Will it be possible to forego offensive capabilities entirely in lieu of greater defense, and if so, what defensive options can be attached to gun/turret mounts?asked by Dex
TL;DRDropping offense entirely for defense isn't something they've specced; they like active defensive mounts as an idea, but items in gun mounts should stay active rather than passive.
So, active defense mounts is a actually really cool idea and something that we haven't really been specing out that much but we absolutely have started looking into more utility mounts so the Reliant's another good example of this with the research variant, the news van, and the base hauler all having turret mounted utility gear. So having the non-combat stuff to mount on your ship, absolutely. Active defense stuff...
Yeah, we've sorta talked about a little bit of it. Example might be, in the shield post some time ago we went over much more active shield roles, like directing a unified face or some such thing which could be an active... anything you plug into a gun mount we're generally going to want that to be an active part of your ship. We don't want those hard points to turn into just passive things where you swap out all of your guns and just have shields and now you have nothing to do when you get shot at. We always to have something ingrained in that item that allows you to be proactive in improving your odds...
Yeah.
But this, I mean it's a really cool idea and I would like to explore that further.
Yeah.