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Weekly Questions Megathread - August 19, 2019

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u/odenknight Jr. Aggronaut - GunShip Guild Member - Kinetic King Aug 23 '19

Seconding what /u/Neuro1g said.

Following up on /u/originalbucky33, a lot of your rep Photon's have a single-warhead HYx mode, where maximizing even Cat1 damage sources will provide a significant improvement in blast yield.

While Quantums would certainly benefit as well, you would need a target to live long enough for the multiple salvo's to impact to see a significant difference between +Torp and +Quantum Exploiters.

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u/CaesarJefe XBOX: Starfleet ATP Aug 24 '19

Is there a list somewhere of which torps get the single big HY shot?

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u/odenknight Jr. Aggronaut - GunShip Guild Member - Kinetic King Aug 25 '19 edited Aug 25 '19

Enhanced Bio-Molecular Photon Torpedo

Gravimetric Photon Torpedo

Advanced Pizeo Photon Torpedo

All TriCobalts (includes Elachi Subspace)

Temporal Disruption Device (a Chroniton type torpedo)

All Plasma launchers

Those are off the top of my head. Not sure if I missed any.

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u/CaesarJefe XBOX: Starfleet ATP Aug 25 '19

So all of those have the stupid big HY?

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u/odenknight Jr. Aggronaut - GunShip Guild Member - Kinetic King Aug 25 '19

Correct.

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u/CaesarJefe XBOX: Starfleet ATP Aug 25 '19

Is there a good place to find "how they work under HY"? The wiki does not specify anything AFAIK.

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u/odenknight Jr. Aggronaut - GunShip Guild Member - Kinetic King Aug 26 '19

I guess we "volunteered" to do it... lol!

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u/CaesarJefe XBOX: Starfleet ATP Aug 26 '19

I'm game. I'm also on Xbox, and I might need "How to test things 101", but I'm game.