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Thread: Heavy TIE vs TIE Bomber?
Dragon942 wrote:If you want to get shot a lot and not be able to turn or fly very fast, get a bomber.
Just stick a bigger gun in your Heavy when you level up.
Unfortunetly the game is a bit broke right now in that there isn't much reason to fly bomber-type craft.
Sure there is.
If you fly a bomber type craft, you can load Space Bombs (Mark II) into it. Then, you can use those to quickly take out larger targets when you are flying with a small group. One of the group protects the bomber, the bomber whacks the Gunboats, the rest of the squad whacks the fighter escort. They are perfect for Vette runs...
Tocran wrote:
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We all have the option of going back to the JSF, but then, as Rapax said, it becomes the composite of space.
rols_cerentz wrote:
Dragon942 wrote:
If you want to get shot a lot and not be able to turn or fly very fast, get a bomber.
Just stick a bigger gun in your Heavy when you level up.
Unfortunetly the game is a bit broke right now in that there isn't much reason to fly bomber-type craft.
Sure there is.
If you fly a bomber type craft, you can load Space Bombs (Mark II) into it. Then, you can use those to quickly take out larger targets when you are flying with a small group. One of the group protects the bomber, the bomber whacks the Gunboats, the rest of the squad whacks the fighter escort. They are perfect for Vette runs...
Nah, I can jump in my low profile, manuevable fighter and weave my way through the gun fire to blow these things up just as fast as I can bomb them....and I don't need a fighter escort.
The heavy tie is just about as great as the JSF and Bubba-22. The bomber flies like an over loaded truck. I would stick with the heavy tie all the way untill you can get and use the Royal Guard Interceptor which currently is greater than all other ships.
Guyvii2 wrote:
Ya the small foot print is hard to hit but it is a lite ship also. It is not like there is a 180k load out you can put in it.
It has the smallest footprint and twice the PYR stats with 90k mass. Previously this was the a-wing with 65k mass and the interceptor (50k) and advanced (65k) mass. The old ships were pretty much limited to level 6 engines and level 7 shields for a balanced setup. The new ones upgrade this to level 8. You can't fit a heavy enough gun and L8 engine on the old ships so you're kinda forced to take one of the new ships to compete in PvP.
2nd, the A-wing was easily countered by an Oppressor withtriple im-rec launchers. Reb's and freelancer don't have access to a triple launcher ship other then the nova.
For the original question: I've mastered al imp squadrons in a TIE bomber, with droid commands anddecent equipment it can handle everything.
Washell wrote:
It has the smallest footprint and twice the PYR stats with 90k mass. Previously this was the a-wing with 65k mass and the interceptor (50k) and advanced (65k) mass. The old ships were pretty much limited to level 6 engines and level 7 shields for a balanced setup. The new ones upgrade this to level 8. You can't fit a heavy enough gun and L8 engine on the old ships so you're kinda forced to take one of the new ships to compete in PvP.
QFE. DUnno where this converstation was going, but QFE. THe above quote, combined with the fact thats its still a Tie fighter, is why i fly an RGI, bugged hitbox or no.
Raptor2k1 wrote:
2) the rebs have such nice ships so early, they should let us catch up with the later ships.
I beg to differ. I was stuck with bombers until Tier 3 when I could get an X-Wing.
Soloing Tier 2 CP in my longprobe (I didn't mess with droid commands at the time) as awful. Slow ship + slow engine + lower tier parts = not-so-manueverable ship with mediocre weapons and firepower. I actually had so much trouble that I gave up with my longprobe and used my 12k mass Z-95 to finish the tier up.
I would honestly trade the Imperial ship line-up for the Rebel fighter lineup any day, in terms of ship roles and advancemment anyways. I can't stand being forced into a bomber role, particularly when my flight style is medium-light fighter-esque in it's nature.
Of course, now that there's a heavy Z-95 that can fit just as much good stuff as an X-Wing at novice box, it's kind of a moot point (and this applies to all the factions w/ their heavy variants).
Just curious, were you using low level crap loot parts only in your longprobe? I've been buying crafted components mostly (probably 90%) through my grind so far, and it's been pretty easy really.
All bombers are. I used to fly them exclusively but I've fallen for the heavy-x
DanteTheMagnificent wrote:
But with a nice amount of mass, a very nice flat hit-box on the horizontal axis, and 2 gun mounts + 2 missile mounts - the LP is a very versitile and, I think, underappreciated ship.