Sir Bart
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2006.11.15 00:56:00 -
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Finally got on the test server to try out the hyperion. Needless to say I was skeptical going in.
The extra tankability is pretty decent but megathron is almost as good as a blastership and combined with the fact that rigs need power and megathron has more power, megathron will likely be the better design. I fully expected the Hyperion to be a tanking nos ship from it's bonuses but it seems it's powergrid prevents that, and nos doesn't seem to be very effective anymore, nos stats seem to be the same but they don't seeme to be working very good.... anyways, next I thought, well powergrid isn't an issue on snipers right? so I setup the hyperion as a sniper. It's got more hp than a megathron, similar range, a bit more damage and it still locks at 235km or something when you use 3 sensor boosters.
Hyperion turns out ot be a small improvement to the megathron in sniping (well, 20% more hp is pretty good, all other aspects are about the same, but it's much more expensive).
For blasterships, I think it's close but the differences I've found:
I'm comparing dual rep hyperion to a dual rep mega and :
mega does more damage per second (ion's are better than electrons and extra low slot can fit another MFS. but 7 guns compared to 8. Over all mega I think has about 10% more dps)
mega has 26% better tracking (37% bonus but ions track a bit worse)
hyperion has 37% better damage rep'd per second
hyperion has a better capacitor
hyperion goes 7% faster
hyperion has something like 20% more starting HP.
hyperion locks a bit faster (something like 15%).
hyperion has an extra midslot but they are no longer really better than low slots anymore since ECM has been nerf'd.
If you add all these factors together, I think the hyperion would win in a fight (they could both tank each other pretty good but since hyperion uses less cap / amount repaired it can out last the megathron. However, I will still use megathron since I don't want to pay the extra amount to buy the ship for such a small edge.
If it's not my imagination and the nos is getting weakened... combined with the longer battles but no more drone HP, dominix is getting hurt bad.
Also, I thought Absolution was gonna really bad ass with an unbeatable tank, Nos, and a couple autocannons to shoot the other guy... but with nos weakened, I think it will only be good at sniping (rigs will lessen the cap penalty).
-Bart
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