Auto Chainfire

[Zeb Harley]

In contrary to the opinion that chainfiring gives you a better in a fight I found out that it doesn't.

Especially not with chainfiring fast-refire-guns. There seems to be a minimum amount of time necessary for the game engine to start counting hull-damage between taking out the shield and doing damage at the hull.

If you continue hitting your target with a constant stream of projectiles after taking out the shield in one run you won't do any damage. Not even if you are scoring missile-hits while hosing your target with a gun. No damage at all. I tried it with PvP as well as with NPC (even with weak ones that get blown up by a single missile hit, like CSV).

To be really efficient you have to learn how to shotgun your opponent.

So it really is all about aiming rather than fast refire-rates.


I figured that chainfiring on a fighter is not as efficient as shotgunning in terms of doing damage as well, since it makes me more lazy with aiming. The shotgunning opponent will win the fight if I concentrate on chainfiring.

It's a nice feature for a transport's counterfire though. But the above described alternating fire on a pair of type 3 turrets (800m/s 1k range refire-rate 2) does the trick sufficiently. That set can keep a snub dancing under constant fire and leave enough free hardpoints to use for heavier turrets both useful against other transports and for shotgunning snubs who carelessly come too close in a fight.

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