Here’s a setup for the Federal Corvette in Player Versus Environment (PvE) combat, designed for general use. It requires upgrades from the Engineers, which take a significant amount of time to acquire. This setup reflects my personal testing and experience.
Should I Get It? Is It Better than the Cutter and the Anaconda?
The Imperial Cutter has advantages in certain areas: it looks good, carries a lot of cargo, mines efficiently, has strong shields, and flies well in a straight line. The Anaconda is less expensive and can potentially deal more damage. However, the Federal Corvette’s better maneuverability allows it to stay on target longer, making it a more effective combat ship overall. The Corvette can be considered an upgrade from the Anaconda, if you are okay with its shorter jump range.
How Bad is the Jump Range?
Depends on what you consider bad. With a “good enough” G5 Extended Range roll, multirole fit, expect to get 18-19LY. Without the hull upgrade, you can push it over 21LY, but just barely. In the modern world it is indeed bad; but remember that prior to RNGneers, a combat-fitted Anaconda jumping 19-20LY was considered “perfectly adequate”.
Another thing that helps cope with the jump range is the fact that the Corvette generally runs cool and, when fitted with a 6B fuel scoop, can top up the fuel tank in one close pass at full throttle. This lets you make sequential jumps very quickly.
What Should I Engineer?
Everything. Engineers pushes the Corvette from the realm of “strong” to “stupidly OP”. You want:
- G5 OC Powerplant (You will need around 38MW but watch also for a low heat roll)
- G5 Extended Range FSD
- G5 Dirty Drive Tuning (once you get it, Corvette starts flying like a big Python. It’s quite lovely).
- G5 Charge Enhanced Distributor (10MW/s+ Recharge is recommend)
- G5 Thermal Resistant bi-weave shields
- 4x G5 Heavy Duty Shield Boosters (60%+ roll)
- 2x G5 Resistance Augmented Shield boosters (15%+ in all 3 rolls)
- G5 Lightweight Sensors
- G5 Lightweight Life Support
For a List what Materials / Datas you need visit this site.
What Weapons Should I Use?
Unless you are partial to certain weapons, in PvE you should aim for maximum longevity and lowest stress. To that end you’ll want:
- 2x Gimbal Huge Beam Laser (G5 Efficient, NO Special Effect).
- 1x Gimbal Large Multicannon (G5 Overcharged, Autoloader).
- 2x Gimbal Medium Multicannons (G5 Overcharged, Autoloader).
- 1x Gimbal Small Multicannon (G5 Overcharged, Corrosive).
- 1x Gimbal Small Multicannon (G5 Overcharged, Autoloader).
Should I Use Turrets?
NO. With G5 drives, the Corvette is so agile that unless you are blind and have no hands, you should have no problem keeping anything in the firing arc of your gimbals. Do not give up your DPS for nothing.
Yes if you want to Play with your Friends as Crew Gunner. Only turret Weapons can be used by Crew Member.
Should I Use Fixed Weapons?
Yes, if you are good with them. I’m not. If you Place a Elite Crew NPC as Helm it can be also effective with fixed Weapons.
How Should I Fight?
Two huge effective beam lasers deliver a massive punch at 0-1500m. Don’t fire your multicannons at anything smaller than a Vulture, just burn them down with beams (with 4 pips in WEP you can fire them almost indefinitely or really indefinitely). Vultures and bigger, take out the shields with the lasers and then start firing multicannons. With the correct SLF choice, hull stripping becomes trivial.
Indefinitely proof with a good G5 Charge Enhanced Distributor roll and Beam Laser (G5 Efficient):
What SLF Should I Use?
F63 Condor Rogue F (multicannons). Unlike the other two big ships, the Corvette does not need the SLF to tackle small fast targets.
The multicannon F63 is a flying huge anti-hull hardpoint with unlimited ammo. It will provide immense help with hull stripping and save your multicannon ammo. This extends the time between needing to rearm/synthesize ammo for your MCs. Remember that SLF pilots below the rank of Expert are worthless.
What Should I Put in the Military (Restricted) Slots?
Nothing, unless you routinely lose shields or dont want lose some Jump Range. But if you install some here what you should use:
- 1x 5D Hull Reinforcement Package (G5 Heavy Duty)
- 1x 5D Module Reinforcement Package
How Bad is the Rank/Engineers Grind?
Very bad because you need Rear Admiral as Rank. You must doing a lot of Missions to grind the Federal Rank. Combat, Trading or Exploration wont Rank you in the Federal Rank.
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