Does anyone bother with Mirrored or Reactive armour instead of Military?

[NeilF]

If so, why?

I'm intrigued if people have found the specialisation worth while...

 

[thorn-]

I've found mirrored to be an excellent choice, depending on the opponent... but of course you can't plan for who you'll be facing.

 

[Seonid]

I sometimes run mirrored on the small ships as you're [generally] more likely to be hit with hitscan weapons such as lasers.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

If the price of mirrored / reactive would be on par with the military, I may consider them.
After all, they are not better, they just offer some tradeoff.

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I sometimes run mirrored on the small ships as you're [generally] more likely to be hit with hitscan weapons such as lasers.

And you might regret it if you encounter my frag cannons someday

 

[glynie]

I use reactive. It dramatically reduces damage from collisions (being rammed and such), explosives and cannons. As for the lasers, there are the shields.

 

[h347h]

If the price of mirrored / reactive would be on par with the military, I may consider them.
After all, they are not better, they just offer some tradeoff.

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And you might regret it if you encounter my frag cannons someday

Or class 4 multi cannons lol.

On to the OP.

Nope I have tried each and find that as a whole military armor is the most useful most of the time. Especially now that you can increase damage reduction via HRPs and mods.

 

[Nerwan]

And you might regret it if you encounter my frag cannons someday

I actually did :-D I had a 1v1 with you a while back (before I worked out how to keep my distance from FASes in my FDL) and your frags tore me to pieces. It was only later I realized I'd forgotten to change out the mirrored armour! Still, you'd have won anyway, but perhaps not now, I've got much better at dealing with those tactics :-D

 

[Cosmos]

Wait until you see people with top range thermal weapons.. You'll quickly understand the need for it then

 

[Bartizan]

I run reactive armor on my bounty hunter Viper IV. Nice against the increase in Kinetics I have been seeing on NPCs and does a decent job of keeping me safe. I plan to try out Mirrored on it eventually. Military is just a ok increase in all around resistance, making it worth the credits I suppose, but if you want to really mitigate thermal OR kinetic, gotta specialize.

 

[Bigskill]

Military on the Bigger ships, mirrored on the smaller.... but now with the mods, im going to review it...

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

I actually did :-D I had a 1v1 with you a while back (before I worked out how to keep my distance from FASes in my FDL) and your frags tore me to pieces. It was only later I realized I'd forgotten to change out the mirrored armour! Still, you'd have won anyway, but perhaps not now, I've got much better at dealing with those tactics :-D

Hey hey indeed, I remember you!
Yep, that was brutal and, should you have hit boost + FA off + 180° turn + reverse at full speed (then, rinse/repeat), I would not have been able to do much against you...there is not much you can do against that actually.

 

[Nerwan]

Hey hey indeed, I remember you!
Yep, that was brutal and, should you have hit boost + FA off + 180° turn + reverse at full speed (then, rinse/repeat), I would not have been able to do much against you...there is not much you can do against that actually.

Yes, I have since learned against Mr McFragface who also favors your load-out. What's interesting though is that your build is still viable in 2.1 wheras the old rail-de-lance isn't..

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

What's interesting though is that your build is still viable in 2.1 wheras the old rail-de-lance isn't..

Indeed, and I intend to mod my power plant and thrusters to low emission. This way I should finally be able to boost after my FAoff reverse opponents without cooking my ship, and hopefully nail a deadly blow of frag cannons at close range.

Needless to say, taking into account the RNGneer grind, I am not there yet... :-/

 

[Nerwan]

Indeed, and I intend to mod my power plant and thrusters to low emission. This way I should finally be able to boost after my FAoff reverse opponents without cooking my ship, and hopefully nail a deadly blow of frag cannons at close range.

Needless to say, taking into account the RNGneer grind, I am not there yet... :-/

I imagine double shot is going to be on your list too... Even the low levels of that are quite nasty. I've been using 3 double shot gimballed frags on my 600 m/s Courier.. Very hard to counter something that can approach you at that speed and then drop that many pellets.

 

[SenatorPerry]

I run reflective/mirror on everything. Point defense on the rear. In my FAS with a need to run away from a fight the point defense will stop the missiles. The reflective neuters the lasers. Multicannons are less effective once I boost far enough away that their range is limited. When the police arrive they will mostly use lasers, so I am able to completely ignore them for 25% longer than with military grade and 50% longer with reactive.

Nobody in my wing likes the setup though. It still works for survivability.