I am in total agreement with all of these suggestions.
All Human AX Weapons need to leave the Experimental Weapons list and get their number limitations removed. They should have never had a number limit.
Precisely. Well written.
Without using Cold Orbiting, while using FA ON + down thrusters + heatsinks to lower the target lock and damage, you can still somewhat "face tank" all Interceptors, including Hydra, but it is a very high-damage-receiving and risky technique that really only works when you can land for repairs, because you have to do it every time you destroy a heart. You have to be fast and cannot make mistakes or the next screen is the Rebuy screen.
I never told you what to do. I just said that with a different ship build, hunters are a very easy target.
AX rockets.
Putting aside that this is straying from the Glaive discussion a little, I could achieve a semblance of cold orbiting with FA on that could evade most shots from an interceptor without receiving very significant damage in return.
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Haven't tried an Enhanced AX loadout against a Hydra yet (mostly due to lack of motivation to do so), but I'd imagine several rounds of Premium Ammo and a healthy dose of patience would be required.
Number of total thargoid kills was added to the commander stats in the codex for update 15, no need to rely on dodgy Inara any more (unless you want an inaccurate breakdown).
Avoiding damage just requires a low temperature (heatsinks) and any sort of movement. You don't need to orbit (fly in circles around) an interceptor to take a heart; cyclops/basilisk/medusa are almost laughably fragile requiring only 4/5 direct hits max. Hydra is the only one that puts up a challenge, but in the AX CZs the hard part is usually keeping its attention rather than applying the damage.
The term 'spicey' is brought up frequently encounters with glaives noted but above all we 'haul on'.
I've been able to take out several in a planetary CZ but lost my Guardian weapons when they first turned up and had to repair.
I still don't think we're using the AX weapons correctly.
Sirius are modified Normal AX Missiles. Same speed, but more damage.
Then I understood differently. It seemed that way though.
Of course. A specialized build is always more efficient.
No. Besides the obvious Glaive's rebalance, I do not want for FDev to negate the player's time, that was wasted unlocking Guardian Modules, through a grind system they have implemented, to now make the Guardian modules obsolete in many situations.
Of course they are !! And ?...
It is not obvious until you practice a lot. But you will always get more damage than with FA OFF.
But the discussion steered to that face-tanking talk. That is why I made that comment.
It does. IMHO, the Krait has less efficient vertical thrusters (and simply mediocre lateral ones) than the Alliance AX ships. Therefore, one needs to better control the distance with throttle, boosting perpendicularly more often to avoid stalling and risking more damage.
Practice, practice...
I was able to solo Interceptors with Gauss / Chieftain including Basilisk, but it took a lot of practice, joystick input curves and the battles were lenghty.
The devs don't have that much insight on how the gameplay ends up working. The Cyclops was probably intented to be raid boss style ultimate PvE challenge that was supposed to be taken on as a wing. Then when people started managing it by themselves quite easily, they made new variants with bigger numbers. It's been suggested that the Thargoids not hitting you when you are cold and moving laterally was just a happy accident and the cold orbit was emergent gamplay. Before that was common, the standard solo tactic was the kind of boom and zoom already described in this thread. Don't know if FDev even predicted that.
Kinda why I began using them in the first place. Easier to use and I found them a lot more fun that the - imo - stupid way Gauss cannons and railguns behave where you not only need pinpoint accuracy, but the shot cannot be held after charging it up.
Yeah. I agree. Both Gauss and Rails always irritated me a bit. Specifically the shot delay.
I always thought it should be possible to hold them at maximum charge and release when ready, with the heat building up the longer you wait for. I even think they should have a mod to allow them to be discharged earlier for lower damage/heat as a trade off.
