Overseer's chain damage?

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Hey everyone,

I recently noticed while playing vasari that when my overseers went into battle, the enemy often wound up with wierd pulse beam chains connecting them. Whats the deal with this? is this some other ability the overseers get? when i looked at the overseers normal gun, it just said pulse gun. soooo i'm at a loss. Why can the overseer do this? and what exactly does it do?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

It's the researched ability for the Assailants.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Similar effect takes place between strike craft hit by the same upgrade for Sentinels.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Overseers have nothing to do with that. As Annatar and InfiniteVoid have indicated, this is the effect of the Charged Missiles upgrade. Both techs are at tier 4 military so its likely you researched both at approximately the same time, which is why it seemed to you that they were connected.

 

Charged Missiles increases the range of phase missiles when activated. it also causes a portion of the missile's damage to shoot out a pulse beam and hit adjacent targets, effectively giving the missiles AoE effect. 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

woaaaah i never even considered it to be the charged missiles. I always assumed the upgrade simply gave it a larger explosive radius like it does for the TEC LRM frigate. i feel rather dumb now lol, but thanks for clearing that up for me =)