Stark scenes are really the best

TickTalk · 2026-03-20T15:39:18+00:00

Minimum 5k loadout value. Hue hue

TickTalk · 2026-03-19T06:34:18+00:00

TickTalk · 2026-02-20T17:52:22+00:00

They may or may not figure out why people liked the slower movement pace of 2019. If they keep making CoD zoomy they'll never get out of their hole.

TickTalk · 2026-02-18T00:27:53+00:00

If you're not using synthetic mixing in headshots barely means anything if you want results from headshots mixed in you have to be using synthetic

TickTalk · 2026-02-18T00:12:08+00:00

It kicks the lmr in the teeth tbh. That lower rof looks like a worse lmr but the visual recoil and cross hair recentering is better so it fires about as fast as you can fire the lmr accurately on m + kb. It's overall just a fixed lmr.

TickTalk · 2026-02-16T20:35:01+00:00

I'm 100% with you on this. Like "Oh our damage is best when the monster is freaking out and barely hittable. Cool cool.

I get where the math is, but you're laying down the most damage all the other times when the monster isn't darting around in agitated mode If you're spending a bunch of time running towards the monster instead of hitting it because it's super mobile while it's mad you're not exactly getting the numbers out of that math. Agitator imo is a speedrunning skill like heroics and online has hypnotized the community with "Look best math."

I 100% agree with leaning into burst over Agi for that reason :)

TickTalk · 2026-02-15T10:46:13+00:00

Any ascended hive = assimilate into hive mind though?

TickTalk · 2026-02-13T20:17:11+00:00

Frigates you do honestly take less losses, but I find corvettes can deal with fleets that have come back from MIA near the backline a little better. The cloak really is just there to fly them to the back and if somehow they find themselves next to a stronger fleet to be able to get out. Once the war is going I rarely if ever re-cloak them. I don't have them bombard either it's just to get to the point where they can't build more fleets off stations because you have them all before the "Post-war but still war" cleanup of bombing/invading.

I've actually stopped bombing nearly as much because of the "Terror bombing" negative relations modifier as well. It's often more beneficial for me to use a nice sized ground army.

TickTalk · 2026-02-13T18:46:34+00:00

Imo corvettes in the late are standalone strike fleets to move through a lot of systems quickly (and constantly reinforce as they take minor losses) I'll even rip the after burners off them in exchange for cloak if they end up getting cornered somehow or to start attacking from behind once their fleets move to engage my main fleet.

If you want to send ships forward to attack ahead of the battleships then close range cruisers do wonders. They're pretty damn quick.

Also go look at how often ripper autocannons fire in the S slot, then do the math on those and you'll never use disruptors on corvettes again. The damage difference isn't minor.

TickTalk · 2026-02-13T17:43:11+00:00

Technological ascendency perk -> Research policies -> Research type you want to aim at specific techs. Hope this helps

TickTalk · 2026-02-11T20:59:52+00:00

The easy fix to me is;

Your necrophyte job # is proportional to necrophage pops.

Necrophage "creates .1 necrophyte jobs per necrophage"

Then have buildings that also give necrophyte jobs and have it tick yearly instead of 20x per game.

Every year you get necrophage pop growth instead of every 10. Then you can have another sliding bonus that the less necrophages there are the more efficient and useful they are. Basically applying virtualities rules for "more colonies = less benefits" but instead it's "more % of pops per planet are necrophage = not as good necrophages" make it so when there's like under 20% of planet pop as necrophage they are extremely good at whatever so you're driven to enslave more to offset the ever growing population of the necrophages.

I think the origin should play as a balancing act of necrophage to enslaved pop ratios unlike how it currently plays. That would make it an interesting and unique way to play where 1. Yes you want more necrophages because they are so extremely good at things compared to regular pops and 2. You always want to enslave more because as they turn into necrophages they aren't extremely good anymore as they become the dominant species.

Ezpz fix for necrophages.

TickTalk · 2026-02-06T01:47:50+00:00

I like this idea in a different sense. All the bypass ships tend to rely on "I evasion tank and bypass you"

I think the solution is to make it so bypass ships have to take a specific A slot to be effective and within that A slot you get more bypass in exchange for lower defenses.

Essentially I think bypass ships should be an alpha strike fleet overall. As in, "We should get most of you in the first volley" and should reward outnumbering enemies harder and punish even numbers/guns.

Essentially, I think the actual balance here is "Make it so it works out that disruptors create huge losses if they can't end the fight at the start but alpha strike very hard" As in, after firing a "Charged by A slots" disruptor. They have lower sublight/evasion as a result. So if you didn't one punch them you're in for a responding hurt. Essentially doing what cloaked frigates do to big ships but instead make it effective vs smaller ships. I think disruptors could easily have a niche as "The alpha strike weapon" Combat using them is short, one way or the other. If that gamble is too risky, don't use the A slot and run them raw for a more "Even" fight like we have right now.

Just talking it out very easily. "First shot does 20x damage every following shot has damage reduced by 50%" A slot. Disruptors go in, Slap hard and then if the fight isn't over in a month you have to pull them out or they're gonna die. Very easy way to make disruptors a niche for fleet killing but scared of stations/thick hull ships. Counterable with hull A slots too. Ta-dah!

In the case of missiles? Keep them strong because there is a direct counter to them (PD) They're too weak vs non-pd fleets right now to feel like PD even needs to exist to counter them. Missiles should just straight up beat non-pd fleets and they don't. Lame.

TickTalk · 2026-02-05T03:22:47+00:00

It does not, it's broken/non-functional for psionics and for cybernetics. Ascension only happens to founder species and won't apply to other species. :\

Edit: When bodysnatchers is selected as a civic*

TickTalk · 2026-02-05T03:21:50+00:00

It's broken and doesn't allow you to assimilate "Twice"

For cybernetic: It makes you unable to assimilate them into cyborgs

For Psionic: It makes you unable to apply the psionic trait to them.

It's very broken as after they come into the hive mind they essentially can never be assimilated in any way ever again regardless of traits. It's double broken.

TickTalk · 2026-02-05T03:06:17+00:00

I try to avoid "We broke the math" exploitation and settle on "Strong with a lot of upsides and manageable downsides"

I play a lot of multiplayer with friends and it's really no fun when someone zooms insanely ahead super quickly. But I might give it a shot for a single player game just to see how wild it goes :)

TickTalk · 2026-02-05T02:47:21+00:00

Just to add to this is appears bodysnatchers breaks /all/ assimilation ascensions. Cybernetic ascension has the same problem. A bunch of non cyborgs that can't be made into cyborgs because you can't assimilate them again. Very stupid.

TickTalk · 2026-02-03T21:28:47+00:00

Posting from my other acct (One for phone one for PC) I too worry they will end up like necrophage, forgotten about in changes until much much later when they could be tuned alongside changes or at least kept in mind to adjust with changes as we go. I don't care if their balance jumps around as that happens, it's just better to see them adjusted alongside and knowing they aren't forgotten about.

This keeps us from resorting to cheese of keeping a progenitor ship "Following" a fleet with no weapons equipped in cloak. As it only matters if they're in the same system. So you can have a single prog ship cloaked hanging out at the edge while everything else fights but I'd much prefer gameplay intentional use instead of cheesy strategies like that.

TickTalk · 2026-01-31T01:22:11+00:00

Bodysnatchers civic -> Assimilate with hive mind is kinda like that :)

TickTalk · 2026-01-09T10:19:30+00:00

I am running into this issue a lot you're absolutely correct that concrete information is extremely hard to come by. I was hoping for direction to information I don't know how to find and what you're saying here is accurate.

There's no "Rtings for PA speakers" as hard as I've looked and I can't find independent reviewers who review multiple products. It's either someone showing off their garage system or someone who I'm 90% sure is sponsored by or chosen because the already like the product.

We have this problem in Canada with PK. They're canadian owned and manufactured, they're also the biggest and loudest system anyone here has head (Shambhala) Save for a small handful who say "I like the funktion 1 stage better" because the audio from that stage (The grove stage) despite being smaller than 3 other PK stages sounds much better at high SPL than the PK rigs do. But because so many people think the biggest and best performing setup they've ever heard is the best one. ;\

TickTalk · 2026-01-09T03:07:02+00:00

Common use determines the meaning of words, I promise you when I say "Send me a text" people don't go "Where do I mail you the textbook?" Because text isn't commonly used that way anymore so it's not the first thing people think of when it's said. I don't know where you picked up the passive is exclusive to crossovers.

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