Beam Overcharge Capacitor

Beam Overcharge Capacitor

“	Extends the overcharge ability of a beam weapon, to allow the overcharge damage output to apply on a target longer. (Does not grant overcharge)	”
	— In-Game Description

Stats[]

Beam Overcharge Capacitor	I	II	III
SPECIFICATIONS
Weapon Mass	7%	11%	15%
Overcharge Duration	+1 s	+2 s	+3 s
Hull XP	15,950 XP	22,022 XP	43,445 XP
Applies to	Beam
Restricted to	Altairians, Umbra, Pharmakon
BLUEPRINT
Ship Lab Required	XII
EQUIP
Time	6h 00m	14h 00m	1d 0h
Helium-3	7,607,575	11,411,363	15,215,150
Antimatter	8,241,540	12,362,310	16,483,080

General[]

The Beam Overcharge Capacitor is an Altairian Special specifically tailored for the Surge Beam. It increases the duration of its overcharge effect, allowing the overcharge effect to apply on a target longer. It is restricted to Altairian Hulls or better.

Strategy and Setup[]

Advantages[]

The Beam Overcharge Capacitor's primary purpose is to increase the duration of the overdrive effect of the Surge Beam, and doing so increases the DPS of the Surge Beam even further, thus augmenting its already impressive Damage output.

In addition, as with all Specials after the debut of the Xeno Division, it is incredibly lightweight, reducing the mass requirements and thus allowing heavier and more powerful weapons to be equipped on ships.

Disadvantages[]

As with other versions of the Beam Capacitor, Beam Overcharge Capacitors are only designed for beam weapons; the vast majority of other ship weapons do not benefit from the charge time increase.

As the Surge Beam is also the only weapon in existence with the overcharge effect, this makes this special useless with any other weapon as well.

Trivia[]

This is the first weapon boost that increases the effectiveness of the Overcharge effect.
The background color of the Beam Overcharge Capacitor icon was originally orange, but that was since changed to yellow.