i noticed this too, btw compressed is bad for small, to much heat for the damage. double the damage for triple the the heat.

the rate of fire which you can do damage is over-all higher. last time i used the small 2 shots and was overheated 5-6 for the standard one and the small rails do not do a whole lot of damage. personally i don't like small rails and if im going for any kind of av i use missiles while blasters for everything else. i don't understand why large rail is 100% and small are 39% just seems off.

It's supposed to be a support Av weapon. But I do agree that it's inefficiency is quite low, and does not allow the weapon to actually fulfill it's roll in being a support AV weapon.


However, it's quite good against infantry.... Assuming you can hit them of course.

Jes. Small railguns are worthless for everything. Anti-infantry? Not even splash damage for a general purpose weapon, and the charge time is too long to snipe effectively. I wouldn't mind if it was fire on release or if it fired instantly, but it seems to fail at being a railgun.

I equipped proto rails on my DS to try tank hunting. It was complete bust, and that was several weeks ago when they were weaker.

Missiles might work better, but I'm reluctant to invest in them again after being burned once. Now I'm waiting for laser turrets. They would compliment a DS perfectly, huge damage and you only have to brush your target to melt it so dropship stability is less an issue.

this has beeing the case since forever. Small railguns are good for nothing. If you want a small turret as AV support then take small cyclic missiles you will get much better results out of that. I seriously cant see a point in using small railguns. Way to many drawbacks:

-they overheat
-they do for some miracle reason less damage against vehicles (lol their purpose is AV)
-slower rate of fire then cyclic missile turrets
- no blast radius at all
- even worse to use against infantry then missile launchers (and that means allready ALOT)

so what the heck are they good for? Somebody please explain me what the purpose of those things are? No AV capabilty, impossible to use against infantry. If i see a vehicle with small railguns i laugh like a maniac while jumping in a circle dodging every railgun shot of it.

To fix the small railguns or not to fix the railguns,
Personally im not sure i want them fixed. Since i cannot eject stupid gunners i tend to run with low level railguns on my DS. However, if i have a corp team ill run the good stuff but never rails, i do the adv blaster one side and cycled missile adv on the other.

I run the low level railguns because the newberies get bored quickly.

Missiles used to be great against infantry, but the nerf put an end to that so I skilled into hybrids like you to equip one blaster and one rail only to find that the blaster was every bit as good as the rail at AV. That was the second time I was burned.
Now I laugh at a DS if it comes at me with anything but blasters. I can do as much return damage with my MD.

I'm pretty sure CCP doesn't want an effective small turret for the same reason infantry can't shoot from a vehicle. They don't want the ducks shooting back at the customers in the shooting gallery.

It was that high advertised base damage that suckered me into buying small rails for my DS.

As soon as that gets 'fixed' the hilariousness of their power will become apparent. Look at their base damage? Some of them get close to 570 if memory serves. Last time I ballparked the math, with good skills and damage mods, someone can get just under 1500 direct damage with small rails! They can instantly kill any infantry when skilled up, not to mention how devastating they will be against other vehicles?

[FEEDBACK] Small Railguns: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?find=unread&g=posts&t=65499
Update: The dev team will investigate this further.

Success!

I already blow up tanks with me incubus with XT-1's or 20GJ Ion Cannons.

id say buff the efficiency rating against vehicles to around 50%.


as for now i think im going to stick with cycled missile turrets on my gorgon.
they have worked for the random blueberries so far.