Borg beams useless

posted on March 6th, 2009, 1:49 am

o i guess i never noticed before

posted on March 8th, 2009, 11:50 am

The thing is, the borg beams/torps have very specific roles.

Beams are great for taking out the shields, as such... beam based ships like the sphere are not very useful against another borg foe.

Beams are also nice against races that spam a lot of small ships - klingons for example. Multi-targetting can really ruin their day.


That said, I haven't played 3.0.4 enough to test, as I can't get a stable game in the current release. So I can't really comment on the current state of the borg beams.

posted on March 9th, 2009, 11:35 am

Beam heavy sphere vs light fed ships, you'll find that the only kills made by the sphere are the ones caused by the Slicer Beam.  Yet an assimilator loaded with nothing but assimilator beams that runs out of special weapon energy will make multiple kills with it's basic torpedo.  So something is still out of whack.

posted on March 9th, 2009, 12:01 pm

beam spheres deal damage to multiple targets at once, so they better scale if you have more then one of them, they cant be compared directly to a single-target vessel