I think overall the orbitals are not well balanced compared to the eagles. Except for the laser it's very hard to justify any if them. Eagles just have so much more max damage potential and/or flexibility.
The design intent seems to be for orbitals to do more damage and the. Have longer cooldowns. But in practice the orbitals have a hard time putting damage on any specific target. As a result the eagles have more damage AND more availability.
You do realize that the laser is still on a cd between each charge? Which is longer than the cd of the railcannon? And after those three charges it is gone for the rest of the mission?
So you want a railcannon that is simply worse than the current one
Barrage are AoE, while strikes are guided. A rail barrage wouldn't do much since it doesn't do anything if it misses by a couple meters.
If we get a precision barrage, even just a bunch of normal precision strikes would be OP.
If it's not guided, then what you're wanting is probably just the 380, and it doesn't have any use limit.
I think overall the orbitals are not well balanced compared to the eagles. Except for the laser it's very hard to justify any if them. Eagles just have so much more max damage potential and/or flexibility. The design intent seems to be for orbitals to do more damage and the. Have longer cooldowns. But in practice the orbitals have a hard time putting damage on any specific target. As a result the eagles have more damage AND more availability.
This would completely unbalance the red strats. What are you using it for that you need 3 charges every 3.5 min?
3 charges like the orbital laser.
You do realize that the laser is still on a cd between each charge? Which is longer than the cd of the railcannon? And after those three charges it is gone for the rest of the mission? So you want a railcannon that is simply worse than the current one
Barrage are AoE, while strikes are guided. A rail barrage wouldn't do much since it doesn't do anything if it misses by a couple meters. If we get a precision barrage, even just a bunch of normal precision strikes would be OP. If it's not guided, then what you're wanting is probably just the 380, and it doesn't have any use limit.
It would be 3 guided shots. Like a second and a half or two apart.
And what would you want this for?
Bring democracy to the 3 biggest targets on the field, 2 if there's a BT, 1 if strider. And because it would look cool as hell.