High tech has the biggest bois

[@heliasthehelias3058]

I am just now realizing the ingame description for Target Analysis is a quote pulled from "On Space Combat '22th' edition".

[@mywholedarname]

twenty tooth edition

[@punchslinger]

twenty tooth

[@Nooctae]

Smodded Insulated engine is so silly, I kinda love it. " Sir, there's a Paragon and 2 Astrals outside the window " " But, they're nowhere on our sensors ! "

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

*An alien donut the size of a space station probably visible to amateur astronomers* "Sir we have lost lead on the capital ship after entering the planets meteor ring!"

[@domschra]

Sir, a bubblebee at mach 30 just pulverized our entire fleet

[@Toshinben]

Great for pirate-allied mixed [REDACTED]/phase fleet. Crew: "Sir there are multiple cruisers and capitals firing on our fleet!" Sensors Officer: "Enumy frigut ditected!" Commander: "Send in a dustroyer!" Crew: "Their SHIP. Is inside our SHIP!"

[@mage0534]

​ So utter chaos, got it

[@ham8426]

The difference between AI capital pilots and player Pilot AI: oh noes my 20k armor is gunna get scratched Player: Fuck it take the broad side we still got half the hull

[@ham8426]

Oh Ludd I just looked at the wiki page for the Invictus...

[@atatatatatagsad]

@@ham8426 the B R I C K

[@johnx140]

fr fr

[@chocomess2384]

And then there's me, recovering and autofitting every ship that's a Cerberus or better and flinging them at the enemy without a care.

[@thurqs1938]

you just got that pather mindset

[@TheLastGammer]

3:40 I really like how you managed to maximize both your dps and tanking, without dropping your shields, long enough for the astrals to kill that radiant. That's some impressive flux management

[@brilobox2]

Thats the real power of the Paragon in player hands

[@oVoidhawko]

Turtle-gon doesn't really work unless it is the bait to a wolfpack. Or a SO-hyper-wolfpack. The Paragon draws them in. Hold fire and bastion. Any time the Hype swarm makes a window, drop the bastion and show them the light of Ludd. Because with great range comes fire-power overwhelming. So reach out. Teach them to embrace divinity. Peace through power.

[@ewanlee6337]

EMP emitters also don’t use much flux so omens can basically spam it without limits and use all their flux for tanking until the enemy is completely disabled and just sit behind the them.

[@waltarron]

exactly, smod hardened shields, give them an officer with systems expertise, they will swarm and eat through anything bigger than a frigate, anything smaller than a frigate, they'll just swallow it whole.

[@noaccount4]

Huh. Your talk on skill synergies with hullmods and abilities has made me realise how much more I could be getting out of my fleet. I've tended to just put officers with a random mix of skills on the biggest ships I have

[@syrenet]

astral/legion is the best ships to combat the fast moving shield heavy remnants. the consistant swarm never lets them recover. in fact this is the best way to deal with tessaracts too.

[@kviktory7]

The strongest S-mod right now is Expanded magazines. I just use it on every ship however I can. Even the Paladin PD system becomes a damage dealer with the faster recharge rate.

[@-NB7979-]

Yeah it literally makes TPC on Onslaught as the best large energy weapon in this game lol

[@digitalizedmind6784]

That falcon may seem invincible, but you'd be surprised what heavy fighter spam can do to a ship that has 2 small PD

[@wallace7691]

The advice about how to use the astral and the build you showed is exactly what I needed to make them finally feel powerful in my playthrough! Thank you! The feeling of dueling an enemy capital in my Paragon, only to watch a massive missile strike come in from behind me and win me the duel by blowing the enemy up is amazing.

[@phillipmele8533]

1:33 “The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm!”

[@robdead4550]

That's some wicked layers of knowledge right there.

[@dankrue2549]

Ah, a fellow hyperspace storm ignorer. Hats off to you, friend.

[@777CHEKIST777]

In vanilla 0.96a, the built-in S-mod will NOT convert hard flux to soft. It will probably add another 10% to the elite shield skill, but it is very difficult to measure by eye. It hasn't been fixed in Nexerelin either.

[@gameplaysuffering1620]

counterpoint: high tech is cringe

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

Damn. He got us there boys.

[@mikhail6746]

It's joever 😭

[@pacemaker9483]

Shut the hell up bud!!1

[@theungentleman]

Hot damn. That is some very cool stuff, also I did not know about the S-mod bonus for Insulated Engine Assembly that's crazy!

[@The-Uh]

24:20 "hmmm a falcon, yeah those can do things sometimes but die quick" 5 seconds later: Who would had fugging thought that, taking account every single pixel of the hull every hullmod and skill. And I was thinking that I was a nasty min-maxer when building ships. neeeeeeeerd

[@SpaceMan101South]

What I love doing with Astrals is loading them up with Trident bombers. Even all the way in the back of my formation because I just let the AI do it's thing they do some serious work. Trust me when I say nothing in this game can stand up to two Paragons and two Astrals loaded with Tridents. Only thing that could counter it would probably be itself, but that's why we have officers.

[@GigaGlorp]

Finally a fellow enjoyer of both Starsector and Helltaker

[@mikhail6746]

Nice, this video makes me love High Tech doctrine even more.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Stealth fleet hmmm... I like the idea. Call your faction Tri-Tachion Black Ops or something for extra lulz.

[@0x0404]

Those look like pretty nice falcons. Simple.

[@babygorilla4233]

I gotta get some of those falcons for my current gimmick fleet. It's called operation flameout simple premise destroy the enemy engines. I'm thinking falcons escorted by omens running salamanders and ion beans should get a lot of opportunistic engine strikes.

[@stalwartteakettlepotato9879]

This is reminds me of how I took on the remnants. After getting thoroughly murdered the 1st time I came back with a 2 paragon 2 astral and 1 14bg onslaught because there is no kill like overkill.

[@Not_N]

I like to use that BIG BOI with the biggest range laser guns and start to feel like dart vader and his death star

[@waltarron]

get like 8 omens, watch as they eat radiants like a piranha.

[@catscrath25alpha83]

@Big_Brain_Energy Would LOVE to see you do a video on pather pattern doctrine.

[@isiffrin]

I've found the Advanced Turret Gyros to be a better version of Armored Weapon Mounts on Capitals since it affects all types of damage for no flux cost.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

Yeah, only downside there is it doesn't help against capitals but even then it seems like the stronger pick.

[@logion567]

@Big Brain Energy on a capital ship, if you combine ATG S-Mod with Target Analysis you get a +20% damage boost against everything except Frigates, which is still +15% combine with +10% from 100% CR, +5% from the skill (if you feel like taking it/give yourself more skill points) and either the +10% from BM/MS or the close range variability of EWM you can get some very juicy flux efficiency advantages

[@varanzmaj]

Where can I get High Tech ships of this kind, and more importantly when should I get them? (After I start up a colony, or before) Thanks for the Help, new StarSector player here.

[@huhnmorehuhn2220]

autolaser with build in extended magazine are completely busted at the moment you should give it a try. the only problem it has is range. the AI does not seem to totally understand it but in player hands its quite insane. even an executor is decent with that s mod.

[@norbertvalterkalocsai6584]

the only thing i use asrtals for is to fill them up to the brim with tridents get 5 of these then increase the battlepoints to 2000 ez win

[@onestupidboi9320]

Probably shouldn't leave the tachyon lances on autofire, because the ai misses a lot, even when you lock in a target.

[@00bmx1]

Do you have contact mics on your keyboard? clack Clack smack clack click claclack

[@SargentGunnery]

Good tips man, thank you for the video

[@Wanky_Woop]

I still feel like carriers are doomed to be inefficient by their current design. A lot of fleets are viable as you're demonstrating here, but just replace Astrals with Conquests and you'll get twice as bang for your buck, the whole fight would've taken half the time. Carriers are designed to be extreme range support with big burst damage and/or harrassment ponetntial, but the range difference between their regular weapons and bomber reach leaves some of their OP underutilized as they tend to stay away (as you've tried to negate here by tying Astrals to Paragon). Also, bombers dont do enough and lose their replacement rate fast. Perhaps... They need more focus? Like, make the bombers deadlier (get rid of replacement rate? More bomber slots, extra damage mods?), but the carriers more fragile and slow. I'm certain devs thought about that and there is no easy solution, but their current state is still Meh.

[@erwins_arm]

We could use some more carrier/fighter related hull mods and skills

[@egoalter1276]

The meta has been absolutely dominated by kiting carriers since forever, and it was never actually changed. So no, carriers are not getring buffed, they are already the strongest thing in the game.

[@Wanky_Woop]

@@egoalter1276 say that to Omens and devastators. Get a good PD and bombers/fighters just die like flies. The weakness is too blatant. Also, i don't see how this "carrier kiting" strat can work against [REDACTED].

[@egoalter1276]

@@Wanky_Woop I'ts been game dout in the AI tournaments a feww dozen times. I dont need to explain it, you have the evidence.

[@erics.865]

@@egoalter1276 I used to love piloting a carrier prior to 0.95. There were skills to support it and it was a fun and interesting way to play. Ever since 0.95, it is literally more effective to pilot anything other than a carrier. Unfortunately, that made me loose interest in the game and now I rarely play. The fact that carrier/fighters can be min/maxed to abuse the game but at the same time are somewhere between underwhelming and completely ineffective when use as intended in moderation means that they probably need a rework.

[@yuechenshen5703]

That is a little bit over kill to deploy so many ships, I mean it's not even a big threat to begin with.

[@DaltonTkachuk]

Omg plz plz plz keep making videos!

[@Harkruel]

omg plz plz plz keep making videos!

[@javid62663]

Flak over heavy needler?

[@AiDecc]

Very informative, thank you :)

[@acrazedgunman3388]

omens are really good I should really use them

[@HiroTeaShi]

I need tips on building vanguards. I love the things but they fall off so hard. I can't not have them in my fleet.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

I haven't messed around with them much, but I'm pretty confident you're going to need either derelict ops or hull restoration if you're keeping them for late game.

[@ewanlee6337]

They have rugged construction so the industry capstones aren’t as necessary. They need all the armour, hull and speed hullmods so that they can survive. Then breaches for anti armour and they don’t need expanded missile racks and railguns for anti shield and hull is a classic build. Don’t worry about overfluxing it because it can’t overload and when it uses damper fields it still dissipates flux.

[@-NB7979-]

So just a question, Is it possible for AI paragon to beat Radiant or Nova in 1v1 situation? Despite of being the strongest single 60 DP battleship known besides Invictus, I've never seen Paragon beat Radiant in both youtube and my play, simply it can't match the sheer spec of Alpha core Radiant despite of all S-mods and best officer. It just can't win the flux war against Radiant without ballistic weapons and too slow to prevent flank or not get distracted by frigates. Quite impressed by this vid, never seen someone actually use Paragon to beat Ordo in vanilla.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

Yeah, under AI control it can beat a radiant but the last time I did that was well over a year ago.

[@BB_Harunya]

aint nobody goin' slow inside storms, preach

[@rpscorp9457]

2 large missile slots plus 6 bays.....Astrals will never go out of style even in mod factions. My S-mods are ALWAYS the most OP cost ones, bar none...id never use those slots on anything under 35

[@ItsYaBoyWafflez]

Is this new solar shielding mod worth its OP ?

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

Sometimes. Before it was always yes, but with only 10% reduced energy damage it's often not a good combat choice. I still want it so I can surf storms, though.

[@ChristiaanHunter]

thanks

[@Leader1623]

Good shit

[@friendlyroughai3319]

astral + paragon combo already been meta builds since 0.91, the only difference was now day is this meta build take way too much dp and not that rewarding anymore compared to 4 conquest spam or full cruiser spam. astral are good but i dont think it still give better value for dp investment while in the same time you may just run odyssey + apogee spam as for high tech only fleet

[@RaphaeIIsWatching]

A guide on how to get so much story points so you can Smod everything you want? hahaha... usually I tend to run fleet with big ships only (the bigger the better logic) and it really nice to see here those small ships being utilized well. I am learning! Good channel?

[@JustASuscriber]

Use your story points very often so you get more bonus XP and just hunt for high XP targets, like bounties, armadas and Redacted, that way the XP is used so you get more story points.