Sounds good to me. Leir: home base for the Privateers.
2.5 Alpha EXCITEMENT thread! ^^
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Awwwww, shucks. We love you too Sam.
Floating...
Like an angel. ;)
Wrong thread. ;)
I stand corrected: boobs!
Now this is a Space boobs tread
Phantomoftruth
Space Marshal
Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
Just IMHO, but the main competition for the Cutlass seems to be the Lancer, and it has 2 S5 turrets. They ought to put at least one on the Cutlass. Now imagine that thing with a pair of Omni XII's on it. That would be terrifying, especially if there is room for enhanced targeting radar. Then the visibility of the Cutlass cockpit over the Lancer's would mean something.
That is one quick jump to Leir. My concern there is whether they have an extradition treaty with UEE. If so, those marked with the callous "outlaw" brand might not be as comfortable there since the UEE could track them. That is a real issue. If the UEE issues bounties on criminals and these folks are always visible in UEE space, you will not want to be in UEE space. Could be though that Banu is a good choice, especially so close as Yulin. At least you don't have Vanduul raiding you there.
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I'm getting hyped thinking about it. Even having the turret working would be a huge boost.
Again I'm impressed by the amount of knowledge you display when it comes to the 'verse.
Haha. Excellent. I found them just for you.
:oops: I just try to share everything I have learned in the 5 months that I'm. Still have to learn allotto learn.
Shitposting keeps the forum funny and alive. Even some of your shitpost threads eventually became very informational.
Floating like Sam Christoforetti ;)
And we appreciate it brother. We very much do. Your tips on flight and strafing have made me way better at combat flight. Thank you.
Ha. I guess so eh? "Ships are Hard" is a good example.
Exactly. Like an angel.
Floating like Sam Christoforetti ;)
Phantomoftruth
Space Marshal
the signal is real, the shitpost is real, the exitement is real. the real is real. now to take a break from all this 2.5 EXCITEMENT and read some Political reviews. It's like porn, over-done, Epic shit-posting in the form of bloviating, screaming, moaning, whining, buried ledes, and paid Bank to spank.
I equip the Lancer with 4 CF-227, replace the 6 underwing single missile platforms with 2 triple missile platforms and 4 double missile platforms. Additionally I have 6 single wingtip missile platforms.
I equip the Cutlass with 3 CF-227 and 2 triple missile platforms.
The Freelancer is the better missile boat, target, shoot 1 missile from 2 - 3k to scratch it and keep it occupied, stay shooting to kill it off. The Cutlass with one CF-227 less is the better dogfighter. I managed to kill all 18 waves with the Cutlass, the Freelancer is less agile and slower. I didn't manage to complete 18 waves (yet)but you really must use it's missiles to be successful, 1 missile doesn't kill but with a little help of 4 guns it should do fine :)
Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
I am so confused since the last weapons system. They should never have changed it. So can you not fit 2 S4 weapons on an S5 turret mount? I'm curious why you're using Panthers when some of the S4's do 50% more damage.
The original turrets on the FL were place-holders until they got the component system figured out. Putting 4xs4 combines on the FL was overly optimistic both in terms of balance and in terms of how item 2.0 works.
The thing is the only turrets for the s5 spots are twin-linked gimbal. Gimbal = -1 size, twin-link = -1 size, so you get a twin-linked s3 double turret in a s5 spot
The exceptions are the specialty Flashfire ball turrets for the Hornet & Cutlass, that only drop one size, because they only have a single weapon mount.
Perhaps we'll get Flashfire s4 gimballed mounts for the Freelancer as well, but they'd be a single mount on each side.
That said, if you had the weapons, equipping the FL with 4x m5a's would be pretty tasty, for me ;-)
Edit: Personally, I want a flatmount s5 puck so I can weld on some fixed Wrath plasma cannons... my DUR has those extra powerplants, see, and I wanna max them out :-) Just because the Wrath cannon is nearly as long as the Freelancer isn't any reason why it shouldn't work...
The thing is the only turrets for the s5 spots are twin-linked gimbal. Gimbal = -1 size, twin-link = -1 size, so you get a twin-linked s3 double turret in a s5 spot
The exceptions are the specialty Flashfire ball turrets for the Hornet & Cutlass, that only drop one size, because they only have a single weapon mount.
Perhaps we'll get Flashfire s4 gimballed mounts for the Freelancer as well, but they'd be a single mount on each side.
That said, if you had the weapons, equipping the FL with 4x m5a's would be pretty tasty, for me ;-)
Edit: Personally, I want a flatmount s5 puck so I can weld on some fixed Wrath plasma cannons... my DUR has those extra powerplants, see, and I wanna max them out :-) Just because the Wrath cannon is nearly as long as the Freelancer isn't any reason why it shouldn't work...
Hmmmmmm. I do that with the Sabre. May be worth testing the FL.
No reason at all. Haha
1. I don't have S4 weapons in my stock, 2. while the Freelancer is relatively slow in manoeuvring, it is better to have fast firing low hitting weapons then low firing high hitting weapons which overheat fast. If only 25% of the shots hits target, which is very likely with fast moving light targets, then you better shoot allot. At short range the heavy weapons are very effective, but at short range while full evading it is much harder to get a solid aim. Overheating will become a big problem.
Something like...
Even if it *does* look a little like a rotisserie chicken from Costco... it'll roast your socks off!
:)
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