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assult frigate flack frigate

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    Panzer War NCSA
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    assult frigate flack frigate

    Ill start off by stateing that ive only play'd the demo for a couple of hours and dont have an exact understanding. still getting use to the new menu and other new stuff. but one of the things that i like to look at is the ships stats attack armor speed.

    and ive noticed that the flack frigate which i thought would be similer to the assult frigate has upgrd lv1 has attack 50 armor 20800

    and the gunship witch builds a squadron of 3 there stats attack56 armor 1560 lv1 upgrd

    which appers to make the flack frigate uselyss when you compare its firepower to that of the gunship. Assumeing stats are each individual ship and not an acumilation of the squadron of gunships. and considering they perform same purpuse ant fighter ant corvete. I hope that this is not the finale for the flack frigate and hope that it will be upgrade with forward fireing plasma launcers or one or two plasma turrets, or maybe missle launchers. I think it should have more of a capship kill capebility maybe attack of 100 to 200. It just dosent look like theres much point to makeing flack frigates that do 50 damage when you could have 3 gunships that do 56 attack, and performs the same job.

    I dont want to come off as negative because i really like what ive seen so far. and am definetly going to get the game.

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    malignus
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    UM... did you actually see the flak frigate in action? It has a splash damage radius, which causes it to rip through fighter formations like Raid through an ant colony. The gunships can't even touch it.

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    Panzer War NCSA
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    no i didnt know that. like i said only playd a little. so far more trying to figure what video options my system can handle. still would be nice to see forward fireing plasma cannons on it though.

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    Kedyn
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    Against fighters, the Flak Frigate is tits. I giggle like a schoolgirl when I watch one of mine lean into a wing of fighters.

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    Keiichi
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    The first time I unleashed a formation of flak frigates on a wave of enemy bombers.... hooboy, what a sight! Those things rock just on sheer atmospheric terror. Nothing but explosions and puffs of black smoke as far as the eye could see.

    -Keiichi

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    Panzer War NCSA
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    dose anyone know the technical reason on how splash damage works for flack frig.

    is it cannon fires shell shell explodes and spreads shrapnel in all directions.

    or is it cannon fires like a shotgun shooting shrapnel in direction it fires.

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    Time Raider Ressev's Avatar
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    Your first was correct.

    The idea behind flak is simple: take out fighters and other smaller than frigate craft. It appears they do well against platforms as well.

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    do they damage frindley craft if near blast radius.

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    Zilor
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    Nope, no friendly fire from flak.

    I did have a ditzy ion frigate blow through my carrier before i noticed... But the flak seems to be safe to use in all situations.

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    Wicked Spider
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    flak frig gets kinda owned when there 2 wings of gunships
    a plasma bomber launcher would be a nice addition

    the field frigate looks kinda boring with no towers or anything its just flat on the topside but i think we can live with that

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    I wonder if the flack on hard settings would damage frindley's.
    seem's a bit silly that it dosent. But i guess one way to explain this would be to say there useing smart shells that can direct the explosion at enemy instead of just everywere.

    do miss assult frig though, miss haveing a light ship decent aginst corvets and capital ships. maybe vaygar will have one.

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    GIMPbeowulf
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    Flak frigates deal with fighters very well and are decent against corvs. They aren't meant for cap ship killing, there are 2 other frigates that are good at that already.

    What's important isn't the numbers, it's how it works.

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    Stealthy Defender of Russia Russian Ninja's Avatar
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    I noticed that it's a lot easier for Fighters to get inadvertidly hit by Ion Cannons in HW2. I guess it balances out the fact that as long as you still have one fighter in the squadron, you can get it back up to full health and members by docking with a carrier.

    But the Flak Frig...whew, it rips through fighters like a knife through butter. Ain't too bad against corvettes either, though not as good as a Torpedo Frigate with improved torps.

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