^ what he said.Vulture is an excellent ship, its only really good at combat though.
My suggestions:
1. Work on unlocking engineers. The Vulture benefits majorly from engineering. Since you didn't use any engineering mods on your Vulture, I'm going to continue on the assumption that you don't have them yet.
2. Get Military Grade armor.
3. The Vulture, unengineered, has serious power management issues, which is why unengineered Vultures make better Hull Tanks than Shield Tanks, imo. In order to use SCBs to their maximum potential, you really need two of them, and the Vulture can't power two of them. (unengineered, that is) So, I recommend ditching the SCBs altogether, and replacing the standard shields with Bi-Weaves. Bi-Weaves are better than regular shields in general, tbh. This is because they have a MUCH better regen rate. The idea here is to load your ship full of Hull Reinforcement packages so it can survive having its shields go off and on multiple times. I might also recommend losing the Shield Boosters, as they hurt your regen and suck up power, but that's up to you.
4. If possible, I recommend ditching gimballed weapons and learning how to use fixed weapons, because they deal more damage. (The difference becomes much larger after engineering.) Up to you though. (NOTE: If you do decide to keep gimballed weapons, swap the Cannon out for a Multi Cannon. Gimballed Cannons are the worst gimballed weapon in the game. Gimballed MCs work better.)
5. Switch the Beam Laser out for a Burst Laser. Beam lasers are the type of weapon that aren't that great... without engineering. The DPS is only a little bit better than a Burst but the DPE is significantly lower. Bursts will give you much better over all Sustained DPS.
6. Do what you like and fly what you think is fun.
Overcharged gets you comparable damage to doubleshot and your ammo lasts much longer. Slap screening shell on it for that sweet reload time buff.^ what he said.
Alternatively, engineer the hell out of your Vulture, add two double-shot Pacifiers or gimballed Frags, and enjoy the most epic three minutes of the game where you shoot anything to scrap metal… until your ammo runs out
Yes, but double shot is simply more hilarious
I always found a pure laser build for the Vulture to require way too much time to kill.
I recently switched to a Vulture* as my multipurpose mission-running ship, and with the right engineering and module selection, it can be surprisingly versatile. It's still challenging to use this way, but I actually enjoy that challenge!
My Vulture's beams eat shields for breakfast but do take awhile on tough hulls. What about Thermal Shock - does this work as advertised? Is it possible to blow up an NPC at 50% hull because they overheated?
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Any reason for two TLB and not the usual TLB/Dispersal?I love my vulture, here's my current build.
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There's an amazing vid on Rinzler's channel where he flew out to help a buddy that was being attacked outside a station in his vulture. Twin TLB APAs, he had the timing on them down absolutely perfect to just constantly break the guy's lock. The attacker (in a corvette, no less) ended up calling them cheaters in all-caps then combat logged.
Ive been going back and forth on this with my pacifier vulture for a while and I’m still preferring double shot since I have room for drag munitions and dazzle shell in that case.
I was growing bored with circle
I love doing the "one, two punch" with force shell cannons, just for that annoyance factor!
