I am planning putting an emissive weapon on my ship to amplify the signature of opponent. Is the emissive pulse better than the emissive multicannon? It seems like the multicannon will need ammo and synthesis at times while the pulse doesn't need that. There is a small DPS drop with the pulse, but I mainly need it for the effect (using in a c1 slot). Am I missing anything? Why are emissive multicannons even a thing at all? Isn't a pulse emissive weapon much better?
I run an all laser python (ish) and picked the Pulse Disruptor laser from Felicia Winters as it has strikes directly against a module provide a chance to make that specific module malfunction. This effect is similar to Scramble Spectrum except it doesn't select a random module and instead if the chance is a succcess, malfunctions the module the weapon directly struck. The Pulse Disruptor weapons effect is also on a separate cool down from Scramble Spectrum so you can more frequently malfunction a target.
I then engineer that Pulse Disruptor with emissive, doubling up on effects on that single hardpoint.
As Northpin said above, a turret is extremely useful, especially when considering no ammo usage. Turrets however do require a bit of understanding to use effectively. Regardless if you use a fixed, gimbal or turreted variant; choosing whether to use a laser or a multi-cannon is going to be dependent on the rest of your weapons loadout. You will want to pick whatever compliments the rest of the loadout best.
For turrets, the "easiest" use case for them is to ensure the right HUD ship panel has turret mode to "target only" and your turret is in the fire group you want it used in. A turret will only stop firing if the fire group is changed to something the turret is not present in at all or if you drop target lock and re-acquire. Turrets in Fire At Will will only shoot at targets who are already hostile and can not be manually triggered to fire - you have to use another weapons system first to aggress non-hostile enemies with them.
I then engineer that Pulse Disruptor with emissive, doubling up on effects on that single hardpoint.
As Northpin said above, a turret is extremely useful, especially when considering no ammo usage. Turrets however do require a bit of understanding to use effectively. Regardless if you use a fixed, gimbal or turreted variant; choosing whether to use a laser or a multi-cannon is going to be dependent on the rest of your weapons loadout. You will want to pick whatever compliments the rest of the loadout best.
For turrets, the "easiest" use case for them is to ensure the right HUD ship panel has turret mode to "target only" and your turret is in the fire group you want it used in. A turret will only stop firing if the fire group is changed to something the turret is not present in at all or if you drop target lock and re-acquire. Turrets in Fire At Will will only shoot at targets who are already hostile and can not be manually triggered to fire - you have to use another weapons system first to aggress non-hostile enemies with them.
Thanks for the replies. I'm ditching my emissive multicannon, that's for sure. What of waste of materials that was. Tired of synthing ammo for it in combat zones. I was hoping there was some kind of benefit using the multicannon, but I doubt there really is one. I'll be slapping an emissive pulse laser on there from now on and when I can, I'll be getting the disruptor!
Yes, this ^
Turrets do not wobble and they're able to reliably hit targets close to 5 km away
Turrets also have lower power/pd requirements
Dont use gimbals and long range, the wobble is atrocious...