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Gate Guns?
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Tom K'rathma
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#1 - 2013-08-05 23:45:31 UTC
I'm not sure which topic to post this in, so I decided on here as Crime and Punishment doesn't seems to be visited as often as I'd like.

Earlier on tonight we tried engaging someone on a gate in lowsec, and the gate guns targeted, killed and swapped targets in about 2 seconds. The ship they killed was a Condor, moving at max traversal at 2500m/s, with a sig radius less than 300. Whenever I have been jumping through lowsec, gate guns would always miss frigates or anything that tackled me, or just not do enough damage to Falcons etc to kill them, yet they tracked a Condor at full traverse and 1 hit? I'm calling some untold bullshit on their tracking getting buffed.

This isn't a 'I LOST A SHIP OMGWTF' thread, I'm just confused as to how the hell a 1400mm Howitzer tracked a Frigate moving max traverse.

TL;DR: Gate guns OP What?
Job Valador
Professional Amateurs
#2 - 2013-08-06 04:08:53 UTC
My first response is god hates you.

My second response is that a 2nd gate gun that you did not notice had a good bead on you and you only thought it was the gun that you had transversal on that killed you.

"The stone exhibited a profound lack of movement."
IbanezLaney
The Church of Awesome
#3 - 2013-08-06 06:21:35 UTC
Job Valador wrote:
My first response is god hates you.



No I don't.

https://soundcloud.com/ibanezlaney
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-08-06 08:32:06 UTC
IbanezLaney wrote:
Job Valador wrote:
My first response is god hates you.



No I don't.


I do.

"CCP Dolan is full of shit." - CCP Bettik
Seraph Castillon
In Control
#5 - 2013-08-06 09:42:25 UTC
Quote:
Each sentry gun fires every 1.75 seconds and deals 56 EM, 56 Explosive, 98 Kinetic, and 98 Thermal damage per hit.[2][3] Ignoring resists, this equates to 308 volley damage and 176 DPS per sentry gun. Additionally, sentry guns are unaffected by transversal and sig radius and are therefore particularly deadly to frigates.


From the wiki. Google is your friend.
Machiavelli's Nemesis
Angry Mustellid
#6 - 2013-08-06 10:19:19 UTC
If you are engaging neutrals on lowsec gates in a frigate one of these three things must be true:

- You are prelocked by a logistics ship before you open fire
- You are already aligned out and just ninjing onto the KM before you warp
- You are genuinely terrible at this game and should be ashamed of yourself
Bad Messenger
Rehabilitation Clinic
#7 - 2013-08-06 13:15:29 UTC
back to carebearing
Liam Inkuras
Furnace
#8 - 2013-08-06 13:24:11 UTC
There are 4 gate guns positioned around each and every star gate in lowsec. They form a diamond formation. 1 at the top and bottom, then 1 at the relative left and right. You may have excellent transversal against 1 gun, but the other 3 will be tracking you just fine.

I wear my goggles at night.

Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
Phaade
Know-Nothings
#9 - 2013-08-06 19:21:36 UTC
There are 2 gate guns on low sec gates. They don't miss, and they deal a straight 300 dps regardless of your resists etc. 150km range.

Don't fire on neuts near a gate in a frigate.
Drax Concrilla
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2013-08-07 16:49:41 UTC
Phaade wrote:
There are 2 gate guns on low sec gates. They don't miss, and they deal a straight 300 dps regardless of your resists etc. 150km range.

Don't fire on neuts near a gate in a frigate.


This. Gate guns don't miss. Also, the wiki article.