[rant] Stop equipping gimballed pulse laser fighters.

Gunther_Bladderburst

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Gimbal weapons are useful for people with crappy joysticks and beginners.

If this is the kind of stuff that enrages you, man you have a worry free life in these troubled times.
 

Chaparral

Chaparral
Erei said:
Yeah but those are guardian rail, which, if I'm not mistaken, only do thermal damage, and not as much damage as regular ones.

I heard good things about those rail tho. might test someday.
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Thermal only, but they hit every time. Take a look at DTEAs comparisons. The individual plasma rounds hit infrequently, whether from the Guardian or basic fighter. The fixed beams are always on target, but don't have the raw damage that the rails do. Multicannons are also per round, and not every round lands on target. In my opinion, the effective damage potential of the rails is superior due to their guaranteed hits.
 

Cyvanz

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CMDR DragonHorn said:
On one hand I agree with OP on how useless, literally everything other than Fixed Beam is on Fighters, especially with AI crew.

On the other hand, why should anyone care, since you can't engineer those fighters, they do tiny poop for damage, frankly, with any loadout, especially compared to your medium combat ship, that dishes out about 100 more DPS on average. So use whatever you like, it really doesn't make any difference at all.

So if one has a fighter hangar in his ship, that means this someone just thinks it's cool that some Fighter is flying alongside of them, and that's it. This hangar weights a lot and is utterly useless in any combat, even lowest PVE. Dunno where people getting idea that AI crew is accurate or good. It takes them eternity to kill even smallest ships, can't evade properly, can't shake aggro, and have extremely suboptimal flight routines. Like if target has 1-3% hull left, and fighter lost shield, it will start circling and regenerating shield instead of finishing off target, which usually means that enemy ship will regen it's own shield and they will take another eternity to duke it out 1v1... While I can rip them to pieces in same Taipan in under a minute, considering I can't either fly or shoot fixed properly. That, plus you have to babysit these NPCs so much if you not want them to just kill themselves left and right. That being said, I'm running with my Elite AI for a couple of years at least. Also to mention how many times my crewman almost got my invincible mothership (G5 Krait II) got almost killed by some regular pirate Pythons or freaking Asps... I really don't understand how is it even possible? No idea why some say AI crew is actually good or near accurate? Did you guys ever fought in SLF yourself to compare?

Sorry for the rant, I needed to vent, but all I said is still true.
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I love my Elite NPC. I usually give her a Gu-97 Geilid F fixed beam and she owns in that. I can tell her to go after stragglers or put DPS on a ship that's using chaff or just cover me in general and I'll be pleasantly surprised when I see a kill come in. The Gu-97 is so nimble she can run circles around Large and some medium ships keeping them busy , even dropping shields before I get to them myself.
Could I do better? No, cuz I SUCK at fixed beams so any extra DPS is worth it. Also the fact that she gets ANY kills at all /w a dinky fighter that has 15 shields and 15 armor is frankly amazing. A basic eagle has 4.8 x as much HP as her yet she takes them out with aplomb. I regularly pit her against vultures and Vipers and even Gunships and FDL's and she survives, maybe a little scorched if she didn't dodge fast enough, but the shields regen sooo quickly on the Gu-97. If she doesn't kill them they're at least softened up by the time I get to them.
Again .. with a dinky lil 30hp fighter, in HazRes and High CZ. For me she's a godsend.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
The (trident? Guardian plasma repeater fighter) is a decent option, as it's the only fighter to do absolute damage. This is as opposed to normal human plasma repeaters which are 50/50 kinetic and thermal damage (iirc)
 
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