Vanguard Harbinger Showcase: This Heavy Fighter is a Beast!

In todays installment we review the Vanguard Harbinger. Initially I was disappointed in the ships performance but I found that was due to the included cannon being horribly underpowered. I swapped it out for a proper cannon and the ship became a monster!

[@dt9233]

You may have felt it was tiring but your dog-fighting skills helped you to stay in the fight for the various class ships you were faced against or fighting against to take down your bad guys. It was well worth the watching the video.😉💛💯👍

[@Joes_Apartment]

Thanks! Thats the one downside of using hotas, long engagements get tiring haha

[@Baltazar009]

I just wish people spend more time to actually know ships and get experience in game they try to make reviews and guides on... You are right that Harb is a beast, but you are quite wrong on everything else. Your loadout forexample is not good. Going ballistics is smart way, but you dont know why and dont use it at all. First instead Deadbolt you want to go with AD5B. Another thing is rockets, don't wait in 1km distance and try to lock them, thats stupid, switch to weapons. Main advantage of Vanguard is size 5 weapon which has range 3km and torpedos and rockets with a range up to 15km. So you shoot rockets from a distance 3+km and when you get on 3km you destroy the target with that size 5 weapon, coss most of ships doesnt have size 5 weapon, they have range of weapons only 1,5km. That means you can destroy them before they can even touch you and if they get closer to range 1,5km you double your dmg by using your 4x size 2 weapons too. If you already got some hits from that 3km distance, now with all weapons it will be a matter of seconds to finish a job. And last thing, since you go all balistics, it means your weapons need no power so you can use all power to shields to get additional 30% damage reduction. If you thought till now Harb is a beast with your playstyle and loadout, after you try this and play it properly, you will call it a monster.

[@Joes_Apartment]

Thanks for the input! You'll be glad to hear that since I made this showcase I found out about the AD5DB and use it basically everywhere including on here haha!

[@Baltazar009]

@@Joes_Apartment Glad to hear that :) Now you need to put in work the rest and you will be melting all ships (especially NPCs) and going out of the fights without scratch, well at least most of the time.

[@MavGamingTv]

​@Baltazar009 Yo dude it's funny I came across this comment because at first I was using the M7A Laser cannon and noticed that it absolutely sucked. I randomly decided fuck this I'm going full ballistics and swapped to the AD5B, best fucking decision ever. My Harbinger now is a force to be reckoned with. Dude I love the advice about power distribution I already had it off weapons since no need to with full ballistics, but I did NOT know that setting power to shields grants a 30% buff to shields. I usually had it set 80% thrusters 20% shields.
And VERY good tip about using 3km distance as an advantage with the AD5B.
Much respect, you know your shit.
Kudos

[@Baltazar009]

@@MavGamingTv Glad I could help. Been flying Harb for few years now so I learn few things. 🙂

[@MavGamingTv]

@@Baltazar009 For my missiles I downgraded to x32 Taskforce S1 missiles, kept the x3 Stalker V's.

[@Leo_Getz1]

I loved your video and I love the ship but one thing I noticed that nobody mentions is the turret glass is bugged where it looks like it’s frosted over and there’s very low visibility and no content creator seems to mention that and I don’t see it getting fixed if it’s not brought to attention.

[@Joes_Apartment]

Thanks for pointing that out! I'll be doing a comparison between this ship and some other heavy fighters down the line and will mention that for sure!