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0022682AI War 2Balance IssueJan 21, 2020 11:18 am
ReporterFluffiest Assigned ToRocketAssistedPuffin  
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Version1.304 So You Like Combat Engineers? 
Summary0022682: Sabot post 100x damage multiplier is an outlier
DescriptionMost damage multipliers are 10x are below, but sabot posts get an absolutely massive 100x multiplier. The knock-on effect of this is that while you can use most ships against most guard posts with at least moderate success, a single sabot post is a complete roadblock to anything it gets the bonus against.

I'm ok with hard-counters like this (AIWC was full of them), and I'm ok with the soft-counter system that's used through the rest of the game, but having frigates be hard-countered while other ships are only soft-countered seems to be a big balance point against frigates.
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RocketAssistedPuffin

Jan 21, 2020 10:42 am

reporter   ~0055689

Last edited: Jan 21, 2020 11:08 am

It's the successor to the Arachnid Posts from Classic, which couldn't fire on anything below Starship size.

I've no issue with this and not really planning to change it. Most other Posts are multi-shot and have issues actually killing a Frigate, and the MLRS Post is an extreme example of that, so is the opposite of the Sabot.

In terms of the total DPS including the bonus, the Sabot is on the lower side as well. If I changed it to be more like the other Posts, it'd not really be notable.

Maybe in future? I dunno.

Fluffiest

Jan 21, 2020 11:18 am

reporter   ~0055694

Fair enough. I hadn't really considered the drawbacks of multi-shot.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Jan 21, 2020 8:32 am Fluffiest New Issue
Jan 21, 2020 10:42 am RocketAssistedPuffin Assigned To => RocketAssistedPuffin
Jan 21, 2020 10:42 am RocketAssistedPuffin Status new => closed
Jan 21, 2020 10:42 am RocketAssistedPuffin Resolution open => fixed
Jan 21, 2020 10:42 am RocketAssistedPuffin Note Added: 0055689
Jan 21, 2020 10:58 am RocketAssistedPuffin Note Edited: 0055689
Jan 21, 2020 11:01 am RocketAssistedPuffin Note Edited: 0055689
Jan 21, 2020 11:08 am RocketAssistedPuffin Note Edited: 0055689
Jan 21, 2020 11:18 am Fluffiest Note Added: 0055694