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Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Alexandr - 09-11-2010
Well i need opinion who use Flak Turrets. Are they useful?
What you use to protect your BS from fighter/bomber/gunboat when you are without escort,or when you are in big battle without any big target VS you?
Tactic of using will be appreciated.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Niverlare - 09-11-2010
They're useful for cool lightshows, not more not less.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Oldum - 09-11-2010
' Wrote:They're useful for cool lightshows, not more not less.
Signed, stamped!
Except if you have your ship equipped with 6-8 of them, then you might get the chance to kill small ships ...
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Harcourt.Fenton.Mudd - 09-11-2010
They make pretty colors!
Secondaries are crusier turrets with 3.0 refire.
Flak are good for teamkilling, and blowing your own guns off in rocks.
Solaris are pointless unless they want to use guns (in which case they proably suck anyway)
Primaries are really your best anti snub defence, and even then bombers have a range advantage.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Schatten Research Facility - 09-11-2010
:/ I'm pretty sure that if Mudd were the guy that sold me my first car, I wouldn't be driving a piece of crap.
Anywho - The learning curve for effective flak cannon usage is quite steep, but it is possible to use it to good effect (just incredibly difficult, and it doesn't look good on your resume). As Mudd said, you're best off chainfiring (shooting your primaries one by one in rapid succession) primaries for saturation fire instead of using solaris turrets which, if you do use them, pretty much ensures that you're screwed against other same class ships that aren't using a solaris loadout.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Harcourt.Fenton.Mudd - 09-11-2010
' Wrote::/ I'm pretty sure that if Mudd were the guy that sold me my first car, I wouldn't be driving a piece of crap.
Anywho - The learning curve for effective flak cannon usage is quite steep, but it is possible to use it to good effect (just incredibly difficult, and it doesn't look good on your resume). As Mudd said, you're best off chainfiring (shooting your primaries one by one in rapid succession) primaries for saturation fire instead of using solaris turrets which, if you do use them, pretty much ensures that you're screwed against other same class ships that aren't using a solaris loadout.
Even worse, Solaris have a 1k range.
On a large BS, you cant shoot your own length, much less HIT a bomber.
Even with BS primaries, bombers have a range advantage.
Basicly, BS solaris are one of those 'why did y'all waste space with these' weapons.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Montezuma/Kukulcan - 09-11-2010
' Wrote:Solaris are pointless unless they want to use guns (in which case they proably suck anyway)
Wrong.
Solaris are very useful if you mount them in large numbers on Light Battleships, for example, the Mako and Osiris both can do severe damage when armed with plenty of Solaris turrets. If you can dodge SNACs at long range (which is not hard), you can force bombers to get to close range, where Solaris excel due to thier high speed and high DPS. However, they are only useful on light Battleships, as Medium or Heavy Battleships are too large to make them useful.
On the other hand, Secondaries are for the most part, useless against anything other than Gunboats and Cruisers. The one exception to this being Corsair Light turrets, which have a 4.00 fire rate, as opposed to the regular 3.03, and more damage per shot than any 3.03 Secondary.
Flaks are not totally useless, but you have to have a LOT of practice to be able to use them properly, and if not used properly, they are worse than useless (they can do lots of damage to your team-mates and even your own ship).
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever - 09-12-2010
Quote:Wrong.
You're right about this part.
But BS solaris on heavy (large BS's characteristically defined by turret numbers ranging from 15-18, with 1 million plus armor) battleships DOES suck. Pulse cannons are also useless on large BS's because they are simply very inefficient. You're primaries can do shield damage faster ANd cheaper.
But, then again, all of the Solaris problems will be supposedly fixed by Mjolnir and his wizarding band of turret class splitters.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - Osilon - 09-12-2010
Don't use admin green.
Flak turrets, and other light turrets - lw'nafh - 09-12-2010
Flak turrets suck.
'nuff said.