What about all these guns?

Fri Mar 14, 2003 10:59 am by hammerhead

Can any one help me make sense of all these gun types?

I'm corrently on level 8 (just after you escape Liberty space with juni), I'm flying the crusader, and correnly carry 2 Skyrail Tachyon guns, 2 Ripper particle cannons and 2 Vengence MKI guns (all level 4).
each gun is good against one type of shields and worst against another type.

Can any one please please explain to me what's it all about?
Should I replace my gun loadout (and shield while I'm at it) with accordance to the area of space I'm geting into or should just get the one with the higher level regardless?

(during the escape mission the shield of my Defender where rapidly eaten up by enemy fire but after I moved to the Crusader the shileds held)

Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:12 pm by Avelcaine

i usually have a "healthy" balance of firepower, take some rapid firing guns, take some mid-speed fire guns and some slow firing guns.
usually, you'll have enough diversity to overcome -almost- anything of about your level, and a bit higher.

only when you get nomad guns.... :p

Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:16 pm by hammerhead

And what about shields?

My Defender had Positron shields, the Crusader has Graviton shields...

should I change sheilds according to the space I'm in.
(I tried to fly back to mactan base on Magellan - the hackers base you flee to from Liberty - and discovered that my shields don't holdup to well...)

Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:06 pm by Mirax

just fly with the best stuff you got for the SP missions

usually what you have will hold out pretty well against what you will face, but that will definitely change when you finish the missions

Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:14 pm by Zaratomb

Diversity of damage type is good, but for aiming purposes try to keep you shot speed m/sec about the same. Graviton shields have the highest value per shield type, but also have to take into account the damage type you are taking. Take a good look at guns looted form enemies and try to counter their damage type with shield you are using.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:34 pm by GarethS

I find it easiest to upgrade your ship as soon as you get a level before a story based mission starts. As soon as I got enough Level for the Drake I grabbed it and it made the upcoming mission a lot easier

Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:59 am by hammerhead

Is there a list that make sense in all of this?
A list of guns and the shields their good against, and maybe another one for shields?

Also, Can I get the better fighters (ie Dragon, Valkyrie, stilleto and othe HF) during the storyline missions? (do I get to sufficient levels and get a puase on the story missions to go and buy them?)

Sat Mar 15, 2003 4:57 pm by Zem

Nope. Best ships you can buy during SP are level 6 max. power. Level 7 requires player level 20. I can't remember if you hit level 20 before the end, but I think that late in the game you don't have a pause to go buy one anyway. They ran the last 4 missions or so together, if I recall correctly.

Sat Mar 15, 2003 6:39 pm by hammerhead

Bummer!

Sun Mar 16, 2003 5:31 am by fds

You can't get higher than level 17 while the single player story lasts.

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