hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous i thought i'd take
a look at some more power play today and denton petraeus with his advanced plasma
accelerator is it any good and how do you get your hands on one these are the questions
we'll be going through in this video and also a little bit of law about dented petraeus himself
the advanced plasma accelerator is a weapon and a variant of the normal plasma accelerator
you can gain this if you align yourself to denton petraeus the imperial admiral of the fleet
and person who has had a brief relationship with ashling daval her of the prismatic shields for
four weeks once you've gone through that process of aligning yourself for four weeks and delivered
his materials which we'll come on to later in the video then you gain access to this advanced plasma
accelerator now like the normal plasma accelerator the advanced plasma accelerator is a fixed mount
weapon okay and it shoots relatively slow moving plasma projectiles
normally on the normal weapon they're quite high powered uh but you've got a problem with heat
with this one you get on average about 40 percent of the damage per shot but you are able to fire
on a more regular basis your rate of fire is 286 more than the existing class 3 plasma accelerator
so pretty good eh so even though you're doing less damage you can fire more so it kind of balances
itself out as well so the distributor draw for this as well so you need a good distributor in
regards to this on your ship it's about 116 of what the normal accelerator is and the thermal
load is 145 over sustained fire now that's kind of the negative side of things and once you engineer
it and get some good heat sinks applied to that then you're going to be in pretty good shape with
this particular weapon however where it does come over and above the existing plasma accelerator
the advanced plasma accelerator has a larger ammo clip okay now the ammo clip is 20 shots compared
to the existing plasma accelerator which is only five and you've got a maximum ammo clip of 300
compared to 100 in the standard version so you can fire longer than the normal plasma accelerator
before exhausting your ammunition and you can let rip and let loose the dogs of war um should
you get close enough with these fixed weapons so purchasing the ship is going to be all important
now as i mentioned the standard plasma accelerator is a viable weapon and good against shields
and hell alike it's armor-piercing of 100 and a thermal load of 21.8 means
you've got to manage this weapon in a correct manner the advanced plasma accelerator however
like i mentioned is a costly weapon coming in around about four point four
million credits at the moment without any other comparable discounts that you potentially get
it's a class three weapon it'll go in your class three slots and it's not gimballed it is fixed
so even though you can see me putting this onto a clipper it might be better by putting it into
a smaller more nimble ship so you can really lay down some fire on it as well once you get
the advanced format of the weapon and you've got that 300 ammo clip in which to fire from
so how'd you get one of these shiny new advanced plasma accelerators well denton petraeus is your
man get yourself over to his home world once you've got to his home world what you can do
is then see what the sort of state of his part of the empire is i'm gonna go for preparation
because it's quite close 57.23 light years away that'll do for me and it'll help him out you know
uh and there's a system not far away once we've done that and you've made sure that you are indeed
at four weeks level three ready to unlock get yourself over to the power contact and start
gathering materials now these are done in blocks of 10 you have to get 750 okay once you've got 750
of these items you can then zip over to the next section that you want to prepare and then drop
them off simple as that every time you collect a block of 10 you've either got to wait 30 minutes
or you can spend 100 000 credits to expedite the process as a means of a fast track now
there's no getting away from this you either wait and it takes for absolute ever to do or
you spend a bit of money so it's worthwhile having a couple of hundred thousand credits
knocking about so that you can get this process expedited and move along quite quickly
now once you've got all that in your hold it's time to get yourself over to the system that
you are going to prepare or whatever it is that you're going to do getting yourself over to the
destination system i'm using my type 9 for this simply because i can load it up nearly to capacity
and do what i've got to do in one run instead of going back and forth to different stations
sometimes if you've got a smaller ship and you haven't advanced as far in the game then it's
going to be a bit of a laborious ache for you uh so it's worthwhile sort of spending some money
and getting a good ship that you can do these runs in one comparative goal that's my advice
anyway and perhaps the only top tip worthwhile in this entire process so once you've loaded up
you've set your course and you're on your way you will eventually depending on your jump drive reach
your destination free once you get there it's not going to be that much of an ache to offload you
can't just offload in bulks of 10 you can just hold your finger on the old button once you get
the power play contact in the system and start offloading your cargo here we are in the power
contact here's my military arms i'm delivering in the preparation side of things and i'm just
slowly offloading to this particular power play contact that's just the way it is
there's no way of getting around it it's what you got to do but once you have achieved that
then it's all about waiting for the system tick to happen now at the moment the system tick happens
on a thursday that's when the servers are all reset flushed out uh throughout the game that
might change in the future we don't know what frontier are doing but at least at this stage we
have met all the requirements we've been aligned to him for four weeks we're at level three and we
have dropped off well in this case i've dropped off 760 merits you only need to drop off 750. we
wait until thursday and then once the servers come back up on a thursday you are then able to go and
purchase those advanced plasma accelerators for 4.4 million credits from any station any station
that has outfitting which is pretty good and it will remain like that while you are still aligned
and you still maintain that rating of level three so good idea to have loads of credits
to go and buy things or buy those particular plasma accelerators before moving on to another
power play contact now like you mentioned they are a slot 3 or class 3 item and they're fixed
we've already mentioned that their stats are quite impressive
especially with the rate of fire and i can see myself putting these on say a crate mark ii
for me feel that just two of these weapons isn't gonna cut it and i think the placement on the
crate mark ii on top of the crate mark ii might be advantageous to using this weapon in combat
so here i am in my quake mark ii and my crate mark ii as you know has got three slots on the top
prime for a good firing solution for these advanced plasma accelerators so i'm placing
them in the class 3 modules ideally i should have some beam lasers in the mt
class 2 hardpoints with a bit of thermal bleed on there so i can start reducing the temperature
in my crate however i haven't actually got them available so i have to make do with something
a bit more conventional like multi cannons but we're only really going to be looking at
what the accelerators can do as opposed to any other weapon
so it's off to a nice hazard zone where i'm gonna go and find some mischief and someone to shoot
always someone to shoot in a has rare zone on something decently sized we've got a wanted
anaconda they're already attacking a little ship we're gonna get right in there um
we're gonna get right up his trumpet because you can get nice and close
lots of ships in here as you'd imagine and we are going to
shoot him and we're shooting away which is great
no idea what this guy's shields are like now so yeah we basically chopping a bit off him
um it's not you know it's not what you'd be ex you'd be expecting i mean we're doing damage
we are taking um some heavy damage
although with the quake mark ii
my shields are offline his shields are offline or very shortly to go offline
um you know i'm incurring a lot of damage right here mostly from his wingmen
so they're pretty good these guns you know but it's not all that is it you know
it's not all that i mean we're scoring good hits it's all about having a maneuverable ship
i'm only using my
my plasma weapons nothing else
you know is it a go-to weapon no i don't think it is really i think it certainly helps
if it's your bag i mean i'm giving a good smashing
he's out
i'm gonna be out
i'm destroyed um we did take a bit of damage we didn't incur
quite a bit of damage to him i think marrying this weapon up with some beam lasers to
to manage your heat you can continue to fire might be a good way of doing things
so what do i think well they're all right aren't they don't really pack as much punch
as you'd really like them to pack and they are ripe for a bit of engineering as well
to be honest with you a lot of these power play weapons are much of a muchness i think as i've
mentioned in other videos prismatic shields i can see a use there perhaps even the packhound
um others you've got to question it i mean the mining lasers the militarized mining lasers
you'd be lucky to take out you know a couple of eagles with them on your big mining ship but it
does give you a little bit of reassurance anyway that was my video on the advanced
plasma accelerator that you get with old denton petraeus hope you've enjoyed it hope it seems
it'll be a little bit objective and i hope you found it useful thanks very much for
watching i've been ricardo thanks very much for watching and i'll catch you soon goodbye
you