by ParticleMan
So we've seen lots of complaints about missiles; some justified and some out-of-proportion. Now after RotA and Pulsar we have the following things to stop missiles and/or all-in missile strategies and/or make other weapons more attractive:- Point Defense
- Distortion Shield
- Neutron Absorber
- Nova Burst
- Conifold Field
- Antimatter Splitter
- Flux Missile (to beat Plasma Missile initiative, consequently making missiles weaker overall)
I've seen the official line basically saying "play with whatever techs & parts you want" but what I want to know is what the playtesters recommend and whether or not they use all of these in their games. It seems to me the designers may have simply thrown in every missile counter they could think of just to shut people up, and that using all of these together doesn't represent a balanced game.