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The beam has incredibly low damage and is only useful against ship components. Once the shield generators are offline you're better off using the accelerators.

No, No, It's fine. I'm at least a two star pilot. Or at least that's what I've been told.

Two Split Tau Accelerators for damage and a Burst Ray for surface Elements, all had Annihilator enhancements. Terran Shields with Traction, and Terran Engines with Slingshot.

Ks can be a big problem, especially in the early to mid-game. Getting enough rep to get a ship that can wipe out it's fighter support, and then snipe it's surface mounts at range makes them much easier to handle. Early game, I often "borrow" a destroyer from the SCA, use a fighter to cripple the K, then go in for the kill with the destroyer.

The Barbarossa is surprisingly capable. I outfitted one with 2 L Plasma and Beam on the rest. It may have killed more Xenon doing AutoTrade than my other destroyers did in Protect Position. Add on the fact that its military classification keeps it from attracting every pirate in a sector, and it becomes a must have ship.

@@ScienceZombie Normally I put ARG L Plasmas and then ARG M Flak as my common loadouts when using them as traders. This loadout does work good for a player loadout because of the range of these weapons. For some reason I have always done better with range than with damage. But now that I'm playing with a Barbarossa using the Erlking turrets it's been real fun and I wish I could put these turrets on everything without modifying the save file. I've since renamed my Barbarossa to Erlking's Bastard.

The Pulsar is listed as the Heavy Fighter of the Antigone Republic. It can be purchased from the Wharf in Antigone Memorial. It is the original 'Glass Cannon' fighter in the game with six Weapon Mounts and one Small Shield. It is the same in 5.0 as it has been. I believe the Encyclopedia only shows things that your current character has encountered by targeting or seeing available for purchase. Since the Antigone was the only faction using them before 5.0, it was rare to see them in the wild. Now the Dukes also occasionally use them.

I did up an Asgard and a Raptor. They both become next to invincible. A parked Asgard set to All Enemies with Annihilator Enhancements kills everything before they can close to firing range.

This was done by hacking the save file and going (Modified). Erlking Turrets are only available on the Erlking in vanilla.

He hacked his own file so don't worry he can not be banned! LOL!

Agreed. Defense Drone Swarms on Xenon stations seem to be a bit like playing the lottery. Sometimes there are none or few, sometimes you are swarmed. I've attacked some in friendly territory like Frontier Edge, Hatikvahs, or Holy Vision thinking it would be no big deal and had swarms that could completely disable all weapons and engines on a destroyer and leave me adrift waiting for help. You just don't know what you are going to get until you close within 7K and poke the nest.

@@ScienceZombie I like to poke the nest then get them to start closing and then head away with flight assist off, That lets me lead with the engines and keeps the drones chasing the front of the ship. That will usually let me preserve the engines and keeps them from becoming a cloud of turret deleting fury. Doesn't always work but I also like to have 8 to 16 fighters in my destroyers and that can help me knock them down fast enough not to get overwhelmed. True though. Sometimes the number of drones that come pouring out is a "Mother of God" moment.

Yeah, I had to "Borrow" it from the Sol Terrans. :)

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Yes. You can board destroyers with other destroyers, but taking out the surface element turrets to create a clear boarding path without over damaging the target can be difficult. My new favorite early (pre military faction level) boarding setup is a Fighter to disable surface elements, and a L Selene Freighter to do the Marine boarding. It sounds silly, but the Selene has a dock for your fighter, can carry a good number of marines, mounts a number of M Pulse Turrets to accurately deal with laser towers, and mounts a L Plasma on the underside to soak the shields of a disabled ship and crack the hull to 50%.

@@ScienceZombie I have learn a lot about bording from your video :) Did some bording in early game with my Syn, but decided that is not my cup of tea. I mean, I can do it if I want to, but I'm no crazy about it :P Even as early game money making, I prefered taking my Gladius in those protect miners from Kha'ak missions, they can bring as much as 5kk reward for 10 minutes work :)

@@ragnos28 Agreed. As expected in the X game series, every patch brings a new set of rules, bugs, and fixes. First it was Crystals, then Boarding and Bails, but now that there are missions that pay better than 10k-30k, I find myself doing a few more things. The early game money keeps changing, and I'm OK with that. I'm not fond of the crystal or shipyard changes because I think they break the idea of the "simulation". I understand the reasons why they wanted to change it, I just wish they would have chose better, more realistic solutions to solve the problems. Even with some of the new missions, when I see a lot of SCA Capitals in the field, I get the urge to buff up my capital fleet. I guess the life of a Privateer is hard to walk away from.

@@ScienceZombie Buff up capital fleet... All the DLC introduced OP ships (the Raptor, the Asgard) that made the usage of capitals in player fleet, superfluo. As for SCA capitals in the field, I remember I took a trip to Hewa's Twin IV (it has a SCA shipyard, they add "the Cove" to the sector name) and 3 SCA capitals had considered that it was a good idea to ask my Raptor with 100 Chimera complement to drop the cargo. Send a few torpedo equip Chimera, the capitals went boom, I hope it was fun for them as it was for me :))

Challenge accepted! I actually think cybernetics can be really sexy!

Normally if there are more than 7 or so, they divide and attack at about 30 degree angles from the top and bottom simultaneously. Either way it wouldn't matter, the flak on the Raptor is pretty evenly spread on the top and bottom.

I rarely take hits in the Asp Raider, and if I do, I just get out with a boost. If you are using Parainid or Terran shields with a Traction Enhancement, boosting almost feels free.

It gets much better from here. When you finally have the money, faction, and research for better weapons and enhancements you can tear through these SCA destroyers in a fraction of the time. It's all over once you get an enhanced Burst Ray. Burst Rays can do a bit of damage through shields, so they bring the generators down quickly. I have a Late Game Boarding video that shows how effective that is.

I think the projectile speed it just too slow on the bolts. They never seem to lead their target by enough to compensate for the low projectile speed. They make a nice arc that shoots in front of the target and passes behind it. Unless the target is flying strait into the gun. Fortunately, the AI seems to like flying directly towards the guns.

Crawling all over it like a flea on a dog. Definitely stay below the guns focus if you're in a tiny hull ship.

even in th emap its laggy for me lol

I think the map is more laggy than the game view. I hear my fans start to spool a bit when ever I go to a zoomed out map and it tries to show all the objects in the galaxy.

I would love to, but it always boils down to not enough time.

Definitely. I have put down several Xenon stations with this ship.

Yeah. Turrets function in groups. Fortunately, the Raptor has a lot of groups. Unfortunately, multiple groups often pick the same target. There doesn't seem to be any mechanic for group 2 to calculate that group 1 is already firing at target A, so I will fire at target B.