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Missile ship - Adam_Spire - 03-09-2012
Just remember that a Gunboat missile do pretty much no damage at all. Mounting 3 missiles was great back in the day before turret steer, but now, they will just kill shields and energy. In a dogfight with a bomber, maybe a good idea. In a dogfight with four bombers, eh, not so good.
I found that since 95% of the people joust, Missile attacks work, just don't fire when they are moving away from you. Bad news is, due to server lag, you could kill yourself when they player is 400m from you. Good news is, if the missiles hit, its a one hit wonder. It works perfectly...... in Single player mode.
I'm going to make a missile boat and tell you how it goes. See you in Rheinland.:)
Missile ship - Swallow - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:Just remember that I'm the worst shooter in game, Type 4 needs aiming, which I don't have, so I got small ones since I can chainfire them in a way that there's a constant stream of bullets coming, it's a LOT better than using type 4s, even more to me. Also types 4 can't destroy capships, which I just did like above.
Ok, gonna get an arrow later so I can test it too, then I would chose between getting marauder or spatial first, just trying to make a list for it. I doubt it would resist CD-spammers though....
what missiles you fit in an arrow? paralizer and cannonball or paralizer sidewinder?
Sidewinders are faster, but cannonballs are tougher. check both
Missile ship - mc_Floyd - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:oh...wow, I just used it on a PVP against Rogues in mahattan:
Then I moved to the GB, it blew up the cutlass but missiles were able to take his shield down:shok:, then snac and missiles could lower his hull nicely, all hit and he would be left at less than a half of his health.
The ship proved to be a real fighter here: a good all around ship that's able to take on both Caps and fighters;)
Mhm I was flying the Gunboat yesterday and i must say, it really did wonders against my LR mate in his Barghest. But the Damage you did against my GB wasnt really worth it. I doubt you can do enough damage with your missles to even get the whole Hull (with full Bots), when im not shooting back. The only reason you survived that fight, was you extremely lagging and jumping around (was kinda hard to hit with my snipe loadout).
So missile Spatial in my eyes, maybe good against "big" Bombers, but nothing smaller or bigger!
If you dont get the possibillity to joust the missile shooter in an direct fight and he slides around you, you wont be able to hit him with missiles.
I myself experimented a lot with missiles, and they really work wonders on light fighters, 'cause most people fell into direkt jousting when they fight them. But for anything other, you have to learn how to use guns properly.
~Floyd
Missile ship - hollowpoint - 03-09-2012
I have had a Stinger Missle boat for about 3 months and have found it to be effective one on one...but.. in a group fight.. you may as well be pissing in the wind. They just dont track... also i think player count influences thier ability to track their target accurately.
I found that trying to get above the enemy while jousting and flying down at them is the best way to hit them. also the best thing to do against CD'rs is to fire a dummy weak missle first then once they CD fire the barrage!
I worked out the damage output yesterday of a cannon,sidewinder,lancer,sunslayer,paralyzer, firestalker, sunstalker setup .. if all of those hit its 40k hull or 30k shield damage..:P
stiinger is a good choice IMO
Missile ship - Madvillain - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:I started kicking ass and winning a fair amount of them when I started using missiles, I've never actually hit anything with guns, even at point blank and the target standing still, I simply miss with guns, however with missiles I'm able to blow them up. Dude I really don't lik
ok ...
every pilot with a bit of skills will use his CM and laugh at you.
Missile ship - Luka - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:ok ...
every pilot with a bit of skills will use his CM and laugh at you.
yeah. and when he runs out he will start to cry cuz I have other missiles:laugh:
Missile ship - Luka - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:Mhm I was flying the Gunboat yesterday and i must say, it really did wonders against my LR mate in his Barghest. But the Damage you did against my GB wasnt really worth it. I doubt you can do enough damage with your missles to even get the whole Hull (with full Bots), when im not shooting back. The only reason you survived that fight, was you extremely lagging and jumping around (was kinda hard to hit with my snipe loadout).
So missile Spatial in my eyes, maybe good against "big" Bombers, but nothing smaller or bigger!
If you dont get the possibillity to joust the missile shooter in an direct fight and he slides around you, you wont be able to hit him with missiles.
I myself experimented a lot with missiles, and they really work wonders on light fighters, 'cause most people fell into direkt jousting when they fight them. But for anything other, you have to learn how to use guns properly.
~Floyd
I took down your shields, the biggest damage was the SNAC, and its awesome for being able to take down a gunboat shield, even more with cruiser shields, just tested it against a Rheindland cruser. You actually hit several times, but all you were doing is the same common noob combo (pulse + razor), never ever seen a single turret shooting
Spatial is great against everything when fitted with missiles, several tests say so.
I would be able by sliding away, then jousting on him and launching all missiles, it EATS a fighter's hull.
And as I said, I'M NOT USING GUNS ANYMORE, PERIOD! stop telling me to get guns I won't. K?:angry2:
Missile ship - Madvillain - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:yeah. and when he runs out he will start to cry cuz I have other missiles:laugh:
challenge accepted:)
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Missile ship - Luka - 03-09-2012
' Wrote:challenge accepted:)
add me on skype bro
Kay, but I gotta download it again:laugh:
I would say that the biggest problem with missiles is lag more than CD/CM, for CD CM you could get cannonlancer and bait them to do it, then qing them down, it really works, I used it when flying a stinger.
I'm talking about the lag since I just PVP'd with an eagle but missiles simply wouldn't ever hit, they were standing still, but then I hit him once, he had 9/10 hull and went straight to half in one shot, could have been better... a LOT better:unsure:
I'm still thinking wheter getting an arrow or a marauder for testing.....
Missile ship - Jihadjoe - 03-10-2012
On a lag-free server, they work beautifully. During the corsair/outcast event that was held on the event server they resulted in things like this happening.
![[Image: MOARMISSILE.png]](http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj86/jihadjoe86/MOARMISSILE.png)
However without the lag-free environment, missile ships tend to have a little more trouble. I doubt they'll do too well in larger fights, although full missile VHFs can still be effective. You'd just have to pick your fights fairly carefully. My suggestion would be mounting just enough hullbuster missiles to instakill a VHF, one paralyser, and then covering everything else with debs.
The starkiller torp is also half-way useful. Shame the sunslayer isn't.