Excited for the Ares?
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Richard Bong
Space Marshal
Richard Bong
Space Marshal
It is cool looking. It is a great looking ship that fills an important role and should have great range.
My Eclipse fills a very similar role for me, so no Ares for me.
My Eclipse fills a very similar role for me, so no Ares for me.
Yeah.... problem is that answare feels like a place holder for not having an answare...
What the hell is a "normal capacity for a ballistic weapon"? I mean right now value are all over the place!
Tarantula guns set it around 1200round, C-788 has 480, Gatling are 4-5000 (with the S1 having 7000+), ballistic repeater vary from size to size from 480 to 800 ..
Maybe it's me but CIG "normal capacity" feel more like an ab-normal capacity....
I'm sure that CIG stated that vaguely to avoid being locked into a specified number because it will definitely be going through several rounds of balancing after it's released into the Verse.
Very likely, I just hope the Ares won't be another ballistic repeater that perform good but is useless do to the limited ammo... I think they'll be burned in casoline if they do that (especially after the shitty DS...), but who knows...
Richard Bong
Space Marshal
It means that if a normal ballistic gun has 30 seconds of ammo, this will have 60-90 seconds of ammo.
Given that its role is to help take down large & cap ships, I'd wager that they'd almost have to provide enough ammo to deliver a few strafes before heading back to the carrier to get your ammo refilled. I'd say that should be a lot of shots, but it's a small ship with a S7 Gatling.
Got Ares Inferno to take out medium ships. I feel medium sized ships will be pretty popular when universe gets bigger and distances longer. Will be interesting to see how good it is against connies, MSR or cargo ships.
I wonder how much of a stealth build you might be able to get with this.Shooting large ships from 8km away does not require much rotation and acceleration!
8 km sniper ship
I wonder how much time is going to be spent just shooting random things because the sound is just so beautiful.
I do pride myself on the value I add to a conversation.
Imagine playing SC in 4D where you can feel the pulsing of the S7 Gatling through your pilot's seat. Talk about a killer massage.
I'm conflicted about this ship. It looks cool as hell, but it has such a narrow use case. I'm a fan of heavy fighters though ... hence my conflicting emotions.
Do what we all do.
You buy it, then you fly it for a week or two after release.
Then you get bored of it and never use it again.
You buy it, then you fly it for a week or two after release.
Then you get bored of it and never use it again.
Here I was thinking that the great @Montoya was going to suggest letting the next beer decide between yes, no & try (drink) again. Silly me.
Dirtbag_Leader
Admiral
As much as I want to like the Ares I'm having trouble getting over the glaring physics oversight. . . every time I look at it all I can do is envision trying to fire that off-set gun, going into a flat spin from the recoil, accidentally firing again in panic, and then blacking out from the centripetal g-force :/
Lemming
Admiral
Its starting to feel like this thing may come out early
What is the horrible color on the Inferno?!?
