The foam fuell cells used by foam turrets are far deeper into the research tree than they need to be. Foam turrets are a intermediate industrial research project, but the maximum of required research points to actually make use of them is 10000 further research points. The fuel cells it utilizes are unlocked with advanced launchers together with the incendiary launcher - which need microelectronics and the multi-analyzer.
This only goes to show how underutilized the turret is, but foam fuel cells actually used to be part of the firefoam research until v5.3 on June 22, 2023 moved them to the Advanced Launchers research. Foam turrets have been in the game since October 21 2022, so perhaps an oversight?
Maybe they would see more usage if they didn't need to bemanually activated and were changed to be automatic like CE did with the Rocketswarm turret. Firefoam grenades are hard to beat but the fuel cells definitely need a change if firefoam turrets are meant to be usable at all.
Placement of the firefoam turret research
Placement of the research needed for the fuel cell unlock
Image from version v5.2 and the previous placement of foam fuel cells in the research tree
The foam fuell cells used by foam turrets are far deeper into the research tree than they need to be. Foam turrets are a intermediate industrial research project, but the maximum of required research points to actually make use of them is 10000 further research points. The fuel cells it utilizes are unlocked with advanced launchers together with the incendiary launcher - which need microelectronics and the multi-analyzer.
This only goes to show how underutilized the turret is, but foam fuel cells actually used to be part of the firefoam research until v5.3 on June 22, 2023 moved them to the Advanced Launchers research. Foam turrets have been in the game since October 21 2022, so perhaps an oversight?
Maybe they would see more usage if they didn't need to bemanually activated and were changed to be automatic like CE did with the Rocketswarm turret. Firefoam grenades are hard to beat but the fuel cells definitely need a change if firefoam turrets are meant to be usable at all.
Placement of the firefoam turret research
Placement of the research needed for the fuel cell unlock
Image from version v5.2 and the previous placement of foam fuel cells in the research tree
