• From: United States
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Re: My thoughts/questions about the game

Another question: Do the ion cannons on the star fighters even work? I was flying the Y-Wing the other day, and it wasn't doing squat against Tie Fighters

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  • From: Manchester
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Re: My thoughts/questions about the game

Yeah, they're difficult to use, but get a constant stream of fire on a fighter it'll lose power and become a sitting duck. Best used in a head on encounter as you're more likely to hit your target as they're more likely to stay on a true path against you as they try and bring their guns to bear. All of a sudden they lose power and bang easy kill. Doesn't last long though, so if you miss them and have to come around for another pass they're most likely to have got system power back again.

The Y-Wing is a good ion cannon ship as with a gunner as it can hit chasing fighters with ion cannon fire and then easily pick them off too.

So in short, tricky to use, but get a good hit and it is a really effective weapon.

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  • From: Grong, Norway
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Re: My thoughts/questions about the game

Ion cannons are fairly useful against cap ships, too, I seem to recall. Get enough fighters shooting at a cap ship with ions simultaneously and it will become unable to traverse its guns, making it far less dangerous.

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  • From: United States
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Very cool.....man, I'm gonna try this out now lol

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Re: My thoughts/questions about the game

I believed until one or two days ago that the ion cannons on the Y-Wing didn't work. In a rather massive dogfight on Battle of Yavin, I was shooting a few ties with laser and ion fire, and a few seconds later I hear TiePilot (the BI one) complain that he almost killed this dude until his screen got DEMPed and his craft started falling (his words more or less).

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  • From: United States
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lol, yeah I was playing the ambush level with as the Tie-Defender and lol! The rebel scum had no chance

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Worst thing is, the T/D used to be even more powerful than it is now. I believe it had boost in the beginning, and six missiles instead of two lol . Needless to say, we had to nerf it a little.

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