Ships Federal Assault ship (1.4 beta)

Tripfy

Tripfy
I had so much of hope for high quality upgrade from Vulture, since it's made by Core Dynamics.

This ship is ugly block of space dump truck, it has dumb hardpoints placement 1 large on top 1 at the bottom and 2 medium at bottom as well, so you're hiting enemies with 3 weapons...
I want a ship that I will enjoy flying and fighting in, 150 mil to just get the ship, true upgrade from Vulture with same manuverability and more hardpoints, higher class internals - and none of the upcoming ships, that will take months to be released, can make this happen.
 

PenguinActual

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Tripfy said:
I had so much of hope for high quality upgrade from Vulture, since it's made by Core Dynamics.

This ship is ugly block of space dump truck, it has dumb hardpoints placement 1 large on top 1 at the bottom and 2 medium at bottom as well, so you're hiting enemies with 3 weapons...
I want a ship that I will enjoy flying and fighting in, 150 mil to just get the ship, true upgrade from Vulture with same manuverability and more hardpoints, higher class internals - and none of the upcoming ships, that will take months to be released, can make this happen.
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Yeah I got bored of the Gunship real quick. It has two Small hardpoints on the top.... Why? The Dropship seems to have a good spread of weapons from my fights with them but I mean... The FAS and FGS just don't feel like they'll be much of a threat against a decent player for how expensive they are.
 

Ceekay

Ceekay
I agree that the weapon placement isn't ideal but it flies really well (quite acceptable on D thrusters) and it's got a power dist capable of running the weapons and a power plant for plenty of extra's so what's not to like, especially at 20 mil or so it's a lot cheaper, faster (around 250 m/s A thruster) and more agile than a Python.
I just bought a FDL and this would give it a run for it's money (or mine ;)), similar speed and agility, weapon DPS and better range, too early to comment on shields but they seem pretty solid even with D and several boosters, I reckon it's a little more multi-role than an FDL and remember it'll take some time for optimum load-outs to form but I'll be buying one once we're out of Beta.
 

Mephane

Mephane
Tripfy said:
I want a ship that I will enjoy flying and fighting in, 150 mil to just get the ship, true upgrade from Vulture with same manuverability and more hardpoints, higher class internals - and none of the upcoming ships, that will take months to be released, can make this happen.
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Why should there be an unmitigated upgrade from the Vulture anyway? It is already so good, if you just took its weaknesses and made a ship that improves in these areas, and keeps the rest the same, it would make the Vulture obsolete, too, and just shift the "top tier" of ships further upward. In other words: power creep.

But honestly, the Assault Ship already IS a direct upgrade from the Vulture. It is not better in every regard (shields, agility) but in enough ways that I would expect it to replace the Vulture as the de facto "endgame combat ship".
 

Kazacy

Kazacy
I have life extension pass but i don't have the free time and maybe rank to try myself the Federal Assault Ship. My question is how good is this ship for ramming? I have a Clipper right now and it's awesome for ramming/take down the shields of enemy ships very fast. If it's very good at this maybe it's worth to get the fed rank for this ship.
PS also what rank do you need for this? At the moment i have petty officer with feds and baron with empire.
 

Alex J

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I'm not a beta tester. I would like some more experiences of you beta commanders about this ship and the gunship. I think I might get myself a FAS ... agility combined with decent hardpoints sounds fine to me ... I 've never liked the Python, so my main combat ships are Anaconda, Vulture and FDL. I hope shields of FAS are at least comparable with Clipper's.
 

Ceekay

Ceekay
It'd be a hard one to call as they're quite different ships, the Clipper is significantly faster both max and boosted speed but the FAS's agility isn't far off a Vulture, the FAS weapon placement is much better (I reckon it's best with fixed).
Even with a 6D power plant the FAS and the Clipper have enough power for weapons and shield boosters (for SCB's you'll need to upgrade), on paper the Clippers shields are much better but the FAS is a smaller more agile target.

The FAS'd make a reasonable cargo hauler but the Clipper has double the cargo capacity and similar range, the FAS AFAIK can land on medium pads the Clipper can't, if you like flying the Vulture you'll really like the FAS, more weapon choices and more power!

Ship sizes, think of the FAS as a cut down FDS so I reckon it's not much bigger than a Vulture as you can see below the Clipper's a bit of a beast!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=146710

Clipper

http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_...b1b040404044n0503030202242h.AwRj4yrI.Aw18aQ==

FAS

http://coriolis.io/outfit/federal_a...044d040302242h.Iw18cQ==.IwBj4yNI?bn=FAS basic

Just noticed you have an Anaconda so I reckon you could easily afford both!
 
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