Early Access version 26

RoboCat · August 10, 2019, 3:55pm

Expectation:

Reality (i don’t know USA system don’t write me about that) :

Neutral · August 10, 2019, 3:58pm

Then onto the early access. to the players that have the last heavy bomber, what doe sthe firepower exender accomplish?

GgWw1175 · August 10, 2019, 4:02pm

The BX-6 has power levels 0-13 and 23
The BX-7 has 0-14 and 24
The BX-8 has 0-15 and 25
And finally the BX-9 has 0-16 and 26

IA posted a more in-depth explanation that’s now burried somewhere in this thread.

Neutral · August 10, 2019, 4:03pm

Huh, i expected something fancier, but ok.

anon27929001 · August 10, 2019, 4:08pm

Nice spoiler.

matix524 · August 10, 2019, 4:09pm

You could just quote the iA’s post, but ok.

anon58612718 · August 10, 2019, 4:09pm

what can i say im lazy guy

GuestUniverse · August 10, 2019, 4:11pm

Is copying iA’s post instead of using the quote option considered plagiarism?

anon58612718 · August 10, 2019, 4:12pm

fine i will delete it.

GuestUniverse · August 10, 2019, 4:17pm

Nah, don’t delete it…

InterAction_studios:

Some clarification about how bomber firepower is calculated. Skip this if you’d rather discover it on your own.

Bomber weapons do not actually have their own dedicated power levels or firing patterns – that would be too much work for too little payoff. Instead, think of each bomber as containing two separate weapons (one for each pylon). Your total Weapon power is split equally between the two pylons. So, for example, a bomber with 6 Ion blaster has the same output power as two 3 Ion blasters. For odd powers, the left pylon gets one more level than the other (projectile-based weapons are capable of alternating between which pylon gets the extra power with each volley).

Total power Pylon 1 Pylon 2

0 0 0

1 1 0

2 1 1

3 2 1

4 2 2

etc.

Since twice the power would be excessive, however, bombers also have a limit to their maximum power (13-16, depending on the model). Their “Max power” is +10 levels beyond that. “Max power” gives +1 power to each pylon (the equivalent of +2 total power level).

This means that:

You can’t directly compare power levels between standard fighters and bombers. Bombers will typically take longer (i.e., more power levels) to ramp up their output, but their output will continue increasing way past level 10.

As weapon damage ramping is typically non-linear, there may be particular power levels where a bomber is weaker/equivalent/stronger that the corresponding fighter. But bombers will eventually exceed any fighter’s output.

Some weapons behave oddly (@gabytzu e.g. the Photon Swarm never becoming orange, because neither pylon ever reaches level 10)

RoboCat · August 10, 2019, 4:35pm

Maybe clear all comments with aggression ?!

matix524 · August 10, 2019, 4:41pm

i wouldn’t consider these posts as aggressive.
i think that these were just a joke against that person.

anon58612718 · August 10, 2019, 4:43pm

what im not aggressive person

KiyanChickenFan · August 10, 2019, 5:15pm

uh huh i was joking this whole time lmao
anyways enough of this

isp · August 10, 2019, 5:16pm

We’ve gone off topic enough, please try to stray by this thread’s topic

InterAction_studios · August 10, 2019, 9:51pm

No, all remaining attributes remain unchanged from the normal (single-pylon) case. So, for example, a dual-pylon 5 corn shotgun fires at exactly the same rate as a single-pylon 5 shotgun (except of course from the fact that it’s split into two shotguns, one at 3 and one at 2) .

InterAction_studios · August 11, 2019, 8:02am

Fixed in v.27 Bug

VerMishelb · August 11, 2019, 11:01am

What the hell happened here? What the “Battle for CIU forum?” Return of @chickeninvadersfan72?

anon58612718 · August 11, 2019, 11:08am

something like that

Neutral · August 11, 2019, 11:09am

Don’t worry, the war already ended