Death star beam meme

[Epathos]

So to make this pretty epic first time reaction short...

I played alot of X2 when I was a kid. Didn't understand any concept of the game. Just fly around, shoot stuff. Make people mad and get blown up. Good fun as a kid.

But anyways.

Having learned how to navigate the game and the basics.

Was over in Hativa Choice, just farming xenon coming in threw the cascade gate in my Asp helping the defense and what not. Getting pretty good at flying the little bugger.

Then I see my first Asgard roll in next to the defense platform. It was owned by the terrans then thought why they are out this far, the ship even had a sub name.. intervention Fleet... ok?

So as I'm fighting a few N's and M's... a huge battleship rolls threw the gate. I was like oh thats so cool looking! It was called a "H".

So no way I was going to do any actual damage to it. Decided to do a dive run at it to get into range and take out it's engines while dodging its big red death balls it was shooting at me. One hit and it would be goodnight for me.

As I was coming hot from the rear on my approach blasting away with my bolters..

This Giant white Beam Flys right by my left side! Frigging huge! And lands dead center of the Xenon H. Literally had enough time to blink my eyes and it JUST explodes!..

Trying to think wtf just happened?? I swivel back around towards the defense platform, and here comes the asgard... just meme beamed the H out of existence. Never seen any thing noped so hard before.

So just sitting there in my asp... thinking how I "might" help in the fight... The asgard just ended the fight before it started!?¿

[eMYNOCK]

there is a reason why the asgard is commonly known as the "i win botton" within the community.

for some players, owning one as early as possible was and is one of their greatest goal to achieve while others try to unlock and mass produce their own asgards the legit way.

lets just say...
it makes fun using a player controlled asgard to its full potentional... once.
after that... you may be bored faster that it took you to obtain your first.

[Zloth]

Asgards can be defeated. That beam shoots one way only, and the Asgard turns like a sloth trapped in a glacier. If a K comes from the right and another from the left, with little ships hitting the Asgard to make sure the travel drive can't kick in, it's in serious trouble. It also just has one engine - if that gets blown up, it can't aim that big gun at all.

But yeah, it's the Grand Dragon of the game right now, at least militarily.

The Erlking https://roguey.co.uk/x4/ships/ship_pir_xl_battleship_01_a_macro/ is also mighty deadly. The Asgard can beat it easily, but the Erlking can double as a cargo ship when there isn't anything that needs blowing up.

If you poke around in the game, it gives you ways to compare ships to each other that's pretty fun.

[Epathos]

Yea, it definitely feels like something that will be a issue for me to fight in the future.

But at the moment I'm happy just beating the bush and being a lone wolf. Can't imagine I'll ever get one with my playstyle, let alone want to have to deal with upkeeping one.

[Doom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Zloth:

Asgards can be defeated. That beam shoots one way only, and the Asgard turns like a sloth trapped in a glacier.

That's why you'd want to purple mod your Asgard. Increase speed, turn speed, shield regen and beam power + cooling.

But yes. Anything can be defeated in the end.

[flywlyx]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Zloth:

Asgards can be defeated. That beam shoots one way only, and the Asgard turns like a sloth trapped in a glacier. If a K comes from the right and another from the left, with little ships hitting the Asgard to make sure the travel drive can't kick in, it's in serious trouble. It also just has one engine - if that gets blown up, it can't aim that big gun at all.

Not with Vanilla AI.
https://youtu.be/03oJEwaD0IY
I genuinely hope that one day X4's AI will be smart enough to make the game as challenging as you’ve described.

[Epathos]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Doom:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Zloth:

Asgards can be defeated. That beam shoots one way only, and the Asgard turns like a sloth trapped in a glacier.

That's why you'd want to purple mod your Asgard. Increase speed, turn speed, shield regen and beam power + cooling.

But yes. Anything can be defeated in the end.

Yes, I can't wait to get into the modifications for my ships, just messing around.

Making credits, doing my best to avoid triggering the HQ just yet.

Just got my hands on a balaur from free family's. I know most people don't like them but I enjoy working with them. Ugly as hell but I enjoy their straight to the point antics.

Remind me if Asians were Indians, kinda funny.

They make great pilots, and then I send them to the vig wharf for filling out the crew, very pirate-e themed. Helps with role playing being a smuggler.

At some point after finishing most of the quest lines, going to build up all the pirate factions and just live my life killing and bullying the major "allied" factions since they can just go get bent and stuffed down a torpedo tube.

[Gibbo]

lol Asgards are fun. That white beam of death can melt anything. Even other Asgards as I've been blown up by my own Asgards while in another Asgard and yeah they go pop as well. Luckily every time auto eject saved me. I've also seen how the Xenon take them out. A few P's and M's stop it engaging travel drive and then I's and K's steam in and give it the full broadside. They don't last long like that either.

They are not that intimidating to use. I use them as a battering ram to get into enemy sectors. They can soak up loads of damage while I micro my fighters to take out any and all large and capital ships. They are also good for station destruction although they will take their time.

[Zloth]

What the frak is going on in that video? The K's are close enough to shoot, but they just aren't. The one behind didn't, either.

Something seems off with it blowing up the I just as the heat goes to orange, too. I modded mine for damage and it can destroy an I, but it goes red to do it. Maybe I didn't get the most bestest mod in there, I'll have to check.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Epathos:

At some point after finishing most of the quest lines, going to build up all the pirate factions and just live my life killing and bullying the major "allied" factions since they can just go get bent and stuffed down a torpedo tube. :auimp:

It's not easy to keep the Yaki going. I don't know if there's much way to build up the Scale Plate - maybe capture ships for them? I think your best bet would probably be the Free Families - or whichever Split faction it is that sends marauders out.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Gibbo:

They are also good for station destruction although they will take their time.

Waiting for that gun to cool off is one of the few times I'll use SETA.

[flywlyx]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Zloth:

What the frak is going on in that video? The K's are close enough to shoot, but they just aren't. The one behind didn't, either.

Xenon capital turrets have a range of only 5.2 km, which is far too short compared to the ATF main cannon.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Zloth:

Something seems off with it blowing up the I just as the heat goes to orange, too. I modded mine for damage and it can destroy an I, but it goes red to do it. Maybe I didn't get the most bestest mod in there, I'll have to check.

Disable the remaining two TER main cannons—they're ineffective and only slow down the cooling process.

[PeaceMaker]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Epathos:

So to make this pretty epic first time reaction short...

I played alot of X2 when I was a kid. Didn't understand any concept of the game. Just fly around, shoot stuff. Make people mad and get blown up. Good fun as a kid.

But anyways.

Having learned how to navigate the game and the basics.

Was over in Hativa Choice, just farming xenon coming in threw the cascade gate in my Asp helping the defense and what not. Getting pretty good at flying the little bugger.

Then I see my first Asgard roll in next to the defense platform. It was owned by the terrans then thought why they are out this far, the ship even had a sub name.. intervention Fleet... ok?

So as I'm fighting a few N's and M's... a huge battleship rolls threw the gate. I was like oh thats so cool looking! It was called a "H".

So no way I was going to do any actual damage to it. Decided to do a dive run at it to get into range and take out it's engines while dodging its big red death balls it was shooting at me. One hit and it would be goodnight for me.

As I was coming hot from the rear on my approach blasting away with my bolters..

This Giant white Beam Flys right by my left side! Frigging huge! And lands dead center of the Xenon H. Literally had enough time to blink my eyes and it JUST explodes!..

Trying to think wtf just happened?? I swivel back around towards the defense platform, and here comes the asgard... just meme beamed the H out of existence. Never seen any thing noped so hard before.

So just sitting there in my asp... thinking how I "might" help in the fight... The asgard just ended the fight before it started!?¿:sad_seagull:

Nice!

[Doom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh flywlyx:

Not with Vanilla AI.

The video looks odd. "I" normally does not die in a single main gun shot and requires two, unless you boost it with annihilator mod.

The number of enemies is quite low.

I did plow through a Xenon sector on a modded asgard in a mission to destroy a Xenon shipyard (in exchange of paintjob) before, destroyed what seemed like dozen xenon capitals, but the point is... those guys knocked out several of my turrets. And that's under human control. So asgards die. Especially when NPC-controlled. A common cause of death is broadside from I or K that snuck up on the ship from above.

[flywlyx]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Doom:

Diposting pertama kali oleh flywlyx:

Not with Vanilla AI.

The video looks odd. "I" normally does not die in a single main gun shot and requires two, unless you boost it with annihilator mod.

The number of enemies is quite low.

I did plow through a Xenon sector on a modded asgard in a mission to destroy a Xenon shipyard (in exchange of paintjob) before, destroyed what seemed like dozen xenon capitals, but the point is... those guys knocked out several of my turrets. And that's under human control. So asgards die. Especially when NPC-controlled. A common cause of death is broadside from I or K that snuck up on the ship from above.

The video is titled "Exceptional Modified Asgard," so yes, it’s modified.
This is one of the most crowded Xenon sectors in the vanilla game, but if you know of a more crowded one, let me know.
The AI struggles with chasing moving targets, so staying on the move is crucial for survival—never be a sitting duck.

[Doom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh flywlyx:

This is one of the most crowded Xenon sectors in the vanilla game, but if you know of a more crowded one, let me know.

Tharka Casacade XVII, but after you installed all DLCs, and wiped out all xenons outside of the central cluster. The cluster will have something like six shipyards pumping out Ks non-stop, because all shipyards will move to the central cluster. It is a very fun arrangement, in my opinion.

https://ibb.co/WVN8121

Unmodified asgards certainly die, the way I described before, especially when AI controlled. Modified asgard is much harder to kill, but is still vulnerable.

[Epathos]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Zloth:

What the frak is going on in that video? The K's are close enough to shoot, but they just aren't. The one behind didn't, either.

Something seems off with it blowing up the I just as the heat goes to orange, too. I modded mine for damage and it can destroy an I, but it goes red to do it. Maybe I didn't get the most bestest mod in there, I'll have to check.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Epathos:

At some point after finishing most of the quest lines, going to build up all the pirate factions and just live my life killing and bullying the major "allied" factions since they can just go get bent and stuffed down a torpedo tube.

It's not easy to keep the Yaki going. I don't know if there's much way to build up the Scale Plate - maybe capture ships for them? I think your best bet would probably be the Free Families - or whichever Split faction it is that sends marauders out.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Gibbo:

They are also good for station destruction although they will take their time.

Waiting for that gun to cool off is one of the few times I'll use SETA.

I was thinking maybe more towards the vigs, since I have found their wharf and shipyard. Been selling them bunch of hull parts and they keep cranking out fighters. Silent witness is pretty much a no fly zone for traders now lol.

Haven't meet the Yaki yet, scale plates.. are kinda meh. Interested in the Rigs? The miner/scavengers? Bumped into them and some odd casino way out no where.

Hard to think about how I'll actually pull it off since anyone besides the split seem to produce any thing big enough to fight a massive fleet when I do start whacking at the argons.

Was going to start learning how to board ships soon, so maybe one day I can steal a few builders or carriers.

[Doom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Epathos:

Haven't meet the Yaki yet, scale plates.. are kinda meh. Interested in the Rigs? The miner/scavengers? Bumped into them and some odd casino way out no where.

VIG, Vigor Syndicate. Pirate faction, technically. Has junkyard/mad max aesthetic, along with RIP, which are Riptide Rakers. Doesn't have a huge number of ships, though.

Yaki are hard to find, though I won't spoil the surprise. They have some good ship blueprints you might want to get.