G5, what else...
Plasma Accelarator's upcoming "kame hame ha buff" - Is it appropriate or a no go ?
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G5, what else...
thanks for sharing these numbers. i feel less bad with PAs now ... and that's with medium PAs with increased projectile speed on my DBS.
time to train with them!
PA's possess slow-moving ammo in nature. For that reason the G5 DD tuning generally deteriorates the hit rate of PA's without mods rising its bullet speed to adapt to the ship's trajectory. That makes striking comparatively harder and enables smaller highspeed crafts to simply outfly them, thus decreasing the chance of a successful hit tremendously.
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Have you ever tried to actually aim all 5 PAs with FDL on one non-barn-door target?
well, in space there should be close to no distance damage penalty, but there is. there also should be no maximum distance, but there is. projectile weapons loose energy (damage) over distance, and they have a maximum distance.
so, ED bullets behave like if they were fired in an atmosphere without G (straight line, but loosing speed). with that, the buff in projectile speed makes sense - you need to give the projectile more speed to fly further.
no G, but atmosphere also explains the maximum distance - you can only put that much energy into your projectiles.
we are just missing an acceleration of projectiles ... they should hit hardest at their medium range.
Yes, this was precisely my point. The tipping point from resistant boosters to heavy duty boosters (assuming thermal resist shield) is reached after only around 2 boosters.
So a min/maxed base shield FdL may have 2 resistant boosters and 4 heavy duty. A min/maxed Cutter or Corvette, 2 resistant boosters and 6 heavy duty.
As Crimson Kaim has said, a credible opponent in a FdL will not be hit often by plasma.
The Cutter or Corvette guys will be hit but will still possess immense Mj reserves even without their resistance mods (and even if they allocate some utilities to other items). They still have far more effective hp against 2.2.3 plasma than they would have had against 2.0 plasma.
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Plasma Slug special effect using fuel instead of ammo? So technically I could load my ship up with extra fuel tanks for extras shots?
Apparently not or he'd know half miss targets Cobra size and smaller most of the time.
That said, Eagles are a good way to practice using 5 PAs (or rails) at range. Anacondas... not so much.
i have no problem in my DBS using double plasma slug railguns or PA - but the DBS has a massive fueltank. i run out of MC ammo (small, corrosive, g3 increased ammo...) before running tank half empty.
I'm actually not sure about the amount taken - is it fixed? is it a percentage of fuel? does it depend on weapon size?
anyway, i guesstimate when you go into combat with a full tank, you should be able to fire 1 hour on a FDL or similar.
Previously the only time I ran out of fuel in the game was in my FDL on a Nav point hunting engineer goodies and forgot to check my fuel....
Thank goodness for the fuel rats!
Thank goodness for the fuel rats!
I can't wait to tell my friends (who play Elite casually/PvE) about this, as they are already afraid of NPC plasma accelerators.
Can't say I'm personally afraid of the NPCs though, in the current form, I'm dodging PA shots in combat zones with little effort in my big fat target of a Clipper.
If the plasma accelerators also get a relatively large projectile speed boost, that's a different story. (but that's not on the table yet)
Can't say I'm personally afraid of the NPCs though, in the current form, I'm dodging PA shots in combat zones with little effort in my big fat target of a Clipper.
If the plasma accelerators also get a relatively large projectile speed boost, that's a different story.
(but that's not on the table yet)I can't wait to tell my friends (who play Elite casually/PvE) about this, as they are already afraid of NPC plasma accelerators.
Can't say I'm personally afraid of the NPCs though, in the current form, I'm dodging PA shots in combat zones with little effort in my big fat target of a Clipper.
If the plasma accelerators also get a relatively large projectile speed boost, that's a different story.
They did get one with 2.1 iirc. Basically they're the speed c2 cannons used to be (which also received a velocity boost.)
The big question is what will this do for SLFs armed with plasma which has a signifcantly higher muzzle velocity.
Can't wait for a new bunch of "L@@k at my sweet Vulture-skills" Videos.