EVE General Discussion

It still looks like a particle beam weapon to me, of which we currently have none of in game.
Resistance(s) in this case, would be futile. One would need some sort of particle dissipation field enveloping a ship to even begin countering the damage this weapon will throw at you.

One can argue that Lasers are also particle weapons due to them being made mostly of coherent photons, but a particle weapon as I see in this case, very different. Could be projecting massive amounts of dark matter, or creating tiny singularities on the surface of the target.

Fun to be had :)

The SoCT ships are not at all Jovian- they are related, but the ships (Apotheosis, SoCT2, Gnosis) are as Jovian as Sansha ships are amarrian.

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here are the drifters: https://twitter.com/zaul_nex/status/565187941102661632

I agree. "Pure" particle beams (not like blasters) are theorized to be devastating weapons. I think however there do exist particle beams on EVE: on Rogue Drones. They might have laser effects, but they seem to deal pretty much all damage types, which somehow makes sense for a particle beam. I even remember reading some articles on Evelopedia, written from an in-character point of view, describing them to wield such weapons.

Makes me wonder if Rogue Drones had contact with Jove factions, and how did such contact turn out. They might not be as tough as the Jove, but their tech is so damn advanced; they mimic biological life, just look at the in-game descriptions of their parts.

This makes me wish, so badly, that Rogue Drones will have an important role too in the coming lore of EVE. What can I say, some of my biggest reasons for my love of the EVE Online universe comes from the Jove, Sansha's Nation, and Rogue Drones.

Well the drone regions border the Jove Empire... its possible that they are connected, in fact there has been speculation of a connection for some time. I've also seen some say its the Other controlling them.

+1 Thanks for the post.

Aw that sounds amazing, I hope you're right! Thanks for the info!

While true that a particle beam moving at an extremely high fraction of c is a terrifying weapon, it's not totally out of the league of what our shields and armor already put up with. Gallente ships regularly shoot at us with particle blasters firing antimatter of all things, which is absurdly destructive in its own right.

What's the upper damage cap on the superweapon right now? Can it be tanked by a brick Damnation or does it just auto-wipe subcaps?

My observations of a Drifter shooting a Small Amarr POS which had no shields left (i.e. no resists):

Lux Kontos: around 1041dps (cycle time around 5 seconds)
It took a single drifter 4 minutes to melt 10% armor.

Super Weapon: 500.000 volley damage.
Armor dropped by 20% by that volley.

Using the percentage readout when hovering a locked POS certainly isn't that much of an exact measurement.
As there was another Sisi patch today (861811), the numbers also might've changed.

Pretty unique. You can see both the Lux Kontos and the Super Weapon in this Clip and also from Drifter's POV vs. a Tower.