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Firestorm - Reforged Eden 2

This has been working pretty well for me. Currently using it at core 7 (the tech compartment is great, thanks!) with two heavy rails and two medium lasers, plus a small gen and two improved shield upgrades. I flipped the clone chamber vertical (removing the armor blocks above it) and upgraded some of the front armor to combat steel. Also needed to upgrade the rear hover engines to large ones because with a full ammo load it was sinking on its butt :) Shield penetration in RE2 makes the exposed container extenders really vulnerable, though. I lost a few of them in some of my POI raids.

Not even with crouch? Narf.

Also, when I respawned at the clone bay, I was stuck inside of the tank's rear blocks and couldn't get out. :) Even with the rear hatch open, unfortunately.

Hey thanks for the feedback! Yeah I think that cannons or lasers may be the way to go, at least for light HV weapons. Wouldn't mix weapons though, that currently dosen't seem to be worth it.

The plasma converters shouldn't be an issue if you can afford a core5. The bridges are probably harder to come by. I so far got plasma converters pretty reliably out of POIs.

Hey Ente - tested this today against the temporary drone base on the starters. The plasmas don't feel like great weapons in RE2 right now. It was about 15 shots with those six guns to take out a single turret, and they didn't drop the shield that fast either. I suspect that 3-4 lasers and 2-3 cannons/rails might be the way to go right now.

Also, the tank requires two plasma converters (for the plasma engines, I think), although they are sold in the Polaris stations in starter systems. Not sure if that's your goal for an early game tank or not.