Advanced Missile Racks - Devs, are they legit or not?

[Dragsham]

Ummm dumbfires are awesome.! G5 extra ammo and some nice experimentals mixed across 6 of em from a chieftain...fab dropship. And scraps vs npc pirates and bounty hunters too. So much so I only intended to basic engineer the ship. But now I've gone all out hehe.

 

[DemiserofD]

Can the advanced missile racks be engineered?

Yes, they can. They're one of two AX weapons that can be engineered. With G5 Sturdy, they're actually reasonably good against thargoids, though still not quite as good as Gauss, largely because of the very slow projectile speed, though also because they just do less damage, even post-engineering.

It's hidden under the hood, but when synthed for AX damage, they do just 30 damage instead of 50 like when using human ammo. That means that a G5 sturdy AMR does 12.5 DPS(including reloads), compared to around 16 for gauss.

There are some advantages, however. They take very little distro drain, for example, and generate much less heat than gauss. And while they're MUCH harder to hit with in normal circumstances, they do have splash to make up some of the difference.

 

[here_it_comes]

Can the advanced missile racks be engineered?

Just the same as a regular dumbfire rack.

Ummm dumbfires are awesome.! G5 extra ammo and some nice experimentals mixed across 6 of em from a chieftain...

Vanilla AMRs have more ammo (8/64) than G5 Ammo Cap dumbfires (16/32), while G5 Ammo Cap AMRs have 16/128 rockets . . . on the Class 1!

I prefer Rapid Fire AMR w/Penetrator, better for making use of the narrow ToT you often get with the rocket velocity of 750m/s.

o7