Newcomer / Intro What affects pulse fire rate the most? My guns can not shoot continuously.

[Elprez]

I have 4 pulse lasers. I love them but the do not fire without have to stop and recharge. What should I be looking to upgrade that will have the most affect on improving them? Power plant?

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

Power plant and power distributor.

 

[Elprez]

Power plant and power distributor.

Cool! Thanks! I already have a beefed up one of both and they are very proud of the next upgrade. I think I need to go kill a few more pirates.

 

[krysohmyz]

Powerplant allows you to equip better guns. If you have enough power to run yours, you don't have to upgrade for now.
If you want to shoot for longer time and have your lasers to recharge faster, you mainly need only distributor.

EDIT: something's wrong with he forums, again...

 

[unicron]

Distributor is the most important combat passive upgrade IMO:
- Faster shield restoration, faster boost reload on the engines, more capacity / refill for weapon systems!

 

[who?]

You can divert power to weapons (if you don't already do so) to tide you over until you can afford a better power distributor.

Another factor to consider is fire-angle. At least on the Viper, the bottom two hard points have a limited shooting angle with gimballed weapons. When I'm fighting, sometimes the left or right fires if the target is slightly off to one side, and sometimes neither fires because the target is slightly above me and so obscured by the ship's hull. Took me a while to figure out why nothing was firing!