I have a bad wrist and a vertical mouse. Combined (or maybe even separately), these mean that my aim will never be great. I have spent 2 years trying to develop muscle memory and aim with fixed guns in dogfights. The results have been downright awful. So, I decided to try gimbaled weapons. The difference was night and day.
Yesterday, some guy in a blade picked a fight with me (in a mustang alpha rigged up with gimbaled weapons) and within a minute, he was high tailing it out of there.
Turns out, the gimbaled weapons also allowed me to pull more wild and erratic maneuvers for getting behind the target while still keeping up the pressure DPS needed to win.
So, in conclusion, gimbaled weapons are okay! Thanks for listening to my TARD talk.
I spent a long time chasing the big numbers (fixed weps), but my favorite ships are the Connie and the Corsair, which are vastly different fighters with gimbals vs fixed. As a sidenote, I've had better luck with the higher velocity repeaters than the slower cannons.
Oh for sure. I tried gimbaled cannons, which surely dump more raw dps into, say, ERT targets, but even gimbaled they barely ever hit small targets.