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Getting shot at during retrieval missions
- Thread starter Noonien Soong
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I like to approach on foot and give them a warning shot since they're so stoopid, give them at least a chance to turn and draw. Kinda old west style I guess
So when you get advice to raze em from a distance or assassinate them by surprise, well, it won't improve your on foot skills very much, perhaps. Depends what you're looking for
If you want to learn to shoot, yeah do some combat zones. Also good practice is kick cobble stones up in the air in low G and try to shoot em
Or press down on the d-pad for controller to toggle shields
But only you can choose how to extinguish your enemies
It's as uniquely you as your State Farm Insurance policy
Try the guns you think may be your style, wield them and demand results CMDR!
So when you get advice to raze em from a distance or assassinate them by surprise, well, it won't improve your on foot skills very much, perhaps. Depends what you're looking for
If you want to learn to shoot, yeah do some combat zones. Also good practice is kick cobble stones up in the air in low G and try to shoot em
Or press down on the d-pad for controller to toggle shields
But only you can choose how to extinguish your enemies
It's as uniquely you as your State Farm Insurance policy
Try the guns you think may be your style, wield them and demand results CMDR!
The iCourier isn't a slouch either when it comes to jousting.
One of my group & me had a bit of PvP practise in stock eagles (then the original Freewinder) a few nights back. Both eagles, even stock, are no slouches.
I do have a 'racing' Imp Eagle on one account - they are tremendous fun!
Hi Folks,
I tried another retrieval mission today and got ambushed by criminals. I tried to shoot them but with not much success. Could you guys check out the youtube and give me advice? This is the second youtube I post in this treath and I didn't get response on the first.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx8GIQddoLI
I tried another retrieval mission today and got ambushed by criminals. I tried to shoot them but with not much success. Could you guys check out the youtube and give me advice? This is the second youtube I post in this treath and I didn't get response on the first.
CMDR Noonien Soong,
I noticed when you step out of the SRV you didn't put your personal shield up. For one thing
So they hurt you really bad fast with no shield there.
And, I'm a little unclear, maybe going to go do a couple of these later today and refresh on such particulars - but, on the scanner in the ship, before you landed, was a flickering heat signature - that might have been the drop ship coming into range.
Well definitely activate your shield up, next time you disembark near potential danger!
You'll get em.
I noticed when you step out of the SRV you didn't put your personal shield up. For one thing
So they hurt you really bad fast with no shield there.
And, I'm a little unclear, maybe going to go do a couple of these later today and refresh on such particulars - but, on the scanner in the ship, before you landed, was a flickering heat signature - that might have been the drop ship coming into range.
Well definitely activate your shield up, next time you disembark near potential danger!
You'll get em.
Look for the lights of NPCs before landing.
Pay attention to your radar. In the SRV/ship you will see incoming.
Listen out for incoming ships. Bug out if you hear something, better to be safe etc.
Switch on the SRV night vision.
PIP management - 2-0-4 is what I use.
Keep 100-150m away from the enemy.
Back off to recharge shields.
Change to a different SRV if significant chassis integrity damage taken. I often carry 2.
Steve
Pay attention to your radar. In the SRV/ship you will see incoming.
Listen out for incoming ships. Bug out if you hear something, better to be safe etc.
Switch on the SRV night vision.
PIP management - 2-0-4 is what I use.
Keep 100-150m away from the enemy.
Back off to recharge shields.
Change to a different SRV if significant chassis integrity damage taken. I often carry 2.
Steve
Ok, here goes, when you approach a site at night, leave your lights off, the scavengers will always be using the flashlights and they can be seen quite easily. They often are a little ways away from the wreckage, so look around the site. After assessing the site, turn your lights on if you want and move off, try to land at least 500 meters away, if there are scavengers, they won't go that far from the wreck usually and they can destroy your ship with regular weapons.
As far as automated landing, one of the docking computers does have that, I can't remember which one or how to activate that as I don't use them.
I prefer to always use an SRV as it is your mobile rearm and supply center. Always park the SRV looking away from the settlement/site with a clear path in case you need to escape quickly. No big boulders or other things that would slow you down or cause you to spinout.
If no scavengers are at the site, always keep your ears open, they might drop in on you. At the first sound of another ship, run to the SRV and drive about 250m away and then assess the situation.
When dealing with Scavengers at a crash site from an SRV, roll up to bout 100 meters away and shoot one, backing slowly away. Put full power to the weapons and the rest into the shields. The scavengers will attempt to swarm you, keep backing away and firing, always target lock the one you are shooting at. If your shields drop, you need to move off until they stop shooting at you and let the shields recharge. You can also repair the SRV from the right panel using synthesizing button. Keep doing this until you have killed them all.
On foot is different. Having Level 3 armor and weapons makes the job much easier, but not essential. When you hear the ship drop, sprint away and then sneak back in and shoot one, any of them in sight of you will try and swarm you, keep covered and back away until they stop. Move back in and pick them off one at a time. If you are going to do it on foot, use the dominator suit or a high-level maverick. Run away when your shields drop.
Now to the video, you landed too close and when under attack, you didn't dismiss the ship. When you dismiss the ship, it goes to a safe place, and you can recall it when you are done. You usually don't need to do this unless you are too close.
Driving the SRV from the turret takes a bit of practice, when running over NPCs it's much easier to do from the driver's seat.
You can target from the front seat and fight that way, but you have a fairly narrow fire cone that the gimbal can track. I didn't notice that you targeted any of the NPCs, do you know how to do that?
Also, the video playback was choppy, is that the video or are seeing that when you are playing. If so, you might want to work on getting smother frame rates by adjusting the graphics settings. Smooth framerates are essential to doing combat.
As far as automated landing, one of the docking computers does have that, I can't remember which one or how to activate that as I don't use them.
I prefer to always use an SRV as it is your mobile rearm and supply center. Always park the SRV looking away from the settlement/site with a clear path in case you need to escape quickly. No big boulders or other things that would slow you down or cause you to spinout.
If no scavengers are at the site, always keep your ears open, they might drop in on you. At the first sound of another ship, run to the SRV and drive about 250m away and then assess the situation.
When dealing with Scavengers at a crash site from an SRV, roll up to bout 100 meters away and shoot one, backing slowly away. Put full power to the weapons and the rest into the shields. The scavengers will attempt to swarm you, keep backing away and firing, always target lock the one you are shooting at. If your shields drop, you need to move off until they stop shooting at you and let the shields recharge. You can also repair the SRV from the right panel using synthesizing button. Keep doing this until you have killed them all.
On foot is different. Having Level 3 armor and weapons makes the job much easier, but not essential. When you hear the ship drop, sprint away and then sneak back in and shoot one, any of them in sight of you will try and swarm you, keep covered and back away until they stop. Move back in and pick them off one at a time. If you are going to do it on foot, use the dominator suit or a high-level maverick. Run away when your shields drop.
Now to the video, you landed too close and when under attack, you didn't dismiss the ship. When you dismiss the ship, it goes to a safe place, and you can recall it when you are done. You usually don't need to do this unless you are too close.
Driving the SRV from the turret takes a bit of practice, when running over NPCs it's much easier to do from the driver's seat.
You can target from the front seat and fight that way, but you have a fairly narrow fire cone that the gimbal can track. I didn't notice that you targeted any of the NPCs, do you know how to do that?
Also, the video playback was choppy, is that the video or are seeing that when you are playing. If so, you might want to work on getting smother frame rates by adjusting the graphics settings. Smooth framerates are essential to doing combat.
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- You're having some issues aiming there so improving there will help.
- Don't stop and engage at close range. If there is one in front of you drive over him at high speed. It will kill him.
- If your shield goes down, disengage. All pips to shield and get out of there FAST. The Scarab is not a tank and with shield down it will get chewed up fast.
- You don't have to be in turret mode to engage a target in front but it has limited cone of fire. Target them and fire. This will help you land more hits even in turret mode.
- Use speed. You are crawling around so slowly. Get away from them engage them at range, disengage and re-flank them.
Your SRV is shielded mobility. Use it. Stay mobile.
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Yup, looks seriously choppy. Unplayably so imo.
If your machine is slow it can take a while for scavs to load in. It can also take a while for the dropship to turn up. tbh, you want easy mode, just wait for them to show them nuke them with missiles. Wait a bit longer to make sure no second drop is turning up, then do what you came to do.
Don't park right on top of the mission site. If nothing else you can sit under your ship's shields and pick scavs off while they try to come to you (on foot anyway, doesn't work with the SRV). Didn't hear much game sound but you can hear dropships coming, which is your cue to find cover.
Otherwise like I said before, go do some ground CZs.
If your machine is slow it can take a while for scavs to load in. It can also take a while for the dropship to turn up. tbh, you want easy mode, just wait for them to show them nuke them with missiles. Wait a bit longer to make sure no second drop is turning up, then do what you came to do.
Don't park right on top of the mission site. If nothing else you can sit under your ship's shields and pick scavs off while they try to come to you (on foot anyway, doesn't work with the SRV). Didn't hear much game sound but you can hear dropships coming, which is your cue to find cover.
Otherwise like I said before, go do some ground CZs.
Go in with a scorched Earth policy, raze the place to the ground with dumbfire missiles. Then land without the auto land feature so you can decide the orientation you want to be relative to the scavs when you appear. Remember you exit in the rear of that ship, point that in a direction that suits your approach to the target when you land. Shield up ASAP. pick off the scavs from the safety of your ship/SRV if you can. Finish the rest through CQC.
Ok thanks for the advice commanders. I didn't target the criminals. When I do target them it makes a lot of difference and in my last attempt I killed all the criminals:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXORERusv4
Kill em all, Dr Soong
If you look at the contacts tab on the left panel you can see if there are scavengers in the area. You can also click on them from there to target them if they are not close. Your SRV scanners range needs to be zoomed out, it will show them further away.
You've come a long way since you started this thread.
My favorite weapon of choice is the tires on the Scorpion SRV (not the Scarab). I just run the scavs over with them. When my shields get low or go all the way down, I just drive around or a while until they get back to an acceptable level.
And when I feel like it, I take them out on-foot with a long range Executioner and an L-6 rocket launcher. Up close and personal, I use the P-15.
Here's MY anecdote:
One of the first times I took one of these missions, I was in my T-7 Exploration Miner, yeah I know.
Anyway, I parked the Scarab SRV too close and while I was attempting to fight them on foot, it was destroyed.
I did take most of them out on foot but there was one I just couldn't get (probably an Enforcer).
I had not weapons on the T-7 but I did try the mining lasers, to no effect and ended up taking the last guy out using the cargo scoop on my ship...
And don't forget, the number one cause of death on foot is forgetting to turn on your shield...
Sometimes the item doesn't spawn in, to get it to spawn in you have to log out of the game and back in, it should spawn then. When you do this, move away from the site a bit as criminals may respawn with you.
Yesterday me and my elite buddy did a retrieval mission together. We hung 250 m above the crash site and bombarded the site with missiles. My buddy landed and got out in the SRV and saw there was still a criminal. I killed the criminal with missiles. My buddy drove to the crash site and could get the objective in his suit. We flew back and completed the mission.
It was beautifull and too bad I didn't record it.
It was beautifull and too bad I didn't record it.
Dr. CMDR Soong, well, the whole question has gone, turned on its head, now: "Why WOULDN'T I be getting shot at during retrieval missions?". 
I decided to take out an impact site mission, to make you a recording back at ya, watch someone else do it. Just for fun. Well, originally unrelated but I had short time and finished a couple of assassinations from late last night, first. And how to the mission terminals talk me into that?!
Then I got to the impact site and the enemies were a total no-show!
I used a grade 1 maverick outfit for reference, just for the purpose, so it could not be any more than you had or have.
After the no-show I still had to vent my anger and kilt a pirate.
Well the whole raw footage is here, but also with time indices directly to those four action parts in the description. If interested
Source: https://youtu.be/5VW4sLAG-is
P. Noon
I decided to take out an impact site mission, to make you a recording back at ya, watch someone else do it. Just for fun. Well, originally unrelated but I had short time and finished a couple of assassinations from late last night, first. And how to the mission terminals talk me into that?!
Then I got to the impact site and the enemies were a total no-show!
I used a grade 1 maverick outfit for reference, just for the purpose, so it could not be any more than you had or have.
After the no-show I still had to vent my anger and kilt a pirate.
Well the whole raw footage is here, but also with time indices directly to those four action parts in the description. If interested
P. Noon
Commander Noon,
I watched parts of the video and I see you doing a lot of things I don't know how to do; opening doors, downloading data, ordering a shuttle. How does this work?
There's this wheel in the left bottom that you sometimes use. How does it work?
I noticed that you don't take all the goodies you find. How do you select what to take and what to leave?
I watched parts of the video and I see you doing a lot of things I don't know how to do; opening doors, downloading data, ordering a shuttle. How does this work?
There's this wheel in the left bottom that you sometimes use. How does it work?
I noticed that you don't take all the goodies you find. How do you select what to take and what to leave?