Let's talk about High Tech

High tech is for gamers only!
You must be very cool and epic to use high tech strategies.

[@looserslam]

This is the exact kind of Starsector content I've been wanting since I started playing. Thank you for doing these videos, keep up the good work!

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Sometimes it feels like TriTach just looked at AI fleets and said "bah, last year's models, we can do better now"

[@jammy5731]

starsector strategies to fall asleep to

[@p-poof1795]

Huh. Funny bumping into you here. Only just noticed you left the STUG server until now.

[@bombidil3]

Autopulse Lasers with S-modded Expanded Magazines is incredible on the Paragon. Against Remnant Ordos, I'll often just bring 4 Autopulses, blast all my charges on the biggest thing in sight, hide behind the fortress while it vents and recharges, and repeat.

[@dakota0000001]

Forlorn Hope was fun and really challenging, I beat it for the first time a couple years back and play it occasionally. A lot of it is just *really* making use of the fortress shield to absorb damage to win in the flux fight and doing extreme bursts of damage far higher than your vent capability then using fortress shield to get the soft flux down so you can repeat. Make sure to take enemies down with these bursts as you'll need to do so to lower the pressure so you can use your armor and health on the venting from time to time. Nice video by the way, I've been waiting for some more vids about high tech since I've seen so many on low tech and even mid tech by now, especially since people often considered high tech to be one of the more powerful and popular options.

[@grievous6930]

Forlorn Hope also requires a bit of luck with the enemy AI. I've done that fight quite a few times (current patch - 0.95.1.), and the difference in fights depending on how the enemy feels like engaging is night and day.

[@dakota0000001]

@@grievous6930 Just did it again now, went with a very ranged focus build with quad tachyon lance, quad grav beam, quad swarm srms, and 2 phase lances on the rear, I mostly find that just reversing or standing still at the start helps with the starting engagement, taking out the two hounds at the start helps a lot, then taking out the falcon and enforcer before the onslaught can get there prevents it from rushing in from numbers advantage, at that point it's just taking out the onslaught and the rest is clean up.

[@dakota0000001]

@@grievous6930 Decided to get it recorded and upload a video, did really sloppy in the footage but got by. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp3boZWtp7uLbac

[@grievous6930]

@@dakota0000001 Yeah that was clooose. I did a similar thing with beam spam but added a Talon wing kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqvPoKmClN98b5Y

[@dakota0000001]

@@grievous6930 Yeah, I was debating adding in a hangar, those are just always so useful, but I wanted some more expensive fighters and felt the cost would be too high, I should definitely do a run trying out broadswords to help run up enemy shields and get that hard flux for the tachyon emp shield jumps.

[@nyaboron9239]

My favorite vtuber is back!

[@thedude7607]

Yesterday, I saw your video on The Last Hurrah and felt inadequate because it made me realize that despite playing since Sseth's review, I was still pretty awful at fleet customization and command. Today, I watched this video, heard you say you can't do Forlorn Hope, quickly went and did it, and realized that I'm not the navarch in the bridge, but the ace in the hangars. It's really cool how one game can enable multiple different kinds of players.

[@arturoalarcondonate4034]

"High tech, Best tech" - Sun Tzu 1469 AC

[@gerard2434]

The omen presentation and build alone made me sub. Solid tips and content

[@hollowthere3850]

Really appreciating your guides lately, just got into this amazing game and it really helps!

[@nick1752]

bro i LOVE your videos even just listen to them and feel smarter this is serious big brain energy

[@overdramaticpan]

I think you'd like the High Tech Expansion mod. Adds several new high-tech cruisers. A few other things, too, but mostly cruisers.

[@itchykami]

Was sitting here wondering if you had a video about how to play Forlorn Hope. And that answered my question!

[@lukewright3943]

i like these videos man, keep it up. you should have a modlist recommendation video

[@vskkdrnlol3441]

Hi, awesome content! Could you please show weapon loadouts just for text reference? I am new to the game and can't memorize weapons by pictures only :(

[@sexylittlewilly]

i love this educational content, keep this up and i am sure many people love it too.

[@0shii]

Dire Straits is actually pretty easy if you just make a SO dominator you can turn around and take the Astral out of the fight almost immediately - It being Impossible while Coral Nebula and Forlorn hope are Hard is crazy to me!

[@0shii]

Of course, you effortlessly doing Coral Nebula without even piloting a ship might mean that I might just be bad at building, flying and commanding high tech ships. Or the game 😂

[@avnblaa7283]

Good vids. Can you do one on how to use the command interface effectively? I almost never use it, because I take less losses if I just let everyone do their thing :D

[@DCdabest]

Your channel is helping me appreciate Squalls. I used to see them as a poor Sabot for their lack of immediate "big swing" effect that the Sabots have on the flow of battle. But the sustained long range pressure on anything bigger than Destroyer is appreciable here.

[@BobfromSydney]

They are great against slow caps and cruisers and sometimes even work well against slow destroyers. Very good when paired with a long range beam build because it serves as a source of hard flux. I use them a lot because of the low OP cost (most of the "better" large missiles have overinflated OP costs) and the fact that they don't cause friendly fire. ECCM helps their accuracy and chance to get through point defense too. I tend to use them even more now because of the nerfs to MIRVs.

[@ntma]

good talk, man. enjoying your videos!

[@grievous6930]

Didn't finish the whole video yet but I'm iffy about showing off ships with "updated" stats, that is including changes shown on in-dev patch notes and Twitter. None of these changes are final. Add the fact that Alex tends to overbuff/overnerf stuff then adjust them as he playtests. I'm going to be surprised if Aurora remains with 0.6 shields, on top of all other changes benefiting it.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

Hmmm, yeah I could be clearer about these still being open to changes. I don't think there's anything wrong, though, with saying something like "if this ship does end up getting the buff that's been talked about then it's gonna look something like this."

[@grievous6930]

Yeah fair point, it just might not be obvious for someone who missed the note about said changes.

[@dll1924]

Ayo, if you are looking for names how about you look through famous navy admirals (since the starsector combat is based on wwII naval combat, i personally name many ships after wwII british and japanese real ships) or maybe some famous historical figures, maybe some mithology suggestions Admiral -Ijuin Gorō (son of a samurai beat the russians in the ruso japanese war (died before wwII so no contoversy if you are american) , the name reminds me of Majima goro a charcter in the "yakuza" videogame series)

[@shdowdrgonrider]

I recently beat forlorn hope. It is very rng dependent. Lots of the varios combinations of deployed ships creates autolose situations and even in the best cases its a very slow endurance match requiring you juggle both your flux and enemy flux levels to exploit ai decision thresholds. Best advice is always face directly at the onslaught (any deviation greater than 10 ir 15 degrees will result in the ai burn driving into your face), juggle ai flux to send them into a retreat state to give yourself breathing room, and to never go over 70% flux as around there is a threshold which makes ai stop caring about their own flux and hull and bumrush you instead. dealing with the carriers is actually relatively easy, just tach lance and pop the fighters to drive their replacement rate into the gutter for a few minutes to buy you time and room to deal with other ships. The problem is when there are multiple carriers as they then flank you which does some stuff with ai decision making and makes every other ship massively more aggressive

[@aierce]

Unstable engine boost on omen is great, emp emitter doesnt care about range decrease

[@gg.youlubeatube6249]

Try rocket based Paragon with two torpedoes per 10OP each and 4 anihilators. Add 3 tachyon and one HIL on side. 2 gravitons on fronnt. Murdering machine. Forget Heavy armour, pump capactors to max. Rocket based pilot is needed of course. Use long range, first hit behaviour.

[@ham8426]

I've been slugging through a high tech only run, i've flipped my fleet focus away from frigates in favor of cruisers and capitals, my first run was whatever i got my hands on and ended up with junker vanguard spam. But i noticed alot of the high tech frigates are super expensive to buy and maintain and hard to get ahold of till you can print them at your own colonies. I've been able to take on fairly large midline/lowtech fleets with my Odyssey leading an Astral, a couple aurora's and a few hyperions. I've written the TT brawler as useless, i've mostly avoided phase ships though i've picked up Phantoms and Revenants to carry some logistical load. Struggling to find any use in some of the other High Tech ships.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

I should've mentioned that the TT brawler while it is high tech, it isn't all that good. Just like the wolf. I don't even think of phase ships as "high tech" really, because they're so different they might as well be a separate class entirely. It sounds like your fleet is more or less fine, but if you want to try other ships then omens are always a safe bet. You can even get them fairly early from not only tritach, but also some persean league planets (don't remember which exactly) for ~20k credits which is a _lot_ cheaper than the other high tech frigates.

[@ham8426]

Oh i do roll around with a few omens and they form the backbone of my colony fleets but i imagine that doesn't mean much for the calculations of ai vs ai fleet outcomes. I just have been really under using them as mobile PD rather than offencive ships.

[@ahmataevo]

Devs hate high-tech for several patches now and gave anything high-tech multiple, COMPOUNDING nerfs while making super OP low and midtech stuff. Including making much faster and cheaper low-tech ships with more firepower, more PPT, better everything. Completely backwards. High-tech and shields would never even exist if they really performed so badly vs armor and guns. Phase ships got nerfed so badly they simply aren't worth using at all, except for Xenorphica and even then you need heavy armor and play more like a low-tech ship.

[@BobfromSydney]

The TT brawler really makes me sad. The reason why they are bad is not because of the ship specs but because the all options available for mid-sized energy mounts are either laughably short ranged or hopelessly underpowered (or both). I've even tried using the new kinetic energy weapons from the Sindria questline but they have such a bad range and flux ratio that they are still trash. Low tech brawlers are completely superior in every respect. I feel like the ship should have so much more potential but it goes into the same "clunky trash" pile as the vigilance or centurion for me.

[@cookies23z]

My love for omens grows, putting the antimatter blaster is so big brain, and yet ive never done it

[@savenok4869]

Finally new video from my favorite vtuber

[@samexz1_2]

Your videos are awesome keep it up!

[@SonbiTal]

Honestly at this point I wanna see a let's play :P . Really informative stuff for new players like myself.

[@MOISECRIMI]

You really can make a review over every ship in the game

[@Onkelcuno]

Oi! great vid. can you do a vid for the new sindrian ships, or even some modded ships? PAGSM would propably be the one i'd love to see first, but there are many mods that also add missions and have intresting ships. Don't forget to buy sindrian fuel. or else.

[@AstroBioMan]

The omen -would- be difficult to kill if the AI would just keep its bloody shields up at all times. I still love it of course but Alex pls fix

[@nickgrout2502]

Oh hell yeah more smooth content

[@throeawae2130]

bigu brainu senpai softens his stance on the foam finger!

[@castoli44]

what's your opinion about the Ziggurat?

[@jacksons9546]

This is great. Would love to see your thoughts on the new midline stuff

[@davidburnett5049]

What I really learned here is the value of hullmods. I was being a fool a putting guns on my ships, all over. Whoops. Also I'll stop using Wolves and switch em out for Omens.

[@Jay2JayGaming]

Forlorn Hope hasn't been touched since it was added, which I believe was sometime around 2013

[@guitartruong3981]

Thanks for the amazing content. If you're looking for anime names, may I suggest Ninya Nyiraminami? It's a mouthful, but it gives off that cutesy yet somehow sophisticated vibe weebs like to appeal to lmao

[@Tom-mj3cc]

;3 wasn't expecting the voice, cute profile and nice video tho.

[@Bamlikebambam]

I might have missed it, if not, when are you going to play as low tech ?

[@thedataflo]

nonono what u have to do and i know this sounds stupid but put the big reaper launchers on it and add ion beams and tactical lasers on and stuff it full whit sarissa support fighters then u drive it around like a battleship overload the flux on basically anything in vanilla whit the beams and the crazy flux the sarissa´s produce and outrange and outrunn whit instable injectors till it overloads then disable it further whit the ion beams and nuke them out of the sky whit the reapers and yes this insanity works on evrything even phase ships add 4 omens and 3 medusas whit big blasters and more emp on u can take on 95% of fights in the game whit 8 meme ships wich cost almost no fuel or recources to fly around the whole map

[@iliyan44]

hmmm strange i remember i did all the missions once, i have no idea how i beat them wow

[@100percentnotabear]

recall device reloads talons and wasps. it's not useful at all, but it's something

[@noodel_boy4470]

High tech < venture spam

[@JohnVicres]

I got a Vtuber name suggestion for you, alright Onslaughter-chan

[@ahmataevo]

Since the last two updates I haven't been able to win with the high tech fleets in missions at all while the midline and low-tech suddenly became stupidly easy, even when they were listed as "hard" and high tech as medium. Devs really do hate high-tech players since the last several patches, only new content is for midline and low-tech giving them all the advantages high-tech used to have while at the same time removing them from high tech, so now high-tech not only has nothing superior whatsoever, but it is straight up worse in most categories now.

[@WhatWillYouFind]

BBE WE MISS YOU HOPE YOU HAD A HAPPY NEW YEARS AND MORE CONTENT IS COMING!

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

I was actually working on something, and now a new patched dropped with a lot to talk about, so... there's stuff coming soon!

[@timoleksii]

Nikkonofune - enough wiabu

[@st42278]

Finally! High tech gang approves

[@zone5117]

Praise the FLY !

[@lukewright3943]

Kaji hajimoto

[@hallowedbeyourdays]

Paragon. 4 High Intensity Lasers. 2 Tactical, 2 Graviton, 2 Ion. The enemy melts, literally.

[@Wanky_Woop]

Good luck with capitals.

[@gentlemancharlesshaw5849]

Low tech go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@EmperorOfLols]

Forlon Hope is ONLY beaten by people by just hugging a corner and having the AI back off cause they cant handle being in the corner of the arena. Others just fortress shield and let converted hangars do the job.

[@starwork9238]

I think high tech’s advantages are only for small conflict

[@aierce]

True, lower range doesn't scale well with bigger fleet due to firing arc issues, but there are ways around this. None torpedo missiles or fighter/bomber ignores friendly collision.

[@javid62663]

No SO aurora?

[@Bronimin]

I bet expanded mags s mod will make charges regen faster

[@Aereto]

No, it does not increase charge rate proportionally. The weapon charge rate is stated in the description, fill per charge is also preset. The only vanilla hullmod that affects charge rate is the Phase Anchor. Doubles rate and soft dissipation while clocked. Prefect for burst weapon loadouts.

[@Bronimin]

My guy, cheap hullmods will be getting bonus effects when built in next patch. What else could it be?

[@Bronimin]

turns out I was right

[@sadneil529]

:)

[@gotmilk5899]

You should just call yourself Big-o Bu-rain-o Eh-nehr-gee Kinda hard to type pronunciations but you get the gist or if

[@digitalizedmind6784]

25:06 I just play with fog of war turned off edit: 28:00 yes it def can, same with an Onslaught if it doesnt have ballistic damage in the rear mounts. dominators and onslaughts have the fattest most shootable asses in the sector

[@scipio7994]

I beat forlorn hope with beamspam and a lot of patience. I can beat it consistently now but it was a very difficult learning curve. I filled every slot with gravitons, tactical lasers, or high intensity lasers with a much of hullmods like extended beam range and shield buffs. No heavy armor. The AI will occasionally come close but the beam damage will keep them away, and you can just pick off ships as the AI does stupid stuff.

[@LainsWonderland]

Lowtech best tech

[@springmutt]

Can we talk about Low Tech next time?

[@jonjonng]

Hello moon and star, where is my modded starsector :[

[@jonjonng]

Also name suggestion: star Sama, fucking weaboo

[@robdead4550]

Here's your Japanese name... koe ga shīrudo o otosu

[@johnx140]

LOW TECH BEST TECH LOW TECH BEST TECH

[@mattparker9726]

no mods??? F

[@Thrillbo341]

Mid-line all the way baby, high tec for AI and ai is a sin...

[@grievous6930]

Where did you get that Hardened shields is getting buffed? There was no mention of that anywhere, unless Alex did a typo.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

I'm confident I've seen it mentioned somewhere (probably in twitter replies) but I didn't think to save proof of it so I'll get back to you on that if I find it. There's definitely some screenshots he's posted where the ship's shield strength doesn't make any sense unless hardened shields got buffed.

[@grievous6930]

Hmmm true I don't check Twitter replies much. Although consider potential changes to some skills or s-mod effects.

[@tempest7934]

High might be best tech but beams are boring I need dakka in my life

[@sproosemoose9348]

I THINK HIHG TECH SUCKS