Panther Clipper Rear Hardpoints phasing issue.

[Shurimal]

Turret only slots. Did you not pay attention?

They're not limited to turrets only in preview. But maybe they will be at release?

Even then, turrets have forward-only fire mode which makes them basically fixed weapons...

 

[Tifu]

For supposedly the largest lumbering trading ship, an amazing proportion of the discussion about it is about guns

A player new to ED might think the Panther MK2 is actually a combat ship tsk tsk

 

[zimms]

I think the preengineered Stellar version should come with the Phasing Sequence experimental effect on those hardpoints.

 

[IstvaanDCIV]

For supposedly the largest lumbering trading ship, an amazing proportion of the discussion about it is about guns

A player new to ED might think the Panther MK2 is actually a combat ship tsk tsk

Given the amount of hardpoints and the apparent nimbleness for a ship of its size, I'm wondering if the PC2 could be a viable sleeper combat build/Q-ship.

 

[O'Roarke]

The real fix to this is to prevent the relevant hardpoints from firing when turret weapon mode is in "forward fire".
Pretty sure it already does that when gimballed or tracking? -If not, they should!

 

[nemolomen]

The twin deck L hardpoints in the Anaconda shoot through the cockpit (in fact many ships do that) so the problem is endemic.

and not going to be "fixed", obvs...

 

[Inscydeus]

Just put healing beams on them. Self healing ship! Ez.

Hopefully they'll add one more that fires at the hull then we can have one to heal, one to cool us down, one to warm us up and a few that actually fire at the enemy.

 

[PiLhEaD]

This is a cute spot. But. I couldn't care less.

Not least as a) I'll be using turrets b) I never fly in third person and c) I reallly don't worry about such silly and irrelevant minutiae. FDev's easiest and most sensible solution is to do nothing.

Pew pew!! Everything is fabulous! Hurrah!

 

[PiLhEaD]

With the hull mass & core module weight, stripping the guns probably gets 0.25 Ly extra...

Rubbish! I've done the maths and its easily 0.25167 Ly extra.... you noob!! Get gud!!

 

[Hedganian]

Altering the turret/gimbal arc of fire so that it doesn't intersect any part of the ship shouldn't be too hard, but FDev won't do it.

Checking to see if a gun barrel and cargo scoop occupy the same space at the same time shouldn't have been hard either, but just check out your conda next time you're in it....

FDev don't care about things like that.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

A player new to ED might think the Panther MK2 is actually a combat ship tsk tsk

Not unreasonable given its role in FE2/FFE - sure, it could carry a lot of payload, but back then that meant "a ridiculous amount of firepower and still 500-800t left over for cargo and passengers"

ED doesn't really have a need for the "armed trader" archetype of the previous games, though.

 

[Montague]

If they want to sell me arx, this isn't the way to do it. I hope they fix it. If not, three months fly by really fast at my age. I can put up with defects if I pay in credits.