As a suggestion, The spec's on shock cannons look like they should be a good weapon, they are not. It would be great If they worked as advertised. Please fix this when you get a chance. It would be nice to have a weapon for well armored ships that fires like the shock cannons. Concord cannons work but shocks should be better. Thanks
General shock cannons
- Thread starter Eric Palmer
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I tried taking out an Anaconda. I did it but it took forever. how many cannons are firing per shot? I am flying a python m2 well modded only two shock cannons though.
Personally I think the damage output is fine. They just run out of ammo far too quickly (there's a number of threads on how a shock cannon does less damage with it's whole ammo pool than any other weapon) and g3 materials for basic ammo resynth is a nope.
They're great fun, sound great, but are one of quite a few forgotten things in the game.
They're great fun, sound great, but are one of quite a few forgotten things in the game.
Indeed- make synth basic and cheap, and more ammo.
Maybe allow them to be engineered. That could bridge the gap and maybe help them get back into mainstream gameplay.
This is the answer, isn't it? This way we could do High Capacity among other options (High Yield for dopamine++ booms?
).This would be nice too as a balance pass.
They are effectively engineered already. They just need some tweaking like having the auto loader draw from fuel.
Make it regenerate ammo for free while not shooting, but at a lower damage per hour than what other guns can dish out when engineered to be as close to Shock Cannons as possible.
Let this be an experimental effect for the gun and give it some drawback that doesn't affect DPS. Reduce its ammo pool or add a bit of jitter or make it cost more power, anything but damage output.
Let this be an experimental effect for the gun and give it some drawback that doesn't affect DPS. Reduce its ammo pool or add a bit of jitter or make it cost more power, anything but damage output.