It's still the most powerful single shot weapon with the highest penetration. Very handy for sniping cores without blowing everything else away.

RE2 has no PvP at all, and is not balanced for PvP.
No player weapon will have longer range than an average NPC Turret.

It's a niche weapon. Most of the Project Eden weapons will be niche or specialized. It also doesn't count against the light/medium/heavy weapon limits so you can use it alongside any other weapon setup given you have enough CPU.

Depends what you're fighting, I think it makes a huge difference when doing drone nurseries for example. But since your main premise is "building a ship around it" then yea it's a mounted weapon you can only have 1 of, it's not going to be the main firepower of your ship.

That said there's a lot of weapons that people just don't see as worth using. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use the pirate blaster cannon, and I've been curious about it since RE1 but it didn't seem worth using on my ships whenever I played. After all this time I'm finally building a ship around it, full on 16 of them as the main armament and wow, I can take legacy ships and Toveras with it without any quantums or aux cores. There's a lot more thought put into RE2 than people give credit, and making edits to change things how you see fit is...

引用自 Gavodir：

After all this time I'm finally building a ship around it, full on 16 of them as the main armament

I'd love to try that out if your planning on sharing the blueprint. I've tried building, but turns out I'm really really bad at it

Would you really? It has no shields btw
I don't upload my ships to the workshop though I have kind of considered it lately. I just build for myself because I don't want to use other people's ships.

i tend to rely on other peoples builds. i've tried making my own, but i'm not the most creative person.

引用自 Todd 3465：

i tend to rely on other peoples builds. i've tried making my own, but i'm not the most creative person.

Never stopped me :D

Most of my ships are very boxy looking but functional - Ugly as a cyber truck. Sometime I even paint them! They are designed to be functional and do a specific job and I refine them until they do it well.

引用自 Gavodir：

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use the pirate blaster cannon, and I've been curious about it since RE1 but it didn't seem worth using on my ships whenever I played. After all this time I'm finally building a ship around it, full on 16 of them as the main armament and wow, I can take legacy ships and Toveras with it without any quantums or aux cores. There's a lot more thought put into RE2 than people give credit, and making edits to change things how you see fit is...

I've never seen a pirate blaster cannon where did you find them? Did you edit these cannons.

Its actual name is "Medium Blaster Cannon" I call the pirate blaster cannon because when you unlock the schematic it's under pirate tech.

引用自 Gavodir：

Its actual name is "Medium Blaster Cannon" I call the pirate blaster cannon because when you unlock the schematic it's under pirate tech.

I used them extensively in RE1. Not so much in RE 2 as I prefer just using Heavy Positron Blasters instead.