......Is Volkov overpowered? O.O

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I killed the Kronosaurus in the system just before Charon, and I got Volkov right after. Taking him into Charon made things ridiculously easy. It would have been easy enough with a +fast Lancer cannon, but Volkov seemed to be nearly invincible against the pirates. What's he carrying on that Wolfen of his, anyway?
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X-ray laser & Class V shields; the X-ray laser does insane enough levels of damage to overcome resistance to laser - the Class V shields are very resiliant shields & are arguably the best at their level.
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Wolfy wrote:X-ray laser & Class V shields; the X-ray laser does insane enough levels of damage to overcome resistance to laser - the Class V shields are very resiliant shields & are arguably the best at their level.
That's some serious power for an NPC that early in the game. Considering that he barely left me anything to kill, should his weapons be stepped down a bit?
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Nope; otherwise he'd be useless later on. He's a wingman; they need serious power.
Jenna actually is rather under-powered
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Wolfy wrote:Nope; otherwise he'd be useless later on. He's a wingman; they need serious power.
Jenna actually is rather under-powered
True, especially since you can't upgrade wingmen in the default installation of the game...
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His armour also has a random enhancement, right? I thought it was always +Regen but I got +Matter Resist too. What even IS "Matter Resist"?
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Matz05 wrote:His armour also has a random enhancement, right? I thought it was always +Regen but I got +Matter Resist too. What even IS "Matter Resist"?
Resistant to matter weapons... Weapons like laser are energy, while kinetic, blast, particle, etc. are matter.
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Xephyr wrote:
Matz05 wrote:His armour also has a random enhancement, right? I thought it was always +Regen but I got +Matter Resist too. What even IS "Matter Resist"?
Resistant to matter weapons... Weapons like laser are energy, while kinetic, blast, particle, etc. are matter.
The only real armor that has that is the darkmatter stuff
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Not particle. Odd damage types (laser is 0).
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he's strong in the arena, that's for sure.
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asam3 wrote:he's strong in the arena, that's for sure.
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