So it’s a thought i got even before they started making new guns, mass driver and so on. I told myself that it would be nice if gunships, commands(before phaser), cov ops, lrf’s, had their own unique guns like engies and ecm’s, etc. When the phaser came out i was glad. Finnaly they seemed to finalize what looked to me an unfinished project. Since half the types already had their weapon. But then mass, driver, phase suppressor and such came out as event and equipable on all inties or fighters…I dont mind the event and the additionals guns, i loved it. But, for exemple, phase suppressor should have been a unique for cov op, mass driver unique to lrf, in this case flux rifle for gunship, but it would have had to be another mechanic, cuz it’s lame on it.
P.S. I might be totally wrong about the phaser though, it could be in the game since forever.
The phaser for funships would be a certified destro killer 
Phaser on gunship would mean the end of the 'ceptors in this game, against a destroyer it would be totally useless. The real damage from that gun come from the fast shot able to hit 95% of the time any intie. The big bubble usefulness is only situational and marginal and for sure against a destroyer, even on a gunship, would be useless since the low rate of fire, the fast overheating and the fact that it don’t “lock”.
Phaser on gunship would mean the end of the 'ceptors in this game, against a destroyer it would be totally useless. The real damage from that gun come from the fast shot able to hit 95% of the time any intie. The big bubble usefulness is only situational and marginal and for sure against a destroyer, even on a gunship, would be useless since the low rate of fire, the fast overheating and the fact that it don’t “lock”.
Phaser bubble useless vs destro? LMAO it’s my destro killer. I can down sirius or any other r14 dd alone with my Sword S and phaser Tyrant being the easier of the 3.Low hull,slower than fed and bubbles go through its shield. That bubble blow up their modules so fast. But best way is going close as frak, like an inty. Usually i make it out alive even if he has back up. Since im orbiting him. No not because they are bad. Can be a ninja player, cppp, nasa DESU or w/e
Phaser bubble useless vs destro? LMAO it’s my destro killer. I can down sirius or any other r14 dd alone with my Sword S and phaser Tyrant being the easier of the 3.Low hull,slower than fed and bubbles go through its shield. That bubble blow up their modules so fast. But best way is going close as frak, like an inty. Usually i make it out alive even if he has back up. Since im orbiting him. No not because they are bad. Can be a ninja player, cppp, nasa DESU or w/e
Putting it on a gunship won’t change anything against destros. The bubble is “situational”, the true power of that gun is the fast shot, which instead, on a gunship would be op.
Putting it on a gunship won’t change anything against destros. The bubble is “situational”, the true power of that gun is the fast shot, which instead, on a gunship would be op.
The weapons is pretty much the only one that can be effective against slow/fast large/small ships in an equal manner. If u base it on slow fast charge only, well, you’re right.
What i meant was the capability of skill-shooting a destroyer, slow charge passes through anything and has a wider area of effect than singularity so you hit pretty much every module on a destro, when it passes and does damage, trigger the explosion with the fast charge and u deal the same damage again + the fact of the explosion damage bonus.
If the destroyer lost it’s shields, u utterly destroy it by 2 shots or so or make it a floating brick and let your team do the rest.
Now combine all of this with rapid fire and crit chance a gunship can pull off, you wont even have to trigger the explosion, just destroy all modules 2 times in a row and nothing can save that destroyer from being pounded hard. That was my initial though, i usually go for firerate builds with the phaser so i dont mind it much.
Luckily phaser isnt available for gunship class, only the flux phaser is which is also a nice thing to test out some meta stuff.
Probably there is a misunderstanding here, to shoot a bubble against a destro the way you described it, is one time thing out ot 10. 'Cause to stay still next a destro is suicidal unless it is crippled or without energy or almost dead, so, once again: it’s situational.
Instead the fast shot will be overpowered all the time, especially against 'ceptors.
Repetita iuvant, I hope.
Well, i’m not good in english so i’ll drop the fast charge vs slow charge stuff, theres just more depth in this weapon which i can’t explain but i am glad it’s not available for gunships tho lol.
Putting it on a gunship won’t change anything against destros. The bubble is “situational”, the true power of that gun is the fast shot, which instead, on a gunship would be op.
I might have written my OP in a confusing way. When i talked about a weapon for the gunship, i meant the FLUX phaser. Manual aim weapon. Not the command phaser. Hence why, i then said, " flux rifle for gunship, but it would’ve had to be another mechanic, cuz it’s lame on it. ".
On 10/12/2016 at 5:43 PM, ORCA1911 said:
Well, i’m not good in english so i’ll drop the fast charge vs slow charge stuff, theres just more depth in this weapon which i can’t explain but i am glad it’s not available for gunships tho lol.
Hell yea… game would be unplayable if gunships could use my lovely “command” Phaser.