Weapons: What are their uses?

[msmith619]

Educate me please!

1. Mortars and Missles: I see a lot of talk about equiping mortars and missles. I see they do massive damge. I bought a couple for my cruiser and Prison Liner. What use are they? By the time those slow moving mortars and missles get to their target, I have killed it. My ship goes faster than the Mortar does. Of course, I am fighting mostly fighters (pirates) who attack me. I have never seen a mortar or missle hit one. Are they mainly for capital ship fights? Is their only use for taking out battleships and such?

2. Flak cannons. They don't have much description in game. Are they like the flak cannons in WWII? Do they shoot a hail of small objects like a shotgun blast? If so, they would be great for my LTrain and prison liner for pesky pirates. Or, are they another slow moving missle weapon?
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[gezza999]

The Flak cannnon. Well i have only tried one. The kusari one. It's just a weapon with a MASSIVE effect range. It blows off weapons because it has such a big range. Shoot one at a Battleship in a battlegroup. The entire formation will take damage. It ROCKS at killing NPCs. :crazy: And Mortars ARE for Big stuff only really.. you can use them agisnt fighters. But its hard to get a hit unless you are charging eachother. :crazy: .

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[Virus]

And missles are for anti-fighters....

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[marauder]

Flak cannons are a good way to annoy any NPCs really quickly :laugh:

But they can do hideous amounts of damage, if they actually hit that is.

Think unguided missile with a better refire, infinite range (they keep going until they hit something..) less energy usage and larger explosion radius.

Yes, mortars are mainly for cap-ship PvP, though they can kill of NPC cap-ships too.

Missiles are mostly used to get rid of NPC and player fighters, lotsa damage, decent range and refire, but they do use alot of energy.

[Hyperwave22]

here is what I have decided on and how to use them.


mortars-cap ship combat/killers
missiles-fighter killers
flak turrets/cannons-
great for taking out fighters but if u hit once the radius is so great it will prob. get allied npc factions mad at u if u hit them (if they're in the general vicinity). I've had this happen to me several times... its annoying.

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[Virus]

flak turrets/cannons-
great for taking out fighters but if u hit once the radius is so great it will prob. get allied npc factions mad at u if u hit them (if they're in the general vicinity). I've had this happen to me several times... its annoying.

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Flak Cannons are slow moving projectiles. They are really pretty useless unless you have, say, six of 'em. Though, they are only really good against NPC capship patrols. For example, you can kill an entire Kusari Destroyer/gunboat patrol by shooting the destroyer. They RARELY hit fighters. Trust me on this... I have six on my BS.

And no, they don't do enough to battleships to matter. One battlerazor fired does as much as something around 4 salvos of six cannons.

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[marauder]

Not it everything near you is shooting you on sight :laugh: Flak cannons are a pirates dream weapon, you don't HAVE to hit your intended target, as long as it hits something you've probably killed your target anyhow.

I only use flak cannons when I know there aren't gonna be any friendly NPCs or players around, or close enough to get hurt at least.

[Vo]

When I first saw the title of this, I nearly flipped my lid...

I'm not a big BATTLESHIP person, the largest thing I own is a Kusari gunboat, but from what I know, when I fight cap ships in a bomber, is Flak cannons disable your thrusters, and everything like that (weapons, missiles, torps) and then when your slower than a snail, the mortars beat the rest of the life you still MIGHT HAVE if your LUCKY and hit the EDGE of the flak radius.

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[Dab]

Uh they can't slow you down at all. They just hit you and damage you. Flak cannons might destroy your thruster but not just take it offline. And mortars are not used on fighters or bombers. They are torpedoes that would take 5 minutes to do a full circle. They are extremely slow and can't turn much. Just enough to shoot other BSs with, which is their purpose. And then normal turrets and missiles just hit and damage your hull. I'm thinking whatever flak cannons you got shot with destroyed your thruster.

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