50% accuracy kinetic thingy.' and i actually had a use for it for a while after testing it. Even some that i looked first like 'hmmm. People would go all 'p2w new meta boooooo all good stuff is now Archaeology tech', but in midgame i feel many have their uses. Probably are not even planned for all the them to become some new meta on endgame. Yes, i feel like if gets lucky (and yes i did pick that related ascension perk, since new thing and all that) at early/mid game they can make a difference in special designs. My current game is on midgame, and yes - some of them been literal life savers for me, like the PD one, went directly from tier one to that at early/mid and actually have an enemy that uses missiles a lot (and not just the usual autocannon on everything). At least i personally scrapped the idea of having any of those weapons in my final endgame designs. So perhaps they are meant to give you a quick, early edge in combat - assuming you even find the tech that early, and have a spare ascension perk. In particular the strike craft are very poor, since their lack of shield piercing makes them easy prey for enemy conventional strike craft. So even with the bonus from having the perk, they perform worse. Only one i could think of would be the new Titan beam, without minimum range and increased DPS while losing 60% of its max range.īasically everything else i've seen was a performance equivalent to the tier 1-3 weapons (of 5 tiers). :PĬould you explain exactly which of the ancient weapons are actually better than the existing base game weapons? Originally posted by Sofia♡:I kinda have 2 designs of certain platforms and ships, like the 'super Archaeology' versions and then the 'normal' ones, so my main fleet has all the most advanced/expensive (best of old and new tech) designs - it brings destruction and fear to my enemies! :P My normal fleets i use as support/defensive duties and as expendables units kinda that are cheaper to replace when casualties. Not all of them are supergiga epic, but have their uses in special designs to counter certain enemy designs. So yeah i sorta feel good when i run a specialized 'Archaeology fleet with ancient powers' as my main task force where i wanna avoid big casualties, but it also has the biggest impact on the battlefield when i use it. I kinda have 2 designs of certain platforms and ships, like the 'super Archaeology' versions and then the 'normal' ones, so my main fleet has all the most advanced/expensive (best of old and new tech) designs - it brings destruction and fear to my enemies! :P My normal fleets i use as support/defensive duties and as expendables units kinda that are cheaper to replace when casualties. My Citadels on choke points with Unyielding + Archaoe def platforms = it's pure satisfaction. Like i have like something like 10% of my def platforms with only with the Archaeology PD/Flak version + L size weapon. Think the cost is supposed to make them be and feel 'special' (and many of them indeed are quite good IMO) so use them on special ship/fleets/platforms only. In the end piking Archaeo-Engineers perk or even researching the rare Archaeotech is a waste of time and resources, as far as artifacts go it's better to use them in something more worthwhile like an Ancient refinery. Originally posted by Tiago:While Archaeotech Weapon are nice, the worst being similar to mid tier weapons and the best to highest tier, the cost makes impossible to use them in large scale.Įven if one were to be very lucky and get a couple of relic words and Archaeological sites the gain of Artifacts would hardly pass 10 per month, but the cost of single small weapon is 8! and strangely medium 10 and large 12Ī bloody corvette with 3 small Archaeotech Weapons costs 24 artifacts, how many years one will need to make or reinforce a single fleet!?

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