bh gunship is primary constructed against fighters/bombers. against them it is now better as good... (when you dodge bombers have really problem to hit you with guns... )
against gunboats, you have orca.
butstill with good setup you can kill all enemy gunboats... (order,corsair,hessian,outcast...)
so where is the problem?
again the syndrom, give us better better better?...
I have only the best experience with the BH GS, it's a great ship. Quality stuff... I'm sure it doesn't need the buff. It's strong enough as it is.
When these cries appeared the last time, it took just a small group of decent pilots to fly it for a while before it turned into "nerf the BH GS!". Imagine if the same group went out with the buffed GS in their hands...
' Wrote:but it struggles against 2 bombers when really it should take 3-4 to take it down.
Newsflash, every gunboat has trouble taking down 2 bombers. A single Gunship taking down 3-4 bombers is ridiculous. No ship should be that powerful. A single Gunship can take down 3-4 bombers providing the pilot has a high skill level, but for it to be a regular occurrence of pilots over a multitude of skill levels will make this ship overly abused.
' Wrote:Anyone encountered GS which is going in circles evasing, dodging and shooting at the same time? Of course you haven't if you make such posts.
The ship is pure evil. Just learn to fly it right. Which is some tactic you need to have theorical knowlendge about.
That one you are talking about was cheating. Some stuff with camera .inis. Normally, flying in rear view is a deathtrap, since it starts flying straight after 2-4 seconds.
I have mixed opinions on the gunship. I'm both flying it and fighting it. I think it has good survivalability, but not enough firepower. The problem might be in ordinary BHG turrets. They have like 30m/s more speed than most average GB turrets, for 50 less damage per shot. In a gunboat, hell even in a fighter, you just won't notice the 30m/s difference if you don't see the stats on paper. If you mount one missile firing forward, you have only 3 BHG turrets forward. Bad.
You can use it as a snipeboat, with razors and pulses, but not everyone aims good enough and not everyone likes that style of fighting. If you fight decent pilots who can dodge, or fight in laggy environment, you won't stand any chance with that loadout either. Especially if you fight Praetorians, which basically look like this from the front and back:
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The proposed idea isn't bad, but I would give the turrets a bit smaller firing arc. Like, nearly around the edges of the screen. Or second idea, give the turrets a bit more damage.
'Nighthawk' Wrote:Newsflash, every gunboat has trouble taking down 2 bombers. A single Gunship taking down 3-4 bombers is ridiculous. No ship should be that powerful. A single Gunship can take down 3-4 bombers providing the pilot has a high skill level, but for it to be a regular occurrence of pilots over a multitude of skill levels will make this ship overly abused.
Every gunboat, yes. But BH GS is supposed to fight only fighters and bombers, but fails at it. Now it has problems with 2 decent bomber pilots. It should be able to take them out more easily than other gunboats, as a tradeoff for inability to fight other gunboats properly. Which depends again on loadout and skill, but BH GS vs average gunboat ends up usually very badly for the BH GS.
Single gunship taking out 3 or more bombers at once? I didn't see that happen, ever. Oh well, once, but it was the cheating guy, so it doesn't count right?:)Maybe if the bombers were totally stupid, it would be possible, but 3, or even 2 skilled bomber pilots can quite easily take out the BH GS flown by a pilot of roughly the same skill. Again, depending on loadout, he could get a lucky razor instakill on one of them.
' Wrote:Single gunship taking out 3 or more bombers at once? I didn't see that happen, ever.
Neither have I. But that's what the OP wants. A pair of Gunships should be able to take out 3-4 bombers but not a single Gunship. That just isn't right. No other ship in the game is really balanced to kill 3-4 other ships by it's self, it is possible but only with a very good pilot.
I guess I should make Jepp Lutz return from his retirement?
You might or might not know, but... the part of his story where he owns 3 pirate falcatas in the Badlands is hard to forget. One of them being Polaris, at that. He even earned a nice little chunk of money.
The trick of surviving such fights is to strafe at the right moment, and deliver as much hurt as you can to the bomber right when it is trying to align the antimatter cannon.
MarvinCZ Wrote:I have only the best experience with the BH GS, it's a great ship. Quality stuff... I'm sure it doesn't need the buff. It's strong enough as it is.
When these cries appeared the last time, it took just a small group of decent pilots to fly it for a while before it turned into "nerf the BH GS!". Imagine if the same group went out with the buffed GS in their hands...
Yeah, I'm actually threatening to do just that.:)
Sometimes it's the skill that matters in general. Though, some people might be extremely great at flying certain ships, because it's their specialty.