Viper mk 3 builds

bladebss

bladebss
I love the viper and i have since i first flew one back in pre release beta.
Any way,

I have a ship on PC that uses legacy modules called the infinite sun, now that ship is just amazing in every way, the heavy duty hull mods with light weight
secondery effects and many other things that i rolled and rolled untill i got them all balanced just right. Its my baby and i love it. Now,
I have some friends who have started playing on xbox! This is a rare treat indeed as most people who i have managed to get to play this game last only a few weeks at best before they give up for one reason or another. So dispite having a borderline embarrassing amount of hours in my PC account i have joined them on xbox.

Now to the point lol
I miss my infinite sun viper!
So i have fiddled about and made a good enough version using available upgrades on xbox.

Infact i made 3 different vipers cus lets face it.. one is never enough!

Heres the builds, if any one is interested in having as much fun as i do..

Thie infinite sun:

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The i dont have enforcer cannons yet version..

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The infinite sun shield version:

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The wepons can be enforcers or cannons as this build is lighter.. but the enforcers will use more wep so pip management is more intensive.

The new old school cannon viper:

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If you just dont need to go that fast and want to take a few more hits.

The cannons builds are ways cooler than they look on paper, against npcs it kinda locks them up with the force shells so you can land cannon shots on big ships as they slide backwards and small ships get spun out and again you can smash them hard walst they find there barings. 200 burst damage and just under 100 dps and most of the time you can have 0 pips in wep on a ship this small and fast is just madness.. i love it!

Cannons get a bad rap, i get it, they half deserve it. But fixed cannons have more damage potential than multicannons dipite the ammo count difference, yea they are harder to hit with and you dont get corosive, thogh you need it less as they have higher pircing and breach chance. Pluss less ToT is needed. the force shell brings the cannon speeds to very close the same so you can land all 4 at once.

I have toyed with extened mag instead of overcharged on the cannon viper and the extra 30% damage potential is nice if you can snipe the PP on most ships you can stay in Res much longer. But i like the satisfaction of the big hits from the overcharged and it can realy help with bursting thrugh SCBs.

And for those extra crazy situations where you need to tank and spank...
The mk4 may be in order.. the boost button is you friend..

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This one you can run the cannons on instead but i love the hit and run missile attacks on the PP. The 16t fuel tank realy helps spam those rails like they are lasers!
(You get 20 rail shots per ton, so with 2 rails thats 160 shots per tank.)

Feel free to critiqu my builds and share your own, i could always use another test project.

Did i mention i love vipers?

ALL HAIL, THE VIPER MASTER RACE!
 
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S0rkvild

S0rkvild
Nice builds. Enforcer cannons, I absolutely love them. I have a Gunship with six E. cannons and a beam leaer and this ship rips everything to shreds. Enforcer cannons are much better than gimballed class 2 multis. Anyways I tried different engineering options and in my opinion short range mod works best. Short range is much more distro friendly and deals slightly better damage than g5 overcharged, so you can fly with no pip in wep section. Speaking of other weapons, I can recommend trying cytoscramblers, small and zippy such as Viper or Eagle make a good use of them. Beauty if it is that a single cyto deals damage greater then class three fixed beam laser.
 

bladebss

bladebss
S0rkvild said:
Nice builds. Enforcer cannons, I absolutely love them. I have a Gunship with six E. cannons and a beam leaer and this ship rips everything to shreds. Enforcer cannons are much better than gimballed class 2 multis. Anyways I tried different engineering options and in my opinion short range mod works best. Short range is much more distro friendly and deals slightly better damage than g5 overcharged, so you can fly with no pip in wep section. Speaking of other weapons, I can recommend trying cytoscramblers, small and zippy such as Viper or Eagle make a good use of them. Beauty if it is that a single cyto deals damage greater then class three fixed beam laser.
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I tryed cytos a long time ago.. they were the first power play weapon i got.. i was kinda dissapointed with them when i tryed them TBH, the jitter is a real downer for me. I might give them another go one day i guess.

I will try the short range out on the enforcers tho. I had toyed with the idea but felt like the 1.5k range was a little short, but i guess its not that often im further than 1k from my target.
 

Trollymctrollerson

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On my viper i have 2 enforcers, 1 cannon and 1 plasma. The plasma really helps with shield damage. Uses more distro yes but i feel its worth it. LR mod G4 on the cannon and G5 on the plasma match the enforcer projectile velocity approximately so all 4 weapons land shots with the same attack vector.
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
I like the Vipers. I like the Keelback. I like the Diamondbacks. I like the Chieftain. I like the Kraits. I like the Python. I like lots of ships.

I went to the "end game" and got all the big ships, but I like the big ships much less than the small and medium ships!
 

MVBanks

MVBanks
We are all different. During last CG (bounties for Sirius) I bought and engineered Viper mk III and then I practised in Pirate activity signal sources in Sirius.
At the end I was able to kill engineered Anaconda NPC, but scarcely. I used cytos and enforcers. This type of combat is not for me - one small mistake and
shields are down, another one and I'm dead. I'm not good pilot and I'm tired after 10 -15 minutes of such a combat.
I was little bit dissapointed with Viper - because if you will make it very fast then it's not for combat, and vice versa. I like my big ships.
 

Hacker#451563

Hacker#451563
Good post with some nice builds. I like cannons because they feel retro-techy (I don't have enforcers) but I've been wondering what to do with all my money and mats for some time now. I might just slap one of these together and screw about in it.


Also, Dan Dare would love Vipers.
 
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