I've been playing for a while and I see mentions to spoiler hulls and weapons but I've only found one spoiler ship, can't seem to find anything else.
What do I need to do in general terms, spoiling as little as possible? Open comms with random people from the inner planets? Talk with everyone on all bars? Go explore distant systems?
Continuing my game the previous night and have managed to complete Abyssal Space Oddity mission, collected the Onslaught Mk1 Ancient and have fought the first Threat fleet - (What are those, an AI hivemind... seems to contradict the logic from Stellaris) and proceeded to the Galatia station. But quickly afterwards decided it was worth it , for some reason, to return back through another ''young'' hole and face whatever was heading my way. Upon entry I discovered another baren planet and two seconds an unidentified fleet ramming into mine.
I thought it would be an easy fight since I was undefeated during the whole game and have fought multiple fleets so far. Easy as making a sandwich...
But no, I failed to notice a massive swarm of small ships, five to six medium ones, a big drone swarm one and this monstrosity up in the picture. I lost half of my military ships, six cruisers (those funny pointy ones) two carriers and am prepared to loose more in the hopes of winning an engagement and capturing all the worthy ships, including the ''Beehive'' above.
So what are your strategies when it comes to this? I don't believe most of the players ever had to pay the cost encountering the unstoppable enemy such as the Threat but you can always farm their ships by chance if you don't mind the resource cost. What do you bring into battle and is the cost worth it - by that, I mean, how will it fare against the human factions armament and is it worth the deployment points? Better question is what other ships would be ideal to go, along side the one above, into an engagement?
Thank you in advance!
What costs the least amount of fuel and/or supplies to operate?
The big ones have huge sensor profiles, which is something I also care about.
There's a third one that got sucked up by the top neutron beam too
>!Call me a pessimist, but I feel like this is a exercise in futility. If players create the environment where the "higher" difficulty is what you should be playing on, its going to happen, no matter how much effort you try to make or convince people otherwise. The Devs can say no, but the playerbase can turn that into a maybe.!<
>!On one hand, afaik this community doesn't really do that. On the other hand, there isn't much discussion about Easy Mode or Spacer Start to begin with.!<
>!I would also like to say that my view may stem from being on r/Xcom and how if you don't play on the highest difficulty, or sometimes the 2nd highest, they consider your opinion invalid until you do.!<
For reference, I have around 3000 personnel, but I somehow lost 100000.
I don't think this is from me losing the single ship as I have had this bug before, where I lost 3000 personnel without losing a single ship.
Anyone else who has had this mod bug?
These two are just the ones that I found really close matches but I'm sure there's more, there is a portrait that l am 90% sure is referencing Venom Snake from MGS but I couldn't find the exact image they referenced.
Just started my Diable Avionics run yesterday, and I have a question about the Phase Core.
Before starting the run, I watched a bunch of Diable Avionics showcase videos. In those videos, people make the Maelstrom look amazing — quick 90-degree phase turns, sideways phase dodges, casually avoiding incoming fire.
Then I actually tried it myself.
It is... a lot harder than it looks.
Let's say an enemy suddenly shows up on my right and I want to do a quick phase turn toward them. I need to hold D to turn right while also hitting F to phase.
Okay, a little awkward, but manageable.
Then I tried doing a sideways phase dodge to the right:
Shift + D + F
At this point I feel like I'm playing Starsector with a controller.
I MUST be doing something wrong. Is there an easier way to control the Phase Core / Maelstrom? Different keybinds? Some control setting I'm missing? Or is this actually how you guys fly it and I just need to grow another finger?
Also, question about the Diable Avionics quest:
I installed DAOF specifically because I wanted the DA quest content.
From what I understand, the quest starts once you're level 10 and have the Gulf.
So I searched Reddit trying to figure out how to get the Gulf, and the answer I found says I need Ship/Weapon Pack for the IBB bounty board, and that's how you eventually get the Gulf.
Is that still the correct way to get it?
Pink/Mew Mew portrait I had commed from a friend
Inspired a lot by VIC portraits.
I wish I could see a conquest do the same
context: I have the skill that removes a D-mod once a month. My ship had a D-mod before tinkering around the refit menu. By the time i was done refitting (1hr irl), the D-mod was gone.
Im a new player so i still have to read & test every weapon - having time pass while in simulations / menus really doesn't work in my favor.
Does it consume supplies while im in the menus as time passes?
Is there anyway i can see all the portraits in my game without having to start a new character. I can find a few floating around online or om the official website, but not all of them.
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i need big bulky ships that throw everything at what's in front of them, like the kind of ships that if you get behind them then it's over for them cus they're so focused on the front : ^ )
bonus points if the ships are capitals
Spurred from a silly discord interaction
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