Why the Lancaster is now Much Much Worse.

[King Baba]

Only newbies use it because it's a newb ship..

Why shoot 4 bullets when you can be invisible!? WEE!

[Quinn Cairn]

The fun is over!

My fav. new addition to the lanc is the cool 1550 energy!!!

Seems that wb and cloaker bullets do around 1540 damage, this means if you hold your fire, you can eat a wb shot EZ style! You only have 10 energy left but it works everytime, try it!


Have fun with it. I'll be out there in pub lamin it up as usual lookin for a new angle $

Oh well, the lancaster has been downgraded to 1500 energy. It was fun while it lasted. This is a shame because the 1550 energy kinda made up for the lancaster's lack of ship speed, bullet speed, and bullet damage. I know most of the wb and weasel pilot's complained about it but it really didn't make the lancaster invincible. It just required the blue bullet shooters to use a different strategy. It also kept the lancaster in a dogfight with a wb longer since the lanc could decide when it would fire. However, once the lancaster fired or when it was hit, the wb then had the advantage over the suddenly weakened lanc.

Also, the weasel's ability to kill really didn't change since most of the time you were in the heat of battle and thus vulnerable to being Xed. Simply put it gave the lancaster an error margin similar to the more maneuverable ships, and it in effect gave the lancaster a one shot kill ability since it could wait until a wb fired first before it returned fire.

Lastly, the 1550 energy appeared to give the lanc the ability to fire 3 rapid shots instead of the current 2 shots when multfire is turned off. You can still get three shots off but you have to wait a bit to fire the third shot because of the need to recharge after the first two shots. I thought overall it gave the lancaster increased ability without fundamentally changing the game. It also gave the lancaster an identity. Whereas the wb and spider are dog fighters fire missiles (blue bullets) are machine guns (red bullets), the lancaster had more of a tank identity, carrying heavier guns than the spider (yellow bullets) and able to absorb an initial attack.

That's the end of my whine about/eulogy to the 1550 lanc. Does anyone know of any arenas outside of the pubs that carry this lanc because I've looked and have been unable to find one?

[DoCk>]

Oh well, the lancaster has been downgraded to 1500 energy. It was fun while it lasted.

Try it now. I'm experimenting with the lanc's ability to be the fastest ship in the game. Try afterburning around in it. It also has more powerful thrusters to enable it to dodge a bit better.

[Vykromond]

Try it now. I'm experimenting with the lanc's ability to be the fastest ship in the game. Try afterburning around in it. It also has more powerful thrusters to enable it to dodge a bit better.

Nifty!

[Quinn Cairn]

Try it now. I'm experimenting with the lanc's ability to be the fastest ship in the game. Try afterburning around in it. It also has more powerful thrusters to enable it to dodge a bit better.

Nice.

:Being Whine: Now increased the bullet speed, not the rate of fire, but how fast the bullets travel and you may have a winner. It's frustrating to miss a target because of the slow traveling bullets. :End Whine:

[SpiderMage]

Try it now. I'm experimenting with the lanc's ability to be the fastest ship in the game. Try afterburning around in it. It also has more powerful thrusters to enable it to dodge a bit better.

So terr no longer is the fastest ship? ;.;

[Troll King]

Sharks were already faster in a sprint.

[bounty]

What i love is the speed on an uncloaked weasel at full thrust

Makes terrs MAD.

[Quinn Cairn]

It apprears that the wb thrust is more substantial that the lancaster's. It may well be because the wb thrust lasts longer but everything else being equal, it appears that the lanc thrust isn't noticeably faster than the wb. Have you considered bouncing bullets for the lanc in order to give it that shoot around the corner quality? Might be a nice addition to make the lanc more than a slow wb minus the one shot kill.

[JeBu]

That would so just... totally kill any usefulness of a weasel. Let javs and terrs hunt weasels, Lancs don't need any more against them.

hmm actually if u aren't noob weasel is pretty easy now for real basing.