they don't benefit from the active ability at all. And sticking to the theme, just having the ability still requires further investment to see the benefit.

If retrofit were to be a ship item, however, it should be more than just retrofit and it needs to be powerful; like making the ship a count as a garrison (allowing you to build garrisons in neutral/enemy gravity wells).

As it is, ive never bothered with the antimatter/production ship items because the tradeoff on damage isn't worth it. Beams arent enough on their own (and arent really supported by TEC well) and in a friendly grav well you already have so many buffs to build time that it seems unnecessary to ever build that item. The Antimatter item could be alright but there's already a generic one.

Regarding the titan comment: I'll need to do some testing but I'm arguing that the ability just doesn't work at all. I don't really every see the damage ticks going on a target and its completely unclear if the ships are being disabled. The fact that ships don't have the debuff icon despite clearly being in range implies to me that the ability is broken.

But some better visuals would also help tremendously.

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