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never noticed before but side on landed it looks like a Frog. which will make naming it easier.
New ship: Panther Clipper
- Thread starter Rubbernuke
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Should make them easy to spawn.
Depends on the kind of fixed weapons. A nice centered large hardpoint or two means that aiming things like PAs with precision is not only practical but outright useful.
Big fat ships, especially those with curved hulls, are terrible gimbal/turret ships. They simply won’t fire if your own hull is in the way.
The two huge beams or multicannons of my Corvette routinely deciding laws of physics are for squares and firing through the front of its hull, would disagree.
… but, joking aside, I get what you mean and it can be annoying with the large hardpoint on aforementioned ship’s nose when it’s on a gimbal (I don’t really use turrets). Honestly not sure what kind of weapon layout I would use on the ship [Panther] to tell an NPC pirate I’m not in the mood for their nonsense. Or am just looking for an excuse to disrupt the hauling monotony, and they’re always up for a fight. Until they begin blowing up, at least.
If the large hardpoints are as I think they are, you can do a PA/pacifier combo on a single trigger. The Paci hits first because it’s faster, followed by the PA. You can either put corrosive on the Paci to “tenderize” the target for 25% more PA damage, or put drag munitions so that any successful hit means the target is a sitting duck for the next shot.
Maybe they have been told to not haul cargo for a week?
You might be better off with drags then because the plasma accelerators already do full damage to any [human] target that exists (and isn’t a capital ship where hull damage is irrelevant in gameplay mechanics) due to their armor pierce (or whatever it’s called again) being at 100 already while the highest any ship has is 75, iirc (or 70 if I recall the T10’s value incorrectly). Corrosive isn’t just a flat 25% boost to any damage.
… that said, it may still have its uses in making the other, smaller hardpoints less useless in a combat encounter.
I guess they designed it with turrets in mind, it not being a combat ship.
ThEy DoN't PlAy ThEiR gAmEMaybe they have been told to not haul cargo for a week?
I thought the PCM2 was just for sitting on the pad, looking chonky and striking a dominant pose.
Yes, it is. There are two components. You get +20 flat armor piercing bonus for any weapon striking the hull, which as you said matters not one bit for PAs and other high AP weapons.
You also get 25% bonus damage for any weapon that strikes the hull. A percentage boost is nice for big beefy hits from weapons like PAs, because this game doesn’t hand out global damage buffs very much. The 25% bonus also applies to module breach damage. For a good time, make a large or huge Short Range PA, dust the shieldless target with corrosive, and aim for the power plant. You’re doing more damage with the one projectile than the plant has integrity, so you can get one hit kills.
This is the content I desire.
I never heard about this. Would you mind pointing me to a source or (clear) demonstration?
I’d still go with drags to make the target easier to hit using something as sluggish as this ship - particularly if its turn rates are not improved much by boosting - but I guess it might be a matter of preference then.
Corrosive Shell
Corrosive Shell is an Experimental Effect that can be applied to a weapon through Engineering. It consists of experimental rounds that temporarily weaken Armour Hardness and increase all damage taken, at the cost of a 20% reduction in ammo capacity. While the effect is active, incoming damage...
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A lot more than this are available if you're willing to do a google search or several. Corrosive Shell is a well tested and well trodden thing at this point. It's also easy to test yourself, including with module breach damage like I mentioned above.
From CMDR Burr's video. The only thing that mildly surprises me is only 6 utility mounts, but that's by no means a dealbreaker.
6 utility mounts seems fine to me as what isn’t a dedicated combat ship. I’d probably put in 5 shield boosters and - if the long-distance SCO performance requires it - a heatsink.
Having watched that video just now, the boost sound is… something. At least I probably won’t mind it, while not being sure what to make of it right now. Can’t say I’m excited about the ship either, but it sounds a good enough sanity preservation measure from the T9 (I do just hate that thing with a passion… yes, “Get a Cutter”, but my alt is not going to have one of those).
4 of my accounts have rank for the Cutter. Rank earned mostly by bribery and running missions out from mostly Imperial faction systems. Probably averaged a year on each to get there. I wasn't in any hurry...
... it's on a roleplay basis more than any unwillingness for me to do the rank work on said second account, I should add. No work for or toward the superpower allegiances.
My main account - this one - can wait for the PC2 credit release. (Does anyone ever confuse that for Planet Coaster 2?)