So what is the Thumper actually good at?
It's got around 500 frag dps, 700 range, and 150 flux per second.
But when compared to a single barrelled flak that has 200 frag fps, 500 range, and a 50 flux dps along with it being a designated PD weapon so it will actively shoot at missiles with it's aoe shells, the thumper seems like a makeshift bad trade.
It fires a stream of bullets sure, but that seems kinda naff vs aoe flak shells. It it uses three times the flux per second to put out two and a half times the dps. It's got range which I suppose adds up but it's also not a point defence weapon, directly anyway.
So what's it do? What is it for other then as pirate trash? It only does 125 dps vs shields and armour. A light mortar only does 150 dps vs armour I guess? But that's a small HE weapon and the cheapest available. An IR Pulse Laser does 152 dps, but again that's a small energy weapon. I suppose it DOES do more armour damage then a arbalest auto-cannon but not even half of it's anti-shield capacity.
Even as a poor stand it it just seems too expensive to bother using over just using the wrong weapon for the job. And for 9 OP no less!
anybody else figure this weapon out? As even small weapons seem to basically be better then it, let along other medium contemporaries.