Unity Mass: 5500 damage = 500 hull damage

[Liudeius]

I've used Unity Mass (the Loyalist Advent Titan's single target attack) at max level which says it deals 5500+ damage... And only hit 500 damage against a shieldless level 3 titan.
Even basic capitals seem to take 3+ 5500 hits along side all the normal weapon damage before they go down.

Am I somehow using it wrong, or is the text just wrong?

[facciola007]

Whats the armor amount of said targeted titan? There does seem to sound like an issue though.

[Liudeius]

Akylon (human loyalist) so probably the highest possible armor for level 3.

I just tested it against a 10 armor level 5 Antorak Marauder with 13 nearby allies and hit ~1200 hull damage.
It seems to work better on shields, ~3800 on a level 1 Vorastra with 15% shield mitigation.
~2000 on the hull of the same ship with 16 armor (no nearby allies).

[Ryat]

Shield mitigation (which is always active unless the ship has no shields to begin with) and armor can drastically reduce the amount of damage a ship will take.

[Pimpin Pippin]

Shield and Armor mitigation (damage reduction) are incredibly powerful.

Some abilities exist that ignore one or both of these mitigation, which makes them extremely dangerous.

[PeteSkTemplar]

kol battleship gun skill bypasses mitigation, hits armor, hitpoints directly. Only ships with no shields - and no mitigation get full damage reduced only by armor otherwise.

vasa missiles when upgraded have a chance to bypass shields - meaning same as kol gun skill, damage doesnt hurt shields, but goes directly to hull, not reduced by mitigation whatsoever.

normally, something has say, 5 k damage, 85% mitigation leaves it doing 15% only, 750 damage. Now if the shields are down, said damage is still mitigated (reduced) and is further reduced by ship armor, meaning, that 750 example damage can get reduced to stuff like 300-400 with good enough armor.

Pirates have no mitigation, so regardless of their big health and nice armor, they get no increase in survivability based on damage taken.

Stuff like kol battleship cannon skill ignore shields, including mitigation, so while the damage might seem low based on the number, it does full damage and is unmitigated, meaning, very good means against lowly armored but heavily shielded foes, since they can be downed even before their shields are out.

[annaliseh]

Percheron Bombers do a fantastic job against titans and capital ships. 80 Percheron carriers can waste any enemy fleet.

[samcan244(73 61 6d)]

Originally posted by annaliseh:

Percheron Bombers do a fantastic job against titans and capital ships. 80 Percheron carriers can waste any enemy fleet.

thay can also crash your game XD or cause extream lag

[annaliseh]

Originally posted by samcan244:

Originally posted by annaliseh:

Percheron Bombers do a fantastic job against titans and capital ships. 80 Percheron carriers can waste any enemy fleet.

thay can also crash your game XD or cause extream lag

Haven't had a problem. Sins has never crashed for me. Since I got the GTX 960 4GB DDR5 video RAM it even runs smoother. The only time I get lag is when my Dad and I play over our network.

[samcan244(73 61 6d)]

well my pc has no gpu but then i have a freind who has a gpu and his fps is lower than mine but i will play the game regardless but then i also play with people the over side of the world to me so that can generate a lt of lag and so can my trade ships if i set it up on a big map

[annaliseh]

Going back to the Percherons, I have 3 fleets of them. I fleet travels with the Titan and captial ship fleet, another fleet travel with a second capital ship fleet and the third fleet is one that I use for assisting my ally and general defense of the home world system - or I park them at a wormhole gravity well edge with bombers undocked.

After that I am maxed out on ships - maybe still can build 3 more capital ships.