reflective coating and pd lasers

[Postron]

does anyone know whether pd-lasers are effected by reflective coating?

[Llamedos]

reflective coating effects energy weapons that impact your hull. PD lasers dont fire at hulls so no they shouldnt interfer with each other.

[Postron]

to make myself clear:
does reflective coating provide protection from enemy pd-lasers?

[Kissamies]

PD weapons do fire at battle riders, which can use the coating, and I do seem to recall some drones could have it too, so the question is relevant. I always assumed that it does give extra protection, but I don't actually know.

[Llamedos]

i see. well i suppose it depends on the PD. but i would say yes it should protect them from PD lasers.

[H3X]

I'd have thought so too, as the laser PD is an energy weapon

[Postron]

Opprinnelig skrevet av H3X:

I'd have thought so too, as the laser PD is an energy weapon

But reflective coating doen't affect energy weapons generally, only laserfamiliy(lasers + beamers + pulsephaser).
and maybe pd-laser ?

[H3X]

Sorry I didn't see your reply before lol, apparently I wasn't subscribed to discussion -.-
I think I phrased the last post wrong, what I meant to say was that being technically a laser the PD should be affected by the reflective coating. It works against the other pulsed beams such as the UV laser, right?

The PD laser is really just a weaker, faster firing pulse weapon. I think it just defaults to a point defense setting, though if i remember right it can be switched from that manually. Not that it's really effective for much else lol. But that would make me think it's classed as a laser weapon just as much as any other, so should be stopped at least in part by reflective coating :)

[Llamedos]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Kissamies:

PD weapons do fire at battle riders, which can use the coating, and I do seem to recall some drones could have it too, so the question is relevant. I always assumed that it does give extra protection, but I don't actually know.

bah id like to see them do anything to my battleships

[Kampfrettchen]

I can confirm, that laser PD is indeed affected by reflective coating. It lets your BR live a little bit longer ;)