Stellaris Point Defense (2024)

FAQs

Is flak or point defense better in Stellaris? ›

According to the wiki, they target both, but flak is better against strike craft and point-defense is better against missiles.

Kinetic Artillery is strictly superior to Gauss Cannon, and pretty much the only good L weapon. There are other ships that can make use of L Plasma (though it's pretty niche) but for Titans it just doesn't have the range, so Kinetic Artillery is your best option by default.

Accuracy: The base chance of the weapon hitting a target, assuming the target has 0% evasion. Certain weapons are easier to aim than others. Tracking: How much of the target's evasion the weapon will ignore when firing at its target.

Energy weapons also do a bit more damage to Hull Points. Missiles and torpedoes bypass shields to directly damage armor or hull. A few weapons, notably Disruptors, damage Hull Points directly, bypassing all shields and armor, albeit at the cost of dealing much less damage overall.

Point Defence will fire upon both caustic and Thargon missiles, but it is incapable of actually hitting them.

Larger weapons are generally superior to smaller weapons and Neutron Launchers are widely considered the best Large-slot weapon in game thanks to their range and damage. They can be mounted on Destroyers and Cruisers in the build up toward Battleships making them useful for nearly the entire game.

Larger ships can take a lot more damage and continue to fight at full strength.

FTL drive. This subsystem is optional, although without an FTL drive the ship is incapable of moving between systems. Jump drives allow the ship to make a direct jump within a limited range, indicated by a yellow dotted circle.

Tracking counters evasion, and gets resolved AFTER accuracy, and evasion. So if you have 50% tracking on top of 100% accuracy, and they have 50% evasion you'll hit every shot. Chance to hit/Accuracy solely and exclusively affects the weapons base hit chance and caps at 100%.

In order to capture enemy worlds, entire armies are needed, along with the preparation and battlefield awareness to properly use them.

Are fighters good in Stellaris? ›

Fighters are really good and have been for a long time now. If you want, you can start using them once you have unlocked Cruisers and then never transition into anything else. They do get hard-countered by artillery spam, but the AI doesn't do that, it always has mixed fleets.

Similarly, the best design for Battleships right now is the 1xH, 4xM core, the 2xM stern, and whatever bow you want (there's some argument against spinal, actually, since you usually can't fire it while evading... but the alpha strike is undeniably nice).

Missiles burst down armor with extra damage, while the Kinetic Weapon works its way through shields with extra damage. Later on, Torpedoes are pretty much just a better version of the Missile.

If you are fighting a large empire, multiple fleets of gunboats and interceptor corvettes are ideal with large numbers and perhaps 1-2 cruisers in said fleet, with a battleship and its escorts being your head fleet to bombard worlds and escort transport fleets.

Whenever a design is updated, military ships of that design must be upgraded manually at a starbase or orbital ring with a shipyard module, Mega Shipyard, or Juggernaut. The cost of upgrading a ship is the difference in construction cost between the new design and the current one.