Are Thermal Cascade seekers still frowned upon?

Alexander the Grape

Alexander the Grape
I've got a rack of Thermal Cascade High Capacity Seeker missiles on my FDL. A couple of people I've fought with them have complained. I was under the impression that unlike bugged thermal cannons, bugged premium ammo usage and obviously brokenly OP Regeneration sequence, Thermal Shock seekers were so significantly nerfed that they were "fair use" and not frowned upon.

Is this the case?
 

NascentChemist

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I'm fairly sure they alone cannot push someone's heat above 100%. But sometimes that code behaves oddly. If your target's heat is pushed to 99% by the missiles, one more missile could push it to 120%. The next missile then will not increase heat. But they aren't anywhere as egregious as thermal cascade cannons.
 

Morbad

Morbad
I think the cascade effect on seekers is so trivial that it may as well not exist.

Even thermal cascade on high-end cannon are grossly exaggerated in effectiveness against any vessel that has been built to account for heat at all.

Phazon Xenomorph said:
Yep. Put whatever you want on your weapons. If there's a problem or bug it's not your fault, let Frontier handle it, use it till it's nerfed or "fixed".
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If it's a bug utilizing it is a bug exploit.
 

Phazon Xenomorph

Phazon Xenomorph
Morbad said:
I think the cascade effect on seekers is so trivial that it may as well not exist.

Even thermal cascade on high-end cannon are grossly exaggerated in effectiveness against any vessel that has been built to account for heat at all.



If it's a bug utilizing it is a bug exploit.
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Except how can you know what's intentional or not? It's not like you're actually exploiting the game. If you visited an engineer and got the weapon mod on your weapon, and it just happens to be doing ludicrous damage... you didn't do anything wrong. If it needs fixing, Frontier will fix it. Using it outright by spending a favor or getting lucky on a roll only to discover it's phenominally overpowered beyond reason isn't your fault, and you certainly can't be expected to strip it off your weapon for using it. That's not the players fault nor is using it till it's fixed. An exploit is finding or doing something unintentional and then abusing it. Finding out a weapon mod from an Engineer is overpowered /broken isn't your fault and shouldn't be.
 
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