X4 Foundations: Testing my favorite loudout for Syn, L beam + bolt
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2022
- Hello everyone,
This time, I've tested my favorite loudout for Syn, L beam + bolt combo.
Was a bit rough, but I end up on top in the end :P 
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Looks like a Hiigaran battle cruiser, fights like one too. It’s a good thing you made here sir.
One surprising thing that could use testing is how different ships eject laser drones. For example Pelican seems to leave them sort of stuck between the half-dome and the rest of the ship, with only the sightlines directly above and sides open. Stork on the other hand throws them up at least 1 km above the ship. Laser drones can theoretically (but tedious to eject) work as a ghetto beam turrets so you can hit them better with your actual non-beam turrets. Fighters also seem to prioritize them over the player ship.
Yeah, this is why I never deploy laser towers (or even satelites) from the Raptor, the deployables just get stuck inside :(
Looking at Syn I would say that disign of RL balttleships was optimal in terms of turret placement.
I agree.
Ragnos! How do you have so many specialists? Custom game start or guide missions?
The secret to having specialists is to have your ship bang up from time to time. By performing repairs, the crew gain XP. Even the repairs from the clip I think brought me a few specialists.
'Attack target' often means half your L turrets are silent, which is a big drop in dps. While L bolts do help against capitals if set to attack target, I find their projectile speed is too low to make them useful for much else. I prefer L Pulse on 'attack all' for general purpose since the projectiles are 2x as fast, still deal 80% of the damage, and have better range.
That being said, 8x L Beams on attack all can be a good laugh, since it turns your Syn into some kind of angry disco ball. That many beams melt through S/M ships pretty quickly.
What I lose with "atack my target" setting for L turrets, I gain by manually focusing the P's, that are the only real threat to turrets and engines. With "atack all" they would just fire all over the place, w/o any prioritization of targets. I don't want my most powerfull AA turrets being focus on some xenon N, while 5 xenon Ps are parked above me, pew pew - ing away.
L pulse is a good turret, but if un-modded, is "miss city", in my experience.
My god i wish they would set an option for turning that “press f1….” Info off.
You think that's anoying? I tend to press f1/f2 when I watch X4 clips :))
They do. Shift H
The front battery’s are unmodded? The K went down slower then I expected
The main batteries have annihilator modds on them, but I did not did the reassemble trick, so the dmg increase was something like +32% +23% +11% dmg increase.
@@ragnos28 What's a reassemble trick?
@@Stefmit10 When you add mode to an equipment (weapons, shields), you have the posibility of "reassemble" as in getting new effects, like you get 40% more shield, reassemble and get 50%, all the way to the max of, lets say, 70%.
where do you obtain the bold weapons
I think any terran EQ or shipyard can hook you up with L/M terran bolt. You can also buy the BP from the faction representative, so you can reffit the ships at your own EQ/wharf/shipyard.
So as a new player insee many comments talking about mods for weapons are these ingame modifications or do yall mean actual mods? Is this game just meant for mods now? Is vanilla game bad?
I suspect they talk about ingame modifications for weapons.
As for vanilla play, I have 4.7k hours of vanilla, it can't be that bad...😜
Hello i have a few questions if you would not mind, i am close ish to making destroyers are any destroyers aside from the asgard worth making aside for flavour purposes? or is the idea to just make some tokyo's with some fighters and asgard for stations? What would you say is best in slot for a terran loadout and a no faction restriction loadout for the terran destroyers and carrier?
In my game, the main purpose of the destroyers is to provide aditional dmg for station demolition. While the Asgard can demolish stations on its own just fine (actually, in the case of xenon SPP, shipyards and wharfs, I recommend using just the Asgard and order your destroyers to fly somewere), having destroyers pew pewing as well, accelerate the process.
If you are gone use Tokyos in the composition of your station demolition fleet, make sure the carriers have the "docked" option selected for their fighters, when you are atacking the station, because if not, the fighters will chase the drones right under the turrets of the station, and die on mass when a module explode (been there done that).
As for loudout for terran capitals, my favorite combo for L turrets is 50% beam in front and 50% bolt in the back, with bolt for M turrets, for terran tech.
If using other races tech, the general rule is, best L turret = plasma, best M turret: flak.
@@ragnos28 Paranid best plasma? who has best flak? i was thinking of using tokyos more for fighters and putting them near gates and having the fighters equipped with torps so if a k pops up it gets dealt with?
@@Zeroczar Paranid plasma have the best range.
I like all flak, from what I've heard, argon flak have more dmg and split more projectile speed. I just use whatever flak is native to the ships I use (I have a strict specific race tech for ships, policy)
While S bombers work great against capitals (my torpedo Chimeras go brrrr :P), for gate keeping I sugests defence stations because, OOS calculations don't take in to acount dmg from ammo like torpedoes, and fighter with torpedo, that are assign to the carrier, don't atack capitals on their own, only of ordered to.
@@ragnos28 What would you say is a good defense platform? I saw that split was good if my memory is correct terran platforms were underperforming?
@@Zeroczar All defence platforms are good, if they use L plasma turrets. Terrans platforms are underperforming, if only terran tech is used.
This certainly deals better with small craft.
The best combo I've seen in terran L and XL.
Can terran L and XL ships have plasma on them?🤔
Yes, but I'm a terran in this playthrough and terrans don't have plasma :)
@@ragnos28 oh, ok, no probs. Yes, I'm aware they don't have. Would be too op😀
Terrans rely on their main battery for anti capital / anti station missions so no plasma turrets but they have very good main batteries on their destroyers and battleship
Yes they can simply install the turrets from another faction although the L pulse turret has pretty good damage output as well
@@ragnos28 my question is have you had better results with beam or pulse? My run was with L pulse and they were so good I was hesitant to try anything else.
Sweet! What ship is this?
Syn, the second terran destroyer.
@@ragnos28 Thanks a lot pal. I have a bit spare money from my factory business, so i guess i will buy one. :)
@@TotalyRandomUsername You can't buy it, only buy the BP. You get one free after the terran plot, but after you get more through boarding or building it in your shipyard.
I still think beams need a little more kick to them.
Yeah, but the devs seem to like them to be, for the lack of a better word...well, crap...so I doubt that will change in the future.😐
2 or 3 of those can clear that gate camp pretty easily
Or use a single flak Raptor :P That is why I love that ship, can turn hundreds of small fry to dust and if I fill its 100 Chimera complement, can turn to dust any other ship in the sector. :D
@@ragnos28 Y 1 when 2 is just as good :) plus 3 more of those syns
Лучевые турели - это так красиво....но абсолютно бесполезно..
I use them to aggro the targets, plus it helps to focus the target, kinda like tracer rounds.