Has anyone ever been hit with a huge cannon?!

hoppingdeth

hoppingdeth
What's it like??!

I was on Ed's Shipyard and I was looking over load outs for an Anaconda and I noticed the 'Huge Hardpoint' 4BF Cannon, and it got me to wondering what it would be like twatted by one of these in an unshielded ship!!! :eek:

Anyone?
 
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Dawnfire

Dawnfire
Well I don't know what it's like to be hit by one (not yet at least) but it takes out an anacondas power plant in about 3 hits or so, I love mine. :D
 

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sam445

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I have used a gimballed huge canon quite a bit on the FDL. It is impressively powerful. However once I learned how to use the huge plasma accelerator, that beauty just tore through everything.
 

Cmdr NXS Tripp

Cmdr NXS Tripp
Dawnfire said:
Well I don't know what it's like to be hit by one (not yet at least) but it takes out an anacondas power plant in about 3 hits or so, I love mine. :D
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Medium multicanons takes out the power plant in about 10 seconds of continuous fire so it seems they're about on par.
 

Commander Starcloak

Commander Starcloak
Yes, yes I have. This was months ago - I was in my Eagle and I got an assassination mission. "How hard can it be?" So I went and tracked the guy down. Turned out he was in an Elite Anaconda with a Rail Gun or a Plasma Accelerator on his Huge hardpoint (I forget which, it was all over so quickly). He immediately punched through my shields and completely knocked out my thrusters. I was sent into an uncontrollable spin that I couldn't get out of - my thrusters were permanently dead. The funny thing was, he must've used up limited ammo because I got my shields back up and his lasers and missiles after that couldn't get through my shields. So he couldn't kill me and I couldn't kill him.

Let's just say that ended with me hitting the big red button. This was before Wings so I couldn't call on any backup to take the guy out whilst I rebooted my modules.
 
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Roraima

R
Love the huge Plasma Acc (PA). Earlier today I was bounty hunting in a HI-RES with my 'conda. I usually hit 'em with the PA first - can 'one shot' ships like eagles and sidewinders sometimes. Then I change fire-group and give them an all out blast with the 3 C3 gimballed beams - great fun!
 

Roguey

Roguey
Myself, I feel that the C4 point on the Anc is a bit of a wasted opportunity. Any 'huge' weapon - the cannon or the plasma-acc are too slow (firing, projectile and ammo). So instead of missing, then I end up putting a pulse or burst there instead (I feel a hit is better than a miss). Being both ammo based sucks too - plasma acc shouldn't be (since its using energy). At-least this would make them slightly different.

Its a shame there wasnt like a 'huge' beam weapon or something (even if fixed)... like how the plasma acc were in the original elites. I know some people will say but those weapons are 'great' now but for me I dont find them useful. We could do with more C4 class weapons. After-al, the huge underside C4 point should be something to fear (since its a focus of the ship).
 
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Colonel North

Colonel North
hoppingdeth said:
What's it like??!

I was on Ed's Shipyard and I was looking over load outs for an Anaconda and I noticed the 'Huge Hardpoint' 4BF Cannon, and it got me to wondering what it would be like twatted by one of these in an unshielded ship!!! :eek:

Anyone?
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I'm sure there are plenty of benevolent commanders in open play who could help you with this. You probably wouldn't even have to ask...
 

Dawnfire

Dawnfire
MC's are good weapons don't get me wrong but for the huge hard point on a conda it seems a bit of a waste to me. Although I suppose if I ever switched my pulse lasers for an MC load out I might but more likely to an A4 Plasma Accelerator. In the end it's all about what you prefer some like damage, others no ammo issues and some like something else entirely all that matters is you are skilled with what you run. :D
 
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