Leviathan Mark II - Alternate Settings Weekend

[Arilou Lalee'lay]

The SS Corp has banned the use of L3 Heavy Bombs. Scientists have been working around the clock to create a new design for the Leviathan Bomber. The loss of this ship could mean a devastating blow to the ruling faction in the Continuum.

The L3 Heavy Bombs took up a lot of space and slowed down the ship considerably. Now without it there is enough room to improve several other aspects of the ship.


Leviathan Mark II Key Features:
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Installed Hyper-Charged Energy Shield* (Energy 2000)
Installed Experimental High Load Shrap-Torpedos** (Team-Kill Proof)
Improved Thrusters and Engines.

*The improved shields require L3 gunners to have 2 consecutive hits to destroy the Lev-MK2. Hopefully this will guarantee a longer life after warping to a new sector.

**Wealthy pilots can purchase a Type-II Shrapnel load, increasing the effectiveness of the projectiles by a factor 1.5

I await your comments and reviews. Please use proper arguments to express you opinion.


- Lead Scientist, Space-Tech Section of Trench Wars, Arilou Lalee'lay

PS: Minor adjustments have been made to the Weasel as well.

[Superted]

So in other words, levs now have 2000 energy, low damage bombs but full of shrap?

P.S. What are you doing off GW

EDIT: Feedback: I think they're better than the old lev, more because of this 'anti-tk' and the shrap is an ok feature but if you have a few levs camping the tunnels it'd be a little difficult, but not impossible, to get in.

I also noticed flag points are 25 and that you don't gain bty in lev, accident or or purpose?

What's the size of pubs now?

[Maurauth]

ohhh, thats really cool.

but how did you make the tk proof. was it a sneaky thing in the settings or are you using bots?

has the pub size changed as well?

[Morh]

Why are you guys changing the settings all the time... are you bored or something?

[Dameon Angell]

ohhh, thats really cool.

but how did you make the tk proof. was it a sneaky thing in the settings or are you using bots?

has the pub size changed as well?

probably no to little splash.

[Maurauth]

hmm, i dont think they would do that, i mean, it spoils the point of levi as it is played now, i mean like, a lev terr is now useless

[Zerzera]

I like the adjusted levi.
- It's practicly teamkill free because the bombs don't have the radius the old bombs had
- this Levi is especially useful in small and crowded area's (like flagroom), where the old levi was too powerful in small area's
- There is hardly any use for the levi outside base because of the lack of radius
- With it speed and turn improved it isn't as helpless as the old levi

With a little less shrap and 3 repels it could be an interesting alternative to the shark in ?go base in my opinion (apart from the 20 attachbounty)

[Shas'la T'au Kais]

Poor T0ne, I'm awaiting another "Weasels are lame" thread.

[Fluffz]

cool, can we have it in pure pub too?

[Ikrit]

Sounds AWESOME, the less laming/tk'ing the better

Go Ari! :wub:

Edit: I wish I was home and not at school right now so I could play with these new settings :/

[Dameon Angell]

I like the levi, except maybe just cut the shrap in half so that every other shrapnel is gone in the ring of shrap, just for it to be easier to dodge.

And I think the weasel should be 'zombies' style, where you don't have stealth radar, but have cloak only.

[T Mac-1]

Well this has the potential to be a great change but what about LTing? If the radius is smaller..wouldnt this effect the LT shots immensely? Also, who is ss corp and why have they made the decision to ban L3 bombs after all these years?

[Troll King]

To all those asking something like: "what about levi-terrs? They're useless now!", I think they were aware of that when they made the changes. That's probably part of the whole point actually.

Probably not as significant to most people but one positive that I see here: there was an actual announcement about a setting change! That's a good and long needed step that hasn't been used for previous setting changes. Extra points for trying to "RP" the announcement, but maybe not when mentioning the details of the changes.

[Troll King]

Okay, after playing almost an hour here are my personal observations:

-this new levi is more effective inside than outside, and is a better basing ship than it was before.
-levis might be more inclined to keep moving rather than camping and firing.
-It's more important now than ever to defend the mid.
-I think the shrap lasts too long. With that much shrap moving so slowly over such a wide area, it takes up too much space that enemy ships cannot fly through. In flag room battles, this makes the levi far too strong, and it favours the defenders too much as the defence is far more likely to have more levis in there than the attackers.
-This may be a factor of the novelty making more people want to try the levi, but there are far too many of them. This may wear thin after a while, but not thin enough. I experienced what it's like having to fend off 6 levis in the mid base with this kind of ammunition and it really wasn't pretty. There's just too much shrap flying everywhere.
-The levi seems to be able to fire a second shot far too quckly after firing off the first.


Overall, I think this new levi is better for basing than the old one. That being said, when you have multiple levis, it bogs down the action because there's too much shrap everywhere. This ship works in theory, but only if there are a few. When there are more than two (from both teams combined) it gets too cluttered. The combination of the number of levis, the range of the shrap, how long the shrap stays active, and how quickly levis can fire off a second shot makes for a base just full of shrap with little room for ships to move around. That might be fine for cheap thrills but isn't conducive for overall gameplay. While this is an improvement over the old levi, basing is still better with no levis (with either settings) at all than with this new levi.

EDIT: did the bullets change? I thought I saw a levi firing off 2 L3 bullets in a wide angle spread, but it may have just been a rep. Most levis I observed seemed too eager to use the new bomb that I didn't see much bullet use.

[knuckles1]

Lev Mark II Sucks Donkey Schlong

New Levs are basically worthless. Good for "defensive" bombs, not much else.

1 repel is ridiculous.

No portals means rapid death and complete alteration of strategy. Nothing better than watching newbs walk into your line of fire behind a port.

The only good thing is the speed.

Impossible to tell whose shrap is whose.

Don't care about effect on LTing, attaching is for the weak.

Bring back "old" levs, 4 repels or give them x radar.

Don't care about "no tk" bombs.....skilled levs and javs avoid that crap.

I like the slow but powerful bomb lev, lots of wb rapes, but so satisfying when you can take out five lev hunting newbletts at at time......