So what PvP weapon loadout do they use nowadays?

[Mimix]

Greetings,

As the title says, what is the most popular/effective weapon loadout people in open use nowadays? I have an Anaconda with one huge and two large beam lasers engineered to G5 efficiency and oversized experimental effect. In the remaining large, two medium and two small hardpoints I have overcharged multis with an autoloader effect. Thanks to an engineered power distributor, I can comfortably fire all my hardpoints for 9 seconds. This loadout has proven to be very effective in both PvP and PvE, though it quickly loses its effectiveness after a few kilometres.

What ship and hardpoint loadout do you use in PvP? Would you recommend any changes to my loadout - to be honest I didn't really put in much research when I was working on it, so maybe there are better solutions out there.

 

[Bigmaec]

First: don't use an Anaconda if you aren't Harry Potter.
Second: meta seems to have switched a bit to gimballed frag Mambas.
Plasma Accelerators + Rail combos are also viable, as are gimballed multis.
Shield tanks sadly rule.

 

[Mimix]

First: don't use an Anaconda if you aren't Harry Potter.

I though that guy uses an Imperial Cutter. At least the last time I saw him.

 

[Bigmaec]

I though that guy uses an Imperial Cutter. At least the last time I saw him.

Harry uses whatever he likes. He has a certain phasing pulse Conda build that works if you're good FAoff with fixed. Otherwise the Conda is outclassed in PvP except as a long range ganking boat (distant ganks I'm looking at you...)

 

[DNA-Decay]

I saw him in a Mamba at Palin’s when it was under attack from Thatgoids.

Mental day.
Heaps of CMDRs. There was a live link to the stream but some mod got all “let’s not publicise Potter” when in fact it was an awesome love event.
Gankers and Thargoids and idiots like me.
I got nuked in my DBX but I got out in my SRV drove 8 klicks up the hill and got shots on Potter while he was docked.

 

[NeilF]

First: don't use an Anaconda if you aren't Harry Potter.
Second: meta seems to have switched a bit to gimballed frag Mambas.
Plasma Accelerators + Rail combos are also viable, as are gimballed multis.
Shield tanks sadly rule.

Am I alone looking back at (PvP in) Alpha/Beta/Initial Release days, where the mechanics were more straight forward, certainly with less paper-scissor-stone-spock-lizard magic spell side effects, and thinking (more) fondly of combat back then?

 

[Bigmaec]

Am I alone looking back at (PvP in) Alpha/Beta/Initial Release days, where the mechanics were more straight forward, certainly with less paper-scissor-stone-spock-lizard magic spell side effects, and thinking (more) fondly of combat back then?

Propably no, I didn't join until horizons / the Thargoids, so I can't compare, but the current paper-scissor-stone situation is annoying a lot of players I guess.

 

[NeilF]

Propably no, I didn't join until horizons / the Thargoids, so I can't compare, but the current paper-scissor-stone situation is annoying a lot of players I guess.

It's the immense power creap needlessly thrown into Engineering, along with questionable magic spell weapon side effects too I guess, which has undermined PvP and PvE TBH...

 

[Rick6549]

I use this https://s.orbis.zone/55xw

 

[Mimix]

I use this https://s.orbis.zone/55xw

Combat Beluga? That's... interesting.

 

[gorankar]

Ahh, the Omega Thwack Combat Beluga. If you don't see it for what it is, you get thwacked.
If you do see it for what it is, and you can deal a decent amount of absolute damage, it has to run or die.

 

[Rick6549]

Ahh, the Omega Thwack Combat Beluga. If you don't see it for what it is, you get thwacked.
If you do see it for what it is, and you can deal a decent amount of absolute damage, it has to run or die.

Ehhhh not really