pre-igniter on charge weapons

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pepijndevos
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pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby pepijndevos » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:53 pm

It seems that if I have a charge weapon, like that laser that has 3 charges max, it only pre-ignites one charge.
This makes them a pretty bad combo.
A burst laser would have about the same charge time but comes fully pre-ignited.

Is this intentional, or a bug?
Mommothazaz123
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Re: pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby Mommothazaz123 » Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:40 pm

It's intentional, not quite sure why though.
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Re: pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby 5thHorseman » Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:13 pm

It's intentional. There are 2 types of weapons the pre-igniter doesn't help much: Fast charging (Ion 2) and charge weapons.

It still works wonders for pretty much everything else.
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Re: pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby shadowcrust » Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:02 am

Third weapon category that isn't much affected by the Weapon Pre-igniter is the chain weapons.

And I guess it's very much intentional, just image a Vulcan Chain Laser that is fully charged at the beginning of a fight. Or two of them.
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Re: pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby 5thHorseman » Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:19 am

shadowcrust wrote:Third weapon category that isn't much affected by the Weapon Pre-igniter is the chain weapons.

And I guess it's very much intentional, just image a Vulcan Chain Laser that is fully charged at the beginning of a fight. Or two of them.


I like pre-igniter with chain weapons. Mitigates their single biggest detriment: That first long charge time.
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Re: pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby shadowcrust » Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:30 am

Slightly useful for chain weapons, but effects greatly diminished. Pre-igniter + flak and beams or 3 burst lasers are much better than Pre-igniter + 2 Vulcans.
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Re: pre-igniter on charge weapons

Postby Jonybravo » Thu Aug 14, 2014 1:38 pm

what are the weapons of this game , i want to play it and im curios of that weapon charging