All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Rail guns use a lot of WEP power and generate a lot of heat, so they aren't always a good choice for ships where power is an issue (like an unmodded Vulture). Range is 3000m, but damage begins to fall off after 1000m. Plasma Accelerator.

Depends on your skill/preference. Even a Small Plasma Accelerator will destroy a well armed hundred tonne ship with a single shot.

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Mango's Manual to the Railgun -Elite-Mango's Manual to the RailgunTake your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. It may give you some useful info: The ship does suffer from thermal problems, few internal compartments and doesn’t have the best Manoeuvrability. All of these are dependent heavily on variables ofcourse such as the enemy craft armor composition and I don't know if the craft themselves would have an effect, but some craft do have damage reductions like the FDL for example.

Plasma Accelerators are like riding into battle on a T-Rex wielding a rocket launcher in either hand. Both Diamondback ships are great for using this weapons, especially the Scout, due to excellent heat efficiency and maneuverability to stay on target. I'm debating putting a pair of Plasma Accelerators on my Cobra's medium hardpoints but I've never used them before.Plasma is an incredibly high skill ceiling weapon, but extremely rewarding if you learn how to use them.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. The total capacity is 80 shots which can be altered by engineering. A railgun with this effect does 10% less damage and draws a small but noticeable amount of fuel from the active reservoir (22kg class 1, 25kg class 2) to generate ammunition on demand rather than using the normal magazine. Plasma ACCs do absolutely ridiculous damage, but they're also absolutely ridiculously inaccurate unless you're a very good shot. I prefer Rails out of these two choices.

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Then there are cannons, frag cannons, and multi-cannons that sit in the middle where they are the best combination of anti-armor/anti-hull, lasers are anti-armor/anti-shield, and explosives are anti-hull. Then just put PA and rail to different firegroups; drop enemy shield with laser and PA, switch to rail for some insane hull damage. 2. fires low speed projectiles. The effective damage of this weapon varies considerably based on shot placement. "Elite: Dangerous PvE" was created using assets and imagery from Elite: Dangerous, with the permission of Frontier Developments plc, for non-commercial purposes. The clip size is only a single shot, which takes 1s to reload. This has a devastating effect on the local populati… I have a pair of Rails on my Diamondback Scout, along with two Multicannons, and that thing wrecks small and medium ships - though I got a good roll on a G3 Dirty Drive mod, so my DBS flies like an Eagle now. What's better nowadays? Pretty handy to snipe power plants from fleeing targets.Rails are actually proportionally more thermic than PA.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castThe official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub!

Plasma Accelerator. Rail Gun.

Which is better? They are almost brokenly powerful and efficient, especially from close range, but you'll have to go back to the station a lot. The plasma accelerator fires instantly, but the projectile is slow. The railgun's exceptional penetration allows it to hit subsystems even when striking through the opposite side of a hull in most cases. Being both extremely difficult to hit with (slow projectile speed) and punishing to miss with (high capacitor draw) makes them tricky, but the high damage, efficiency, and DPS more than makes up for it if you have the aim: it is one of the most powerful and versatile short-range weapons in the game.Railguns are almost exclusively an assassination/PvP weapon due to the low ammo count. super-fast projectile. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

It is also an impulse attack, causing the target to be physically pushed out … Hard to hit anything, mind you, but I like the challenge.