Oh I have must have been misled. I remember reading a wiki weapons guide on the transcendence wiki I think that kept hammering the point that "particle is king" early on. It's fine for the first third of the game, but past Katherine's Star it loses its shine pretty quickly. The wiki advice is proba...

I am still using SmartCannon at the Battle Maximus system. Is that unlucky or is it hard to find an omnidirectional particle weapon? Particle weapons aren't that great, for the most part. They have great range, firing rate, and projectile speed, it's true, but they're pretty low damage, especially ...

Actually, a PD device that deflects kinetic rounds is (in the real world) the only possibility to not let them hit you. If you put a laserbeam or other high energy beam on a piece of metal, rock or whatever heavy item that is coming at you with great speed, it will not stop that item or blow it to ...

Regarding other PD ideas: how about a linked-fire weapon that throws out a huge weight of short-ranged fire (call it chaff) alongside the player's primary weapon? One has only to look at Shrike's LOTOR to realize how valuable just putting out a lot of projectiles is for protecting a ship from incomi...

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Fri Jun 09, 2017 4:54 am

Hah I am always getting murdered by Arco Vaughn lol

Use the disposable launcher and the SmartCannon. You get them for a reason; they're better weapons than any of the base ships start with.

Titanium ore isn't worth much, but you should be able to sell it at Commonwealth stations and a few others. Different stations want different things. Inventories never restock, and the more a station has of a given good, the less it's willing to pay for more of that good, so eventually your little t...

In a way, but not like solar panels and side-mounted weapons are. :) Autons are autonomous ships that fly around with you. Go ahead and use one next time you find one; the worst that'll happen is it turns out to be faulty and you'll have a weak ship armed with a laser shooting at you. Most autons ar...

If the item is externally-mounted, it'll say that among the other flags on the item, where it says stuff like "WMD4", "cloud", "omnidirectional", etc. If I recall correctly, solar panels are an early example of externally-mounted items, and they're subject to the same ease of damaging that externall...

Later in the game you can find linked-fire weapons that can fire at the same time as your main weapon. However, in addition to eating into your energy budget, they tend to be externally-mounted, which means they can easily be damaged (irreparably in most cases) by enemy weapons' fire. Otherwise, yea...

1. What does "WMD" mean on the weapons I never seemed to remember that being a thing the last time I played this great game. The bottom line with WMD is that you need it to be able to effectively kill capital ships and stations. You can still hurt them with non-WMD (effectively WMD0) weapons, it ju...

I voted for the Anarchists, simply because in the vanilla game they are just cannon fodder. Much like the Centauri warlords. And their backstory is vague. I do find it amusing how probably the most trivial faction in this videogame apparently makes their money via software piracy. :) ROMs are the p...

It's also possible to kite FailSafe and destroy it without triggering the hack cutscene, which then leaves you to assault the final base alone. You can kill FailSafe twice, in fact, since it shows up in an earlier system and is not too hard to destroy before it gets to a gate, if you get lucky with ...

I'd always seen that ROM as having been written by Arco's father. The implication being that Arco turned to crime because his father wasn't around. This could be relevant with regard to his hesitation in attacking the player, assuming he knows that the player is also a pilgrim. Funny, I assumed it ...

There are plenty of ways to find out about the existence of cargo holds: the ship selection screen mentions that cargo space can be expanded, dock services show a cargo hold slot even if there isn't currently one for sale, and they appear in the devices & armor tab of commodities exchanges when ava...

I am not sure about this, given how old Transcendence is. We identify items much like a roguelike, and stuff like fabricators had even fewer hints than today. We still have annoying legacy features like solvent eating your items when you can completely avoid it by dropping everything before opening...