Symlin Raahn2
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Posted - 2012.07.13 07:39:00 -
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Beta Phish wrote:don't abuse Splash Damage from Missiles because you have No Gun skill
if you meant the Machine Gun, thats kinda different.
Beta,
I'm not sure what you are getting at or saying, but this turret is definitely not a machine gun. It's in the middle of the 3 on the pilot's drop ship, and he told me it was missiles. They look like missiles when it fires, too, with a trail. Usually I can fire it a couple times a second. NOT a machine gun
Did I misunderstand what you were saying? After all, if my gun skill sucks now, why didn't it before?
Thx for your input anyway.
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Symlin Raahn2
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Posted - 2012.07.13 12:08:00 -
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Really, guys, truly thx for your comments. But, I have probably flown 40-60 missions with this exact same pilot over the last couple weekends. I know how the darn gun aimed before and it is NOT working the same now. I didn't say we were getting shot down with swarm launchers, having more of them fired at us, nor that we had any problem staying alive. I flew a few rounds with him last night prior to me doing the upgrade of the Small Missile Turret Operation and things were just as they had been before on previous DUST sessions. As soon as I did the upgrade aiming was QUITE different. I flew a couple times with him after the upgrade and before leaving the OP, and about 4 times with him after the writing the OP, and the gun was aiming a whole lot differently. We could be perfectly (almost) still and the gun was hitting, if I was on the right of the ship, far left of the target. If I was on the left of the ship, it was hitting far right of the target. It was as if, all of a sudden, the gun I was aiming was actually being fired from the nose of the ship, or even maybe some distance in front of it, and firing on a line parallel to the one it would fire on if the missile was coming out of my gun. The origination point of the shot being way far forward of my gun was very disconcerting and this is NOT where the shots were originating before I did the skill upgrade.
I won't argue with you, Skytt, about if the skill is not supposed to be doing anything to help with proficiency. About that, I do not know, except that nothing is listed under info for the skill that would make someone believe that it would. I thought it would, but I have no reason to think that what you told me is wrong. I'm also not asking for a course on how best to use the weapon, or aim, or avoid or account for jerkiness, etc., though I appreciate your wanting to help me with that. That wasn't, however, the point of my OP.
Let's forget about whether I hit what I aim at, because that really isn't the crux of this either. As I said, the missile seems to be launching from way up front of the ship and flying on a parallel path to my aim, which does make it hit in front (relative the the ship) of where one would think it would hit. And again, please remember, this was happening when we were almost perfectly still, also.
I think I did a better job of explaining the whole situation this time after having a few more flights under my belt with the gun having this behavior. Sorry if I mislead you or if I wasn't as clear as I could have been in the first place.
Thx again!
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