What are you doing with your AX weapons?

Stealthie

Stealthie
Wasn't sure whether this really counted as a "ships" thread or an "aliens" thread so I figured I'd just bung it here...

has anybody figured out a "grand plan" for making optimal use of the AX weapons yet, and built an entire ship around them?

I was considering it but, basically, I keep buying a pair of the latest weapon, testing them out and then I just bung 'em into storage until I can come up with a proper plan for how to use 'em.
Course, it doesn't help that we don't really know, yet, the full extent of the AX armory so you might end up building a ship around what we currently have and then a new weapon will arrive that forces you to completely rethink your build.

But, in the mean-time, if anybody's got any thoughts/advice/opinions on a xeno-centric ship build, I'd be interested to hear them. [up]
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
space voyager said:
I'm on my way to egineer the MCs. Can they be engineered? Then I'm off to try them out...
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No.

Stealthie said:
Wasn't sure whether this really counted as a "ships" thread or an "aliens" thread so I figured I'd just bung it here...

has anybody figured out a "grand plan" for making optimal use of the AX weapons yet, and built an entire ship around them?

I was considering it but, basically, I keep buying a pair of the latest weapon, testing them out and then I just bung 'em into storage until I can come up with a proper plan for how to use 'em.
Course, it doesn't help that we don't really know, yet, the full extent of the AX armory so you might end up building a ship around what we currently have and then a new weapon will arrive that forces you to completely rethink your build.

But, in the mean-time, if anybody's got any thoughts/advice/opinions on a xeno-centric ship build, I'd be interested to hear them. [up]
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You need both AX types, can only fit four, plus fill remaining slots with flaks. So a conda would be ideal with, for example, two of every type. Plus you'll have the utilities for a xeno scanner, PDTs, wake scanner etc. You'll also be able to fit a fighter bay to distract the thargons and keep enough internals for some proper hull tanking.
 
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EvE4evah

EvE4evah
Heya, Stealthie! Check GlutonnyFang's thread on soloing the Thargoids. He's updated it with the AX Multis, don't know about the latest stuff
 

bej

B
My Ax weapons will gather dust until its shown that :

1) 1 wing can consistently kill thargoids. 2-3 wings killing a thargoid, with an alpha strike, is not intended gameplay and broken. I am anti-social and do not have the patience with the networking in this game to wait for 2-3 wings to get gathered for one kill. Total waste of time. The first week was hella fun. The thrill is gone.

2) 'adapting'. If each week is going to feature nerfs (adapting), I will wait. Currently my policy is to do up to 800T of cargo for whatever Ageis CG it is (2 runs in a cargo anaconda) , and stop. The first week i did 10K tons, but since the 'adaptation' (week 1 nerfs) , the wind is all out of my sails and i will let the chips fall as they may.

3) I really do not like fixed weapons. I know, I know :: GIT GUUD. You know what ? I Dont Care. ,,!,,

I would pay twich prime subscriptions to watch ED with 1 wing of 3 pals from fdev to consistently kill thargoids. Sign me up for this. 2-3 wings insta klling them is . Broken imo.

The first week was great, nothing yet has measured up.
 

Spacecat

Spacecat
I bought a Dropship and equipped it with a xeno scanner, 4 AX missile launchers and a beam laser, then FD nerfed AX missiles into the ground. Now it sits, unused, until I determine that doing anything Thargoid related is worthwhile.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
I don't have any. I don't even know what "AX" means.

NGC 7822 Looks kind of nice though...

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WR3ND

WR3ND
That reminds me, I was thinking about starting a hippie thargoid thread for the non warmongering megalomaniacs among us.
 
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Ren Garris

Ren Garris
Please do.

I had three run ins tonight, and not a single one tried to shoot me.

They sniffed me.
I sniffed them.
They sprayed a yellow lightning thing on me.
I sprayed an invisible alien scanny thing on them.

And so we went.

I would feel bad stomping a mudhole into hippie hindquarters and then walking it dry- if they didn't provoke me first.
Mostly.
I guess it depends on the hippie, really.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
It'd likely just fall on deaf ears and forum trolls, so I don't think I'll bother. Also not really the narrative they (most players and Frontier alike) seem to be going for in general, but maybe a niche tangent.

Speaking of which, that's enough OT from me. Carry on, gents. o7
 

CMDR-AD

CMDR-AD
I have carried them out, and looked at Thargoids. But never fired. They are in storage, now. Some need to be swapped for other types, but I'll figure that out when the time comes.

Once things go hot, with the Thargoids shooting first, I'll start returning fire.
 

Frank

Frank
Wing up

Use the fixed weapons variants. Have your wing load up with only one type of weapon so they don't need to re-target for each weapon type. Only one of you needs a Xeno scanner.

Soften them up with missiles, then go for the heart with multicannons when it's exposed.
 

Insane4un

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And i am.. I am just killing thargoids for good. Hell.. what else should i do with this anyway?

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Did you expect anything else? [alien]
 
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Nokrahs

Nokrahs
- helped with the CG's to unlock
- picked up AX weapons and equiped a ship
- killed one Thargoid near Merope with a Wing to check on the new content
- stored the AX Weapon, sold the ship
- went back to my usual busniness
- never looked back
 

space voyager

space voyager
Nokrahs said:
- helped with the CG's to unlock
- picked up AX weapons and equiped a ship
- killed one Thargoid near Merope with a Wing to check on the new content
- stored the AX Weapon, sold the ship
- went back to my usual busniness
- never looked back
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I'm afraid this is my future, too... But first, I'm all MCs and going out just for fun, to see how long I survive.
 
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