Holding beam module needs more love.

posted on January 12th, 2010, 11:53 pm

Ok, at first let me thank you again for releasing a new and amazing version of Fleet Ops.  You people are great! 

Borg got quite some changes, however I get the feeling that the holding beam has been left out for this release? It seems still to be a bad module choice for most situations. The boarding strength is hardly worth mentioning and while the increased vessel stats are nice, I find a cube with 2 tactical armor modules much more usefull. Although the tactical armor has been considerable weakened with 3.1.0, it still does a lot better in combat than 2 holding beam modules. The big boost in hitpoints is a large advantage, large enough to warrant even the increased price.

Now this is pity as:

1. Good borg cubes are always the same
2. The new adapting idea is ruined by that (you are going to have one beam weapon anyway, so that leaves 2 torps, one regneration module and then the decision between 2 holding beams and 2 tactical armor - easy one.  (Consider you can only have one more torp module - which wont help you as much as thick armor)
3. Holding beams are very borgish, would be cool to have some ingame use for them.

posted on January 13th, 2010, 12:21 am

I agree.  The holding beam got special weapons effect reduction, but I would have rather seen it make the special more effective.  For example, more holding modules reduce the special energy cost.  If I'm putting thousands of resources into a cube, I would want the holding beam to be more effective than it is.  Still the other modules give damage reduction%, which is pretty nice.

posted on January 13th, 2010, 2:52 am

Agreed, improving the effectiveness of the Holding Beam would be nice.

posted on January 13th, 2010, 8:44 pm

Well I think all Borg lovers would love to see this change, I'm not sure its gonna happen.  I know the dev's have said they'd look at it....but I brought that up awhile ago when I first started playing FO.  Boarding party works now for Borg AI when you're not manually telling each ship what to do.