Gatling Cannon:
Make the damage 400 rather than 300 and velocity 190m/s rather than 180m/s

Flechette MK1:
Make the energy/shot 5.5 rather than 6.5 and damage 300 instead of 250

Flechette MK2:
Make the energy/shot 5.0 rather than 6.0 and damage 330 instead of 280

Great weapons, but underused. I buffed the MK1 a bit as well because it should give newbies a little more variety in their choices at that level. These stats are absolutely not final to this suggestion, anyone have a better idea?

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Yes, definitely. It's silly that a gatling turret with a/a turned off is still a better weapon than a gatling cannon.

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Especially for the GatCannon; that thing needs some love. (Fletchettes are actually pretty deadly as-is, just hard to use).

Good idea, i'd used gatling cannon if damage will be 400 and better speed.

Couple of days ago I tried to learn using it in PVP.. result was 11 deaths, thanks to low damage and speed :/ and certainly myself ;) . Yeah i hit targets, but i always hadn't enough damage.. Little more will help. At least like AGT.

And certainly Fletchette needs to be modified too. I heard different suggestions in the game, even about making it lighter, but Chaakin's version looks reasonable.

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For the love of Lady Serco, it's written

Flechette.

And the greatest problem I see with both the GC and the Flechette is that, for widespread use, their spread is far too wide (apologies for the bad pun). But I'm all for buffing them.

Whoops, my bad, I have no idea how I made that mistake. x_x

Well, tosh, that's the problem. Even if you use the flechette or GC with skill the DPS and DPE is still mediocre compared to other weapons. The flechette and GC have a lot more room to have better stats because of the high spread. Right now there are some people with the skill to use flechettes very well despite their wide spread, but that skill is simply a novelty as it would be much more effective to use, say, a neut even if they land all their shots with both guns.

My biggest worry with buffing the fletchette, however, is unbalancing Aputechs who already use them fairly effectively and who newbies already regularly complain of. Any thoughts?

Make the current flechettes mkI, then introduce a buffed mkII and MkIII.

Hmmm, yeah I'd say decrease the required license of the Flechette MK1 to be gained at around 2/2/-/-/-, give the Flechette MK1 the stats of the current Flechette MK2, give Aputechs the MK1, and then apply the buffs in the master post to the Flechette MK2 and MK3. Sounds cool.

devs please for the love of god and all that is fucking holy BUFF THE GOD DAMN fletch/cat cannon.

seriously though the fact you recently modified the greyhound is just a slap in the face of everyone who has ever posted in a flechette buffing thread, and while i'm at this cut the flechette MkII spread by 20%~25% would make it a really fun gun to use.

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Flechettes are already deadly. I'd rather see the Gatling Cannon simply removed from the game. It will always be redundant with the Gatling Turret.

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right maalik flechettes are deadly, and vults are fat too i'm guessing?

Just like Lenbs aren't awesome...

I disagree about the Gatling cannon. I discovered that by putting a gatling cannon and gatling turret on a Rag you get a ship thats pretty deadly... (for a rag.)

Flechette cannons are one of the more effective weapons in the game. They are very easy to aim with.

The aa is similar to any other weapon the spread doesn't help at all unless your target is within 5~30 meters, and even then the DPS EPS and DP-Shot is still terrible, a N-2 is far more effective even at close ranges where the flechette mark two should be king.

"Flechette cannons were one of the more effective weapons in the game. They are very easy to aim with." -Maalik

Look at the third word in your statement.

fixed..

dun touch mah pawcorn!

unless you make it lighter!

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