Curious why beams to a pulse? Distributer drain or heat issues?
Combat people, what do I do with a Vulture?
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I stacked shields mJ and resistance, threw a healing beam on one side and a red beam on the other. One overcharged for burst and one efficient for sustained fire. Overcharged the PP to negate issues, weapon focused the PD for that beam uptime, and then put on an ugly green "pulse" skin to annoy people. Gonna put red engine color on the already engineered dirty drives. Named it the "X-Mas Special"
Cause I have pulses on it from pre 2.0 so will give them a try engineered before playing with other weapons! I am wondering how a beam or pulse/mc combo might work out though..hmm
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How were the beams? I used to have pre 3.0 engineered MC's and Beam, but was curious if the beams drew too much drain on the PD or caused too much heat issues to be efficient at all since 3.0 engineering...
Dunno this is a template I am working on right now, the template was more to look at shields and power than look at weapons tbh. That's what I meant by I have the pulses from pre 2.0, will try out beams or some other combo after I finish engineering the the basic and pulses.
I only got horizon a little before this last xmas so all my ships right now are mostly a rated pre horizons builds.
One thing I learned not to do with it was joust. That canopy goes pretty quick.
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Troy_McClure
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I bet you don't get targeted much in your low-key, gold Vulture & accompanying understated Ford Escort Cosworth bodykit!? [squeeeee]
I split the difference and have really enjoyed mine with a beam/pulse combo; I prefer my CZ workhorse to be ammo-independent. At 4Wep I can tape down the pulse fire button and refill the cap at the same time as long as I lay off the beam.
Troy_McClure
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Funny you mention this - I engineered the s**t out of some fixed beams for my vulture, tonight = efficient with oversized 'special'.
They are much better than pre-3.0 ie. more damage & less dist draw...in fact, they might well be my new PvE weps. Three pips in weps is needed for sustained fire but with good manipulation of pips, two pips is eminently viable.
They are much better than pre-3.0 ie. more damage & less dist draw...in fact, they might well be my new PvE weps. Three pips in weps is needed for sustained fire but with good manipulation of pips, two pips is eminently viable.
Have fun in it.
I just recently got my Vulture back to play with but this time I wont bother engineering it.
Depending on your loadout, power management will come in to play.
I had burst lasers on my old build and had to shut off life support when engaging in combat to save power. Only when hardpoints deploy though.
Those where fun times.
This is why Im not engineering. The most fun I had with it was before engineers came along.
Last thing.
Set up a nice control bind and fly FAoff.
Rapid ship.
Achilles7
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Yes, I lost my genitalia in an unfortunate smelting accident...I love goooollllld [big grin]
Good point...even my best legacy beam stats have been superceded across the board with the new:
power/distributor/damage/thermal stats (% improvement)
legacy: 40/38/14/57
new (with oversized): 45.4/45/27.7/60
Lasers (fixed) should be the best weapons in the game, imo...due to their sci-fi heritage. Frontier make so many illogical, questionable decisions...it is beyond a joke!
FAoff is something I've pretty much never tried but want to be good at. I'm aiming to go for elite rank in combat and I'm only at 12% dangerous so I think I'll be able to get plenty of practice.
I'm on Xbox though so I'm not sure about control settings. I don't see how the basic flight controls can be changed much on a controller. I'll have to look into it.