Whats your favorite fighter ? + Fighter description

[El Presidente]

As the title says, what is your favorite fighter and why ?

Personly i am going with two ships
The Perseus for a starter and mission ships because of its speed
Eclipse as a combat/guard ship for the AI due to good health and firepower though slow

A brief note most fighters comes in two versions
Vanguard = Slightly more speed but less health
Sentinel = More health but less speed

Below is a small description of all the ships with ups and downs

[El Presidente]

For the description I am personal taking into account HP (Health + Shileds), Firepower and Speed in all its forms. But not cost

Listed below is all the ships with a brief up and downs

Pulsar (glass cannon)
Pro: Best firepower 6 slots and above average speed
Con: Extremly low HP only beat by the Quasar by a margin

Quasar
Worst ship in game, a slow version of the pulsar with only 4 guns

Eclipse
Pro: Good HP, good fire power with 4 slots
Con: Slow

Nova
Pro: Fast, don´t need any military licens
Con: low firepower

Buzzard
Pro: Best HP of them all
Con: Slow

Falcon
Pro: Good HP, don´t need any military licens
Con: Decent speed but acceleration sucks and only 2 weapon slots

Perseus
Pro: Fastest fighter by far, don´t need any military licens
Con: Only 2 weapon slots it´s decent hull health but only 1 shield

Theseus
No con or pro really 3 guns average speed and HP

[Han Swolo]

Only ships I’ve flown are Elite and Eclipse. But I am dying for more data on these things. Good comparison!

Looks like none of these are as useful as I like.

You could throw Kestrel in there. One gun and I think one shield. Soooo yea not the best but hey, another early game ship.

[vandall666]

i moved to corvette asap, decent weaponary, (5 slots+2 turrets), shields, hull, can wipe wing of 5 Khaak under 60s (M cass pulse lasers have range 4km i think so can erase 1-2 ships before getting even in their range), its not as fast as fighter but a bit more fun to do hunting...
again, my personal choice :)

[Singrave]

do you know that race shields\drives are different? You can get falcon and put paranid drive on it to make it faster than with teladi drives.
same with shields.

[ImHelping]

The Eclipse seems like the sort of ship I would love to have on my team, but hate to fly personally. Even a travel engine only edges into 3k.

Meanwhile, the Teladi Falcon has been a wonderful "Only half paying attention" exploration fighter. It may only have 2 guns, and it might not be as fast as a paranid ship. But 4k hull and 3k shields is a wonderful saftey buffer on something that still gets 4.5 travel speed.

Originally posted by lameover:

do you know that race shields\drives are different? You can get falcon and put paranid drive on it to make it faster than with teladi drives.
same with shields.

They can make a difference, but ship hulls matter more overall.

For example, switching the argon shield for a teladi one on the Elite Vanguard does raise it's shields by a bit. But that's still nothing compared to fighters that get 2 shield slots.

[El Presidente]

Where can you get the Elite ?

The Kestrel is out of the picture one gun and not listed as a fighter, just a stupiet design :-)

Thought about the corvette class, but then some will go larger and its just a question about ship class. Also the fighter class description has a aim to get something that works well on the long run for protection of miners, traders and such, though i havent seen the need for it yet, or just wingmen if you wanna go hunting without the larger and slower ships.

[Ed]

I went through a couple of ships to fit my carrier and picked Nodan Sentinel.
It's:
1) Cheap (Very cheap)
2) Has enough hull HP to not die too quickly
3) Has 2 weapon slots
4) Looks cool in packs
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1582526515

If i had the option to take 40 defence drones i'd not bother with fighters at all.
Cuz like drones are very cheap and disposable firepower.
Try attacking some xenon defence platform and face it's 100 drones.

[HyggeDane]

im flying the falcon. first ship i bought and i really like it.

you can give it a slight boost if you use paranid engines.

i've foun teladi has the best shields and paranids has the best engines.

paranid all'round engine is cheaper than teladi combat and out performs it as well

[ImHelping]

The Elite is literally your starter ship oh my god... At least, for the Argon start.

Main draw of the Elite is the "You wont notice it it until it's gone" tight as hell handling (Also makes for amusing tight angle turns in turning travel mode off and on again).

Maybe also to do with that vague 'responsivness' stat not shown in the shipyard shops, the encyclopedia (One of the few cases of the Encylopedia listing anything of note). Elite Vanguard has 5.732 responsivness.

Scout ships for Argon and Paranid have response stats in the 3 point range.

Meanwhile, that 6 gun Pulsar has 1.817. And the fast as hell top speed paranid fighters also have 1.8 range for that stat.

I guess that's why it's considered an "Interceptor" even though other Argon fighters get a better top speed. It 's designed to make it easier to try and play space ace with a plasma gun / Keep enemy fighters in your sights as easy as possible.

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

The Nodan.

401 m/s standard speed, over 4,000 m/s travel speed. Modestly armed, but more than fast enough to dictate the flow of battle. I've been using it as my personal unit ever since I found it.

Also, the way it looks... I've named mine R-Type DELTA.

[TwinChops]

Bigest Con for the Eclipse:
ITS FREAKING UGLY AF!

That is the reason i dont fly it, i fly the heavy fighter from the teladi, it has higher shields and slighty higher hull, but only 3 weapons.

[El Presidente]

Originally posted by AdmiralTigerclaw:

The Nodan.

401 m/s standard speed, over 4,000 m/s travel speed. Modestly armed, but more than fast enough to dictate the flow of battle. I've been using it as my personal unit ever since I found it.

Also, the way it looks... I've named mine R-Type DELTA.

Where is the Nodan ? i havent seen that one yet

[Ed]

Originally posted by El Presidente:

Originally posted by AdmiralTigerclaw:

The Nodan.

401 m/s standard speed, over 4,000 m/s travel speed. Modestly armed, but more than fast enough to dictate the flow of battle. I've been using it as my personal unit ever since I found it.

Also, the way it looks... I've named mine R-Type DELTA.

Where is the Nodan ? i havent seen that one yet

It's sold on Alliance of the Word (ALI) wharf

[vandall666]

@ EL Presidente
Corvette is slower, but stronger than any fighter, yet has mainly front weapons, not turrets, any other - larger class - like frigate has mostly turrets, absolutly useless mess ATM

[vandall666]

with well equipped corvette, im literally sitting in place, collecting loot, from one destroyed ship while rest is hammering me, then move to next one, slowly, with nice nasty grin on my face ;)