Should I start with projectile guns, lasers or missiles?

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RaNdOmKiLs666

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Mass drivers are by far the best starting weapons. They have great range, excellent versatility and deal great DPS.

Missiles are average, they get shutdown easily by PD and they are so sloooow to hit their targets.

Lasers are weak vs shields and have poor range and are mostly inferior compared to other energy weapons, like plasmas.
 

twenty

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true, but at the same time no one has PD or even shields at the start of the game, so that changed things for me.

I prefer to start with missiles for their much longer range.
 

Costolisk

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Every playthrough i only use Projectile weapons hardly ever research the others if ever. I always dominate. 10 empires, 3 fallen, large galaxy, iron man mode, and hardest difficulty