I must be missing something. I have a gimballed burst laser and multicannon on a Viper. I've got the laser on primary and the cannon on secondary. There's power available (I think, usage is 84%). But they only fire sporadically at targets. For every 5 seconds I hold down the triggers, I only get about a second of firing time with both weapons, spread out randomly. I had the same weapon setup on my Eagle and that worked fine. Any ideas?
Why do my guns fire sporadically?
- Thread starter Marasmusine
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Weapons mounted under the ship won't fire when the enemy is above the horizon-line... they'd be hitting your ship.
Also, multicannons sometimes have to reload ammo.
tl;dr put more pips in weapons and upgrade your power distributor
long version: your weapons have a heatsink,if they overheat it then they have to stop firing to cooldown. this is where your weapons energy goes in the power distributor - the power consumption in Modules does not matter for this purpose.
you can be sure this is the case if the beam weapon has a bar next to it that's depleted and the cannon is flashing 'thermal overload'.
long version: your weapons have a heatsink,if they overheat it then they have to stop firing to cooldown. this is where your weapons energy goes in the power distributor - the power consumption in Modules does not matter for this purpose.
you can be sure this is the case if the beam weapon has a bar next to it that's depleted and the cannon is flashing 'thermal overload'.
Thanks everyone, I'll experiment with line-of-fire. The difference between the nose of the viper and the eagle might be what's throwing me. It's definitely not a heat issue.