EMP ships and attacks... you using them?

[Steel_Monkey]

I'm thinking about getting an EMP ship and I've seen some interesting bounty hunter videos. Guy goes in either solo or with a partner, EMP hits, ship is easily picked apart. I have no experience with this... anyone (who actually does it) have any advice? While I respect everyone's opinion, I'm looking for hard data.

 

[Hybus]

Right now, distortion weapons, including EMPs are not working very well. Even little things are shrugging off both my Raven's and Sentinel's EMPs. It is referenced in the patch notes.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

When it works right it disables the target for a few seconds and can partially or fully knock down shields.

Back when I had a Warlock back in 2.5 I didn't like it as it would also disable the ship firing the EMP i.e. you, but these days my Sentinel allows me to fire the EMP and continue flying... although you have to remember to turn it on using the ship weapons menu, it's off by default.

At this point in game development it is hard to say if the version in 2.5 was the way they wanted it and it's broken now, or if the way they want it working is as now and it was broken back then... Or if they even have a different way they want it working in the end...

I say Fly Before You Buy, try to get a play with one and see how you get on with it but beware it won't be balanced and finalised before Alpha, so don't get used to how it works now.

 

[Hybus]

Exactly, the only reason I have both of those ships is I snagged one when work was doing drive upgrades, the other just because I thought the sentinel looks great inside. Current distortion behavior will likely change once they physicalize components.

 

[atpbx]

The problem with EMP, is they released it too early into testing, it was unbalanced, ships had no defence against it, so its been nerfed into pointlessness as EMP ships could just switch off other fighters from miles away and kill them and the victims couldnt defend.

 

[Steel_Monkey]

yeah I spent some time looking today.... not much out there to purchase, no sentinel, warlock, raven was tied to the intel promo

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

yeah I spent some time looking today.... not much out there to purchase, no sentinel, warlock, raven was tied to the intel promo

You might be able to REC one in Arena commander to give it a try...? Not sure though.

 

[Shadow Reaper]

1	local name		default_loadouts	size	grade	class	mass (kg)	hp	dist dmg	radius (m)	radius min (m)	radius phys (m)	radius phys min (m)	charge time (s)	unleash time (s)	cooldown time (dst)	power base (pwr/s)	power draw (pwr/s)	power overpower performance	power overclock performance	power overclock min	power overclock max	power up time (s)	em ratio (em/pwr)	em decay rate	temp min	temp max	temp overheat	temp recovery	temp cooling start	temp misfire min	temp misfire max	overpower heat	cooling rate	recovery time (s)	overclock threshold min	overclock threshold max	thermal conductivity	thermal energy draw	thermal energy base	surface area	specific heat capacity	thermal mass	temp ratio IR	dmg resist phys	dmg resist nrg	dmg resist dst	dmg resist heat	dmg resist bio	wear lifetime (hours)	wear initial ratio
2	TMBL_EMP_Device_S1		TMBL_Cyclone_AA	1	1		10	150	1000	400	150	250	150	12.00	0.75	6.00	250.00	500.000	0	0.200	0.300	0.500	5.000	2.000	0.150	0.000	700	650	550	300.00	370.00	600	0	58		0	0	0	6000	5556	0	1	200	6	1	1	1	1	1	1440	0
3	ANVL_Hawk_EMP_Device_S2		ANVL_Hawk, ANVL_Hawk_PU_AI_QIG	2	1		200	150	1800	750	250	400	250	12.00	0.75	12.00	250.00	750.000	0	0.200	0.300	0.500	5.000	2.000	0.150	0.000	700	650	550	300.00	370.00	600	0	64		0	0	0	40000	37333	0	1	1200	6	1	1	1	1	1	1440	0
4	MXOX_EMP_Device_S2			2	1		200	150	1800	750	250	400	250	12.00	0.75	12.00	250.00	750.000	0	0.200	0.300	0.500	5.000	2.000	0.150	0.000	700	650	550.000	300.00	370.00	600	0	64		0	0	0	40000	37333	0	1	1200	6	1	1	1	1	1	1440	0
5	AEGS_EMP_Device_S4			4	1		4000	150	3800	1200	400	1000	250	12.00	1.50	25.00	500.00	750.000	0	0.200	0.300	0.500	5.000	2.000	0.150	0.000	700	650	550.000	300.00	370.00	600	0	58		0	0	0	120000	111111	0	1	4000	6	1	1	1	1	1	1440	0
6	REP-VS EMP Generator			4	1		4000	150	6000	2200	600	1200	250	20.00	1.50	40.00	800.00	2000.000	0	0.200	0.300	0.500	8.000	2.000	0.150	0.000	700	650	550.000	300.00	370.00	600	0	58		0	0	0	120000	111111	0	1	4000	6	1	1	1	1	1	1440	0

This is 3.8 data. Note the min/max radius data. Looks like if you had a Tumbler Cyclone on the Pirate mission where the Sabre and Warden show up to steal your take at the end, you could nuke the two of them and take their ships.

 

[Steel_Monkey]

I got myself a Sentinel the other day,