[SC] LF-4's Vs Enhanced LF-4's

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  1. souleater1

    souleater1 User

    It was pushed that the enhanced Lf-4's had a base of 212 were as the regular LF-4's didn't have 212 until it was upgraded to lvl 16. Now if this is the case then Enhanced LF-4's upgraded to lvl 10 should be out gunning regular LF-4's at lvl 16, but that's not the case regular LF-4's are hitting way harder at lvl 16, than the enhanced LF-4's at lvl 10, which should not be possible unless the enhanced LF-4's hit power of 212 base was reduced to what regular LF-4's were hitting before they were upgraded. what this shows is that regular LF-4's are showing better results than any of the enhanced LF-4's. Am I right or wrong!
     
  2. coobo99

    coobo99 User

    You know, I thought I was crazy. My test server account is hitting about as hard as my main account. Albeit, it has 20 proms, but they're all lvl 1 and the rest are LF-4 (1 lvl 16, various lvl 2-5). My main is filled with enhanced LF-4s (Which now have 225-235 damage base level) and 10 lvl 11 proms.
    AND I'm sepped and double boosted atm.
     
  3. I have level 16 Prometheus is a laser and my max damage with seprom and boosters is only 250k
     
  4. Mod-Rogue

    Mod-Rogue User

    Moving thread to speakers corner :)
     
  5. Hi All,

    I haven't really been here in a very long time. I was posting or answering questions all the time. Then I got tired of people who were mean to others who really wanted help, or didn't know better. So I left the forum. Plus DO/BP didn't like my posts either. They would remove them or band me for my comments.

    What I remember when they first came out, Enhanced LF-4 (Hyperplasmoid, Magmadrill, and Paritydrill) were not enhance able. That is why they were so great. They were supposed to be better than the Regular LF-4 Upgraded Laser (16LVL). So slowly I have been changing them out on my main warship (Config 2) Hyperplasmoid (7) and Magmadrill (8) to fight PC or heavy duty Aliens. The Paritydrill and Spectral Lancer III with Scatter Laser III on Config 1 for Aliens which was my main fighting config. What I rather fight, not players.

    So you tell me you can enhance them. I looked at the new (for me) Upgade button in the Assembly. Now I see if I press one of the Enhanced LF-4. They will appear in the box below. Then I see "Collect All" does that me all will be upgrade as one? I SURE MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN YOU UPGRADE AN ITEM.

    Well going back to the topic. It is another way DO/BP can get their hand into your pocket. They keep changing the game, which I don't mind mostly because some of the changes are good. If now these are Enhanced what about the New Laser that came out a fewyears ago. The new and the mighty laser. Now I never went there for that laser. (Read my posts on that if it still out there). It was a laser to beat all laser and it didn't need Seprom to run, but Promertum.

    Now with this post:
    Do I remove the Enhance LF-4's I have on my main ship?
    Do I remove my old LF-4's are on my secondary ships and put them back on my main ship?

    If you read the old posts on LF-4 vs Enhance LF-4 (they were many on this subject). The Enhance won out 9 out of 10 time that is why I changed.

    Dark Orbit started to sell the Enhance in the "Shop" to make money. I for one couldn't buy any because of money problems. The Players who were in my boat complain and it was removed shortly after it was there.

    Angus
     
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  6. souleater1

    souleater1 User

    I haven't noticed any change to hit damage btwn either the enhanced or regular LF-4s to me they're about the same, as far as any new laser the only one I know of is the Prometheus laser but basicly it only hits harder against Black Light enemies than any other, but basically all lasers are running off of Sep or Prom, and even in the assembly, the new upgrade is still one at a time, you can though upgrade that one up to Lvl16 at one time, but sometimes that takes a long time.
     
  7. Hi Souleater1

    Thank you for the info. I didn't understand it because I haven't updated anything. My last update was when the button was on the main screen and that was a very long time.

    Angus
     
  8. anduril

    anduril User

    After reading this thread, I decided to dust off my old G surgeon and outfit it with old fully leveled lf-4s that also needed dusting off and polishing, as I had chased all the shiny new ships and lasers for a long time. As a try out, I decided on Plutus event because it is free and has a variety of NPC junk to shoot at.

    The old girl got me through as easily as my Cyborg even without the extra slots. I was surprised, and so I decided to comment here. Gotta say it was a blast flying the surgeon again, there was a time when it was "the" ship to have in the game. Miss those days and my old friends.

    Fly safe :)
     
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