Question about NPC Corvettes.

[Stealthie]

In a nutshell, has anybody ever seen an NPC Corvette using it's C4 weapons to good effect?

I was pondering this during last week's CG.
I must've destroyed more than 100 NPC 'vettes, many of them ranked Elite, and destroying them was never anything except easy.

I don't think I've ever actually noticed an NPC 'vette obviously firing it's C4 weapons.
They always seem to rely on PAs, fired from underneath them somewhere.
If it's a single shot it is, presumably, from the C3 ventral hardpoint or if it's a pair of shots they are, I assume, from the C2 pectoral hardpoints.

Or, are those shots coming from the C4 hardpoints but just don't appear to be coming from the top of the ship?


I find myself thinking, I'd like to go up against another 'vette that's equipped the same as mine, and uses all it's weapons effectively, just to see how much damage they could really do.

 

[krylite]

I hadn't been doing CG's lately, but from doing a bunch of assasinate pirate lord missions, I'd noticed the corvettes are using different weapons with the experimental effects that eventually whittle down my cutter's shields if prolonged in range. Some pirate lord cutters are also using C4 front beams I'd noticed.

 

[biohazard15]

Pirate lords from assassination missions use twin C4 PAs on their Vettes. Not that they're effective against engineered ship...

 

[Riverside]

In a nutshell, has anybody ever seen an NPC Corvette using it's C4 weapons to good effect?

I was pondering this during last week's CG.
I must've destroyed more than 100 NPC 'vettes, many of them ranked Elite, and destroying them was never anything except easy.

I don't think I've ever actually noticed an NPC 'vette obviously firing it's C4 weapons.
They always seem to rely on PAs, fired from underneath them somewhere.
If it's a single shot it is, presumably, from the C3 ventral hardpoint or if it's a pair of shots they are, I assume, from the C2 pectoral hardpoints.

Or, are those shots coming from the C4 hardpoints but just don't appear to be coming from the top of the ship?


I find myself thinking, I'd like to go up against another 'vette that's equipped the same as mine, and uses all it's weapons effectively, just to see how much damage they could really do.

With the pirate lord missions I know what you mean, and they seem easier to kill than the regular Elite Anacondas that interdict me on a regular basis (I hate that mechanism). I've had missions where the finale was a Corvette (mission target) winged up with a Deadly Conda (I interdicted the target before killing all four henchmen) and the conda was a much more dangerous opponent.

However I've been torn up by Corvettes seemingly using multi-cannons in the C4 slots (I could be wrong, I was busy at the time), so there may be different builds for different scenarios, or it may be that they don't use the multis until your shields are down.

 

[Ddraig]

Was in the CG as well.
I saw them using Huge cannons. And since I use them too, I noticed the sound they made when firing so I know they did. Are they effective? No. Not at all, the AI does not know how to use the ship properly, so it rarely can face you and fire all the HPs at you, don't fly backwards or anything to retain a minimum time to target either.
Same thing with plasmas, though they carry only a single huge plasma, not two.

 

[Cupsuki]

They do fire class 4 PA's (I learned that while trying to ram one) but I'm pretty sure they haven't updated the scripts for them to include the new weapons like multis and lasers so most of the time they won't be able to line up their shot

 

[EvoBeardy]

*raises hand* Also got shot by single huge PAs on Corvettes at recent CZ CG.

Can 100% attest to them visually coming from the top Huge Hardpoints as well, one I really noticed was probably one of the longest fights I've had against an NPC.

Can't say for the rest as it was a pew-pew light show otherwise, watching two Corvettes ram each other was one of the highlights of that CG.
All the greens suddenly vanishing off the radar and being mullered by 7 red triangles was up there, but not as fun as seeing two Vettes Destruction Derby eachother.

 

[Guyperson]

I see NPC corvettes using cannons in the huge hardpoints a lot of the time. They definitely do fire them but cannons lack any sort of presence to let you know they're being used. The muzzle flash is nigh imperceptible and the projectile and gas trail hardly stand out against the background at all.

 

[nathanc213]

I saw plenty of vettes at the latest CG using both of their huge PAs, however it looks like their distributor dies half way through so they could only fire 1 afterwards.

Vettes in CZs are probably one of the easiest ships to kill.