Borne Velvalor
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Posted - 2013.10.19 10:28:00 -
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The Plasma Cannon is a great weapon if you've got the skills and are fully specced into it with mods. It's just that most players cannot acquire said skills, don't want to acquire said skills, or don't want to sink the SP. Of course, the bullet moves slow as all hell, which makes it easy to evade when you know it's coming. Whenever I die to a PC, it's because I didn't know what was coming...  |
Borne Velvalor
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Posted - 2013.10.19 11:47:00 -
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Eversor Beercase wrote:Borne Velvalor wrote:The Plasma Cannon is a great weapon if you've got the skills and are fully specced into it with mods. It's just that most players cannot acquire said skills, don't want to acquire said skills, or don't want to sink the SP. Of course, the bullet moves slow as all hell, which makes it easy to evade when you know it's coming. Whenever I die to a PC, it's because I didn't know what was coming... Just the basic Plasma Cannon is needed for those OHK. The tankiest of heavies can withstand it though, so further SP investment is up to you, but the results won't get miraculously better. I encourage everyone to give it a go; it's fun and doesn't need heavy SP investments.
Well, it seems like reload and damage are important enough to spec into. Is charge time useful? The charge time is already pretty short. The Wiki says the fitting optimization lowers PG usage, but the Plasma Cannon doesn't use any PG up, so I can only assume that is wrong? Is it really useless?  I run Amarr Logi with Laser, so I might spec into Plasma Cannons in a few months down the line. I like grenade launchers.
My problem with the Mass Driver was that it's damage was too low and it's RoF was too high. The projectile always dropped too fast for me for the map sizes, too. I used the M203 Grenade Launcher in the America's Army game for XBOX (yes, XBOX, not XBOX 360) years back and the training had you making 150m-200m shots with that thing. I loved how the gun felt there, I guess because it was more realistic, and have been disappointed with how grenade launchers feel in most shooters. I feel like grenade launchers should be precision weapons, not "shoot at the feet of the guy 10m away from you" so maybe I'll enjoy the Plasma Cannon later.
Banning Hammer wrote:Borne Velvalor wrote:The Plasma Cannon is a great weapon if you've got the skills and are fully specced into it with mods. It's just that most players cannot acquire said skills, don't want to acquire said skills, or don't want to sink the SP. Of course, the bullet moves slow as all hell, which makes it easy to evade when you know it's coming. Whenever I die to a PC, it's because I didn't know what was coming... Actually, the projectile velocity got a buff recently... so is a bit of medium range glorified shotgun now. Still sucks as an AV, which supposed to be one of it main functions.
Thanks for telling me that. I died to a PC at medium range recently right after I turned and saw the projectile 20m from my face. I died from the splash since I was hurt, and thought the round would be slower. I thought I was imagining it.  |