Is this set after Armada 1?

posted on August 25th, 2008, 4:21 pm

Yeah i know, dumbass question of the year, but i was just curious. Its called "Armada II: FO" so i'm guessing it is, but i noticed there's some big differences between the two, especially with the federation and special weapons.

Of course there can be alot of canonical explenations made (i.e. temporal weapons were banned thus no more Temp. Research or Gemini effect, and tachyon grids need to be bigger, hence the removal from most of the scouts), but then what about the PDP, chain reaction pulsar, and stuff like that?

With all the other races its alright, since their fleets have been almost totally replaced, but the feds have most of their A1 ships still around, and yet alot of the special weps are gone.

posted on August 25th, 2008, 5:19 pm

Good question. Maybe the staff believed things like that were to far-fetched?

I like the Chain Reaction Pulsar, but is is quite unrealistic.
Point Defence Phaser should still be in, just not visible. (As in I think is is but am not sure)
Some were left in, but in a new form.

posted on August 28th, 2008, 6:03 pm

yea, i liked the chain reactor and gemini special weapons too, however we wanted to make a step closer to "realism" so those weapons didn't quite fit in our concept, thats why we haven't integrated them back.
i think point defence isn't in as it may cause some issues with other special weapons. optec should know more about.

"historically" fleet operations doesn't consider armada 1 or 2 as canon

posted on November 30th, 2008, 4:30 pm

An interesting thought I had, you said the CRP isn't back in because it isn't realistic right? Then shouldn't the Romulan's Vector Torpedo be removed? That is nothing more than the CRP with a new name.

posted on December 1st, 2008, 10:13 am

the Federation technology is very well covered by the shows and movies, thats why we wanted to add only "realistic" stuff for them. Other races who crawl in the shadows most of the time - the Romulans - are much much less covered (we don't even know more then a hand full of their vessels) and feature more freedom for special weapons. thats a good way to keep "realism", gameplay, innovations and fun