[Liberator]

But it still strikes me as falacious that a hull plate that can withstand sustained direct plasma fire for several seconds is going to be devastated by the energy discharge from a anti-matter explosion.

EDIT: On second thought, I'll replace the flamebait I posted here with something no more productive, but at the very least less insulting. Namely:

ANTIMATTER IS SERIOUS ****ING BUSINESS

It is, but just like nukes, the vast majority of the destruction you are thinking of is related to the medium it's being reacted in.  Also, if it's being deployed off a small craft, then the amount per shot has to be something that said small craft can withstand at ranges from maximum attainable to those verging on the suicidal.  Given that restriction, it shouldn't be any more destructive than, say, a Helios(also an anti-matter warhead) or a Shivan Megabomb.

All I'm saying is this, there's more than a little fanboy going on with the Durga.  I'm just trying to keep you honest.

[Snail]

Well you'll just have to trust the team to do a good job.

[Destiny]

I sympathize with you Liberator, I do. All this super-bomber stuff just doesn't work when you factor everything in. I'm past the stage trying to prove my point


I thought the UX Accelerator was the three-burst weapon...? Never heard of it being described as a 'sniper rifle' by any players when I asked them in the somewhat previous BPMulti testing.

[Snail]

You'll just have to trust that the team is capable of pulling it off. You're completely ignoring the fact that this discussion has probably already taken place on BP internal. Believe it or not the people behind WiH and AoA are actually capable of thinking.

[Destiny]

Naturally, if not WiH2 wouldn't be coming out anytime. The Durga does have some firepower it can boast about, to be honest. Twelve gunpoints, all three banks loaded with Gattlers is pretty deadly.

[Kolgena]

It could just be the case that the BP tech descriptions are very in-universe: that is, they're written by the UEF, for UEF pilots. If they want to throw in some feel-good propaganda about the Durga, they might, and yield up this as the result.

Also, in R1, I think the Durgas showed up twice.

Spoiler:

Once when Serkr team first shows up and promptly leave before the Durgas can really do much, and second when you order them in using FLEETNET. I think they were the 5 point option or something. Two show up, and they down a corvette pretty easily if you give them a little fighter cover.

I dunno. I felt they were pretty effective, though probably by no means game breaking.

[The E]

I thought the UX Accelerator was the three-burst weapon...? Never heard of it being described as a 'sniper rifle' by any players when I asked them in the somewhat previous BPMulti testing.

The UX is a high-speed, long-range, low ROF, high damage weapon. Sniper rifle is an apt description.

[Snail]

And the Sidhe is like a shotgun which you shove in people's faces before pulling the trigger

[Kosh]

I sympathize with you Liberator, I do. All this super-bomber stuff just doesn't work when you factor everything in. I'm past the stage trying to prove my point

According to BP canon the awesomeness of the UEF's fighters and bombers are one of the few things keeping them going. As I recall reading the techroom description about Severanti's initial push into Neptune, they were able to turn the UEF's Karuna's and Naranya's into flaming wreckage quite handely with beam fire but had to turn back because the UEF fighter and bomber 1337ness.

[Luis Dias]

What is more interesting to know is the end result of the war, with a  combined force between the best beamraper technologies and the best fighter / bomber support UEF can bring to the battle against the Shivans.

This symbiosis will be undoubtedly the focus of that second BP war, which is an obvious continuation of the freespace tradition of starting a campaign with a war between similar contestants only for them to be harrassed and blown away by the relentlessness of the Shivans, forcing them to team up against the lovecraftians.

[MatthTheGeek]

That would require the Shivans to pop up directly in Sol. The UEF can't operate at any meaningful scale outside Sol.

[Luis Dias]

In my theory, Cappella exploded to create a jump node to sol. Creating jump nodes is time consuming. So it will take the whatever n years that span between FS2 and BP WiH R2 or R3.

They will appear out of nothing near the sun, and rollercoaster Mercury and Venus, until a combination of Serk teams, Karunas and UEF bombers put a stop to the armada.

Oh yeah, and to make things easier, they will be swamped by a sun flare, damaging the majority of sathanas so the victory remains believable.

[LordPomposity]

That would require the Shivans to pop up directly in Sol. The UEF can't operate at any meaningful scale outside Sol.

UEF strikecraft could probably operate off GTVA warships.

If BP3 goes this way, Simms needs to be stationed on the Imperieuse. You know, for the lulz.

[Hades]

UEF strikecraft could probably operate off GTVA warships.

If BP3 goes this way, Simms needs to be stationed on the Imperieuse. You know, for the lulz.

And UEF warships can be supplied by GTVA logistics.

[LordPomposity]

That's more debatable because we don't know if any UEF warships have intersystem jump capability (although there are compelling reasons that at least some of them should).

[Luis Dias]

Don't we see them jumping in and out throughout the game?

DAMN THAT WAS ZZTUPID

[Colonol Dekker]

Durga Durga jihad?

[MatthTheGeek]

I should FRED a coop mission involving the Durga. So people can understand its true power.

[Snail]

Durgas vs. Colossus

[Hades]

Durgas vs. Colossus

Colossus would win. Decent AA turrets and tons of fighters.