HammerHead
Rear Admiral
Yes! you are reading correctly!
I do mean the F-44 Rapier II aka Uber-Fighter.
While everybody are griping about the Toilet-paper-hulled ship, the Centurian mud pig and the not-so-hellish Hellcat, I felt the need to gripe about everyone's favorite.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I do like the Rapier II - very stylish, great maneuverability, excellent shields - which saved my ass more then once!
And even an excellent gun loadout.
But what's with that horrible rate of fire?! by the time it take the Rapier's gun battery to fire two consecutive salvos, you could almost bleed the Raptor's capacitors bone-dry!
And what that armor! you want to talk paper thin armor? then what about the Rapier's? - sure, she got excellent shield, but if you in a pincer, and the shields come down - your dead meat! and that's in the ship who's main objective is surviving dogfights!
And how about that missile load? this is a space-superiority fighter!
It needs homing missiles - not dumbfire ones!
I do mean the F-44 Rapier II aka Uber-Fighter.
While everybody are griping about the Toilet-paper-hulled ship, the Centurian mud pig and the not-so-hellish Hellcat, I felt the need to gripe about everyone's favorite.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I do like the Rapier II - very stylish, great maneuverability, excellent shields - which saved my ass more then once!
And even an excellent gun loadout.
But what's with that horrible rate of fire?! by the time it take the Rapier's gun battery to fire two consecutive salvos, you could almost bleed the Raptor's capacitors bone-dry!
And what that armor! you want to talk paper thin armor? then what about the Rapier's? - sure, she got excellent shield, but if you in a pincer, and the shields come down - your dead meat! and that's in the ship who's main objective is surviving dogfights!
And how about that missile load? this is a space-superiority fighter!
It needs homing missiles - not dumbfire ones!