Now that EA is well behind us and the spaceship qualities are pretty much set in stone, what have people found to be the best?
I’m especially wondering about the best in a given class - like, what’s the best Muller (if there’s any sort of consensus to that, even). Assuming all 24 slots are already bought.
A lot of the clips of highscoring plays seem to be with Bombers, I’ve noticed.
I’ll just address everything in some sort of rant.
‘Armageddon, as they are.’
While I think all of the bomber models perform great in most missions, it is clear that the best model is, by scandal, the BX-9 “Mjölnir”. It’s useful in pretty much every competitive and non competitive mission on the game due to his massive numbers of damage and lack of proper disadvantages. The “Big Hitbox” and “Slow as a damn turtle” disadvantages can be easily reduced by buying Egg regular propulsors and Maneuvering jets respectively, although is not like the the first hitbox is much of a problem, you can perfectly live with it.
With the disadvantages being total garbage, it is clear why these guys are used in pretty much everywhere, much more in competitive missions like Galactic cup missions, Ironman, Dailies and Weeklies, and EVEN Space Race. I doubt it for League dares (do people still play that thing?) because they’re not much of a deal.
For most of the competitive missions, they make the job of performing multi-kills, pecking orders, and other bonuses much easier and can deal better with really, really tough waves. For Space Races, they can sweep most of the waves in the blink of an eye.
The other bomber models are great as well, although they are not as powerful as the BX-9. And may struggle a little more in everything mentioned before.
What makes the Bomber familiy more special is that their disadvantages can be reduced to the point they’re almost wiped out, which you clearly cannot do with the other families (you cannot increase the gun power of the rest of the spaceships (unless you use special weapons)).
The non-broken version of bombers.
A little harder to find the best of the best in here, because all of the models are pretty much the same, with -/+ satellites and slots. I’ve seen some people say that the “Deliverer” model is better than the “Cuisiner” because of his smaller hitbox, although I don’t find hitbox a really relevant factor in these spaceships, and I’d say that choosing the best is more about if you rather have one or two engines.
Would be much easier to find the worst model, which is indeed the “Caterer” model, not nessesarily because it is bad, but it has one less satellite slot than the “Deliverer” one, and as mentioned before, I don’t find hitbox to be any relevant in these families. If you don’t find the satellite slots to be relevant either because you just don’t use them, then… Well, that’s on you!!!
Unlike Bombers, Müllers struggle a little more in competitive missions and really hard waves, which is why they’re not used as much in there. Although they are fine enough in non-competitive missions since most of the time you wouldn’t need to buy as much equipment to play normal missions, and normally you’re not looking for anything but to complete missions (unless you’re farming keys, score and waves).
Depsite the fact they are terribly weak for elite missions and not great in any competitive mission, all of the models grant you a small key boost which increases the keys you collect during a mission. And with that said, the best model has to be the “Hatchling” model, as it grants you the biggest boost (well, “BIG” is a very strong word for a 18% boost, but I assume you get it).
I believe that Key rushes tend to be played often with this model because of the boost, and because Key Rushes are really easy to complete most of the time. So, that’s one situation where the H&Cs are superior than the Bombers and Müllers! ha, who would have thought that?
The other models have sightly more gun power and hitbox than the H&C 101, but also decrease the key boost. Which means, why would I use these when I can just use either a Müller or a Bomber instead? Well, unlike the other models, at least the “Cockerel” model has two engines instead of one.
I feel like they perform decently in other missions like Comet chases, Boss rushes, etc. Just like VFs and the rest of the families.
(or VFs for short)
The worst family.
I guess you can choose between having the enviroments not being that annoying, or have decent gun power, or “¿Por qué no lo dos?”. The “starling” model only has resistance against a few enviroments but more gun power, the “raven” model has resistance against all the enviroments but mediocre gun power, and the “jackdaw” model provides a little from both. So, the model depends in where you wanna use them.
The problem with the whole family is that Enviromental Resistance is not a great advantage, because you can get used to play missions with enviroments with Müllers and Bombers to the point they’re not much of a deal.
The other problem is their mediocre gun power for such a small advantage (Env. Resistance being the only ability). They perform really bad in harder missions, and let’s not even talk about competitive missions…
I believe that they would be better if they had another ability like the ones proposed by the Developer in New spacecraft family (poll) with the suggestions people made in there back then, or maybe not only making them resistent against enviroments but also increase their power when they are in such enviroments. Like, for example, if the VF get’s hit by a lighting it increases the gun power for a short ammout of time, or blah blah blah.
All of these changes would requiere more thought and balance and ugh, I’m not getting into that, nor I think the developer has gotten much into since the day VFs were added. I would be very happy if I happen to be wrong about that, but dosen’t change the fact that nowdays VFs are not worth it.
The third problem is the price… God lord… yeah, that’s the best I could have thought, there’s nothing else to add.
The worst part is that they’re not even situational like the H&Cs which are good and useful in only 1 mission. That says a lot, and I’d say it’s the whole tl;dr of this family.
Depsite EA is finally over, I’m 100% abilities are not “set in stone” and still need a bunch of tweaks from here and there.
Bombers are the best family of the game with no doubt. The BX-9 “Mjölnir” being used almost everywhere.
Müllers are decent. Hard to decide what’s the best model.
H&C 101 is the best of his family yet waaaay to situtiational. Still OK for being a starter family.
VFs are not worth it. None of them. Also really hard to decide which is the best model.
And that’s all my vulgar opinion of the families. Oh, and welcome back! It’s been 84 years a real while!
Yeah VF family really need BUFF!!!
I clucking hate electrical environments. That’s why I use vf in these missions. But yes they are weak
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