Plasma Accelerators on the Viper?

SirKiwi · Jan 3, 2015

Does anyone have these, and if you do, how good are they? They cost a lot of both money and power, so I want to get some impressions of them from the outside.

OnePercent · Jan 3, 2015

they are thee noob cannon of this game.

Poy · Jan 3, 2015

%OnePercent% said:
they are thee noob cannon of this game.

How ? and why ?

OnePercent · Jan 3, 2015

Poy said:
How ? and why ?

I mean in a sense when an Elite anaconda weilds one, You can barely hear and see that it is shooting you with one, by the time you see a pink ball of death bearing upon you it's too late and your UI vanishes with the Audio saying "eject eject eject" lol

SirKiwi · Jan 3, 2015

%OnePercent% said:
I mean in a sense when an Elite anaconda weilds one, You can barely hear and see that it is shooting you with one, by the time you see a pink ball of death bearing upon you it's too late and your UI vanishes with the Audio saying "eject eject eject" lol

Fffft, I know that feeling, which is why I wondered if they are as good on the viper as they are on those damned andacondas.

vonvonbraun · Jan 3, 2015

They are very slow, not suited for a dogfighter i think

Jordan Cobalt · Jan 3, 2015

I've never used one but they seem like they'd be a good shotgun type weapon, get real close behind someone and shove a few up their tailpipe. Anyone know how much the ammo costs?

vonvonbraun · Jan 3, 2015

Jordan Cobalt said:
I've never used one but they seem like they'd be a good shotgun type weapon, get real close behind someone and shove a few up their tailpipe. Anyone know how much the ammo costs?

They are a bit too slow to be compared to a shotgun

at the moment a shotgun is the rail gun

Remiel · Jan 3, 2015

%OnePercent% said:
I mean in a sense when an Elite anaconda weilds one, You can barely hear and see that it is shooting you with one, by the time you see a pink ball of death bearing upon you it's too late and your UI vanishes with the Audio saying "eject eject eject" lol

If you're standing still enough for him to hit you with one, you deserve it imo.

Poy · Jan 3, 2015

vonvonbraun said:
They are very slow, not suited for a dogfighter i think

If that's what you think you're missing out, coupled with a C2 beam laser on the opposite slot, this thing takes down any sub system in a matter of seconds !

Remiel said:
If you're standing still enough for him to hit you with one, you deserve it imo.

Indeed.

JonnyC0mbat · Jan 3, 2015

I was tempted to fit them on my viper until I saw the power requirement. You wouldn't have room for a lot else if you packed 2 of them

vonvonbraun · Jan 3, 2015

They are totally useless in pvp as they suck all your ppwer and you can shoot once in a lifetime

Cmdr Moritz · Jan 3, 2015

I managed to have a durable build(power wise) with 2x plasma and 2x gimballed cannons. But even with full pips in weapons your sustainable DPS drops dramatically compared to class 2 cannons. So, they proved useless despite their high power consumption and extreme ammo cost.

Derath · Jan 3, 2015

Railguns blow the PA's aways imo, much more accurate, very similar damage

vonvonbraun · Jan 3, 2015

Cmdr Moritz said:
I managed to have a durable build(power wise) with 2x plasma and 2x gimballed cannons. But even with full pips in weapons your sustainable DPS drops dramatically compared to class 2 cannons. So, they proved useless despite their high power consumption and extreme ammo cost.

This x1000

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Derath said:
Railguns blow the PA's aways imo, much more accurate, very similar damage

and much less energy requirement

Vampyre111 · Jan 3, 2015

Good day to you all,

I am a terrible shot. I couldn't hit the broadside of a brown dwarf. I don't suppoe they have a gimbaled version of rail guns for the aiming challenged?

Thank you.

fergal · Jan 3, 2015

I actually tried 2 today against an anaconda.
They raised my heat by about 30% when I shot.
No idea how much to lead the target, I missed about 10 times, the anaconda ended up hitting me with his, I escaped on 2% hull.

Would still like to know how much damage they would have done.

Nelson · Jan 3, 2015

Tried them myself tother day and hit powergrid issues for my fit...

But tbh the thing that doesnt work is its a low velocity weapon on a high velocity fighter.

De Rosa

Cmdr Moritz · Jan 3, 2015

Vampyre111 said:
Good day to you all,

I am a terrible shot. I couldn't hit the broadside of a brown dwarf. I don't suppoe they have a gimbaled version of rail guns for th eaiming challenged?

Thank you.

the NON gimballed version actually has a Tiny bit of gimballing. Good for sniping straight moving stuff.

It is a hidden feature that i can't explain why they implemented while the normal cannons don't have that despite their nearly identical muzzle velocity

Poy · Jan 3, 2015

You know what ? I just realised I made a video on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgdpdS5RZvQ