There is plasma variants for condor, taipain and the imperial basking fighter, I did some testing myself with NPC crew but I cannot decern if they are actually doing anything at all In comparison to beam, not to mention listed stats say that they have the lowest DPS of all the fighters. are they useful, or target practice?
How effective are the plasma fighter variants really
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They are my favourites. No need for me to think about whether I need the fighter in the early part of a fight against shields or later against hull. The fighter can just keep blatting away at whatever seems to it like a good idea. I like to minimise micro-management in games.
I find them along with fixed MC condor to be quite decent against large slow targets but nearly useless against small fast ones. Fixed beam and fixed pulse seem extremely effect on the small targets and still pretty effect on the large ones. I use all variants but generally get the best results overall with a fixed beam taipan.
I've found that even Elite NPS SLF pilots are useless with aiming trailing/leading weapons, no matter how lethal they are with line of sight weapons.
They miss a alot. Much more than the fixed multicannons ones.
So i usually use F-63 condor with fixed multicannons if i play a ship heavy on lasers. They are very good on hulls, but they cant scratch shields at all.
Or i use a fixed pulse lasers Taipan/Gu97 with PDT for a more balanced usage.
And i usually have them focusing my target, but not always. Sometimes i just use the SLF to peel of an attacker.
So i usually use F-63 condor with fixed multicannons if i play a ship heavy on lasers. They are very good on hulls, but they cant scratch shields at all.
Or i use a fixed pulse lasers Taipan/Gu97 with PDT for a more balanced usage.
And i usually have them focusing my target, but not always. Sometimes i just use the SLF to peel of an attacker.
Nope. Contrary to popular belief, the plasma repeater fighter weapons system is thermal, not absolute. Basically, it's a multicannon which does thermal, not kinetic damage.
The only fighter with absolute damage is the Guardian Trident.
The plasma SLF weapon is 100% thermal? Thats garbage then. Its weaker than a laser and misses alot. Is there anything good about it then? Sounds like the worst of both worlds if what you say is true.
I managed to destroy an FGS in my Rogue F Taipan, all by myself, last night (while my Corvette played silly games with an Anaconda).
No complaints, at all, about the DPS.
I'll grab screenshots later.
Plasma Accelerator (main ship weapon system) is 60% absolute, 20% kinetic and 20% thermal.
Not sure about the plasma repeaters used by SLF, but they do seem to do decent damage when they hit hulls - that is against large ships. It would be rather weird if their damage is 100% thermal
This question has been asked before. SLF plasma repeater has 50% thermal and 50% kinetic damage unlike the mother ship. Here are the references:
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SLF Damage Partition Analysis | Canonn Research Group
1. Executive Summary The focus of this study is the detailed analysis of Ship Launched Fighter (SLF) damage partitions, namely the analysis of damage characteristics of Anti-Xeno (AX) fighters. This study draws on the analysis of AX weapon damage partitions that was recently conducted [1]. The...
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SLF Plasma Repeater Damage Type.
Hi all. I've been scouring the web to try and determine the properties of the SLF Plasma Repeater, but I haven't been able to find anything substantial, let alone anything concrete, about the weapon's damage type. I was hoping someone (perhaps a dev) could state whether the weapon is A)...
Ah, cool. Still, that's not Absolute damage, unlike the Trident which is traditional Absolute damage.This question has been asked before. SLF plasma repeater has 50% thermal and 50% kinetic damage unlike the mother ship. Here are the references:
SLF Damage Partition Analysis | Canonn Research Group
1. Executive Summary The focus of this study is the detailed analysis of Ship Launched Fighter (SLF) damage partitions, namely the analysis of damage characteristics of Anti-Xeno (AX) fighters. This study draws on the analysis of AX weapon damage partitions that was recently conducted [1]. The...
SLF Plasma Repeater Damage Type.
Hi all. I've been scouring the web to try and determine the properties of the SLF Plasma Repeater, but I haven't been able to find anything substantial, let alone anything concrete, about the weapon's damage type. I was hoping someone (perhaps a dev) could state whether the weapon is A)...
... but it can't all be right. I'm a bit confused. Maybe I'll try that Trident.
Trident is definitely absolute. But that's not a plasma repeater. I can't remember the designation atm.
plasma autocannons.
Huh, so in summary
Human plasma ships are useless.
if you want to do plasma, get the trident guardian fighter instead.
Human plasma ships are useless.
if you want to do plasma, get the trident guardian fighter instead.