ok, the another gripes thead!. but this time for a presumably best fighter you ever get to fly... or is it?
In theory its THE best. it's got shields of a bomber and armor of a bomber.
A cruise speed of a light fighter, the manuvrability of medium fighter, and AB speed of Hellcat... only with infinite fuel. it carries more missiles than a arrow, banshee or contemporary Excalibur, more Torps than T-bolt. It has very good guns, fission cannon, It can cloak, and in it,you can see cloaked fighters, so every thing is perfect... And yet I came to hate this fighter every time i had to fly it.
So, here is why:
First of all its multiple personality disorder. I mean as F-107 Lance it is all good confed new superfighter, and then as Dragon it becomes a terrorists' tool
Then there are "Infinite" afterburners witch tend too, well, stop working. I thinkthey stop working while you afterburn and fire at the same time, or something like it, but all i AM sure, is that it stops working, without any warning when you need it.
Then there is a pointless Fission cannon. Why pointless? the main guns are good enough (espetialy with autotracking) to put down fighters, and the gun is still a bit to weak to take down capships IMO. The main guns are nice, too but not excelent - i mean compare them to Excalibur's, even WC IV one's.
Then there are the missilies -10 ok that's a lot but... only six of them can actually be loaded with whatever you want... I mean what (in-universe wise) were the engineers thinking while desining them - well let them carry 10 missililes, but only 6 imrecs nahahahahaha (crazy scientist's laughter)
But the worst are the impressions while flying. First the red hud. I mean c'mon, even the galxiest most evil genetically engeneered superpilots desereve to have relaxing sight on long deep space patrols. And the computer voice comes from psychopathic murderer. Also, I always fond handling not so good. it actually can be outmanouvered by lots of fighters
As a conclusion - while I first flew it, I was expecting something spectacular, but it just didn't give you "master of the universe" that you had in Excalibur. I never came back from the mission in Dragon with all my missiles just because i didn't need them, like it was with Excalibur. And it just didn't have the soul, so many other WC fighters had
In theory its THE best. it's got shields of a bomber and armor of a bomber.
A cruise speed of a light fighter, the manuvrability of medium fighter, and AB speed of Hellcat... only with infinite fuel. it carries more missiles than a arrow, banshee or contemporary Excalibur, more Torps than T-bolt. It has very good guns, fission cannon, It can cloak, and in it,you can see cloaked fighters, so every thing is perfect... And yet I came to hate this fighter every time i had to fly it.
So, here is why:
First of all its multiple personality disorder. I mean as F-107 Lance it is all good confed new superfighter, and then as Dragon it becomes a terrorists' tool
Then there are "Infinite" afterburners witch tend too, well, stop working. I thinkthey stop working while you afterburn and fire at the same time, or something like it, but all i AM sure, is that it stops working, without any warning when you need it.
Then there is a pointless Fission cannon. Why pointless? the main guns are good enough (espetialy with autotracking) to put down fighters, and the gun is still a bit to weak to take down capships IMO. The main guns are nice, too but not excelent - i mean compare them to Excalibur's, even WC IV one's.
Then there are the missilies -10 ok that's a lot but... only six of them can actually be loaded with whatever you want... I mean what (in-universe wise) were the engineers thinking while desining them - well let them carry 10 missililes, but only 6 imrecs nahahahahaha (crazy scientist's laughter)
But the worst are the impressions while flying. First the red hud. I mean c'mon, even the galxiest most evil genetically engeneered superpilots desereve to have relaxing sight on long deep space patrols. And the computer voice comes from psychopathic murderer. Also, I always fond handling not so good. it actually can be outmanouvered by lots of fighters
As a conclusion - while I first flew it, I was expecting something spectacular, but it just didn't give you "master of the universe" that you had in Excalibur. I never came back from the mission in Dragon with all my missiles just because i didn't need them, like it was with Excalibur. And it just didn't have the soul, so many other WC fighters had