Best weapon for taking out subsystems?

[Malkevin]

Particularly drives.

Prior to 1.3 I remember multicannons used to shred subsystems to pieces, in the current version they feel like they've been tuned down a lot.


So whats the best weapon now?
Railguns?
Plasma?

 

[Allant Doran]

It might just be my imagination but Burst Lasers seem to be the best of the weapons you can have gimbals on. I'm still pretty sure Plasma Accelerators are the overall best, they're just way harder to aim.

 

[Quineloe]

Railguns are overall best, they don't destroy the ship around the module as much as PACs.

 

[Drink!]

2nd rail guns
Or a crew member that didn't get a holiday bonus.

 

[Kicks]

Jeff Goldblum with a laptop

 

[Deathstroke2000]

Gunship Master Race for destroying anything

 

[Malkevin]

What about for people with lousy aim?

 

[Kicks]

What about for people with lousy aim?

Gimballed beam laser?

 

[grae3107]

Gimbaled canons. They might have a slow food rates but to me they seem to be the most accurate of gimbaled weapons and the damage to systems is great. They are my preference anyway.

 

[hunvagy]

C3 and C4 cannons are quite devastating, and at point blank range the gimbal is pretty accurate. I think C3 can take out a conda FSD in two-three hits. Could have changed in 1.5 with armor packs, haven't had time to test yet.

 

[NavyBee]

C3 and C4 cannons are quite devastating, and at point blank range the gimbal is pretty accurate. I think C3 can take out a conda FSD in two-three hits.

... except if you mount these class 3G cannons on a Clipper. ;-)

Probably my aim is bad, but post-1.3 I find it easier to go for hull collapse with all weapons except rail guns, which still excel at taking out subsystems.