PvP No salt PVP: frag FAS vs Prismatic META FDL

[ALGOMATIC]

[video=youtube_share;7F3uTrwx9TY]https://youtu.be/7F3uTrwx9TY[/video]

 

[The Replicated Man]

Nice one!

Again out of rep

 

[EUS]

One thing that generally bothers me; how frags have become a viable weapon against shields.

 

[jasonbarron]

One thing that generally bothers me; how frags have become a viable weapon against shields.

Why does that bother you?

 

[EUS]

Being a jack of all trades, master of none, I just don't get it, a kinetic weapon destroying shields.

 

[Thedeathofsanic]

It makes sense. If you hit a million parts at once, wouldn't it be weaker.

 

[jasonbarron]

Being a jack of all trades, master of none, I just don't get it, a kinetic weapon destroying shields.

How about multis? Those have been pretty effective for a long time. At least with frags you have to get in close.

 

[EUS]

It makes sense. If you hit a million parts at once, wouldn't it be weaker.

Maybe, depends on what exactly the shield is, and what the frag pellets are.
Has the reg cannon become a viable weapon against shields as well?

 

[ALGOMATIC]

One thing that generally bothers me; how frags have become a viable weapon against shields.

First of all they can be engineered as incendiary which will render them as a thermal weapon.

Second, shields have thermal, kinetic and explosive damage points depends on how you engineered your resistance. With the current even spread, using kinetics against shields is just as viable as using a thermal weapon vs a stock shield. Basicaly, with engineering there is no difference between thermal or kinetic, shields can absorb all sort of damage types, same as with hull.

 

[EUS]

I've always been a fan of the cannon, maybe it's the visual when hitting the target.
Would cannons with thermal cascade be of any use vs a shield meta?

 

[Rinzler o7o7o7]

One thing that generally bothers me; how frags have become a viable weapon against shields.

Now that everyone runs shields and hull with equal resistances to every type of damage, a weapon's damage type no longer matters.

I've always been a fan of the cannon, maybe it's the visual when hitting the target.
Would cannons with thermal cascade be of any use vs a shield meta?

Thermal cascade cannons are still kinetic damage, not thermal damage. All they do is spike your opponent's heat up to a maximum of 97% temporarily.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Nicely done, always appreciate the vids Cmdr.

 

[Frenotx]

It will be interesting to see how things change if / when FDev ever addresses perma-boosting. The infinite ping-pong jousting seems pretty ubiquitous at this point.

 

[EUS]

It will be interesting to see how things change if / when FDev ever addresses perma-boosting. The infinite ping-pong jousting seems pretty ubiquitous at this point.

It will always be this way unless FD finally decides to increase the realism by a tiny bit, by buffing yaw.

 

[ALGOMATIC]

It will be interesting to see how things change if / when FDev ever addresses perma-boosting. The infinite ping-pong jousting seems pretty ubiquitous at this point.

It depends on the loadout, short range alpha weapons with reload times like PAs and frags are jousting weapons, unlike TOT weapons like rails, MCs and lasers.

 

[Krash]

It depends on the loadout, short range alpha weapons with reload times like PAs and frags are jousting weapons, unlike TOT weapons like rails, MCs and lasers.

I'm definitely doing something wrong. MCs and Lasers and I still end up in jousting matches somehow.

 

[jasonbarron]

It will be interesting to see how things change if / when FDev ever addresses perma-boosting. The infinite ping-pong jousting seems pretty ubiquitous at this point.

#addictedtoboosting

 

[Frenotx]

#addictedtoboosting

Most people are. It pushes the fight up to speeds where directional thrusters don't work as well, unless you're also boosting.

 

[ALGOMATIC]

Most people are. It pushes the fight up to speeds where directional thrusters don't work as well, unless you're also boosting.

They work very well in faoff because of velocity bleeding, also helps that you point your nose towards the opponent while keeping the movement vector in the direction of evasion, extremely helpful with alpha weapons.

 

[jasonbarron]

Most people are. It pushes the fight up to speeds where directional thrusters don't work as well, unless you're also boosting.

They work very well in faoff because of velocity bleeding, also helps that you point your nose towards the opponent while keeping the movement vector in the direction of evasion, extremely helpful with alpha weapons.

That's 99.9% of how I use it; swing that big booty around to keep on target.