Hyperion in the New Game Start

[Eyeklops]

Wow...just wow. The ship comes WELL modded. Purple just about everywhere. A full set of Obliterators for the main guns. Nanotube, Whirlygig, and Targe. Green range mods on the medium beam turrets. Like, holy crap. That's more purple weapon mods collected than in my 10+day saves.

Overall the ship is strong. Really strong. Agility is amazing. Very agile for having a large shield. Feels like a super heavy frigate. I started a new game, went straight for Atiya's Misfortune, and promptly eliminated every K in sight. And yes...it will kill an I, just takes a while. Killing smalls and mediums was trivial with a ship this agile.

Be warned: It's a glass cannon. The 6 main guns output great DPS and with the mods cool quickly, but only having 1 large shield is something to be aware of. Fortunately the ships agility and speed make disengaging easy.

Side note: Can yall devs look at the drop rate for exceptional weapon mods please? It seems way low compared to the other categories.

[Raptor34]

This reminds me that it's the same as that old X3 start. The one where you need to gather money within a time limit and in return they give you a Hyp which has more stats than the standard.

[Nanook]

Ah, nice spoilers. This really should be in the Spoilers Forum, so over it goes.

[alt3rn1ty]

Ah godz. I just clicked the left behind link in the X4 Foundations forum .. And I am still downloading the DLC from GOG.
Ah well, I guess I would have found out shortly anyway.

[Eyeklops]

Ah, nice spoilers. This really should be in the Spoilers Forum, so over it goes.

I thought about that. My bad. Thanks for moving it.

[surferx]

Be warned: It's a glass cannon. The 6 main guns output great DPS and with the mods cool quickly, but only having 1 large shield is something to be aware of. Fortunately the ships agility and speed make disengaging easy.

Also be very aware of it having just 1 engine, kind of unusual for a L class military ship. If the one vulnerable engine gets damaged by incoming fire, it becomes a sitting duck.

[PersonyPerson]

Side note: Can yall devs look at the drop rate for exceptional weapon mods please? It seems way low compared to the other categories.

If I wanted to go all in on mods, then I'd spend like an hour or two just hunting down BUC Prometheuses. They drop Exceptional quality mods on a regular basis.

[Imperial Good]

It is non-trivial to get the modded one as you need to hand in a bunch of Xenon parts. Sure, you can scavenge them, but you still need to scavenge them.

[PersonyPerson]

It is non-trivial to get the modded one as you need to hand in a bunch of Xenon parts. Sure, you can scavenge them, but you still need to scavenge them.

True.

I thought it would be simple enough, but in my main save, I had a drought of Programmable Field Arrays that lasted 2 in-game days that made it impossible to complete the mission. Was constantly monitoring battlezones in where they'd usually drop to no avail. Eventually got them when the Xenon attacked Profit Centre Alpha.

Missions can be deceiving.

[RainerPrem]

It is non-trivial to get the modded one as you need to hand in a bunch of Xenon parts. Sure, you can scavenge them, but you still need to scavenge them.

Or you just do the new Game Start and you get it for free... Boring. I'd rather have the "Poisoned Paranid" game start back.