502-Q8
Plasma 502 glue.
Basic Info
- No: 44
- Ship: 502-Q8
- Affinity: Shield Breaking
- Type: Lightfury
- Main Weapon: Plasma Compressor
- Aura: Phalanx
- Zen: Mega Laser
- Rarity: Common
- Price: 500
- Main Description: Single, fast, forward firing projectile fired once every 0.5s.
- Upgrade Info:
| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ult |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPS | 25.00 | 26.25 | 27.50 | 28.75 | 30.00 | 31.25 |
- Test Results:
| Main | Aura | Zen | Survival | Survival Tier | Speedrun | Speedrun Tier | Fun | Fun Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69.55 | 50.18 | 90.55 | 28.91 | C | 15.82 | C- | 24.00 | C- |
| APEX1 | APEX2 | Base Score | Base Rank | Low Score | Hi Score | Apex Rank | Final Score | FinalRank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37.82 | 53.82 | 210.27 | 84 | 248.09 | 264.09 | 81 | 332.82 | 84 |
- Main Weapon Illustration:
Survival
- It's main is pretty bad, as it fires at long intervals, not only making many of its shots an overkill (Sparrows in particular), but it is pretty difficult to grasp its pacing.
- Due to its rather thin forward firing main, you can pop off turrets pretty efficiently.
- To keep up with the mess of bullets on screen, Phalanx is your only tool of survival, shoveling when threatened to get rid of bullets.
- Phalanx is a tool for it to move around to target different invaders. This will require you to do tons of diagonal shoveling.
- Phalanx is a cover when you charge ML in preparation for the next wave. Deploy it just before you snipe down the last invader on screen, and then as the Plasma Compressor projectile moves forward, swipe back down to charge ML. If it misses, try again and repeat this process.
- Heavy and/or dense waves will require you to charge ML twice. For the second ML, bravely shovel forward once to get rid of as many bullets as you can, then quickly go back down to the bottom of the screen, deploy the second Phalanx and charge ML.
Speedrun
- Optimizing the main becomes key which means lots of moving around and Phalanx breaking. Diagonal shovels will help a lot in repositioning.
- Against Sparrow crowds, the main is very slow.
Fun
- Constantly moving about the field using Phalanx means 502-Q8 has pretty high mobility.
- Even though the main is pretty heavy hitting from the occasional burst, the impact sound isn't the most satisfying.
Trivia
- 502-Q8 was named after the dev EL thought of a theme for the name, looking back at existing names. Then the name 502-Q8 just popped up since it sounds cool and fits the themes.
- 502-Q8 is the cheapest ship to fully ult and get both its apexes, coming in at only 24,800¢ (500 buying + 9300 upgrading + 15000 APEXes).
APEX 1
- Name: Double Phalanx
- Type: Aura
- Description: A smaller additional Phalanx is placed at the front.
- Interpretation: A Phalanx with half of the original strength and size will be place front.
- Form: Beta
- Price: 10000
- Score: 2.36 / 5
For 502-Q8, since the main weapon is not that strong, the difference between a Phalanx of one or one and a half is not very big. No matter what kind of phalanx it is, its use is nothing more than to activate the phalanx and to charge laser, or to use it as a bulldozer to push away the bullets.
APEX 2
- Name: Volatile Plasma
- Type: Main Weapon
- Description: Projectiles now explode and deal blast damage upon impact.
- Interpretation: nan
- Form: Alpha
- Price: 5000
- Score: 3.36 / 5
- Main Weapon Illustration:
This apex gives 502-Q8’s main low blast damage. 2 indirect blast damage kills a Sparrow.
A very enjoyable apex for those who like 502-Q8. The high density of waves mean a respectable amount of AoE damage being continuously stacked up. The many Sparrows on field get eliminated a lot faster, particularly it can help for those annoying dart streamer Sparrows always in 5-1 of Marshal rank missions. By stacking blast damage, sometimes even Ravens get destroyed faster with 1 hit of the Plasma Compressor less which can mean a lot when some Ravens can be equipped with annoying dart spreads.