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[TheDarkStar]

So currently, do railguns make craters? I'd rather railguns drill holes vs blast craters.

The devs decided to have them crater, since holes would probably lead to more one-shot kills.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Mm, we'd have to aim for the bits we want to cut off or aim for the likeliest seat position, & it would massively decrease the effectiveness of spamming 6 rails in 3 seconds. Meanwhile the cratering is cutting off big chunks of people's craft & the butthurt is pegging the needle. Butthurt is unhealthy for railgunners.

Personally, it doesn't seem like that big a change...but then I don't get shot often and am used to getting ohk sooo..




Hm, we need a damage reviewer, so you can see what shots hit where and did what damage.

[alexandertnt]

I have been using mostly railguns recently and the update seems to have made them MUCH more effective.

Holy crap they got buffed. I can cripple fliers with a single shot, sometimes even blow them up outright, even if I hit an electroplate. And I have 6 of these shots.

[TolyK]

I've been hating railgunners with a passion now.
It's made me a lot more cautious if I actually want to win any games - I have to wait until my teammates are taking fire before going on to strike priority targets. Obviously, that priority for a flier is "railgun>smg>plasma".

[Mephansteras]

Something about the update made the game less stable for me. It's frozen on me 3 times now.

[ibot66]

I continue to have a deep-seated hatred of rails due to flying a tier two flyer. With the new update, however, sometimes I fly through the world, and I think once my plasma shots did that.
Also, is plasma or laser better for flyers?

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Plasma for bombing ground targets, lasers if you want to fight other fliers too, (and you can still strafe ground targets).

Try em both?

Humbug to all you lot. I insist a damage review screen would reduce the animosity towards rails when people see how the damage took out their seats'n'bits, or how it was a set of 4 spammed & lag-clustered shots instead of just one mega-shot.

[TolyK]

I'd say plasma unless you can hit other planes.

Railguns just take out my engines or just generally make me unstable. Granted, I haven't upgraded all my armor to the higher tier yet.

I've been trying to make a ps2 Scythe-like design for air-to-air, but I keep getting shot out or destabilized too quickly and having too high a CoF. Any ideas? I've tried electroplates below, but they don't help much.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Supposedly they help best against plasma- not the biggest problem for flyers. So it would have minimal benefits.

Before the last two patches, the biggest problem I had was with flying-turd designs. Just bricks with redundant wings & coverall armor. Hard to destabilize, hard to kill, seat in the back with a nearby set of wings/jets/weapons stays effective even at 15% integrity, (usually try to aim for the middle of the craft to take out the likely seat position or at least chop off the largest chunk of stuff possible).
Also, horrendously ugly. So it goes- fashion vs practicality.
For your scythe design,

Spoiler: This? (click to show/hide)

I'd be aiming for the apex (where your seat is) or just try to focus on one 'wing', which would at the very least make it difficult for you to fly, (hopefully).

[etgfrog]

The best anti fighter designs that I've come across has been blimps covered in engines to allow for full mobility in the air.

[TolyK]

Also, horrendously ugly. So it goes- fashion vs practicality.
For your scythe design,

Spoiler: This? (click to show/hide)

I'd be aiming for the apex (where your seat is) or just try to focus on one 'wing', which would at the very least make it difficult for you to fly, (hopefully).

Yes, that. I've already realized that making a useful one would be near impossible./
I'll probably have to do a winged fast-flyer in order to even think of fighting. Or a differently-shaped vtol...

[crazysheep]

So, a friend introduced me to this and I must say I'm having fun. Until the railguns and plasma bombardment show up, that is, but fun nonetheless.

Are there any decent low tier hoverblade/hovercraft designs floating around, or do I just recreate a Tau Hammerhead and hope for the best? :3

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Eh, just try youtube. Ya might want to keep the blades internal, and spread them out. Experimentation!

[crazysheep]

Will do. Thanks

[LoSboccacc]

Which tier?

Just remember: place blade high enough compared to the rest of armor or you will flip

Hover also have some disadvantage as you cannot bring all weapon to bear, so put sone thruster and win being more manoeuvrable than anything else!