New AX guns are nice! (AXMC)

CMDR Dreamstate

CMDR Dreamstate
Ziljan said:
The Corvette does have better shields, but it definitely doesn't have better speed or agility. Shields count for very little vs Thargoids in any case. MRPs are arguably more important. And btw, I've killed dozens of Thargoids in my Conda and my Corvette, and the Conda is just laughably easier. So in that sense, the Corvette does suck. When we finally get C4s the effective DPS of the Conda and Corvette will both scale as 6.5 C2s. However...

The real issue with the Corvette is that it has too few C2+ hardpoints, and apart from the C4 mounts, it has pretty terrible convergence. The C4 and C3 mounts under the Conda have as-good-or-better convergence than the Corvette C4s, and the combined convergence of all Conda hardpoints is 4x tighter than the Corvette. Hell even for PVE, the Conda is a better DPSer in general with several optimal builds. Whereas the Corvette has maybe 1 or 2 builds that can compete with Conda level DPS. I've analyzed this for a year now, and I've finally just faced the facts. The Corvette grind was a complete waste of time.
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Yup.
 

CmdrZaratan

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CMDR Dreamstate said:
That place has had that problem before, I had to report it as a bug because the medium weapons and utilities never showed up there.

Looks like another bug report is needed.
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Blackmount is a high tech economy, and isn't supposed to have the large AX weapons (military economy only). Notrach Haderach or whatever it's called next to the first alien crash site is supposed to have them but didn't when I checked, so if any bug report needs logging it's there :)
 

Urazz

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sorcer3r said:
does the limit of 4 AX weapons still exist (except flak)?
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Yes, it's quite annoying as it is another way Frontier is artificially making the Thargoids harder than they need to be. I'm hoping the limit will get removed when even more varieties of Thargoids are released or we see more than one in a group more often.
 

Elprez

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Tassier said:
Ok I'm heading to HIP 14997 as soon as I've picked up my fuel scoop again...

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Confirmed they are at HIP 14997 Zelazny hub.
Class 3 missiles hold 128 instead of 64 (clip size 12 instead of 8).
Class 3 multicannon has 50% more DPS and 100% more armour piercing.

Time to go hunting :)
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Do they work on NPC's?
 

MUSKETEER

MUSKETEER
Yeah.. I solo Cyclops in 4-5 minutes... Basilisks are still hard though.. we killed one in a wing of 3 (2 Corvettes and Anaconda) + Cobra spectator... I lost one Corvette one of my wingmen lost two.

6 mln CR gain and 42 mln CR loss for me. Another thing off the list though ;)
 
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MUSKETEER

MUSKETEER
space voyager said:
Which ship? Also, can you please post your hull/shields?
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Corvette with 6k hull, 1.5k MJ bi-wave shields, 3 Large AX multicannons, 1 Medium AX Missle Rack, 1 Field Neutraliser, 1 Xeno Scanner, 1 AX Fighter

I use corvette because I already had it in my shipyard unused. But if you want to build new AX ship, go for Anaconda and you will be able to use 4 large AX weapons.

On low budget you can solo Thargoids in a Python. It takes about 5 minutes as well. But in a wing against Basilisk I would rather take Anaconda/Corvette (more hull/shields).
 
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