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Yeah. I was surprised however, that according to the Hardpoint tool, larger ships often have much faster quantum drives. The fastest listed thus far are the Cat and Star G. If they plan to make long distance haulers 3X faster than fighters in quantum, could be the Polaris will have an even...

No, 40mm smart airburst grenades are intended to burst in the air behind cover, like a wall, so you can just fire over the wall and hit what is behind. The shoulder mounted XM25 and full auto MK47 both take the same ammo, IIRC. The shoulder mounted version had trouble in Afghanistan, but I...

Any idea if it includes air burst? That is wild technology and I'd hate if SC couldn't emulate that. Makes the weapon MUCH more effective.

I am hoping to budget enough time to play for half hour 3-4X/week, and 2-3 hours 2X a week. That would be a HUGE amount of playtime for me, but I honestly think that seriously involved operations where you're playing with a handful of friends are going to take 2-3 hours. If you plan 2, you...

I think the chair is demonically possessed, because it keeps speaking to me. It hasn't asked me to kill anyone yet, but it keeps saying this is the best way to fly in Star Citizen. Does it look too wide to be useful? Any ideas how I can find it? Doesn't show up in TinEye, but I am in love. . .

The Redeemer won best design for a gunship. CIG stipulated that the weakness had to be it was turret blind in at least one direction, which it is. It was designed to be a blazingly fast and powerful, however totally unstealthy gunboat. It is all that. However, since the time of the Redeemer...

I love all this, but still think for the Redeemer to keep pace with what's been offered since, it needs twin S5 turrets and S2 missiles, and LOTS of speed. Hot and impossible to stealth out, but big guns and 300/1100m/s would make that bird really intriguing.

Yeah. BTW, my bad. . .I wrote "yaw" when I should have written "pitch" and I'm sure that could have been confusing. I did the basic calc based upon the strafe Y axis lateral acceleration listed on the ships page for the Razor. It has an unusually high acceleration, so can make the circle...

Yes, I think they're going to provide much richer detail to the whole dynamic. Right now it is easy to digest, but it really should change a lot when you turn off systems in your bird and right now it does not. The details above though do make a way for players to use the basic stealth tools...

Yeah, it is in game. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihCfsgpriBw This vid raises as many questions as it answers, but it the best tutorial I have seen thus far.

Yeah. Close range weapons are hell on wheels when in range. I recommend put any of the Scatterguns in your dorsal turret, since they can track a brawler so long as you keep ventral facing. The Hardpoint tool has me very curious about the DR Model XJ2. That gives the turret 2016 dps, and 410...

Yes, this is the point. You aim directly at the target, and strafe up, when you yaw down. This will put you into a natural circle, the diameter of which is defined by the curvature you make by the strafe and yaw. This keeps your nose on target at all times. You can't do this against a small...

So I did a little thumbnail calculation. The Razor yaws at >120*/s, so can complete a full circle in under 3 seconds. It accelerates Y-lateral about 120 m/s so over 360m in 3 seconds. That gives a turn radius with nose pointed in (at the target) of about 55 meters. That's big enough for a...

I was looking at the excellent vid posted by Radegast on combat and didn't get all the way through, because I started looking at this fabulous tool the guy was using: https://hardpoint.io/#/customize/1q5YbAAizAAAACG1IHd3lN4ABaZ2A_u_mA The more I mess with this the more amazed I am. This is...

Em. . .it is a garbage scow. I'm not sure you're allowed to call it a "ship". Maybe you could call it a "skiff", "barge" or "dingy". It is a not a ship. Real ships are insulted when confused with scows. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rsZfcz3h1s

I can't tell you how much I don't need that image in my head.

You may be able to unlock the F8 in SQ42, but you'll still need to buy it I think. Without unlocking it you can't buy it, and it is designed to be the most formidable fighter in game.

Okay so, I was thinking again about the wee little Razor EX as a stealth recon spotter for the Polaris, especially nice it has such a tiny radar cross section, comes with stealth armor and ought to be near impossible to catch if it is sighted, and I was thinking about the pair of S2 scatterguns...

No joke, the uses multiply in my head for an S5 weapon on a smallish bird that can take a hit. This is a friggin' beast! There's still no S5 ballistic cannon but one supposes that will change. The S7A still has >7km range, so unless you can lock missiles (and you can't on a Ghost) if you're...

I likewise thought it sounded fishy that the Heartseeker would have an S5 mount. To date nothing smaller than a Vanguard has an S5 mount. So I checked the page. Wow. . .what is this? "5 Specialty Hornet S5 VariPuck Mount? Looks like this is a different frame with an S5 mount. Looks...