Next Week's Goal: Which reward would you rather have? (Spoilers)
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Missiles are already plenty powerful. Anymore so and they'd be well into overpowered territory. Honestly, even then they probably are, provided you're using them for their intended role which is scouring the surface modules off of targets and quickly tearing down MRP integrity.
Ideally the one with guided weapons or steerable weapon mounts, fixed mounts and point and shoot rockets are so 18th century.
With that not being an option I will probably go random to pick a side, possibly each time.
Edit: though having just looked again at the synthesis menu Multi Cannon look easier to keep fed.
Maybe if we can get the conflict to end in a score draw so both sides win.
Sir this was hell of a reading. Thank you very much for opening my eyes. Now I know what kind of game I play. I grinded same dungeons sometimes 250x in row to drop items I wanted, some never drop. After reading your post I finally admitted to myself that Elite is typical MMO with everything necessary included. No good.
I use AX multi-cannons for killing Scouts, I was all for the Zende multi-cannons until I found out they are fixed only. If the AX dumbfire missiles pack a punch, then they might be a better option for killing Interceptor quicker. Hopefully we get the weapon specs, so we can all make an informed choice.
Indeed, at while we're at it, pay a visit to Ram Tah for an alien Guidance system that cant be jammed and jam`s the attackers E.C.M and point defence guns.
Prof Pain for G5 Dirty thrust system, Liz Ryder to enhance the warheads while Tod the blaster can enhance the Ammo with a Size 4 internal ammo rack.
Buy all Xeno ammo from tech brokers thus eliminating mat`s for Mr Easy can't be bothered, Joe.
Empress Josephine agrees with this "let them have cake, and also let them eat it."
Final thought`s, if your ship uses Guarding tech, will the thargoids always pull you out of hyperspace and attack you.
if your ship uses Guarding tech will it affect your ship`s computer with a Virus @ a later date TBA.
Anyhoo Jesting all above.
Missiles. Because shooting fixed mc is hell. Especially piloting big (slow) ship. It requires much more "time on target".
Thanks for that. First I thought those new weapons could be a good idea. Now it seems they might really be pretty useless. Guess I can pack my stuff and fly home again.
I did hope for the multicannons being a viable support weapon for AX fight. Guess AXI is right that due to small size and low AP it will not be the case. Maybe it's going to be a littel upgrade to old AXI MC for decimating scouts? But as others sayd, we already have enough good weapons against scouts. And scouts are not immune against normal human weapons, so there is really no need to give us a weapon that can exceed the 4 experimental limits for scouts only.
So what would make those weapons more worthwhile for combating Thargoid Interceptors? Some ideas:
- bigger gunz (alll sizes 1-4 should be available for more customization)
- gimballs or seeker (make it moar eazy)
- higher AP (Interceptor damage!)
- better other stats (missile speed, better range, ...)
I am not sure if its fact yet, that new weapons will have base stats from regular weapon of the same type. Is this confirmed?
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IMHO, neither of what is being offered will make diddly squat difference fighting interceptors. The xeno scanner needs a buff and the existing weapons need gimballed versions and for solo players, the CZs need a few more NPCs who can put up a decent fight.
See reddit article I linked, it has everything there ... or in comments.
FDev stated that the new advanced weapons will have same stats as current, they will differ only in ammo synthesis - that's why it was possible to do this research before the weapons were actually released.
However, it can be changed in the future when they will finally see that those weapons are underperforming. And that will be because people will complain ... not some internal testing.
AXI isn't the only group that fights thargoids, just the loudest.
It isn't that I disagree. It seems both weapons will be shall we say, not that great. It will come down to preference for which weapon you will would like to end up not using.
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I believe this is the best strategy, then one weapon can be tested alongside another. Why miss out on something that should be available anyway ?
Right like your going to be able to tell fed pilots to join the empire side to balance it out and kill the independents...
There are going to be capital empire ships and cutters in the combat zone the feds won't be able to skip these targets...
There not going to back the empire faction... they will side with the Indis over empire... they done it in past CGs...
Politics allway gets in the way... as there are more fed players active than empire any way...
Jump ship to zende before the battle even starts... your zende rep is going to be higher if you took part in phase one, so CZ kill missions if active will pay more from the start on zende side...
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If we all work together against the common enemy ....... we can do this ..... the game must be a draw (match fixing unintended of course)