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[Lux Monolithic]

I apologize in advance for my terrible pilot skills in this. I had no idea what I was doing with the build and just threw it together quickly. This weapon seems... difficult... to use. I figured that much face time with a Mad Dog would yield greater results. What are your thoughts? aside from my apparently terrible skills.

Probably should have lost the 2's and just packed more heat sinks.

Edited by Illuminous Owl, 28 June 2017 - 02:43 PM.

[Vonbach]

Wow you having hit reg issues there?

[STEF_]

thought: it has an abnormal amount of heat and GH, for a weapon that spreads dmg, and has charge time too.

[TheArisen]

They seem to not be all that impressive, maybe they have a multiple shot thing like clan uacs.

[R Valentine]

8 years to kill an MDD. RACs are DOA.

[SlippnGriff]

Can i request a video for 6 rac/2's? May have to run XL/fusion. Also might recommend shooting groups for left arm 1, right arm 2 since the king crab is so wide

[Brain Cancer]

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thought: it has an abnormal amount of heat and GH, for a weapon that spreads dmg, and has charge time too.

It's suffering from the buggy GH system. Badly.

[Bud Crue]

The sound of that weapon is less impressive than I had hoped. Reminds me of the old 1942 airplane game when you got a power up.

[The6thMessenger]

Wow the RAC is beautiful.

Of course it should lose a bit of it's COF, and then not build up the jam meter until shooting, not while spinning up.

[R Valentine]

SlippnGriff, on 28 June 2017 - 02:48 PM, said:

Can i request a video for 6 rac/2's? May have to run XL/fusion. Also might recommend shooting groups for left arm 1, right arm 2 since the king crab is so wide

You can only shoot 2 at a time.

[Snowbluff]

Kiran Yagami, on 28 June 2017 - 03:03 PM, said:

You can only shoot 2 at a time.

BUt we you can use the others when the first two jam. 8)

[R Valentine]

Snowbluff, on 28 June 2017 - 03:06 PM, said:

BUt we you can use the others when the first two jam. 8)

If you dont' stagger properly you get a massive ghost heat bug that gives you ghost heat on every single shot. You'll overheat in 2 seconds flat.

[Athom83]

I'd like to thank CCT (Clan Croc Tears) for making the RACs DOA for this PTS. Hopefully PGI will see all the suggestions in the feedback and give them a nice boost.

[MadRover]

The RACs are only mediocre to bad. Why am I in tears? ;(

[Angel of Annihilation]

Kiran Yagami, on 28 June 2017 - 02:47 PM, said:

8 years to kill an MDD. RACs are DOA.

Hate to say it but looking the the PTS page, almost everything looks like garbage. I mean aside from a very weapon things, nothing I saw made me feel I would want to change my loadouts, well except for LFEs and maybe IS ER MLs. I will have to test a few things but when I saw that Heavy Large Lasers were going to have a 1.7 second beam duration, I almost LoL'ed myself out of my chair. However this is only the first test so lets hope they get more reasonable very quickly.

Athom83, on 28 June 2017 - 03:15 PM, said:

I'd like to thank CCT (Clan Croc Tears) for making the RACs DOA for this PTS. Hopefully PGI will see all the suggestions in the feedback and give them a nice boost.

Not sure if you know this or not but the Clans actually should have RACs as well. They literally got developed and implemented at almost the same period on the timeline. I can only attribute their lack of availability altogether due to ISCT (IS Croc Tears) about how OP the Clan are.

[Y E O N N E]

Viktor Drake, on 28 June 2017 - 03:44 PM, said:

Not sure if you know this or not but the Clans actually should have RACs as well. They literally got developed and implemented at almost the same period on the timeline. I can only attribute their lack of availability altogether due to ISCT (IS Croc Tears) about how OP the Clan are.

Clan RACs were only experimental at this time, IS ones were production. Clan ones don't go into production until 3073. And they suck even worse.

[Angel of Annihilation]

The6thMessenger, on 28 June 2017 - 02:54 PM, said:

Wow the RAC is beautiful.

Of course it should lose a bit of it's COF, and then not build up the jam meter until shooting, not while spinning up.

Want to hear something silly. In real life rotary cannons are know for their reliability since if there is a misfire of a round, the gun will continue its rotation and just spit out the unfired round during its ejection sequence. Also the fact that the rounds are being fired through multiple barrells and spun at high speeds means that they have significantly less build up than a standard single barrel MG or Autocannon. So much for realism huh?

[killerkrill]

The RAC DOA. The DPS is atrocious because of the wind up and jam bar. You can't even kill a commando standing still with dual RAC5's at point blank range without jamming. In what situation would you use RAC's over UAC's?

Edited by killerkrill, 28 June 2017 - 03:52 PM.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Yeonne Greene, on 28 June 2017 - 03:46 PM, said:

Clan RACs were only experimental at this time, IS ones were production. Clan ones don't go into production until 3073. And they suck even worse.

From Sarna:

"Clan Diamond Shark's engineers created their own version of the RAC/5 in 3069^[1]"

And for comparison

"The Light PPC is a smaller version of the Particle Projector Cannon. Introduced by the Draconis Combine in 3067"

Same time line my friend, same time line.

Edited by Viktor Drake, 28 June 2017 - 03:54 PM.

[Valdarion Silarius]

I hope those RAC sounds change before the final release. IMO, rotary auto cannons are supposed to sound intimidating to clanner scum like me.



At 22 seconds, This is what beefy RAC's should sound like.

Edited by Arnold The Governator, 28 June 2017 - 03:57 PM.