It's not the only option, as Tachyon Lance and Giga Cannon are also quite strong, but I do think it's the overall best of the spinal mount weapons. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. Make sure you have high accuracy; aux fire control helps for this. If you don't have cloud lightnings you might want to switch to a giga cannon + 2 artillery + 2 neutron launchers or 3 artillery +1 neutron launcher. I only really field the third variant of the enemy ships have low hull, otherwise I run a mix of the first two skewed towards whatever defense is weekestGo to Stellaris r/Stellaris. I have all tech researched, so the choice is between the tachyon lance, focused arc emitter and the giga cannon. They need to be cheap and numerous, not tough. Members Online •. 6. Hit multiple targets. However in Stellaris, the way it works is that Battleships are. Focused arc emitter battleships with an artillery computer, titan aura buffing fire rate and a juggernaut with the range increase aura will curb stomp practically anything in the game. #12 < > Showing 1-12 of 12 comments . Spinal mounts are better than 2xL, neutron launchers rule the L slot, so Spinal mount weapon + 4 Neutron launcher is the default. ago. And no, if you make more alloys than you have the naval cap for, its more effiicent to just go over cap and use. 84 Avg. Use Carrier computer. Higher fleet cap for me usually means add more battleships plus possibly a titan. 77 days; But the test by Montu doesn't use all-kinetic or all-energy, so if the L-slots alongside the X-slot weapons are 3 NL and 1 KA: Tachyon Lance takes 27. Missiles are a solid weapon thanks to having good accuracy, great range, ignoring shields, and no damage penalties. Focused Arc Emitters have a higher average damage than Giga Cannons as well, beating them out by about 100 damage. 780k alloy for 1250 battleships (maybe don't need this many. Get cloud lightning. Arc Emmitters have two main targets they work good against: Corvette swarms and the Unbidden. When fleets engage each other in Stellaris, ships don't just randomly pick targets to shoot - they fire. Higher fleet cap for me usually means add more battleships plus possibly a titan. Tachyons are good overall, especially against armour. Their defenses will break eventually. A list of all technologies in Stellaris, along with their IDs for use in console commands, cheats and mods. Carrier core hard counters Corvettes and Destroyers, Focused Arc Emitter will ravage any Cruisers and any pure Carrier Battleships, and you will only have a bad matchup against Artillery Battleships. There's only one weapon against FE / AE ships that makes any significant difference: the Focused Arc Emitters. The nomad ships are OP AF they have focused arc emitters on a Destroyer frame. 2m damage per 4 days, so. An normal cloud lightning does between 136-1 damage. 6 Focused Arc emitter still outperform other X-slot weapons even with hardening. I've been trying various energy weapon builds on my ships since Stellaris first came out (when the all Tachyon Lance/Focused Arc Emitter cruisers was the thing) and I think I found my favourite one so far: the void cloud lightning. Please note that I am rounding numbers, and ignoring carry over damage here. 1) Tachyons have signifantly more raw dps then arc emitters : 24. Personally late game I just use Battleships with a Focused Arc Emitter, 2 Phase Disruptors, and 2 Plasma Cannons. Strike Craft are unnecessary if you are using. You either go with 4 Neutron Launchers or 4 Cloud Lightning. Especially if you're aiming for kill rate you'll need very specialized fleet. 2. This weaponry you can only equip on BBs. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. Basically shield + armor pen because FE have very high shields and armor. Emitters deal 850 average hull damage, Lances deal an average of 2100 to hull, and Giga just barely do more at 2188 average damage. . Assuming a fleet cap of 200, I would build fleets of 20 battleships and 40 corvettes in each fleet. But this is close enough that you propably need a much longer test set to be sure. The Hangar bow and Broadside stern are incredibly underpowered. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy…You could go with the generic Corvette swarm (torps and disrupters), or you could go with Arc Emitters, Cloud Lightning, and Disrupters on your BBs. Now well into the 2300's my battleship groups are at about 60k power each (and those are focused arc emitter / cloud lightning battleships, so they hit a lot harder than their ostensible power rating suggests and corvettes don't counter them very well) while the AI is still running around with 10k-30k fleet power so I win battles against them. Tachyon Lance works best when mixed with Kinetic Artillery, which break through shields and open the door for the Tachyon Lance's unrivaled anti-armor and anti-hull damage output. Cloud Lightning; Giga Cannon vs Kinetic Artillery). 60sec cooldown | 100% Acc. Army doctrine was no retreat for + 33 fire rate. 96 Badges. Very little reason to use anything else once you have full tech access)Stellaris. Stellaris: Focused Arc Emitter - The Best XL Weapon? In this video I explore which XL is the most powerful in new 3. Always use the Focused Arc Emitter. Then there are the Battleship weapons: Kinetic Batteries, Giga Cannons, Neutron Launchers, Tachyon Lances, Focused Arc Emitters, and Cloud Lightning. I stick to Corvette spams until I can make Tesla Battlecruisers. - Fixed Giga Cannon, Tachyon Lances and Focused Arc Emitters technologies having the draw weight and cost of tier 4 technologies despite being tier 5 technologies. I don't think ship weapon range is worth it compared to other options, but I don't have real experience with that. Members Online. Also, since they all have a cool down of approximately 8 ticks, average. Focused Arc Emitter / Carrier / Marauder / Whirlwind Battleships are by far the best "all-rounder" ship. 50% get to the shield. For their X-Slot weapons, they use Focused Arc Emitters. You can always swap to Focused Arc Emitter if you're up against shield-heavy foes. Nemesis Patch #2 Released! MrFreake_PDX. I go Giga Cannon unless I have Cloud Lightning tech, in which case I go Arc. Everything I have researched has said Tachyon Lance over Focused Arc Emitter for battleship design. It is the best weapon, by far, against FEs, that the game has to offer, and your fleet is all battleships either way Use Line Computer for +Hit so your Kinetic Artillery / Neutron Launchers have an ok chance to hit. It's contextual really. I think a similar logic should also apply in Stellaris, and the ship types seem to be almost aimed there, but it just does not. Finally we have the Focused Arc Emitter which bypasses both armor and shielding and hits hull directly. Vs Prethoryn I'm not super sure, but I think with enough fighters you can stave off most of the carnage to the point where the above still works ok (but using Tacyons ofc instead of Giga Cannons)Focused Arc Emitter, 2x Neutron Launcher, 2x Kinetic Artillery. Idea is that if you go down this route, all your guns are laser and physic has guaranteed laser repeatables and start earlier than engineering. Jump to latest Follow Reply. 50% pierce through the shield, but gets reduced by 50% of the ships armor. TL;DR - my usual fleet is decently well-rounded for taking on most of all the game's major threats- with specific crises usually resulting in the fleet getting re-tooled to counter said crisis. 0. 57 days; Focused Arc Emitter takes 28. This mod also adds two new technologies to the. Carrier battleships can counter most anything. 01 vs 12. Imo they're overrated, with Arc Emitters being grossly overrated purely because of its numbers on paper. It's not nearly as wasteful as it looks. You have Focused Arc Emitter for a big damage weapon against large ships, Strike Craft clean up smaller ships easily, while Marauders and Whirlwind missiles provide a general-purpose long-ranged weapon to complement everything else. Spiritualist FE fleets have even crazier 1/4 and up to 1/5 hull ratios. It's especially good if you're going to be using Focused Arc Emitter/Cloud Lightning Battleships, as they ignore shields (the normal weakness of energy-focus) and Cloud Lightning have good tracking (the normal weakness of artillery-focus). It's not optimal , but it also doesn't have any hard counters so I don't have to mess around with different ship designs or redesigning and refitting once. The two weapons are attacking different segments of their HP. Those kinetics have anti-synergy with bypass weapons, and cloud lightning is still not a good weapon to use in the L slot, so you’re best off just not using L slots. Focused Arc Emitters will bypass shields (mostly; Crisis does have some hardening) and this will be a strong alpha strike to reduce their numbers before they reach you. Asking the Stellaris community a. Hello Stellaris: Console Edition Community! This afternoon we have released our second Nemesis update for Stellaris: Console Edition!. XL mounts in general are not as good as 2 kinetic artilleries, if simply because of the former's limited firing arc. BBs: Focused Arc Emitter/Cloud Lightning or Focused Arc Emitter/M Disruptors Corvettes: 2 Disruptor 1 PD (or 3 Disruptor). Arc emitter BS did lose to 200 torpvettes and 200 autocannon/plasma corvettes. That said, the power of the Focused Arc Emitter is absolutely bonkers, and from the firepower perspective, this setup is massively inferior for that reason. First, range. Advice for Tackling Awakened Militant Isolationist FE. but I did try out a mixed fleet that included PD destroyers and carrier battleships w/focused arc emitter at about a 2:1 ratio, and a full battlship fleet of kinetic/laser/tachyon lance against similar fleets from the AI. rate of fire and damage for about 40 times that your battleships should just be completely naked and equipped with only Focused Arc Emitters in X slots. If you go cloud lightning or arc emitter your entire fleet has to be 100% disruptor. 06m, also I have +20% increase to damage v. The Focused Arc Emitter is indeed a very powerful weapon. The other main weapon loadout is Neutron Launches with a Giga Cannon. One mechanic in favor of bypass weapons is that ships lose 1% fire rate for every 2% hull lost, thus an alpha strike from Arc Emitters can reduce sustained damage from enemy fleets. The new weapon stats have been derived from the vanilla XL weapons, following the patterns established by other weapons (eg. 6 update. What the arc emitters don't destroy in the first volley the strike craft will. Against a Xenophobic FE, your best bet is a fleet of Battleships (don't build anything else) with the XLLLL design: first section is Spinal Mount featuring an X weapon using the Arc Emitter / Focused Arc Emitter (this is really important), second section should be Artillery and have 3x L weapon, and last should have a single L slot. I do have gigacannons, kinetic artillery, and neutron launchers available and present on my BS, I can probably reshape all my fleets to only. Regenerative Hull isn't particularly good in my view. So it's year 2412 and I'm at 170k fleet power. XL Focused Arc Emitter + 4 M Disruptors + H (t3 strike craft) + Cloud Lightning is a solid generalist which can handle end-game threats If you don't have XL weapons yet, then the generalist would be 2 L + H/4M + 1 more L -- not a bad mix, especially if you can do 3 Neutron Launcher (L) + 4 Null Void Beam (M) or something. Synergizes well with the Carriers core. Focused Arc Emitter Carrier Battleship is my go-to vs unbidden, backed up by swarms of torpedo corvettes. Apr 27, 2012 610 564. Default equip would be focused arc emitter + cloud lightning which is also great against Pretoryn scourge and Contingency. 25+ arc emitters (or 50+ if you stack fleets) going off before the enemy is even in range will cause casualties and can win you a battle before it even properly started. Aside from that you want some destroyers/corvettes as fodder and longer range on your emitters. My preferred endgame fleet is carrier battleships with penetrating weapons: focused arc emitter in the bow; carrier core with 2x disruptor in the small slots; stern is 2x medium disruptor. - All weapon technologies except point defense weapons are now among the least common and most expensive technologies of their technology tier (subtier 3). I've tried the BS that was posted a month ago on the forums and it never quite worked well for me. 聚能电弧发射器 (Focused Arc Emitters) 解锁：在鼠标浮层中查看. Even after it devolves into a melee, they'll usually end up attacking different targets. Of course, one could always make Focused Arc Emitter and Cloud Lightning Battleships and I have found that they can outlast pretty much anything else but they sometimes really suck against mixed fleets like Slammer/Lancer configurations. Get rid of the Autocannons and Plasma, if a Juggernaut is ever getting close enough for these weapons to fire something has gone horribly wrong. The Low roll damage for a Lance is an Average roll for the Arc, even of rate of fire is countering consecutive low rolls you're better off damage wise with. you can rip to shreds the AI even if they have an objective fleet power 3-5x yours if you hit them from a distance (set ship computers properly) Fleet. Fire rate augmenting titan. < I dunno. Arc Emitter/CL are always better since by the time you get these you should have completely eclipsed the regular AI empires. Focused arc emitters, cloud lighting and strike craft are your friends against Contigency it will require some sacrifice, but dont let it fool you with his over the top fleet power 2 Reactions:Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. Often you'll find that you're bringing their Hull to 0 HP at about the same time their Armor is going to. Irrigation Design Guide. While the Tachyon Lance does have some nice damage multipliers against hull and armor, the FAE is very competitive for base damage which is why it can be so good. Carrier battleships can counter most anything. From what I can tell they are both the same thing, having 100% armor and shield penetration. In 3. 060 Jun 23, 2018; Add bookmark. The regular Arc Emitter can do the job as well, but the Focused Arc Emitter is just better. 花1分钟创建用户后就能进行编辑 :) 登录 注册. The problem is they only have 60 range, while most other L-slot weapons have around 120-130 range. Lances don't ignore shields, but do ignore 100% Armor, vs 50% armor ignore for the Arc Emitters. Sorry for super late reply, haven’t had the time to hop on stellaris until. Armor if you don't know what you're up against or don't really care (generally stronger then shields), shields if you know it'll counter the enemy (Unbidden/Contingency). I've heard a lot of people say they prefer the lance series of super weapons over the giga cannon and arc emitter. 例如：“异种保护区”（建筑）的特殊说明请在“建筑”页面下修改. Those strike craft put all the smaller ships down very fast, even torpedo/neutron frigates. GAMES. Business, Economics, and Finance. It seems that arc emitters are slightly better. Agree about the importance of penetration. Secret Master Covert Mastermind. In admiral 10x, and running fleets of disrupter destroyers, torpedo/missile cruisers and a few arc emitter carrier battleships, I was able to defeat unbidden doomstacks almost triple my own. 2/3 armor 1/3 shield for all of their health stuff. 12000. I can't really put my finger on why. Against Unbidden swap for Gigacannon and Kinetic Artillery. 64, or if we consider that they only need to damage the hull a weighted output of 451. 例如：“异种. - Synthetic Evolution. XL mounts in general are not as good as 2 kinetic artilleries, if simply because of the former's limited firing arc. Spam an ungodly number of clone armies and throw infinite waves of them at the enemy lines. On a related note, OG player returning to Stellaris using old Battleship tactics thinking AI is still potato vs better AI equipped with mixed typed of ship and. I’ve attempted to use the Arc Emitter, Missile, PD, and hanger Battleships but have found them to be very disappointing. DeanTheDull Necrophage • 2 yr. --------------. Join. These completely bypass both shield and armour making them great at fighting other ships. I'd like some advice on a fleet build to counter the FE's. Lastly, we have the Focused Arc Emitter which is weird. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. I can't tell for sure, but the backbone of my 60-battleship main fleet is Focused Arc Emitter battleships set to aggressive. In singleplayer you can just mass these, the AI will never counter them. Destroyers are. Immediately, one of the new enigmatic tech options shows up. This is where the platforms may be able to shine. The focused arc emitter does 11. At very minimum this would upset the weapon balance, as some weapons are totally reliant on coordination while others don't really need. My battleships would destroy all of the Contingency destroyers with just Arc Emitters before they got to me, and then it. Stellaris. 12 votes, 23 comments. So, if you're not sure what to do with battleships or feel like your battleship game isn't as good as it could be, I highly recommend watching the video above. The Meta Artillery Battleship™ is Giga Cannon + Neutron Launchers (although an argument can be made for 3 Neutron + 1 Kinetic), with the Carrier variant replacing the middle section with Carrier and taking Arc Emitter (you can skip small slots and PD, they will do nothing unless you’ve let the enemy get into melee range). In a pinch the Null Void Beam can be. Their burst is immense and cuts through the stacked AE defenses. Focused Arc Emitter: forget about shields, forget about armor, just torch the hull directly. just lost a battle that I honestly think I should have won enemy had 9 battleships, with focused arch emitter and 4 large plasma modules I had 150 corvettes with full disruptors, 2 shield modules and 1 armor module I lost, but not only did I lose I didnt manage to destroy a single battleship. A slots 2x afterburners. Just to test it and see if they do or not after playing for fun, I've used a hex editor to increase my research speed to instant and ripped. focused arc emitter would be awesome if there was a good armor ignoring L slot weapon but there isnt (cloud lightning has bad range and bad dps) Its worth it to go for arc emitters and leave the other slots empty as soon as your opponent has less than ~1/3 to 1/4 their defenses in form of hull, which is the case for fallen empires, contingency. Late game: couple of mixed fleets but also: Artillery fleet: battleships armed with focused arc emitters + kinetic artillery. 1 Focused Arc Emitter: 105dpd 4 Cloud Lightning: 45. Arc emitters and cloud lightning. In this video, I prove hands down that Focused Arc Emitters are beasts, and give some insights into battleship construction. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Mind you, carrier battleships still use a spinal mount bow and carry an X weapon, often a Focused Arc Emitter. Arc emitters are seriously underestimated weapons. I tend to try and make them as split and even as possible across the board. With repeatables, Focused Arc Emitter really shines in the X slot because it will start to oneshot hulls, which don’t scale. In both cases I won handily, but in the first instance. ago. Cloud Lightning is underrated in 1. Focused Arc Emitters vs Tachyon Lance 2. Focused Arc Emitter / Carrier / Marauder / Whirlwind Battleships are by far the best "all-rounder" ship. Only potential alternative are Arc Emitters and Cloud Lightning, but the damage output and range are awful. Launchers will rarely do hull damage before Arc Emitters kill a ship, so they're largely wasted slots. A small amount of Point Defense defends against Torpedoes and. Focused arc emitters and cloud lightning do wonders against them, and use some flak cannons to deal with their strike craft (or strike craft of their own). That's putting them at a huge advantage. research_technology tech_arc_emitter_1 Antimatter Power. If you use Arc Emitters mixed in with anything that doesn't ignore shields, you are wasting that ability entirely - as bad as mixing Torps and non-shield penetration weapons. So the battleships and cruisers try to maintain permanent 100 range while firing. If you need to fight a set of those, baseline you can have 100% Accuracy 25% Tracking on all of your weapons via the usual Sensors, Titan Aura, and Computer. Armor is 68% with 1260 shield points and 2 capacitors. 58 days against the same Battleship above; Giga Cannon takes 27. Arc Emitters seem great because they bypass all shields and armour, but the problem with them is that all of your other weapons do not. So try to use focused arc emitters and cloud lightnings if you are going for a full penetration based ship design. View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. Edit: Quick Thought on the. . Stellaris. Focused Arc Emitter / Carrier / Marauder / Whirlwind Battleships are by far the best "all-rounder" ship. Consider going for all large weapons, going Cannons/Plasma until you have the proper tech for Darvin's post. My current sit is: Year is 2373 #4 in VIctory rankings Fleet Power 4,056 Some offensive weapons I have: Focused Arc Emitter II, Ancient Saturator Arty Some Defensive: Durasteel Armor IV, Hyper Shields V My issue is I feel like I am throwing darts in the blind when I go to start building a fleet to get aggressive, For many years, I have gone to Ship. Medium disruptor has range 60 and average damage 6. ago. (Your call on if you want a spinal or a third hangar on your carrier BBs. Stellaris heavily rewards specialization, through planetary designations, efficiency-boosting buildings. If you have the Enigmatic Decoder then use that (it's just a better Auxiliary Fire Control), and otherwise the only reason not to use Auxiliary Fire Control is if all your weapons are already at 100% accuracy, in which. I personally feel that Neutron Launchers make a better pairing with the Focused Arc Emitter precisely for this reason, since they punish hull-heavy ships that counter the Focused Arc Emitter. Probably artillery is better. The tachyon has 90% armor pen, and -33% shield damage. Plus given XL weapons have incredible range and that shields are the first layer of defense, using Giga cannons means you can get their shields down quicker so that by the time you've got. As much as one of the devs was talking about changing weapon scaling so naked corvettes wouldn't be a thing, they failed, naked ships are still the way to go. Mainly because the hull point is pathetic compare to the buffed armor and shield hp. . 58 days against the same Battleship above; Giga Cannon takes 27. Artillery hits targets instantly but neutron launchers take time to reach their targets and reload. It further continues to spawn 350k fleets quite fast. Shields V+Power V in the rest. EDIT: It seems to lack some higher level weapons: at least Focused Arc Emitter, Tachyon Lance, Kinetic Artillery, Giga Cannon, Advanced Strike Craft and Guardian Point Defense are missing. 75. . To build a one million strong fleet with Shielded Focused Arc Emitter Battleships you will need approximately 150k alloys. 6. Mar 1, 2018. Yes, this kind of game needs rng, otherwise it gets boring. Carrier computer will ensure they do this at a safe distance so you minimise attrition (unbidden ships are slow). I make a video series called Stellaris Combat Theory, and. With their buffs, this WILL ONE-SHOT corvettes with flawless precision, regardless of evasion. Even after it devolves into a melee, they'll usually end up attacking different targets. It's stuck at a tech level behind Phased Disruptors, which in turn are stuck a tech level behind NL/KA and don't even come in L size. Plasma Cannons: tech_plasma_3. Focused Arc Emitter / Carrier / Marauder / Whirlwind Battleships are by far the best "all-rounder" ship. This page was last edited on 14 October 2017, at 11:50. Please note that I am rounding numbers, and ignoring carry over damage here. The Giga Cannon is pretty much exactly the opposite, it has the advantage of being long-range and ripping through shields to support your other weapons. In isolation, it's the strongest Spinal Mount weapon by far, but there's nothing good to put in the other weapon slots. Bottom row mix armir and shield. What you end up with is that the alpha strike with Focused Arc Emitters will fry a few ships immediately, then the shorter-ranged Neutron Launchers will fire against different targets. This is actually a big deal as chance to hit is a very rare stat to pick up, ans only aux slots currently buff it in the base game (to a max of +10). 3. Report. This is my prefered ship design choice (Interceptor Corvettes, 3 Disruptors, 1 Shield, 1 Armour, 1 Crystal Plating for 50% of fleets and then. In single player, I like going 100% spinal carrier: front is focused arc emitter, middle is the carrier section with 2x small disruptor, back is 2x medium disruptor. I think Focused Arc Emitters can make sense to help you alpha strike units while whittling Shields/Armor; but it is wasteful to a degree. The combination of range, ignoring stacked FE defenses, and reasonable accuracy, combined with bypassing point defense, makes it a trivial choice. In a space storm, Tachyon Lance just murders things. Spinal Mount weapons are amongst the most powerful in Stellaris, but which is the better weapon to place in our X slots? Should we use tachyon lances? how ab. Another factor is that pure arc emitter fleet deals damage from 150 range, directly to hull which is 2x smaller than shields. Most people try out anti- hull weapons but are unimpressed because their kinetic/energy mixes have much higher dps and work against default empires whose points are mostly hull (look at star bases), the focused arc emitter is an X spinal mount weapon, only the Juggernaut has room for 2. Yeah, the only thing that's doing work is Arc emitter in that ship, and the huge number of 56 evade Escorts will kinda put a dampener on that. Against the Unbidden, the Focused Arc Emitter is absolutely devastating. I feel that they are insignificant to the equation. Stellaris: Focused Arc Emitter - The Best XL Weapon? Tachyon Lance 3. Try for at least 2x their fleet power, more if you can afford it. against the prethoryn, I prefer using tachyon. And switch to Focused Arc Emitters for Contingency and AEs . 对该项目的细节说明请添加至相关页面. The more you use, the less you lose. Carrier chip. For corvettes folks either go torpedos + disruptors/autocannons (autocannons are better but it is easier to unlock physics based weapons over engineering based weapons), or two autocannons + a laser, and for destroyers point defense weapons for your. The design gets even better if the crisis is the Scourge because their special fighter you can scavenge from debris does more damage and has 66% armor penetration (instead of just bonus armor damage) in addition to the normal 100% shield penetration. The front can vary, based on what tech you've unlocked, but start with carrier and hangar portions for the bow and core (total three fighter squadrons), upgrade the bow to a spinal mount with either tachyon lance or focused arc emitters when researched. Did find something else out:Stellaris Suggestions: Hive Mind Civic Ideas | Fallen Empire Ideas. I can't tell for sure, but the backbone of my 60-battleship main fleet is Focused Arc Emitter battleships set to aggressive. CryptoHopefully future versions of Stellaris improve the AI of Torpedo-computers and Swarm-computers to get rid of this annoying bug. Focused Arc Emitter + Cloud Lightning Battleship. The point though is that you go with the long-ranged weapons, with an admiral that has the range boost, with the artillery combat computer, and with the war doctrine that further boosts your range. For your titans and juggernauts? The aura is basically the only thing that matters. I prefer gigacannon to focused arc emitter since it's more reliable in terms of damage. Spoiler: Minister-class Titan. Disruptors are good in two contexts: late-endgame when everyone is in the repeatable tech chain, or early/mid-game when you're trying to snipe Fallen Empire end-game techs. I can't really put my finger on why. Implementation could be a few different ways:There seems to be a slight issue in regards to the balancing of the Contingency crisis all in all. What you end up with is that the alpha strike with Focused Arc Emitters will fry a few ships immediately, then the shorter-ranged Neutron Launchers will fire against different targets. Please note that I am rounding numbers, and ignoring carry over damage here. Focused Arc Emitter will usually 1-shot Corvettes, but honestly it will rarely hit them anyways due to its piss poor tracking. Pd corvettes with disruptors and pd lasers, and afterburners. Stellaris Dev Diary #312 - 3. Reply. I'd like to try and learn how to optimize each ship manually. Vs Contingency, judging by the low hull, I reckon Arc Emitter and Cloud Lightning do wonders. Assuming a fleet cap of 200, I would build fleets of 20 battleships and 40 corvettes in each fleet. So four of them are about 32% more alpha damage than the FAE. 这些升级后的发射器装备了更优秀的聚焦透镜，这使得它们可以发射出更加强大的能量。. In singleplayer you can just mass these, the AI will never counter them. While I love the crisis in itself, there seems to be a bit of a thematic oversight (or potentially a balance choice) in which the Contingency. You have Focused Arc Emitter for a big damage weapon against large ships, Strike Craft clean up smaller ships easily, while Marauders and Whirlwind missiles. I know the arch emitter counters corvettes so I. Arc Emitters are only good against the Contingency. Don't even research them. It's been very fun, and lately I've been strongly focused on Shields vs Armor vs Plating (Hull). So what is the consensus on which is better or are they equal now in some ways? Since Emitters and disruptors ignore shields and armor, this can make them. But, I can’t use my focused arc emitters anymore; they were replaced with. - End-game start year 2275. You can fight 150k vs 200k and lose maybe 30k with them; without, it's. So four of them are about 32% more alpha damage than the FAE. If u have a null void beam (it will totally melt enemy shields) use that (you get it through a pop up scenario), focused arc emitter, neutron launcher those weapons are great. Also, the void cloud lightning is better. 3. Stacking more shields over shield capacitor in accessory slot gives more shield value. This mod also adds two new. Matter Disintegrator - A new approach. The only defense that protects against Focused Arc Emitter, and the only defense with a favorable matchup against Devastator Torpedoes and Advanced Strike Craft. The Cloud Lightning is a weak and situational weapon, its only real advantage is that it synergizes with Focused Arc Emitter and is really inexpensive. 5K subscribers Subscribe 1. If thats Contingency, just use disruptors instead. Early game a lot of weaponsJuggernaut: I would suggest Focused Arc Emitter in the Spinal Mount slot, but so long as you're using this in conjunction with your Artillery Battleship the Tachyon Lance is fine. Torpedoes are another important weapon; they are the best missile weapon (there is no reason to use any other missiles) and are the best weapon selection for Corvettes after the early-game. XL mounts in general are not as good as 2 kinetic artilleries, if simply. 2 or earlier, and it sounds like a lot has changed since then. Aidante • 5 mo. Battleship: giga cannon with neutron launchers. A small amount of Point Defense defends against Torpedoes and. CL is there to supplement Focused Arc Emitters. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. This is the easiest way to use the guide in game, especially if you don't really plan ahead. Against fallen empires the established wisdom is teching into torpedo corvettes and arc emitters to bypass all their repeatable shield and armour tech. Line Computer (otherwise GL hitting anything with KA), w/e you want in Aux slots. Tachyon lance is close enough. @Holycannoli I find Focused Arc Emitters actually are the best X slot weapon, but the issue is that Phased Disruptors are mediocre and Cloud Lightning is bad. The advantage of the Arc Emitter is a 10% higher base accuracy. 14 daysI always use the focused arc emitters. go arc emitter + cloud lightning. 聚能电弧发射器 Focused Arc Emitter. r/Stellaris. FAE stands for Focused Arc Emitter.