u/cantpickaname8

Can't seem to find any online activity at all. I still get Signs and those Ghost guys walking around, but I feel as though I'm very rarely invaded or being summoned through a covenant, and I've had absolutely no luck with trying to invade too. Currently about SL90 and in the Lothric Castle area. Is it just that most people are hovering around the Meta SL and I'm outside of that range, or is the game just dead for Vanilla Online?

My friends and I are looking for a new game to play, and one of them has been on an Elite Dangerous kick recently. He's mentioned that we could get it and do co-op stuff, how you can share a ship or each have your own, but I'm wondering how well the game actually functions in co-op.

When I look it up I get a post from about 3 years ago with mixed responses as to how well the Co-Op feels. Alot seem to say it's mostly a Solo experience with co-op just stapled on or that the co-op isn't that smooth overall. What exactly is Co-op like, is it sorta like a Space Sea of Thieves?

On paper this thing is amazing, 35g, IRCCM, and Good Explosive Mass. However it can't lock fucking ANYTHING, the majority of the targets you'll ever see as an SPAA will be flying towards you, and this thing is stuck at an absolute max of 3km Frontal Lock, which by 10.0 is already well within just about ever A2G missiles range. It's genuinely functionally worse than the Type 93 at 9.3, since the missiles IRCCM is barely functional, and the range is insanely lackluster.

I do very well with the Type 93 too, but a lack of Contrast Lock, Range, and a non-functional IRCCM make this thing nearly impossible to use at 10.3 (the only lineup it has), especially in an uptier (very common) since everything you're supposed to be targetting out ranges you two fold at the very least.

The only possible use I could imagine for this thing is ratting at the edge of the map, close to Enemy Side, so that you can target and take down Jets as they zoom away from the field after already killing a few of your team mates. This thing needs to be 9.7 at most, even if it's great when it works, it barely works. Like, it works 100% of the time, 30% of the time.