http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jduHmNcjaY&hd=1

Pre-alpha demo of how items have capacitance and charge before use in Star Sonata 2.

Instead of requiring energy when you use the item, you have to "plug it in" first by equipping it, it will then smoothly draw a percentage of your total power as it charges up to full, and then once it's full, takes no additional energy and takes no additional energy to use.

Since items now have a charge rate, it effectively gives us cool-down, except here we have "warm-ups" instead. Items like PWI no longer have a separate cool-down. Once it's charged, you can use it, and you're free to switch to a faster charging warp device after using the PWI without having to wait 30 seconds to jump again.

If the total draw from all charging items plus other equipped items is greater than what you're generating from your energy and you get down to 10% of your energy bank, then everything will charge at a fraction of the normal rate and take longer to fill up.

I noticed that the text fades in and out sometimes, is that intentional?

Other than that, Nice.

Also I am really interested in seeing how squads are going to work, IE if I can view my squad mates shields etc and target them through squad for quick healing.

The tooltips fade in and out. That's intentional.

Yes, you have icons for your squaddies along the lower-right of the top bar next to your slave and drones info with shields and energies for each one.

Under the current system, you don't equip things like tweaks to use them. Does that mean that tweaks will not have a warm-up time?

Also, does this mean that it will no longer be possible to scoop a drone and redeploy it immediately (unless you have another copy of it already warmed up)?

Who doesn't have dual drone sets?

I hope that drones will get beefed if you have to deploy them like this...

They will now

It's a little hard to say if this is a beef or a nerf to drones. I would say it's a beef for short battles, for sure, since you can pre-charge a whole bunch of drones and instantly deploy them. And yes, you can have extra drones that are charging while your current drones are out, then scoop your current drones and deploy the ones that are already charged, while the ones you just scooped up re-charge.

The other thing is that you will no longer need a giant energy bank if you want to deploy certain drones, which certainly allows for more flexibility.

I really like it, But just a question..
Would slaves be able to use warp devices in C2?

Sooooooooooooo.
I can basically just truly gear for pure regen, bank means NOTHING anymore? What about those drones that take 100k elec, the Perma ones, wheres the difficulty gone?
Constantly switching in intense PvP, that reliance on tweaks for regen, no need? All pre-charged, no worries about it? A Gunner can potentially charge CRATES?

FML

Problem Spotted: At the moment, you can PWI with less than full energy, it just takes you less distance. I see this as a feature, not a bug.

While this is somewhat cool, its really going to break some stuff, like people who cant afford a double set of inferno drones, etc.

Yes. You can just open their inventory and click use on the item.