The game doesn’t necessarily need this, but I think it would be cool; ion beam-style point defense, where it focuses on a projectile and burns it to ash. Would be extremely effective against single targets, but for balance give it sharply limited energy/a cooldown (maybe able to kill precisely one nuke before recharging/a cooling cycle)
#Laser PD
plucky nimbus
mossy atlas
considering lasers irl are somewhat used for point defence as well, this would make a lot of sense to add, and add some extra alternatives to the two options we have
neat lance
literally just old pd but w/ a beam
round gust
How exactly would this differentiate itself from pd and flak?
Not saying it's a bad idea, just that it sounds quite similar to what we have
spiral cove
How exactly would this differentiate itself from pd and flak?
perhaps more accurate and longer range at the cost of higher energy use than regular PD
plucky nimbus
perhaps more accurate and longer range at the cost of higher energy use than reg...
This is what I was thinking yes
Basically does not miss, is guaranteed to eliminate what it targets, but then it takes a while to retarget and reload
mossy atlas
if it works like that, then it'd definitely be the hard counter to those initial nuke salvo ships
spiral cove
well youd need to have a dozen of those laser PD, as nuke ships launch in salvos of several dozens of nukes which can and will overwhelm your PD
plucky nimbus
Yeah
It would mean another option other than disposable nuke armor but it could still be saturated just like any other PD
cyan vault
And change current "laser" PD to plasma or pulse, ffs.
sudden vault