Anyone Find a Defense Against Nukes - Early Game

wxo · Ensign Complex Patron Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 4

Anyone discovered a defense against nukes in like the first fifteen minutes of the game? They just come in and kill my mothership and I can't seem to find a way to defend against this happening. Viper missles don't work and I can't target with guns. HELP!

Jelrak · Commodore Gender: Age: 47 Joined: 13 Jan 2016 Posts: 280

Can you just ram them?

**ALC** · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:50 pm Post subject: Description:

Good idea, with an expendable ship, a Frigate of some kind should do the trick.

wxo · Ensign Complex Patron Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 4

Tried that with fighters and it doesn't work. Until it's fixed, the game is unplayable.

Jelrak · Commodore Gender: Age: 47 Joined: 13 Jan 2016 Posts: 280

Yeah that would be annoying. That's why I put nukes behind a heavy research wall.

I wonder how an enemy can afford them so early in the game?

Jelrak · Commodore Gender: Age: 47 Joined: 13 Jan 2016 Posts: 280

I think the only actual cure is to hyperspace your mothership far enough away from it that it runs out of steam before reaching it

**ALC** · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:08 pm Post subject: Description:

The AI has an in-built advantage over human players. However, unstoppable early game nukes are a bit too much of an advantage imo, game balance adjustment need here.

junktabot · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 4:42 pm Post subject: Description:

Are you guys talking about the perforation bombs? Because I get a wave of those coming in right at the start of the match, and even with all 4 of the weapon slots on my mothership/carrier mounting fast tracking turrets and firing at the bombs, they can't even manage to take out the first one before it obliterates my ship.

This is ridiculous. Why is this not even being acknowledged by any of the devs? It makes player vs. CPU skirmishes unplayable, which is the only game type I play, so if they're not going to address this at all I'm going to have to take a break from supporting this project on Patreon.

**ALC** · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:55 am Post subject: Description:

The only effective defence I have ever found against perforation bombs is to withdraw the ship they are targeting. There is no defence against them.

They should not be appearing early in the game though.

Nukes should also not be appearing this early in the game.

@junktabot
I suggest that you PM Oni about this.

**Beghins** · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:35 pm Post subject: Description:

Those bombs shouldn't arrive that early and they shouldn't be in groups.
However I have reduced the frequency and now they come much much later.
Next patch.
If you have other bugs, please tell me, thanks.