Kinetic Driver Turret

"The Kinetic Driver Turret is a Kinetic weapon with long range that compensates for its limited damage output."

General
The Kinetic Driver Turret is a direct upgrade to the Coil Driver Turret, commonly used by medium-level players to protect their bases from sniper attacks.

It fires a white shell that appears identical to the Mass Driver in slow bursts of two.

Advantages
Kinetic Driver Turrets specialize in long range, enough to protect structures up to 2 squares away from sniper attacks, as opposed to 1 square for Coil Driver Turrets. This allows for greater flexibility in base design.

They also inflict very high damage per shot, severely damaging any ship that gets hit.

Disadvantages
Kinetic Driver Turrets are not reliable due to their slow projectile speed. Their larger minimum range makes them even more susceptible to blitz attacks than Coil Driver Turrets.

Kinetic Driver Turrets also take up a lot of mass, restricting the durability of Combat Modules equipped with this weapon.

Trivia

 * The Kinetic Driver Turret was once called the Heavy Mass Driver, which had been renamed to Kinetic Rail Turret.
 * As the Kinetic Driver Turret levels up, it increasingly resembles a spaceship.
 * The Kinetic Driver Turret originally had the longest range out of all player-obtainable base weapons. It was then superseded by the Atomic Driver Turret.
 * The equipping time of all old blueprint items for bases was reduced by half during the May 2020 update.