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... And now my Viper has a scan angle of 88°.
That. Is. Awesome.
That. Is. Awesome.
Nice! I'd be most eager to hear if this has an equally dramatic effect on gimbal firing arcs.
no, not on gimbals
but on my T9 it had an overly dramatic impact on how much ship scan data i can gather in supercruise, without having to turn my canopy into the direction of the selected ship.
if i get this right, 90° scan angle means that you can resolve targets left and right of your ship.
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I use fixed anyway. I wanted to make myself immune to chaff, so I gitted gudder.
Exactly. They barely need to be in front of me now.
Not disagreeing outright, but I'm gonna ask you if you're sure...I 'think' my long range modded sensors reduce gimbal arc compared to sensors I haven't modded at all...I might be wrong...
As for the arc, the default pov in Elite is 95* right (or thereabouts, someone correct me if I'm wrong)? So logically it means you can scan anything you can see on screen, wherever it is on screen.
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Do you have a cheap mining ship for sale?
I actually used said Viper to mine said bromellite.
Tell you what. Next time I log in I'll fit some throwaway guns for the sake of testing.
default scan angle is 30° (aka a 60° FoV)
at long-range grade 5 legacy, your worst outcome could be something like 18° which is about 4 times the diameter of the frag target circle.
but AFAIK gimbal has more to do with the targets heat signature then your own sensor scan angle.