One thing I can say about Gunships + Armor, is that if you're confident that you can keep the killstreak going, AND destroy them quickly, then the enemies will struggle to keep up with the armor repair. Like, imagine a boss (a.k.a, you) that heals faster than you (or in this case, the enemies) can deal damage. OR, by the time you're done reloading, the boss would've "undone" all that damage through healing.
If you play and build around the Gunship as an armor tank it can be extremely beefy...and it rewards an aggressive playstyle with self-repair, like you described. Very satisfying to play 😀
How to gunship: 1. Tuned energy core 2. Union Eclipse weapon set 3. Destabilizer missiles with chance to launch free missile on crit Lock target, destroy drones/missiles with flak, strip shields with blaster, strip armor with autocannon or scatter gun, laugh as target healthbar evaporates, repeat. Simple as.
@@wholesomegamer Powerful > Efficient. Best is when you find a Powerful weapon and can slap one of the 25% kinetic or energy catalysts on it since it doesn't change the prefix and you get both buffs.
I'll share a pro tip that I used with the gun ship all the way back from everspace 1. The gunship is the best sniper class in the game. Use a Rail gun with 4x the hardpoints to destroy anything from a distance. You don't even have to worry about energy consumption because yoy can just keep maintaining the distance and recharge. It's effectively better than the scout class for long range combat. I also like to use a scattergun for larger targets, i dont even need to charge up the scattergun, just spam shoot it and 4x shotguns destroy anything shieldless, and anything shielded gets railgunned before even coming close. For other weapon slots anything goes, but having both long range and short range prowess made this the easiest ship i played hardcore with back in the day.
The Gunship is super versatile in terms of setups and builds. It really works well at all ranges. It´s my go-to ship to farm the 500 Lunacy Rifts to collect all legendary items 😀
I've found I'm happiest with medium ships like Sentinel and Interceptor, as I dislike running too light on either movement or defense, but it is *so* cool seeing what people can do with something like the Gunship. I don't want to deal with its bricklike maneuverability myself, but it's a *very* good ship class.
Jep, a flying brick with the firepower of a medium sized Star-Destroyer. Currently my main-ship in the playthrough...loving it, despite being an absolute energy-hog.
Imagine if these videos would be made to be briefs inside the game to see each ship pro and cons form a dealer-client perspective, instead of a bunch of numbers
Gonna say, gunship is great at damage output, so great it can destroy a destroyer without any weapon device support within seconds( at level 27), but still, to survive and make your ship more effective in combat, the best one is the scout ship, far more range and damage bonus, with rail guns it can snipe enemies from as far as 6.3 km away!
@@wholesomegamer In addition, every 100m of range will also add 4% of damage output, so 6.3 km means we get 252% of damage output increase! (Sorry gunship, u just cannot do that).
Thx, I think I will finish my fresh game first. I might squeeze in the Bomber and then do a direct comparison between the Heavy-Fighters in terms of how they play differently and for what kind of players they are.
Just a quick question I'm new to this game and I love it so far, level 7 at the moment, chose the scout class as my first new ship. I read a lot about weapon hardpoints...Is it possible to fire simultaneously with 2, 3 or even all hard points? Or do you have to switch your primary weapon everytime, let the first one cool down/reload and use the next one and so on? Thanks in advance ✌️
Ok I'm not a beginner anymore. Used the scout, sentinel, interceptor and the gunship and now I know more about those hardpoints 😊 gunship is my favorite so far. It slaps so hard with penumbra/umbra.
@@Filsoh definitely vindicator, the turret is cool and extra gun volley is nice but the drones are constant damage with a burst from the ult, later you can also get upgrade perks that nanobots repair drones too. Biggest bane is mines, bring flak for clearing. Edit: forgot to mention your pet drones can also take the heat off you by diverting attention of enemies, dealing with baddies from behind or other drone swarms easily and allows you to focus your early mainframe upgrades into boosting expertise and defensives making you very tough.
@@Filsoh I've used the Vindicator almost my entire playthrough so far, and I've pretty much forgotten how to use devices and consumables except for teleport. And boost when I remember about the achievement that relates to hitting enemies with the high pressure mode. I started on very easy and decided to change the difficulty to normal, the very hard (which was annoying), and then down to hard. Other than very hard, I haven't noticed a difference between the different difficulties. See if you can get one with the extra drone passive, that extra drone makes things even easier. The only annoying part of the drones themselves is that you half to pay attention to their health and sometimes have to use wrecks mid-fight to repair them instead of fighting yourself. Even mines become only a minor nuisance once you upgrade your class utility and keep an eye out for madcaps and devastators so you can kill them with flak. My favorite part about the drones besides the extra guns the bring is that they aren't damaged by your own flak cannons. How has your playthrough been so far?
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This was my first ship after the starter. It does NOT disappoint. Absolute powerhouse and still one of my favorites!
Yep, this and the Vindicator are my favorites. Lately the Sentinel and Interceptor started growing on me too.
I got the tier one . Does the ship change looks at higher tiers? And so far I agree love the gunship.
You're the only one that i can find for advice on everspace 2, thank you.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one also. TY for feeding the need for this game... 7 days is like physically painful withdrawal :)
Thank you! Yep it is - my detailed weapon guide will go up on the 6th 😃 - and I have 7 more ship classes to cover...
One thing I can say about Gunships + Armor, is that if you're confident that you can keep the killstreak going, AND destroy them quickly, then the enemies will struggle to keep up with the armor repair.
Like, imagine a boss (a.k.a, you) that heals faster than you (or in this case, the enemies) can deal damage. OR, by the time you're done reloading, the boss would've "undone" all that damage through healing.
If you play and build around the Gunship as an armor tank it can be extremely beefy...and it rewards an aggressive playstyle with self-repair, like you described. Very satisfying to play 😀
How to gunship:
1. Tuned energy core
2. Union Eclipse weapon set
3. Destabilizer missiles with chance to launch free missile on crit
Lock target, destroy drones/missiles with flak, strip shields with blaster, strip armor with autocannon or scatter gun, laugh as target healthbar evaporates, repeat. Simple as.
Tuned Energy core and "efficient" prefixes on weapons are Gunship pilots best friends 😀
@@wholesomegamer Powerful > Efficient. Best is when you find a Powerful weapon and can slap one of the 25% kinetic or energy catalysts on it since it doesn't change the prefix and you get both buffs.
I'd also suggest throwing on an Auto Cannon and getting some Rockets. With those, you can absolutely SHRED larger ships like Drone Carriers.
I'll share a pro tip that I used with the gun ship all the way back from everspace 1. The gunship is the best sniper class in the game. Use a Rail gun with 4x the hardpoints to destroy anything from a distance. You don't even have to worry about energy consumption because yoy can just keep maintaining the distance and recharge. It's effectively better than the scout class for long range combat. I also like to use a scattergun for larger targets, i dont even need to charge up the scattergun, just spam shoot it and 4x shotguns destroy anything shieldless, and anything shielded gets railgunned before even coming close. For other weapon slots anything goes, but having both long range and short range prowess made this the easiest ship i played hardcore with back in the day.
The Gunship is super versatile in terms of setups and builds. It really works well at all ranges. It´s my go-to ship to farm the 500 Lunacy Rifts to collect all legendary items 😀
I've found I'm happiest with medium ships like Sentinel and Interceptor, as I dislike running too light on either movement or defense, but it is *so* cool seeing what people can do with something like the Gunship. I don't want to deal with its bricklike maneuverability myself, but it's a *very* good ship class.
Hits like a Bus but also maneuvers like a Bus, think I'll take this one 👍
Jep, a flying brick with the firepower of a medium sized Star-Destroyer. Currently my main-ship in the playthrough...loving it, despite being an absolute energy-hog.
Great video, thank you 👍👍👍
Glad you like it!
"hit me harder, you losers" -- hahaha good one man!
Haha I'm German, and man, the german accent is strong in your english xD I'm quite happy to find a familiar speaker haha xD
Imagine if these videos would be made to be briefs inside the game to see each ship pro and cons form a dealer-client perspective, instead of a bunch of numbers
gunship superiority
nothing beats this monster
Gonna say, gunship is great at damage output, so great it can destroy a destroyer without any weapon device support within seconds( at level 27), but still, to survive and make your ship more effective in combat, the best one is the scout ship, far more range and damage bonus, with rail guns it can snipe enemies from as far as 6.3 km away!
That´s the neat thing with 9 classes...everyone can find his favorite ship 🙂
@@wholesomegamer In addition, every 100m of range will also add 4% of damage output, so 6.3 km means we get 252% of damage output increase! (Sorry gunship, u just cannot do that).
Too old or too slow. Yep, that's me. Thanks for the advice.
Welcome to the club 😅
Awesome video, I'd love a rundown of the other ship types.
Thx, I think I will finish my fresh game first. I might squeeze in the Bomber and then do a direct comparison between the Heavy-Fighters in terms of how they play differently and for what kind of players they are.
Just a quick question I'm new to this game and I love it so far, level 7 at the moment, chose the scout class as my first new ship. I read a lot about weapon hardpoints...Is it possible to fire simultaneously with 2, 3 or even all hard points? Or do you have to switch your primary weapon everytime, let the first one cool down/reload and use the next one and so on? Thanks in advance ✌️
Ok I'm not a beginner anymore. Used the scout, sentinel, interceptor and the gunship and now I know more about those hardpoints 😊 gunship is my favorite so far. It slaps so hard with penumbra/umbra.
I'm kinda brain dead so I guess this is the perfect one for me
😀 I´m to old and slow for the Light-Fighters in this game. Vindicator was perfect for my first EA-Playthrough and could handle everything.
@@wholesomegamer Between Vindicator and Gunship who would you say its better in most combat situations and also being able to survive ofc
@@Filsoh definitely vindicator, the turret is cool and extra gun volley is nice but the drones are constant damage with a burst from the ult, later you can also get upgrade perks that nanobots repair drones too.
Biggest bane is mines, bring flak for clearing.
Edit: forgot to mention your pet drones can also take the heat off you by diverting attention of enemies, dealing with baddies from behind or other drone swarms easily and allows you to focus your early mainframe upgrades into boosting expertise and defensives making you very tough.
@@ManOfTheEmpire Nice, good to know
@@Filsoh I've used the Vindicator almost my entire playthrough so far, and I've pretty much forgotten how to use devices and consumables except for teleport. And boost when I remember about the achievement that relates to hitting enemies with the high pressure mode. I started on very easy and decided to change the difficulty to normal, the very hard (which was annoying), and then down to hard. Other than very hard, I haven't noticed a difference between the different difficulties. See if you can get one with the extra drone passive, that extra drone makes things even easier.
The only annoying part of the drones themselves is that you half to pay attention to their health and sometimes have to use wrecks mid-fight to repair them instead of fighting yourself. Even mines become only a minor nuisance once you upgrade your class utility and keep an eye out for madcaps and devastators so you can kill them with flak.
My favorite part about the drones besides the extra guns the bring is that they aren't damaged by your own flak cannons.
How has your playthrough been so far?
i want drones AND turrets no fair:3
😅 Yeah who doesn´t want to fly a Drone-Carrier-Battleship 😄
Who you call "old" ? i just like easy going combined with sniping ;)
Oh wow what a nice combination of german sayings and accent :P
I constantly work on that...hopefully improving with every video 🙂
@@wholesomegamer It is not a bad thing :P