i love flak cannons

[crawlerw]

my titan now have a desent amount of flak cannons 8 im still missing 8 to have a fulls set.

well xenon dont really like flak.
im talking about the LX here i just got 2 to bail from the flak fire.
with full shields.
My only problem is that i cant pick them bacause of the 4 K's and two j's that are currently in my sensor range, they are moving in fast

[Paranoid66]

Flak my favourite X3 weapon. I love the sound of rolling thinder in the morning accompanied by the crackle of trashed Xenon electronics. One weapon where the alpha versions need not be shunned but warmly embraced. I hope ES don't feel the need to tweak this one too much in the future.

[crawlerw]

just how great is the AFLAK range ? i have been wondering

[Paranoid66]

just how great is the AFLAK range ? i have been wondering

Don't know the statistics all I know is a full bank pretty much does the business against even M6's like the P if kept on target a few seconds. M3+ M3 last a couple of seconds while M4's and M5 usually more or less just go boom. Good enough. Some think the range is a bit on the short side but if you close / turn toward the target...

[Psirus]

I think it's pretty much 1.5 for each, but I've had issues of no auto-track till 1.25 with the alpha

[XanII]

Wasnt the flak a boron made weapon?

[crawlerw]

it is just bought a flak factory just because i cant seem to buy them anywhere
Ocean Of Fantasy its a nice little back water system with a few bad sectors close by

[philip_hughes]

Stick flaks on left, gppc's on right, flaks on top. Add an ahept to each flak bank to increase the effective range untill you can get more flak, then set your top and right turret to attack my target. The xenon shall no longer bother thee.

Thou shalt also recieve many more flack guns from the wreckage of thine enemies.

[ThommoHawk]

it is just bought a flak factory just because i cant seem to buy them anywhere
Ocean Of Fantasy its a nice little back water system with a few bad sectors close by

Same with me, that's one of the reasons I'm setting up a superhub - I'm fed up with sending my weapons carriers all over the X-iverse for hard to find weapons. FAA factories seem to have dissapeared.
Used to have them in Interworlds, and Red Light, and some Split sector, cant recall which.

[ThommoHawk]

Stick flaks on left, gppc's on right, flaks on top. Add an ahept to each flak bank to increase the effective range untill you can get more flak, then set your top and right turret to attack my target. The xenon shall no longer bother thee.

Thou shalt also recieve many more flack guns from the wreckage of thine enemies.

I thought it was not a good idea to mix weapons on the same turret-grouping due to reduced tracking efficiency? Some folks are adament this is so.

[Daveofthewood]

I too love flaks, but although the alphas are good, Beta Flaks have a better range and are more powerful, i've equipped my captured Xenon K with Gppc's up front and Beta everywhere alse and it's unstoppable, after the K though id use the Python with flaks everywhere but up front...nearly as unstoppable!

[jlehtone]

I thought it was not a good idea to mix weapons on the same turret

Depends on the mix. Mixing with PPC is clearly bad.

PSG is an area-effect weapon and its effect extends clearly outside its nominal range. As long as it fires in the general direction, it will hit. FAA may or may not have area-effect, but its bullet speed makes it hit anyway. So any reasonable way to extend their range is a good tradeoff. PAC has a bit better range than PSG/FAA and tracks quite fast. Too bad not all turrets take them. HEPT and CIG track slower, and CIG has unnecessary long range.