Ship Builds & Load Outs Huge cannon effectiveness

[Stardus]

I have outfitted my FDL with fixed and gimbal cannons. Both of their performance are sorely disappointing...

The time wasted aiming and firing the cannon, similar damage can be dealt with the 4 medium pulse with out missing. It seems that going for a large weapon instead of the huge cannon is just a better choice.

Is the cannon suppose to be that unreliable?

 

[bazzaman]

Try gimballed multicannons, they more or less keep firing at target as long as they're in view. I prefer gimballed beams for taking out shields. This is the lazy man loadout, especially against more nimble ships.

I tried fixed cannons because they show higher dmg on paper but I rarely hit my target and when I did have them in my crosshairs the damn thing wouldn't fire.

 

[Stardus]

Sadly there are only 3 choices for huge hard points. Fix PA, fixed cannon and the gimbal cannon. I am using the huge gimbal cannon, getting mixed results with it.

 

[Synther]

I've noticed the gimbal cannon is less useful in 1.3 thanks to the AI being resistant to exposing their power plant spot. It would be nice if the gimbal worked a little better.