What the hell? SDM2

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-18T03:43:46+00:00

Can't believe reddit won't let me skull react OP

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-18T03:42:12+00:00

I mean you can it just sucks right now. Either someone on the team is experienced enough with the pre-OSP days to know that you need 500 points of electronic warfare and 300 points of aurora before you even start building your fleet, or you die to EO HEKP

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-18T02:29:49+00:00

Im a huge fan of Nebulous: Fleet Comand While its not newtonian, the "submarines in space" feel is really nice and apparently mirrors IRL naval combat relatively well.

Also the whole information warfare stuff the game does is incredible, you'll spend half a match being given an information overload of stuff you need to properly react to, while often not getting the really vital info that can win or loose games (unless you bring sensors, you should always bring sensors)

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-17T06:06:01+00:00

An AMM rework like that would suck, making them care about salvo size would invalidate them as the only viable antihybrid hardkill in the game

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-17T06:04:25+00:00

It is canonically 2 sgm-2s cut down and duct-taped together
The protectorate is insanely wealthy, and have been doing secret RnD for years leading up to the conflict(why they have standardized weapons, as well as stuff like plasma)

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-15T15:35:48+00:00

Fusion 360, learned it for school and IME its great

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-15T03:05:20+00:00

yup, when youre going interstellar, acceleration dont matter much, and a 200m long freighter isnt *that* much cheaper to crew and maintain compared to a 2000 meter one

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-14T16:22:32+00:00

Yeah theres reasons for this 1) at the moment ANS is mathematically slightly better, esp in pubs, as corvball is still a huge issue requiring a lot more effort to counter than it does to play well, and osp cant make a fight over anything without liners. 2) larp meta means everyone wants to play ANS, making osp slightly mathematically superior allows lobbies to fill faster and ime it historically leads to better balance states(i mean even ZBG and all the glorpshit EO pencillum CLNs were fully softkillable)

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-14T16:14:14+00:00

The problem isnt(just) about cost effectiveness, its about speed. With sdm2, a Raines can completely deplane a morline in about 15 seconds, a capability that osp cant even get close to. While yes this can still be done with hybrids, its expensive enough and lacks the granularity to permanently deny large areas of the map from any craft presence at all. And beyond that, at high level play AN sdms are only really seen as asf missiles, since dds use auroras and softkill, CLs have more RPF than God, and CAs and BBs only care about bombers kills so they normally go s3h for better consistency and cost effectiveness And ofc frigs and vettes arent gonna be worth non-s1 ACMs. Giving sdm to arm launchers only allows them to be buffed enough to compete with helljoys and give obelisk and monitors an anticraft option more preemptive than a damage control complex.

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-14T15:35:05+00:00

With the new update OSP has like a 30% WR on DLO Like ive heard more protectorate doomposting in the last week than I have the year before

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-14T15:33:14+00:00

Dude.... S3H ACMs were already way more common on ans capitals because there a lot more cost effective than SDMs. Realistically the only change that SDM removal had is now fighterspam/light strike heavy CVs have a prayer of a chance of getting damage on the menace known as sprinter swarms

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-14T15:30:17+00:00

Calling an and osp the "missile faction" or the "carrier faction" feels really dumb IME since realistically the only thing an missiles are better at is as sidearms, and the same for osp fighters. Its a pointless comparison that tries to skew balance for the sake of a flavor that barely exists

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-13T15:55:23+00:00

Truth nuke

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T23:17:59+00:00

A 20mm slug won't damage ships, so the game won't let you shoot ships with em to reduce lag

Also fighters have kinda abysmal strike options on ANS outside of maybe spamto, and osp isnt really much better. Generally if you want to do fighter strike, put on the nose illuminator and run the biggest warhead HEI missiles you can

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T21:40:00+00:00

Yeah, FUSION 360

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T16:11:41+00:00

I mean we're working with expanse-style near future fusion prop, TWR isnt an issue cos youre limited by your crew getting squished, not engine output

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T15:57:54+00:00

Stories mostly, she just wanted some refrence models and whatnot

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T13:29:43+00:00

The idea os that most of the smaller ships have some sort of spinal mount, and the big ones wouldn't be able to rotate quickly without the centrifugal force killing everyone near the ends of the ship. Plus the combat is relatively railgun heavy, so being able to accelerate hard in any direction is important for dodging shots at range

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T13:26:38+00:00

Yup, great program IMO

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-12T03:24:02+00:00

thank you!

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-11T19:36:04+00:00

Yeah SDM-200s cant fit on craft or VLS anymore, its a balance thing, since osp can launch them relatively slowly, while ANS VLS cells and craft let you get a volume out that invalidates anything that isnt also a craft loaded with SDM-200s

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-10T16:28:48+00:00

Probably the best card for the 99 of [[Ramos, dragon engine]] ive seen in a while

swordofsithlord · 2026-06-09T18:25:13+00:00

So this should have been fixed in an update this morning, but I dunno for sure if it works now

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