I like your build. Seems like it'd be better for longer later game battles, compared to speedmaxxing mine. Never felt the phase slowdown all too much because of SO, but yeah, the deployment time is like 90 seconds lol, it forces you to turn and burn. I have started to throw on itu on my builds, due exactly to what youre saying: capital blasts have a habit of taking you out with them

Dude, stop, you're making me blush

Never done any low tech, but I'll see what I can do, just cause you asked <3

Might make this a series, a big hurdle for new players is having the right load out on ships. I like the tempest build you suggested, if you got anything else solid I'd love to hear it

I'm glad it hit the chord I was looking for!

Exactly! I feel so exposed when I'm not in phase space or Omni shielded now, cause I know what the enemy should be able to do. In the back of my mind, I think, "why is this enemy gremlin dealing with my battle lines? He has a top speed of effectively 645, he is on the other side of the enemy fleet and yet is still only 3 seconds away from delivering those reapers directly to my carrier, he's basically closer to my heron than I am."

A little snippy, aren't ya? Who need frontal armour anyway? :P I agree that my clips in this aren't demonstrating end game play, they aren't meant to. They are just what I had on hand from my recent phase/salvage only challenge playthrough that fit with my script. I made this so that newer players might try out an cheap early game ship I really like, not to try and make an airtight point to win an argument with someone But to be fair to myself, half the videos I've made have been the afflictors killing ordo fleets, and I was ready for something different. I don't think I need to cheese on remnants anymore than this channel already has but if that's what you want we certainly have it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYGWd61ujpyfftUsi=ruY8vNIHuBqZPv7y The caveat is always the zig fight, but I already said that in the video. The motes are fast enough and have a long enough range that they prevent it from working well with my build. Carriers and missile saturation is better for that fight, something the afflictor has none of. Adaptive phase coils builds like kuba K's are going to do way better than mine with zig and station fights, and in general are technically superior. Tesseracts are a hard fight, but they also don't have a price or DP equivalency to judge it in a "pound for pound" comparison. I can do it with only afflictors, but it's just a slog and it takes like 8 each. Also, kinda disagree, there is a solid argument for best ship. It'd be the tesseract if you could pilot it, followed by the Zig which stands pretty far above all the rest playing a lot like prerework phase ships, followed by the radiant which is an absolute terror. but those are all way late game and essentially priceless ships. If have those, you have kinda already won. What makes the afflictor special is that you can get it the first 5 minutes of play for less than the cost of the hammerhead and proceed to dominate the rest of the game with it. Just calling it a good ship worth trying doesn't do it justice. A eradicator is a good ship worth trying, an afflictor is an unstoppable bullet that can throw a 16000 damage salvo directly to the enemies hull

Yeah... Woops lol. My pinned comment has the corrected math, thaago put me back in line

@@maiLman__ oh right! sorry, I didn't notice the pinned post. my bad 😅

@@przemysawerdman9640 no worries, definitely on me! probably shouldve checked my math before publishing disinformation online

Its awesome. Can't sleep on 50% extra damage, it's almost the equivalent of all the other damage skills combined. Why the mining blaster though? Does it keep the AI in check? They just better at using it than antimatter blasters?

@@maiLman__ sorry I meant to say mining laser , I think burst PD will work as well , I just used mining laser to save OP

@@ripmorld9909 oh ok, gotcha! That makes more sense

Yeah, the beautiful autists on Reddit set me straight on the math lol. Just started trying out the mod now, definitely helps against the fast movers Didn't get it across as well as I was hoping, the DPS was meant more to show "hey, your doing a ton on damage mostly straight to hull, if you land your shots, you can turn a paragon to mush in about 20 normal time seconds". In comparison to other phase ships where you aren't moving fast enough to whittle down shields, or the harbinger which is on a long ass cool down. I agree DPS ain't the most useful metric though. Time to kill would probably be more apt. I really like the double reapers, but the pirate variety seems like it'd work plenty good for AI use, which don't really take advantage of phase anchor/missiles/SO I'll have to do some testing and get to the exact numbers, I'm not even entirely sure how well antimatter blaster do against armour. In player hands fighters kinda become a non-issue, you can train them around cause you go so much faster, tritach lances scare the shit outta me though

Space mount and blade play style is the meta

Ammo count could be mitigated with expanded magazines, but personally, I find that I'm running out of deployment time before I'm empty. Biggest threat is blowing yourself up when you pop the bigger ships, I probably should have tagged on integrated targeting systems

Thats smart, I never really experimented with how the AI operates with other designs. I'd always just thrown phase anchor on in case the AI found a way to get itself killed. I kind of rag on adaptive phase coils in the video, but that's more for people who use it on their own piloted ship. I feel like people watch a kuba k video where he takes out a entire station with an afflictor and it gets assumed that it must also be the best build for normal combat. And that's nothing against Kuba k, he just built the ship specific to the task, but dear Lord, reload times without phase anchor make me want to die. Definitely could see how the AI would do better with the additional mobility over the reload speed that they aren't really capable of taking advantage of

​@@maiLman__ I recommend you give a try maxxing out the speed an afflictor can get to and playing around that, it's really fun

Yeah! Hell, I remember seeing a video of the Grendel take on the ziggurat single-handedly. I'm sure it's just really hard to balance the ability of phase, time dilation coupled with invincibility: it's just insane, especially trying to account for the player. And I know the Doom has been nerfed, but honestly I prefer it the way it is now. Again, the phase anchor just makes it way more fun for me.

Today i found luddic path fleet full of gremlins (20 - 25). I just flew away scared to fight that thing, because it would be an absolute pain in a ass.

@@user-kd8th8gd6k I'm usually running a battlegroup with a Conquest, 4 Eagles, 4 Hammerheads and 2 monitors. It usually can handle just about anything the game throws at you... But 20 Gremlins? I would run.

Glad you liked it :P

Same, but I also love it the way it is. It's amazing, but it takes a lot of playing with it before you realize just how broken it is. But yeah, now I have to play without it or only when I'm crippled during challenge runs

Vayra's ship pack is a mod i used to use that had a bunch of balanced vanilla-like ships and weapons. One of them was a small mining laser that was a beam weapon (no hard flux generation) explosive (so less shield damage and more armor damage) and it had a longish (nearly 8 sec) recharge with short range. While Vayra is gone and there's no more updates on their mods, you can see how that weapon would fit an Afflictor, right? Well, it gets better. Because of the explosive+no hard flux combo, ai tries to manouver around shields to utilize this weapon to its fullest potential. Thus you get Afflictors who will stalk a target in phase space and only phase in to unload a high alpha into an unshielded part of a ship. So, if you grab yourself both Wolfpack and Phase ship skills, modify the ships with Hardened Subsystems, crew them with officers who have elited Combat Endurance and Field Modulation... You get up to 7 (because you start reducing bonuses after 6th Pirate Afflictor) (P) Afflictors who will constantly harass enemy blobs, swarm isolated ships, regenerate hull when phased with elite CE and are rather hard to catch out of phase due to elite FM. All while 2-3 shotting destroyers and cruisers with endless ammo and applying the Damage boost to your mainline. In my case i just used 1 battlecruiser as my main line. Once you get to later stages of the game and are up against huge fleets, (P) Afflictors were the only frigate that could reliably work while keeping the fleet logistics footprint low.

Thanks!

Yeah! That's the plan! Glad you enjoyed it! Tbh, I meant for this to be a variety channel, but starsector has been the focus of my auts for now. I think I might try making a couple history videos (I have consumed an unhealthy amount of WWII Pacific theater related media) . I'll be making more, but work sometimes has a habit of keeping me busy! But these are a lot of fun to make. It's kinda funky getting this many views. I was kinda surprised to get like, 40.

@@maiLman__ nice i am looking foward To your future videos 🤝

Im using eleven labs, so I should be able to put something together just from inputing his voice. Like shepherd's voice came out nice and clean cause he has so many high quality, consistent recorded voice lines. Kinda gotta do a different voice model for each emotion though, otherwise it's kinda a roll of the dice. Like Cotton right now is actually the "wheres your power armour!" guy from fallout 2, and it took a bit to get him to sound even halfway consistent, cause his inflection in the samples is all over the place!

That's funny that it struck a cord with both of us! I appreciate the compliment! I think I might go more into lore videos, and 2 to 3 minute short form blackbloard-esque gameplay analysis videos more simular to the end of this video. Doing the phase-phuckups videos, i found that it's kinda hard to display the parts that make the game fascinating through the gameplay/commentary alone. It's hard to be consise, and still get across that a battle was a misclick and some bad luck away from killing a 5 hour run Plus all of the lore is just written down, in game and in the blog, where I'm sure a lot of people who would've enjoyed it aren't going to appreciate how great it is!

​@@maiLman__ for better or worse, short-form content in general is the best way to start out/grow/showcase anything (without an established audience), being very accessible even to those who willingly consume 2+ hour long playthroughs. the sub-minute edits are simply wonderful and easy to share, the two short blackboard gameplay analyses i've seen so far have been intellectually captivating enough to justify making longer-form (advanced fleet combat as well as campaign view tactics are best explained in this manner), and that one AI voice lore video was quite a novel and well executed experience; you're right in that the most obviously presented lore in-game is the most the average player would see (myself included). i'm sure you'd go far with these formats alone!

Yeah, that update really killed the speed and survivability of phase ships, but damn if the introduction of phase anchor and its cool down doesn't just make everything just FEEL good Can't solo a starfortress with a harbinger as easy anymore though, so 0/10

@@maiLman__ it was very broken, but personally i don't like nerfing fun. phase anchor kinda brings them back to where they where before, but playing a little bit differently.

I'm glad you liked it! Goes without saying, im a big fan of your videos! You do some great work

Lol, yeah, bit on the nose, isn;t it

And what's the difference?