A different view on gimballed guns.

[_Agamemnon_]

There's been a thousand threads, posts and views on gimballed guns.
They've been called everything from "a cheaters way to play the game", to "I would not survive five minutes without them".

My experience with them was more as if they were a part of the learning curve in the game.

I would not have survived five minutes without them when I started out.
Once it became far to easy to kill NPC's, (I have only been playing Solo so far) I went for the static lasers and multicannons.

Now I'm using four cannons in my Cobra and I curse the NPC's using gimballed weapons and think they are cheating using them. They still die.

 

[DeepFried]

Gimbals seem fairly well balanced to me, the higher cost and the half class penalty make up for the extra hit rate.

Don't get too attached to those cannons btw, the ammo count is wrong at the mo, it will be dramatically reduced soon.

 

[CATPAIN KIRK]

Gimbals seem fairly well balanced to me, the higher cost and the half class penalty make up for the extra hit rate.

Was there an announcement saying the would be half-classed? IIrc, it's possible to fit gimballed C3s into C4 hardpoints.

Or is class based on a logarithmic scale?

I thought it was just hardpoint class -1(?)

Anyhow - I think they certainly need to be tweaked - don't have strong feelings about them - they're nice to have for weapon convergence on the Cobras C2s, but I enjoy fixed weapons way better and don't feel at a disadvantage whilst using them.

 

[DeepFried]

Was there an announcement saying the would be half-classed? IIrc, it's possible to fit gimballed C3s into C4 hardpoints.

Or is class based on a logarithmic scale?

I thought it was just hardpoint class -1(?)

Sure well i've only used c1 gimbals in c2 hardpoints so i just assumed it was half classing.

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

it depends on the ship, in the larger vessels such as the anaconda the turn rate is so slow that it would be hard to hit anything without G class weapons.

 

[ciger]

Was there an announcement saying the would be half-classed? IIrc, it's possible to fit gimballed C3s into C4 hardpoints.

Or is class based on a logarithmic scale?

I thought it was just hardpoint class -1(?)

Anyhow - I think they certainly need to be tweaked - don't have strong feelings about them - they're nice to have for weapon convergence on the Cobras C2s, but I enjoy fixed weapons way better and don't feel at a disadvantage whilst using them.

this is exactly why i have gimballed lasers in my Cobras C2s, pretty much with fixed weapons you have to decide if you hit an enemy with left or right gun.