Just looking over some things, and the combat specializations that seem to be labelled in the game, it seems there are some severe restrictions for players of the Federation faction. Such as the complete inability to equip Command Ships or Long Range frigates. This, in itself is a little disappointing beings we can’t exactly change our race, and can’t really gain experience in a different faction.
Jericho has no healing frigs and Empire has no CovOps. You CAN change your race, and you can rank up other factions without changing your race. There are still some balance issues, just not on that grand a scale.
You absolutely can build experience with another faction. I have equal rank with empire and federation. Every faction has only 2/3 of the ship roles available, so they’re all in the same boat.
If you take a step back, this is actually a good thing. It means you get new and shiny stuff by ranking up in a second faction, rather than getting everything with rank 12 in your first faction and then getting bored because there’s nothing new any more.
Federation has the greatest access to Engineer frigates and Covert Ops Interceptors, which are both the most useful and dangerous ships on the battlefield. Gunships would be third, but they have plenty of them too. Long Range frigates are for the most part pretty useless in my experience. They’re as slow as Guard frigates without the shields, hull or close-range defense and generally provide very little actual benefit to their teams.
And as Arpacolas said, you can rank up in different factions by changing your sub-faction, so nothing is stopping you from ranking up in Empire or Jericho as well.
Might want to wait a week or 2 and build up some actual knowledge of the game before you start criticizing it. Theres nothing wrong with criticizing if you actually have a valid concern but damn…
- No race has every ship type so Feds are not singled out
- You can change your race
- You can gain exp in another faction
So yea a look at the wiki , the FAQ , the forums , and ingame you would have found all these things out very quickly
In fact, each race specializes in one role per class and also gets an additional role per class.
Empire: Recon, Gunship, Long range.
Federation: CovOps, Tackler, Engineering.
Jericho: ECM, Command, Guard.
If you notice, all the rank 12 ships obey this specialization.
HOWEVER, the ship trees are a little dumb. The Empire int tree is a line with 2 dead-end branches, so in order to get the rank 12 Recon int, you have to buy every int except 2, for example. The trees could use more connections to shorten the paths.
These issues should be fixed soon, Please remain patient.
Alright, I can admit when I’m wrong. (Though I could deal with less attitude from Headbasher).
Alright, so how exactly DO I change my race? And can I be in more than one sub Faction? I assumed you could only be in one. I was in Vanguard, but they really don’t support the weapons I actually use, whereas Armada does.
Alright, I can admit when I’m wrong. (Though I could deal with less attitude from Headbasher).
Alright, so how exactly DO I change my race? And can I be in more than one sub Faction? I assumed you could only be in one. I was in Vanguard, but they really don’t support the weapons I actually use, whereas Armada does.
You switch sub-factions from the Contracts menu. Simply select a different sub-faction and click on the button to switch contracts. You’ll have to pay a modest fee (100,000 credits at Loyaly level 6, which is one match of T2 PvE), and then your current faction will switch to the primary faction of whatever sub-faction who selected.
You can only take contracts from one sub-faction at a time.
Guard Frigates seem to fire marshmallows
Guard Frigates seem to fire marshmallows
I’ve noticed though that, according to stats, they have 15,000 more survivability than Engineer Frigates though.
That is, comparing the Raptor Mk II to the Alligator-C.
Alright, I can admit when I’m wrong. (Though I could deal with less attitude from Headbasher).
Alright, so how exactly DO I change my race? And can I be in more than one sub Faction? I assumed you could only be in one. I was in Vanguard, but they really don’t support the weapons I actually use, whereas Armada does.
Forgive my perceived attitude but i really didn’t mean it . Since you are brave enough to post on the forums(yes some people are afraid) I figured you could handle it : )
Forgive my perceived attitude but i really didn’t mean it . Since you are brave enough to post on the forums(yes some people are afraid) I figured you could handle it : )
Someone who has the decency to apologize on the internet. Hats off to you buddy.