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XPiratez / PSA regarding the Triton
« on: November 07, 2017, 10:21:32 am »
While playing my newest game I got fairly lucky with some early Reticulan missions including the imperial probe mission so I managed to unlock all the Reticulan stuff. One of those techs is the seemingly nice Triton, a hybrid transport that you can load up with 15 gals. I thought hey that sounds pretty good and proceeded to build one. I loaded it up with my "B" team and sent them off to a ratman mission for some easy stat gains.
When the mission starts I'm pretty happy with what I see. The thing has doors, big beautiful 4 wide doors. I don't know what problem my runts have with doors but they sure don't like to put them on any ships I build. I start thinking that my new toy has real possibilities, a big ass ship where my gals aren't automatically exposed to gauss toting mercs or plasma blasting cyberdiscs. So I pop open those doors and don't see anything and take a step out of the ship. This promptly triggers reaction fire from some rat outside of my night vision range. Now I'm thinking that this is no big deal, rats have wimpy guns and I'm in some mid tier armor so no sweat. The shot sails past my gal, and the 3 or 4 behind her and slams into some fancy equipment lining the side of the transport. Now this fancy equipment lines the sides and back of the transport and there is a lot of it. Said fancy equipment promptly explodes. That explosion, in addition to damaging some of my gals, causes the fancy equipment right next to it to explode. As you might guess this causes a chain reaction of exploding equipment, including the stockpile full of rockets, grenades, and other explody stuff. Long story short, the lone bullet sent the whole craft up in a massive fireball killing all 15 gals. Other than that, nice ship.
All I could do was stare dumbfounded at my monitor until I burst out laughing. I wish I would have thought to take some screenshots to share but it was too much shock and awe. So if you do decide to use one of these ships, have one of your runts stick a warning label on there somewhere warning of the dangers of stray weapons fire.
When the mission starts I'm pretty happy with what I see. The thing has doors, big beautiful 4 wide doors. I don't know what problem my runts have with doors but they sure don't like to put them on any ships I build. I start thinking that my new toy has real possibilities, a big ass ship where my gals aren't automatically exposed to gauss toting mercs or plasma blasting cyberdiscs. So I pop open those doors and don't see anything and take a step out of the ship. This promptly triggers reaction fire from some rat outside of my night vision range. Now I'm thinking that this is no big deal, rats have wimpy guns and I'm in some mid tier armor so no sweat. The shot sails past my gal, and the 3 or 4 behind her and slams into some fancy equipment lining the side of the transport. Now this fancy equipment lines the sides and back of the transport and there is a lot of it. Said fancy equipment promptly explodes. That explosion, in addition to damaging some of my gals, causes the fancy equipment right next to it to explode. As you might guess this causes a chain reaction of exploding equipment, including the stockpile full of rockets, grenades, and other explody stuff. Long story short, the lone bullet sent the whole craft up in a massive fireball killing all 15 gals. Other than that, nice ship.
All I could do was stare dumbfounded at my monitor until I burst out laughing. I wish I would have thought to take some screenshots to share but it was too much shock and awe. So if you do decide to use one of these ships, have one of your runts stick a warning label on there somewhere warning of the dangers of stray weapons fire.