Carriers and their wings

[benjbrun]

Hey everybody

After capturing my asgard, I'm really trying to change from dreadnought to carrier. I got the carrier familiarity perk and tried some configurations to make the carrier a valuable asset for my conquest of the whole map.

Using zoex-interceptors, everything was nearly fine. Sometimes a wing would get lost until I've docked or used a T-drive... That's not good, but I could work with it.

Now I tried the boson-bombers and wow... They're useless? I play on easy, set my weapons to not fire at enemies and just watched what my bombers could do to my enemy. They did nothing. I saw the little bombers attacking, but the shields didn't go down at all.

After that, I manually shot the shields away and it's the same thing with the hull. The bombers didn't do any damage at all.

Am I missing something? I really try to play a carrier and I'm okay if this is less powerfull then playing a dreadnought. But something like that is just a bit frustrating.

For the moment, I'm changing back to the interceptors. They seem to do quite some damage and that's what I want them to do.

Does anybody have an explanation or a solution? Maybe I'm using the bombers on the wrong targets? I tried them against a battleship and a dreadnought.

Thanks for your answers.

EDIT

They do seem to do a little bit of damage, but that's hilarious. One salvo from my turrets takes away a chunk of health. Three full wings of bombers with the carrier perk does like 1% of damage after several attacks? That's useless.

[Festus]

if you realy want to play carriers, then download the carrier redux mod. you are able to get WAY better fighters, interceptors and bombers. they are expensive though. (10 mil +) per fighter wing.

[Zenoslaf]

Hmm we should check that, they were not supposed to be that useless. You can send us that save and log.txt from your game folder so we can look into it. Mail is [e-mail]

Thank you. :)

[benjbrun]

I don't really like mods, but thanks for the advice. Data is sent :)

[Zenoslaf]

Thanks.

[mmihokovic]

Hust an info on this particular issue - Thanks to your feedback and sent logs we've located a glitch in damage calculations for certain fighter wings, and way they participate in combat. We will check out if there are any other issues related to this and proceed to making necessary improvements...

[benjbrun]

Perfect :) Glad to be of help.

[Arakiel]

Quick question concerning fighters... Since I've been unable to find one, is there a bomber in the same 11m tier as the Zoex and Lightning, or is the Boson currently the best choice for anti-ship?

I'm about to start my first dlc scenario and I would like to do so as a carrier pilot since I just did the campaign/titan/dd playthrough with a dread almost exclusively so a change would be nice.

[Bowmangr]

Maybe this glitch is the reason I often read comments abour carriers not being good enough? Or is it something else?

[Vaygr]

Lightnings are the best fighters, Theirs no need to use any other fighter/bomber type currently. Their faster and will out dps any other fighter/bomber, including the boson which is suppose to be the anti capital bomber. Maybe the Boson isnt doing the damage is meant to atm.

[benjbrun]

There's a pinned thread named "Ships stats and selling locations + Weapons and fighters stats" in which you can check out all the weapons and ships. I think there's a wing above the boson, but I'm not sure. Look it up.

At the moment, the zoex seems to work about just fine, while the boson has the problem that is mentioned above. Didn't try the lightning one.

Hope that helps :)

[Arakiel]

It did thanks, I'll stick to a mix of Lightning and Zoex until the Boson/bombers are fixed. I'd really rather not use a mod if I don't have to.

[Zenoslaf]

I have mix of Zoex and Lightning.