So I've been going through the campaign, and got to the bit where you unlock railguns. "Sweet!" thinks I, "From the stats, these look like they'd be a good replacement for my Pegasus cannons!" So I loaded up one of my Interceptors which had previously been outfitted with a mix of Pegasi and Barbosas with full broadsides of railguns and headed on in.
That was when I discovered that railguns can't hit diddly-squat. As far as I can tell, the problem is that the railguns stop tracking while they're charging up to fire, which means that if either you're moving or the enemy is moving, then unless both of you are moving directly at each other it's going to miss. This, obviously, badly limits the potential effectiveness of railguns.
For more oddness, I tried running a challenge map to see if the same held true outside of the campaign. First off, though, I discovered that apparently ship layouts differ from the campaign and challenge maps - seems like the campaign ships get more ship slots. More importantly, though, it appears that unlike the campaign, challenge map railguns don't actually fire at will and rely wholly on manual fire.
So, is anyone else getting the same results? And is all of this working as intended?
That was when I discovered that railguns can't hit diddly-squat. As far as I can tell, the problem is that the railguns stop tracking while they're charging up to fire, which means that if either you're moving or the enemy is moving, then unless both of you are moving directly at each other it's going to miss. This, obviously, badly limits the potential effectiveness of railguns.
For more oddness, I tried running a challenge map to see if the same held true outside of the campaign. First off, though, I discovered that apparently ship layouts differ from the campaign and challenge maps - seems like the campaign ships get more ship slots. More importantly, though, it appears that unlike the campaign, challenge map railguns don't actually fire at will and rely wholly on manual fire.
So, is anyone else getting the same results? And is all of this working as intended?