EM space ship weapons suck?

[donut32]

i used my laser to get rid of the shield on this thing then blast it with the EM and just flies around and eventually i run out of space parts and blow up, while the EM doesnt do anything. reloaded a few times. do i have the wrong weapon or something. using a space suppressor weapon. im trying to board and arrest a guy instead of just killing him.

i really hate this ship crap.

[Flying Fish]

just target the engines with normal weapons and then board the guy

[eMYNOCK]

EM weapons are meant to cause minimal damage while temporarily disabeling the targets sub systems... like engines when you want to board a ship.

other than that.. they are of no use.

[Thradar]

Originally posted by Bradley:

just target the engines with normal weapons and then board the guy

You have to spend a bunch of skill points to be able to do that. You can't do it by default.

[Monochromatic Spider]

Originally posted by Thradar:

Originally posted by Bradley:

just target the engines with normal weapons and then board the guy

You have to spend a bunch of skill points to be able to do that. You can't do it by default.

You have to spend a single skill point. One.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by Thradar:

Originally posted by Bradley:

just target the engines with normal weapons and then board the guy

You have to spend a bunch of skill points to be able to do that. You can't do it by default.

thats were the EM comes in handy.. it distributes its low damage but subsystem effect equally among all the systems.

sooner than later all systems will go offline and than its boarding time.

[Rragar]

Originally posted by donut32:

i used my laser to get rid of the shield on this thing then blast it with the EM and just flies around and eventually i run out of space parts and blow up, while the EM doesnt do anything. reloaded a few times. do i have the wrong weapon or something. using a space suppressor weapon. im trying to board and arrest a guy instead of just killing him.

i really hate this ship crap.

Use the target lock function so you can aim your EM guns at the engines specifically. Three of these can usually disable modules faster than 3 damage-dealers. And you won't have to be concerned with accidentally destroying the target ship.