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[Quicksilver Aberration]

Ttly, on 04 September 2024 - 01:47 PM, said:

It has 80 accel, 85 decel, more than a Viper, still more than a Wolfhound too, I should've put emphasis agility in particular, not raw speed mainly, and 97kph with speed tweak putting higher to 104kph is pretty fast too.

Raw speed is pretty essential for lights given how fragile they are and the lack of firepower and/or range they have. Agility is nice but matters less when you aren't the size of a 20 tonner and can juke to avoid shots.

When you are talking about "zipping" between cover, speed is way more important for lights because you want to take off-angles because straight up poke fights you are playing with fire because unless you are levering poptarts or mounts that allow you to do pixel-peaking-esque things which you aren't with the warthog.

Edited by Quicksilver Aberration, 05 September 2024 - 07:10 AM.

[Just a Kobold]

1453 R, on 04 September 2024 - 11:48 AM, said:

The Firestarters are likely the closest apples-to-apples comparison, and I will admit the FS9s will generally lose that fight. They have better profiles than the Adder, better durability quirks, but not by enough to outweight the Warthog's edge in firepower - even if most of the FS9s actually beat the Warthog pretty handily in single-shot burst damage. Not pinpoint instant damage, but two snubs and a mess of small lasers produces significantly more total damage than even fourteen APG.

The Warthog is actually the one with better durability quirks. I think it's second only to the Panther, which is... Fair enough, FS9 has JJs and usually go faster, which can make a difference for spreading damage.
Not sure about the profiles. You don't really miss your shots on a FS9 very much, not at that range and speed anyway. They're just good at directing where some of that damage goes. If you want to take off an arm that's pretty easy from most angles, but the Adder's arms are harder to hit from the front and about as easy from the side.

That -A variant is the highest performing FS9 you see (although the firestorm seems to match it), and a 0.71ish KDR with about 7000 drops, while the warthog just before the modest armor nerf had over 78,000 drops and a kdr of 1.4.
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