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Mephane

Mephane
quickr said:
I've recently bought it and fell in love instantly. Great looking ship with amazing sound when boosting. It requires constant power management and it's not as maneuverable as vulture but it's much more fun to fly in.

Still struggling with loadout though. I'm currently using this one.

Any advice?
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I would put a class 3 pulse laser in the huge hardpoint. :)
 

Dariiem

D
quickr said:
I've recently bought it and fell in love instantly. Great looking ship with amazing sound when boosting. It requires constant power management and it's not as maneuverable as vulture but it's much more fun to fly in.

Still struggling with loadout though. I'm currently using this one.

Any advice?
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As i posted before, try this loadout: http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=70O,A725CD5CD5CD5CD01Q01Q3we0Wg0Wg,2-7_7_6Q6Q9Y6Q5A,7Sk4_w9tQ5Bk0nE

Its not intended for farming, but im having a blast using it :)
 

vindicator jones

vindicator jones
This is the best Class 4PA build I have tested with. You can swap out the Second SCB with a larger fuel scoop if traveling multiple systems. and ditch the heatsink launcher for another chaff if you prefer. This build has a ton of shielding.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la....CwBhrEEYZgmBiQGZnGEA?bn=Basic FDL CLASS 4 PA

Pulse lasers are your best friend on the FDL...

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And this one has even more shielding with a drop in range for the KWS.. which personally I prefer as I dont start firing unless I am very close anyway.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la...CwBhrEEYZgmBiQGZnGEA?bn=Basic FDL CLASS 4 PA2
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
quickr said:
I've recently bought it and fell in love instantly. Great looking ship with amazing sound when boosting. It requires constant power management and it's not as maneuverable as vulture but it's much more fun to fly in.

Still struggling with loadout though. I'm currently using this one.

Any advice?
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You have three empty utility shots throw A-rated kws, cargo and wake scanners in there. Have them prioritised over weapons and disabled by default.
 

vindicator jones

vindicator jones
quickr said:
Turning off weapons to charge SCB is not smart when PvP-ing. Already tried it with vulture, didn't end well for me :D

I'll try this one for now, see how it goes. ;)
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You need to boost away, then recharge then head back in.. I do this in PVP quite often. Or I will have a button designated to a weapon that turns it on or off.
 

Kestril

Kestril
So I just loaded up with the class 4 plasma accelerator. It is amazing.

running 4 gimbaled multicannons and the class 4 plasma. Got only shield booster, but most of the slots are heatsinks so I can go stealth against players when the shields go down. Still, I'm loving this build the multicannons shred the small stuff and the plasma deals with the large stuff. Plus aiming the plasma accelerator after working with the fixed cannon for so long is a breeze! I even bagged two player (winged) vultures out by the community goal a few days ago. That's what they get for siding with emperor's dawn.
 
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quickr

quickr
I really want to give it a chance, I really want to like it, but so far it's only been a struggle.

Just can't find suitable weapon setup for it. Placement of that huge hardpoint is terrible, power consumption of PA is enormous and I can't hit jack s*** with it or class 4 canon.
 

Space Pigeon

Space Pigeon
Try to find a working setup without the class 4 weapon first I guess. I've had the same issue and figured that I might as well use a class 3 for the time being.

This is what I'm using right now: http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la...204044a5d5d2o66.Iw18QDCQ.CwBhrEEYZgmBiQGZnGEA
(have to disable 1 of the rail guns to use SCB)

If I go out for some RES bounty hunting I usually change everything for gimballed lasers, slap on a warrant scanner and remove stuff I don't need (heat sinks): http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la...604044a5d5d2o66.Iw18QDCQ.CwBhrEEYZgmBiQGZnGEA

The priorities aren't really optimised yet. But it works for me.
 

Ceekay

Ceekay
quickr said:
I really want to give it a chance, I really want to like it, but so far it's only been a struggle.

Just can't find suitable weapon setup for it. Placement of that huge hardpoint is terrible, power consumption of PA is enormous and I can't hit jack s*** with it or class 4 canon.
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Same here tried a lot of options in Beta but the class 4 weps are only suitable for bigggg! targets, currently flying a pulse laser loadout that can fire almost continuously and has plenty of power headroom for SCB's better shields etc

http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la...0303242h.AwRj4yrI.Aw18cCMxA===?bn=FDL basic L
 

piercehead

piercehead

Ceekay

Ceekay
Small beam turrets have the same DPS as medium pulse, similar power drain but half the weight and track small targets better, if you want to use all weapons together you need to limit the power requirements, as a 6A power dist will run 3 MW weapon fire, do the math ;) , m-cannons in the non turret positions also works well but you'll soon run out of ammo.. so back to lasers.

You can either have long firing duration with lighter weapons or shorter duration with heavier but you still have just 3 MW to play with whatever approach you choose, remember "ye cannae change the laws o' physics" LOL

Seriously though I've tried a lot of FDL builds in Beta's and the PA's and cannon's are great as long as you can find a big enough target to hit but you waste a huge amount of time trying to line up a target but once it starts maneuvering... switch to lasers or m-cannons if you want to get a kill in a sensible time frame
 

Adeptus Kaze

Adeptus Kaze
vindicator jones said:
This is the best Class 4PA build I have tested with. You can swap out the Second SCB with a larger fuel scoop if traveling multiple systems. and ditch the heatsink launcher for another chaff if you prefer. This build has a ton of shielding.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la....CwBhrEEYZgmBiQGZnGEA?bn=Basic FDL CLASS 4 PA

Pulse lasers are your best friend on the FDL...

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And this one has even more shielding with a drop in range for the KWS.. which personally I prefer as I dont start firing unless I am very close anyway.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_la...CwBhrEEYZgmBiQGZnGEA?bn=Basic FDL CLASS 4 PA2
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I don't know why it took me so long to really analyze these. Thanks to these builds I have improved the 'Patience and Time'; Thank You! :cool:
(apparently I could have had a Shield Booster all along, and just didn't realize it...) :eek:

I notice that You go with a Class D sensor suite. I feel kind of blind without my Class A's, since they let me pick and choose my battles. What was your logic in going with the lighter sensors? :S

kaze
 
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Jackie McMackie

Jackie McMackie
Almost collected all the ships, and just bought me one of these babies and outfitted her, I can't believe I used to think it was ugly!

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