Mod In Progress: Concept Armada 3

posted on September 7th, 2010, 8:37 pm

How on earth do you plan to balance 8472?  they're even one-shotting borg cubes xD

well they probably are not going to be as strong as in the show.

posted on September 7th, 2010, 8:43 pm

yh they wont be balanced to cannon but to the other races

posted on September 7th, 2010, 8:58 pm

yh they wont be balanced to cannon but to the other races

I have an idea how to balance them to the other factions, but it'll take a bit of testing 

posted on September 8th, 2010, 6:27 pm

sure nxt time ur on msn let me know the idea

posted on September 8th, 2010, 6:32 pm

Anyone give me a quick data node so I can find out who the Noxter are btw? From Star Trek Online no doubt? They look similar to 8472. Also I think a good way to balance them is making them have trouble with ships until the shields are down, as far as we saw from the episode they couldnt penetrate th federations bubble type shields in a single shot which allowed voyager to run for it.

posted on September 8th, 2010, 6:35 pm

If you add 8472, defensive balance similar to the Borg (no shields) might be something to consider. If those things can generate shielding, the weapon impacts in the show implies they are form-fitting or part of the 'skin'.

Anyone give me a quick data node so I can find out who the Noxter are btw? From Star Trek Online no doubt? They look similar to 8472. Also I think a good way to balance them is making them have trouble with ships until the shields are down, as far as we saw from the episode they couldnt penetrate th federations bubble type shields in a single shot which allowed voyager to run for it.

The Noxter are a FO-race. There should be info on them in the Guide.

Intelligence Report: Noxter

posted on September 8th, 2010, 7:06 pm

well the noxter made there only apperance in FO2 but are due to make a reappearance in a future version for more info read this thread

Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - The Creeping - Part 1: Concepts

as far as i remember 8472 have a green skin shield going on

posted on September 8th, 2010, 7:25 pm

The weapons hit by the hull, but flares up like the a shield. FO and A2 don't have Nemesis-style Enterprise shields like that and two seperate custom shields (standard and critical levels) would be needed for all ships and stations.

The Borg way would be closer to the show than changing them to bubble shields.

posted on September 8th, 2010, 7:29 pm

Hmm, okay thanks guys. Not my thing with the non canon races would much prefer 8472 to be made the way they were planning to make the Noxter, sounded like very interesting and unique gameplay though  :thumbsup: Iconians and Cidian are egal tbh


Probably safe to assume that's some kind of bio-electric field which is so strong it dissolves torpedos upon contact?

posted on February 17th, 2011, 9:16 pm

hi all sorry for the long delay been busy with other things but ive decided to scrap the noxter from 8472 (prob keep them as a map race) and go with two new avatars
here is a pic of the new avatar icons

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posted on February 17th, 2011, 9:18 pm

Nice. How's the balance aspect coming along? It can't be easy with 8472...

posted on February 17th, 2011, 9:54 pm

wow that looks nice. cant wait to try it.

posted on February 17th, 2011, 10:02 pm

not started on the balancing as im redoing the avatars but im working with with an 8472 expert from a2 files

posted on February 17th, 2011, 11:18 pm

lol chilitrek I would guess as thats his terrasphere.   He is definitely the expert imo.

posted on February 18th, 2011, 1:10 am

yup his 8472 models are amazing and his new terrasphere is awsome. hes also gave me permission to use his ideas for his unfinished and unreleased a2 mod warriors of fluidic space.

in total there will be 4  avatars (hopefully the 3rd and4th avatars will be quite unique but there details will remain a secret untill further development is done for them)

once this mod is done it will also contain at least 2 avatars for cardassians