Victory Falcon - Way too slow?

[Hexagoros]

The Victory Falon's description mentions speed a couple of times, but so far it's one of the slowest ships I've encountered. Is it supposed to be this slow? I had to do quite a bit of upgrading and tweaking to reach a mere 43km.

If this is intentional, that's fine, I just think it's a little odd that the description mentions how it's built for speed. :S

[Kani]

Ya its extremely slow

[Midas]

Its a frigate no longer or corvett, so its slower, but much more guns corvets are like, hit and run, while frigates are like hit, hit hit, turn, hit hit hit, run :D

[Hexagoros]

I guess so, but then the description should probably be changed, as the description and stats just don't match up at all.

The Victory Falcon, to me, plays like a very slow, heavy hitting glass cannon. Basically no protection, lots of guns, and non-existent movement speed.

And I'm totally fine with that, but then the description of the ship really should be updated to reflect how it actually plays.

[Kani]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

I guess so, but then the description should probably be changed, as the description and stats just don't match up at all.

The Victory Falcon, to me, plays like a very slow, heavy hitting glass cannon. Basically no protection, lots of guns, and non-existent movement speed.

And I'm totally fine with that, but then the description of the ship really should be updated to reflect how it actually plays.

You can add a shield to it for better protection

But alone it feels more like prey

[Hexagoros]

Oh yeah, I slapped a shield generator on mine ASAP. I took it out a few times without one, and got hulled pretty quickly by ships I really shouldn't have been losing too.

I'm really itching to replace it, but no place wants to sell me anything XD

[Lichlord9333]

You could look for lighter modules or a better engine I kinda got the issue where my corvette is ironicly faster then my 2 gunboat escorts.

[The Haney]

Yeah the Victory suffers from a very poor thruster layout. You have to fill the slots with those speed-focused thrusters that kill maneuverability, and even then it's lackluster.

Unfortunately there just aren't any better ships at that price point that I've seen so far. Just hope you don't run into something that kites you to death.

[Kani]

Honestly its a dps design, not meant to last long in a fight but able to dish it out really fast and ultimately hopefully kill its target in a few volleys with the right weapon setup

[Lichlord9333]

Originally posted by Antalii:

Honestly its a dps design, not meant to last long in a fight but able to dish it out really fast and ultimately hopefully kill its target in a few volleys with the right weapon setup

that does seem to be it's design philosophy I have to defeat one in the story quest and it's honestly wiping the floor with me atm xD

[Yograin]

I found purple reactive drives in one of the shops which are faster and lighter than mana drives in all categories. There is a 2x1 and 2x2 there but I'm still slow.

[Lichlord9333]

Originally posted by Yograin:

I found purple reactive drives in one of the shops which are faster and lighter than mana drives in all categories. There is a 2x1 and 2x2 there but I'm still slow.

yeah when I found the victory myself I noted quite a few drawbacks on the design that said you can make it into a light 'ironclad' warship or a heavy broadsidee for it's size class.

Ironically I encountered a cruiser class pirate vessel and even that thing was faster lmao perhaps consolidating the engine slots so it would be able to have a heavy mana engine would solve the issue.

[gigastar]

I captured a Falcon and honestly im impressed with how it handles

The setup came with heat beam projectors and shield generators and it punches way above its weight in terms of damage potential, at the cost of only having one broadside

[War Craze]

I agree that the flavor text is misleading. I honestly thought the kingdoms ships would be the fastest going into the game. Turns out the Republic ships are faster. The kingdoms ships have more guns, but are slower and made out of paper-mache. You're far better off getting Republic or Teutonic ships rather than middle of the road Kingdom ones.