Wat no one is going to say. Missiles: The empire strikes back. :p But nice find i'll look into this thxs. :)

That's the beauty of it; missiles still stand a chance- IF that is- the railgun doesn't start shooting first

missiles still win.

at everything.

everywhere.

all the time.

using this logic a proto rail gun tht does 2,000 damage base tht shoots 3 times will do 6,000 damage. Then u add damage mods plus skills and u get over 10,000 damage per shot = 1 hit kill. assuming i understood it right.

A proto large missile turret, with all of it's skills maxed out can easily beat it.

Well i guess it all comes to who flanks who. aka the better tank driver, :) in my eyes it looks like almost all tanks can be 1 hit killed. thts kind of lame. imagine a new 5 million isk tank and then 1 shot death. Lol = rage quit.

Thanks to "ugg reset" (you're the best), I learned something AMAZING about railguns- if you keep holding the trigger after the railgun fires (doesn't matter what type), it will immediately follow up with 2 more shots- no extra charge required, but it takes a toll on the heat.

After I found this out, I preceded to try out both small and large railguns in a skirmish (line harvest)- during that skirmish, I took out a dropship, 2 or 3 LAVs, and "sniped" countless infantry between both railguns. This ofc resulted in someone on the other team catching on and the battlefield being cleared of everything that wasn't fast enough to avoid them (the snipers even got wise and hid until the installations were destroyed).

At least for me, this brings in a whole new realm of gameplay, and a hope against dropships.

(btw, as long as I'm on the railgun subject, their range increases with tier- my shiney new advanced small railgun has almost twice the range of a militia one)

Thanks to "ugg reset" (you're the best), I learned something AMAZING about railguns- if you keep holding the trigger after the railgun fires (doesn't matter what type), it will immediately follow up with 2 more shots- no extra charge required, but it takes a toll on the heat.

After I found this out, I preceded to try out both small and large railguns in a skirmish (line harvest)- during that skirmish, I took out a dropship, 2 or 3 LAVs, and "sniped" countless infantry between both railguns. This ofc resulted in someone on the other team catching on and the battlefield being cleared of everything that wasn't fast enough to avoid them (the snipers even got wise and hid until the installations were destroyed).

At least for me, this brings in a whole new realm of gameplay, and a hope against dropships.

(btw, as long as I'm on the railgun subject, their range increases with tier- my shiney new advanced small railgun has almost twice the range of a militia one)

Thanks to "ugg reset" (you're the best), I learned something AMAZING about railguns- if you keep holding the trigger after the railgun fires (doesn't matter what type), it will immediately follow up with 2 more shots- no extra charge required, but it takes a toll on the heat.

After I found this out, I preceded to try out both small and large railguns in a skirmish (line harvest)- during that skirmish, I took out a dropship, 2 or 3 LAVs, and "sniped" countless infantry between both railguns. This ofc resulted in someone on the other team catching on and the battlefield being cleared of everything that wasn't fast enough to avoid them (the snipers even got wise and hid until the installations were destroyed).

At least for me, this brings in a whole new realm of gameplay, and a hope against dropships.

(btw, as long as I'm on the railgun subject, their range increases with tier- my shiney new advanced small railgun has almost twice the range of a militia one)

This is nothing new at all. The railgun was king last build because of it and is still probably the highest damage output.

The problem comes when you throw in the fact it's been nerfed beyond belief. The turn rate, splash damage, travel speed and range have all been reduced massively. Last build it would annhiliate a missile turret or blaster and this build it just won't happen. If a large blaster gets near you, your dead and the large missile will get you at medium to long range. The only time a rail is better is if it snipes you from afar now.

Saying all this, I had a couple of very close calls last night versus railgun tanks, but the problem comes with the amount of points that the large hybrids require to access and the lack of the marauder bonus. This alone means that once skills are up it simply can't compete for damage against a fully specced armour or shield tank.

If you do keep on with railguns I'd like to hear what you experience later down the line as I hate using the large missiles and loved my railgun last build. I just wish they hadn't nerfed it into oblivion, as it stands it's nothing compared to a forge gun yet it's a bigger, badder version. It just makes no sense how the infantry variant is just that much more effective. If it moves slowers then surely it should be more devastating when it hits?, as it stands it simply isn't.

Yes, WTF and SI can agree. Surprise :D

Like so many times before, CCP nerfed the thing too hard....... Instead of just reducing splash damage, that was the only real problem, they nerfed everything about it...

Travel speed especially was perfect. Railguns is maybe the ONE and only weapon turret that should have insta-travel.

Before this nerf, it was HAV who got nerfed in turn rate, modules etc... while they added a buff to AV weapons. Then, the ON spam fix where they raised the WP requirement and nerfed like hell Squad Leader Bonuses to a useless amount... Why not just raise WP requirement more and keep those incentive orders as they were ? Especially as they add removed any repair WP....

i just dont get why they dont try to nerf things step by step.

Yes, WTF and SI can agree. Surprise :D

Just tried the Advanced lvl Compressed Railgun. It only has two shots per charge before it over heats but charge time is only .5 and at damage starting at 490 it OHK's anything smaller that a heavy suit.

Even standard small railguns OHK most infantry. I wouldn't suggest attempting to fire more than 1 shot at a time with compressed though, just because of the overheating.

Might as well just save the money and use a regular advanced railgun

killing infantry is an after though with this gun since you need a direct hit to kill.

if you stagger your shots you can get a continuous stream at about one shot a second and a half appart without over heating..