I'm finding that multicannons have become trash since the game was released.
I run my Conda with 8 MC's, engineered, with high capacity magazines, and I don't have any problems killing the best ships in the game and Elite ships too. I've only had a hand full of ships ending up having their shields regenerate and by then they're toast!!
Then something was wrong with the game, because I literally wanted to throw it out the window as I'd never seen such nonsense. The ship was literally invincible. I could hold my two size 3 long range engineered(level 1) beams on it for 5 seconds and maybe at best I'd do 1% damage if was lucky. The multicannons essentially did nothing, and I have one size three and two size two. My ship isn't even close to fully engineered, but I do now have level 5 engineered FSD, powerplant and power distributor.
