1.3.3 GUNS AND GUNNER SKILL BALANCE

[Omniraptor]

I vote for making the carronade histscan again or adding tracers. Right now it is extremely difficult to use the shatter damage on the light carronade, less so for heavy.

[Kestril]

I'm starting to think that the "sweet spot" for the flak is too narrow. It detonates shortly after it's arming time. It doesn't have too much of a window to be effective, even when paired with the Hadies or mercury cannon. Either shorten the arming time or lengthen the range to make this window a little bigger.  Either that, or increase the ammo mag to where you can lay down flak like it's the battlestar galactica (a bit of a hyperbole there), but I think that would make things a little too similar to the mortar.

It's currently out-shined by the Artemis missile, which will not only kill stuff, but also strip components, and do it with more accuracy and rounds in the clip!

[Captain Smollett]

I'm starting to think that the "sweet spot" for the flak is too narrow. It detonates shortly after it's arming time. It doesn't have too much of a window to be effective, even when paired with the Hadies or mercury cannon. Either shorten the arming time or lengthen the range to make this window a little bigger.  Either that, or increase the ammo mag to where you can lay down flak like it's the battlestar galactica (a bit of a hyperbole there), but I think that would make things a little too similar to the mortar.

It's currently out-shined by the Artemis missile, which will not only kill stuff, but also strip components, and do it with more accuracy and rounds in the clip!

This pretty much sums up all of the shortcomings of the light flak in a nutshell.  awkm stated he'll be taking a look at this gun and I'm sure will take these forum posts into consideration.

[Kestril]

I'm starting to think that the "sweet spot" for the flak is too narrow. It detonates shortly after it's arming time. It doesn't have too much of a window to be effective, even when paired with the Hadies or mercury cannon. Either shorten the arming time or lengthen the range to make this window a little bigger.  Either that, or increase the ammo mag to where you can lay down flak like it's the battlestar galactica (a bit of a hyperbole there), but I think that would make things a little too similar to the mortar.

It's currently out-shined by the Artemis missile, which will not only kill stuff, but also strip components, and do it with more accuracy and rounds in the clip!

This pretty much sums up all of the shortcomings of the light flak in a nutshell.  awkm stated he'll be taking a look at this gun and I'm sure will take these forum posts into consideration.

Awesome. I'm sure giving it the same, or similar, arming time as the hades will allow for some great synergy at that medium skirmish-range.

[Mattilald Anguisad]

Light flak has far supperior killing power to artemis tbh. If you want to kill stuff at medium-lond range only weapon more eficcient is heavy flak. They don't do anything else exceptionaly well but they are at least good at killing. Artemis is far supperior at dissabling and hades might be better at armor and baloon killing, but lack the burst damage of flak. You need 2 ships worth of artemis to match pure hull killing power of a single light flak - even if 2 shis wort of artemis focus fire will dissable entire ship in no more than 5 seconds.
As for arming range in comparison to max range is: 225M to 1000M I think the "sweet spot" is large enough, altho inclusion of arming time on light flak doesen't make any sense.

[Omniraptor]

Basically, most people seem to think it's more profitable to have someone disabled and slowly dying than to have someone dodging your hades shots with full engine health.