Beam weapons

[Terrigood]

I really hate the experience of facing enemies using beam weapons. There needs to be at least SOME way of avoiding each instance of damage, but the desert level is full of shots that track you and fly faster than you, vortexes that do the same thing, and beam weapons that track your every move instantly. At least give it SOME lag time before reaching our ship.

[Palandus]

I think they did this on purpose to force us to choose different ships. Most of us from the demo are likely using the Altas Dreadnought. Its too big a target, too slow, and too hard to turn, that those weapons vaporizes it. But some of the smaller ships, with fewer weapon ports can easily escape those weapons.

So in my mind, its trying to force us out of our "cookie cutter" builds, and try out different tactics. Though, I'm the type to brute force solutions, so I did eventually beat that horrible experience with the Atlas. And yeah, I did die 2-3 times, even with all my unlocks.

[Allyoubugsgetoffmylawn]

you can still use the Atlas just need to level it but yes use a smaller faster ship you will get away from them.

[Terrigood]

I can get away. The problem is that once I do, I'm out of range.

[Ryu_Sheng]

Originally posted by Palandus:

I think they did this on purpose to force us to choose different ships. Most of us from the demo are likely using the Altas Dreadnought. Its too big a target, too slow, and too hard to turn, that those weapons vaporizes it. But some of the smaller ships, with fewer weapon ports can easily escape those weapons.

So in my mind, its trying to force us out of our "cookie cutter" builds, and try out different tactics. Though, I'm the type to brute force solutions, so I did eventually beat that horrible experience with the Atlas. And yeah, I did die 2-3 times, even with all my unlocks.

I've had no problem with the Atlas TBH. 2 rail guns on the front, the rest as GAU. Along with the new drops like damage reduction and the blast plating make for a butt clenching start, but by the time i hit mid run im pretty much murdering everything. ! shotting larger ships with the Rails and everything else just melts to the GAU

[Palandus]

My personal preference is railguns and plasma cannons. The plasma has a comparable rate of fire, but has higher damage, higher range, and they apply discharge debuff.

I usually put my railguns (4 of them) on the back, because they have such great range that it doesn't matter where you put them, and then the plasmas in front so that you can push through swarms of enemies.

[NicaTane]

I second this!
I had a very fast light frigate and still no change to escape an even faster enemy with beam weapons, that is most frustrating. I nearly would have bought the game, but not after this experience.

[Recon]

Originally posted by Palandus:

The plasma has a comparable rate of fire, but has higher damage, higher range, and they apply discharge debuff.

What is discharge? There is unique perk that makes it trigger twice, but I can't actually find how it works. Is this some dot effect?