Starsector:Invictus Lowest Lowtech Vs. the Highest Hightech. (spoilers!) 

Between Impact Mitigation and the built-in "distributed fire control" hullmod you're dealing 1/4th the damage to those guns. Armored Weapon Mounts double those guns durability. Also DFC+Resistant Flux Conduits+Polarized Armor cumulatively reduces EMP Damage by 81% And the S-modded Automated Repair Unit reduces the time those guns come back online by 75%

​@@logion567This is what nokia 3310 evolved into.

@@jurcik250 A worthy successor

@@jurcik250chill out, that's too much tech for the Pathers.

tech, this is covering everything in STEEL!!!@@LostCauseRT

Well without IEA then this ship would be suffering from permanent Flameout. But yes even the most EMP of EMP weapons cannot keep Invictus down

On the other hand, you can drive something fast up to it's side, cut a small hole in the armor and shoot cryo blaster into it until it explodes.

​@@Self-replicating_whatnot the tach lance is the enemy of an invictus thats and like, literally any armor breaking guns, fire hellbores at it until it dies and youll be fine

*Starsector dev, single guy. also lol

@@hev360 They are with 4 tho.

But aren't the Mjolnir cannons high-tech?

@@pishposh3306 they're elite ballistics, not high tech

@@Astareia7312 What does "Elite Ballistics" even mean. Descriptions of the Mjolnir say it's a very advanced design. So it's a fairly high-tech *Ballistic* weapon.

Lowtech best tech

Have been noticing more derpy behaviour from the AI over the last patch. It cod always pull some silly shit but flying in front lf my beam weapons and torpedos or flameing out from ramming ships seems to be more common atm.

Been playing starsector on and off for a few years and the AI feels generally more stupid to me than it used to be, no idea if that's true, just my opinion

reckless ai officers?

@@blinkyy1088Same here. I thought I was going crazy at first but the AI feels a lot less competent

@@daanstrik4293yeah phase ships esp seems stupidly reckless rn. It seems a lot of the newers modifications/weapons and maybe even tweaks from Alex have fucked them up to be a lot more idiotic in terms of decision making

And guns, lots of guns

Ludd's Brick!

@@Loukyan It is actually Domain' brick.

Space station that got bored of waiting for shit to come to it

he's just standing there... menacingly

For something less min-maxing you can always bring a 3rd or even 4th Invictus :P

Fun fact: two onslaughts can do it too

Rule of Starsector: if 1 doesn't work, bring more. More low tech ballistic supremacy to smash their high tech over-engineered garbage like a fucking gorilla.

You can consider using Doom, and blow up all those mini Doritos when they spawn in

You, the Invictus, or Schizo Doritos melted?

bro, just use an odyssey with 2 reapers mounted on the front. if you have missile racks or the missile skill you have enough firepower to bring down an invictus EASILY. the Odyssey is the best ship in the game bar none

lol a bit of a late response but i often run a aurora spiked to the brim with cryoblasters, minipulsers, shock repeaters and antimatter srm out of pure spite for those museum pieces.

For me I just separate the Invictus of it's fleet with my escort (cruisers frigates and whatnot) and jist duel it with my Paragon. Fortress can just tank the blows and when the barrage is over just tachyon lance that mofo. Rinse and repeat and you'll be done in just a minute.

More like a boulder.

@@dustinnabil798 more like a meteor

So like a F4 Phantom against an F35 lol

​@@Vaz44-4An F-4 the size of an AN 225 with 10 vulcan cannons and 200 missiles and a speed slower than a WW1 biplane

Eh "only" lost 899 in the end. NBD

Just one trip to the Luddic worlds would fill them up with a fresh supply of zealots lol

The Luddic Path will have a field day with this

Because AI do stupid things.

Hey now I recovered *most* of them! Only lost 899

@@logion567 Almost a size 3 colony worth of casualties...

I'm planning to name it BSH Mk. 2 *Brick Shit House

It coomed its robo-brains out from the sheer big pp Chad energy emanating from the Mighty Space Brick.

Right click does cannister flak instead of shields (and is incompatible for shields)

@@logion567 cool, so all the non-shielded ships now have a secondary system?

Invictus, it pops up in luddic church markets

@@gamerplays5131 not really, it's extremely rare, I devoted myself to Ludd so I could get my hands on those things reliably.

I managed to get two by being jumped by a Luddic invasion fleet. Barely managed to win with two condors and like 10 ish falcons/eagles

There was an Invictus on patrol with a few frigates. I jumped it and recovered it. Faulty Automated systems. Ouch 😬 Thank god for Hull Restoration. This is also how I got my first Onslaught.

11K AS STANDARD. foR COMARISON - ONSLAUGHT xIV HAS 2200

Your values for XIV armor and Invictus armor are both wrong. Invictus is 10,000. XIVslaught is 1850. With AWM Invictus is 11,000 but with AWM XIVslaught is 2024... Also, the Invictus only has 10% of its armor for damage calculation. So although it has 10,000 armor points, all incoming damage is mitigated as if it only has 1,000 armor. Then at 7,000 armor, its calculated as if 700, etc... Obviously still very tanky, but it's an important distinction.

It won't work with anything else, though. EMP is overpowered.

​@@vos2693 hellbores with​ target analysis and ballistic mastery gives a similar effect and keeps you in the low tech roleplay