The Akira

posted on August 20th, 2012, 3:15 am

Awesome! I am glad to see these ships done justice!

posted on August 20th, 2012, 4:42 am

wait a second....... is the Defiant in the above pic firing its pulses in volleys?

posted on August 20th, 2012, 6:40 am

wait a second....... is the Defiant in the above pic firing its pulses in volleys?

Hehe, yep it is. We changed the fire pattern. You you still get a rapid-reload mode with its special technology.. But i fear we will have to make a post about her too

posted on August 20th, 2012, 7:12 am

She's now a very capable ship for raiding

A slow(er) and heavily torpedo based mid game battleship... for raiding.
Just saying

Nice news post. The Akira has finally a very strong role that it deserves, like many others wanted to see it, too sad it has been rarely seen on the show.

posted on August 20th, 2012, 8:48 am

This is awesome guys. I find it a little funny that most seem surprised that it was bumped to the Eraudi Yard, when we should have realized back when you revealed the Casseopeia Yard that the Akira was nowhere to be found in it or the Antares. I didn't realize either, but in hindsight, it's really quite obvious.Anyways, this seems like an overflow of info compared to the every-other-month-or-so that we had before. Though Myles seems to disagree, it seems like you guys are getting ready for a release sometime before the end of the year. And that would be quite awesome.

posted on August 20th, 2012, 9:29 am

We try to supply you with a consistent stream of news posts. In some weeks we might not make if we are ankle-deep in development, but we try our best

posted on August 20th, 2012, 2:12 pm

posted on August 20th, 2012, 6:08 pm

Well I cant complain about anything you Devs are up too, seems like youve got youre fans interests in mind with all these neat changes. The federation is going to be "oh so sweet to play."

posted on August 20th, 2012, 6:28 pm

When isn't it?

posted on August 20th, 2012, 7:29 pm

Akira should be cannon. It has an entire section above her nacelles dedicated to firing insane number of torpedoes! But the defensive/offensive value ratio should be maintained. Its extremely inappropriate for a fed ship to have higher off values than deff values!

posted on August 20th, 2012, 7:55 pm

Not really. You gotta have a tooth or two every now and then.
And the Big A seems a decent enough set of those, don'tyathink?

posted on August 20th, 2012, 8:14 pm

I think he means the offence shouldn't be better than the defence, rather than them not having any teeth. I don't see anything in those screenshots implying a value change from the original, though.

Having it canon would mean removing the aft launcher, though; I think the developer said it has none there.

posted on August 20th, 2012, 8:29 pm

I was talking about the Off/Def ratio.
Even if the overall Fed policy favours more shields than weapons. And it does look slightly meaner than the standard Fed design.

posted on August 21st, 2012, 7:02 pm

I like that lots. Which synergies come with the Akira?

posted on August 21st, 2012, 9:06 pm

So glad to see the Akira is still going to be around and dealing out a lot of punishment :-).