It gets even more lethal with mods since there are a couple hard flux energy weapons that come in the same ballpark of the Heavy Blaster's DPS but have better flux efficiency (altough less damage per shot)allowing it to just keep hammering the helpless enemy longer before backing up to passively vent.Įdit: YOu can also play it with double Ion Pulser & lots of IR lasers to heavily specialize it to deal with small ships/heavy flanking, but the huge damage per shot of blasters works the enemy down a lot faster, especially if it's bigger. It's absolutely brutal and the enemy can't do diddly squat about it.
Playing it against swarms of smaller ships reminds me of those nature videos about woodpeckers eating other baby birds in their nest (don't watch those if you're eating) one at a time.
It's probably the only ship you can feasibly override that can also support a viable 360° shield + hardened shields.
Overridden, double Heavy Blaster Aurora is the thing of nightmares.
