The other new personal combat skill in Industry, this one is a boost to armor-tanking when at high flux – increasing effective armor and reducing EMP damage taken based on the current flux level. Just as long as they’re not too game-changing. But having a flat rather than percentage-based bonus is interesting, too – flat bonuses can be more game-changing.

It being a good skill for any kind of ship is important – it helps with players with different goals find a useful path up to the top Industry tier. Still very useful for ships with high flux dissipation, though! This favors ships with lower flux dissipation values just because it’s a flat rather than a percentage bonus, so they receive comparatively more benefit. To make the skill not completely neutralize the strike potential of certain weapons, this effect only triggers at most once every two seconds.Ī new personal-combat skill in Industry, this is a fun one – it boosts flux dissipation (and capacity, as an elite effect) based on the number of ordnance points spent on weapons. No-one plans on being hit by a Reaper torpedo, but still, neutralizing that much damage when things go wrong is going to have a lot of appeal. With Combat Endurance being a skill that’s great for small ships, the elite effect is, too, because of the potential to repair far more than 50% of the hull over the course of a battle.ĭamage Control’s elite effect grants a reduction to large hull hits – any hull hit above a certain threshold of damage has the portion above the threshold reduced by (again, as of right now) 60%. Combat Endurance and Damage Control got some brand-new, fun elite effects.Ĭombat Endurance brings back the “repair ship hull during combat” effect from several versions ago – repairs up to 25% of the hull level, with total repairs not exceeding the higher of 50% of the hull, or, as of right now, 2000 points. For example, Helmsmanship’s elite effect now – in addition to its original “0-flux boost at any level” effect – grants a flat +5 to top speed, making it a consideration for slower ships. One of the goals was to do a pass over the “elite” effects of the combat skills and make them more interesting/powerful/appealing. I don’t want to go through every single change – just highlight some interesting tidbits, and a couple of the bigger changes. In this part, let’s dive into a few details about specific skills, and some other points note. Part one of this two-part blog post is here.

Starsector ships phase