Developer Blog from December 10th: Destroyers!

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How do you guys know they will be overpowered? You may be even more helpless against close up enemies than frigates are.

Why do you think they get that wormhole device? Because if they get closed in on, it’s possibly GG for them.

And that WH device people are worried about, I suspect it will be destructable and take time to enter, so if attackers shoot it down the destroyer is at their mercy.

 

This is all just guessing, of course, but I assume destroyers will benefit by having smaller ships to escort them and cover their weaknesses so they can shine in their role.

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they

won’t

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Quite a few kids might get hurt in the process, their blood is on your hands doom!

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I want to trade Destroyers for better servers and active advertisement.

Can we make that deal?

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Everything can be made overpowered, even a silent fox…

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I want to trade Destroyers for better servers and active advertisement.

Can we make that deal?

NO

 

Ok Ive got it. But I also thought of a new variation of combat recon mode with multiple captains… one destroyer/ each player can be selected by mm in random order as a captn until one team runs out of destroyers and eventually other ship classes too.

NO

 

Everything can be made overpowered, even a silent fox…

NO

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NO

 

 

NO

 

NO

 

I knew it was a German thing! First Error, now you :smiley:  Doombot must have a German grandmother or something!

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  • Why the heck would some info drops be posted if not for letting us guess and make them laugh watching it. So f…off and don’t denigrate our imagination. Also most of us are having fun doing it I guess.

 

 

(edit: reaction on the sensing of some contempt in a post from Weylin)

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This.

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Anyway, there is a month until destroyers arrive so kinda this too:

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Quite a few kids might get hurt in the process, their blood is on your hands doom!

More blood for the NO-church!

 

 

I knew it was a German thing! First Error, now you :smiley:  Doombot must have a German grandmother or something!

well, my aunt and sister live in Braunschweig :-) 

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Destroyers will literally destroy the game, like Destroyer destroyed our match yesterday!

I saw this video Koromac (you don’t need to attach it to every post of yours) i also showed this video to our testers and server-guys.

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I saw this video Koromac (you don’t need to attach it to every post of yours) i also showed this video to our testers and server-guys.

Did they say anything?

I got more incoming!

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Anyway, there is a month until destroyers arrive so kinda this too:

 

Brilliant XD

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How do you guys know they will be overpowered? You may be even more helpless against close up enemies than frigates are.

Why do you think they get that wormhole device? Because if they get closed in on, it’s possibly GG for them.

And that WH device people are worried about, I suspect it will be destructable and take time to enter, so if attackers shoot it down the destroyer is at their mercy.

 

This is all just guessing, of course, but I assume destroyers will benefit by having smaller ships to escort them and cover their weaknesses so they can shine in their role.

it’s not know, it’s that everybody is taking their experience with the game and that makes it so anybody who thinks of a destroyer thinks of the largest ships in the game currently and they go “oh, larger frigate? yeah that will break the  game!”.  It is a common thinking pattern.

The reality is, I’m not entirely sure what we’re getting. All I know is I’m going to look at it, whether or not it has a laser weapon or a positron cannon style weapon, and I’m going to stack as much damage on it as I possibly can just like I do with the spark so I can quickly vape anything I put my mouse over.

The  real tactical question though, is how quick are they?  The slower a vessel the less it is able to dictate the terms of combat, so that leaves you using extreme range weapons to prevent people from running, or extreme close range and high damage weapons to pop people who get close.  Considering it has a warp I’m going to lean towards the latter. Hot dropping for  days. It will probably be too powerful especially since it is the new release of content, but that is speculation.

Also, at rank 8, They’re going to kill my pilot rating.  I just might not play them at all. Well for that reason and because I don’t like playing people in the leveling path. It’s unfair to them.

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Curious whether they will use some alien tech based stuff or not? How are they doing to fit in the game story wise?

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How are they doing to fit in the game story wise?

Omega Industries thought BIGGER is BETTER.

Omega went to Designers “That’s what we need!”

Designers “Alright, let’s do it.”

Programmers did their job.

BAM - Destroyers

 

Story wise… Let me think… Ah right,

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In our war against the aliens we developed the dreadnoughts to counter them in the most fearsome ways, although corps didn’t receive enough payment so they said " NO" and took their dreadnoughts for their own mercenary wars.

So, open space still full of Aliens the factions had started to cooperate with a certain experimental ship lab called " OmegaIndustries", they paid them a good amount so they started to develop a ship based on the unstable resource " Neodium". Those ships were the Destroyers.

With this resource pilots became able to build their own Destroyers and kick some alien butt to avenge the dozens of failed missions, rekt ships and destroyed transports as well as kick some pirate’s butt. Considering that’s what most mercenaries would do after some research.

They decided to bring the blueprints on the market and now there are buildable ships like the " Rakzaroth", the " Doomslayer", the " Koromagic", but even those had their variations like the " Rakzarius", the " Rakzarian", the " Rakzarom" and the experimental " Rakza’s ButtEnlarger" (No offense, Rakza xD).

And so aliens got butthurt, industries were rich, Factions are satisfied and players got their revenge… And all were happy.

Till one day it came… ( NDA censored )

 

And NO , I didn’t just write down random stuff… *cough*

 

 

Curious whether they will use some alien tech based stuff or not? 

Did you take some fox-pills? On sale?

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Hahaha. Ok like it Omega. :smiley:

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Fox pills for sale! Fox pills for sale!

Want an extra dose of hype?

Too patient for your own good?

Have too many people that agree with your topics?

Try fox pills! I’m not sure what’s in them but I swear someone said it was okay.

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Here is the video of the Destroyer, when there were no technical difficulties with the servers.

We failed at killing it.

 

 

Doomb0t, that last 1% feels more like 5%.