Back in the days before 1.1, my Eagle could easily eat those Elite Anacondas for breakfast - in fact that's how I made my money at the beginning, by doing those well paid assassination missions. It was so easy, one day I decided to pull off an assassination with a Sidewinder and never did it again.
Now it's a whole new ballgame. Heard FD upped the AI, picked up an assassination against an Elite Anaconda and oh boy, my Eagle barely managed to penetrate Anaconda's shield. Chaff spamming only works to a certain degree now, delayed SCB effect definitely didn't help...it took me all four 2A shield cells and seven chaffs just breach the shield, and I had to switch to the backup 1A cells just to stay alive. Now the AI is so strong, it twisted and shook itself all over the place and keeping my Eagle at its tail was almost impossible.
Anyway, after a few minutes, my chaffs were gone and my hull was at about 37%, I figured it was not working out. My brain was not in my topgame shape today after flying heavy ships for so long, but it was clear to me that the game itself certainly got a lot harder. So I backed off and pulled out my own Anaconda, went back to the fight and to my surprise, the AI was actually out-turning me. If not for my double-chaff spam it would have certainly got the better of me. Focusing a bit too hard on killing it - my 'conda was outfitted for trading, so I had only three fixed class-3 pulses and a class-4 plasma acc for large targets, the rest was filled with seeker missiles just in case - I got distracted and forgot to juice my shield with the 2A SCB I had, and just before I finishing it off, the AI breached my shield.
Total pay+bounty 200k. Repair cost 500k.
Well, guess the easy days of eating Elite Anaconda NPCs for breakfast in my Eagle is over. Now I need at least a Viper to be remotely comfortable in fighting them. Good job on FD for enhancing the AI, though I think the pay for those assassination missions should also be a bit higher now....
Now it's a whole new ballgame. Heard FD upped the AI, picked up an assassination against an Elite Anaconda and oh boy, my Eagle barely managed to penetrate Anaconda's shield. Chaff spamming only works to a certain degree now, delayed SCB effect definitely didn't help...it took me all four 2A shield cells and seven chaffs just breach the shield, and I had to switch to the backup 1A cells just to stay alive. Now the AI is so strong, it twisted and shook itself all over the place and keeping my Eagle at its tail was almost impossible.
Anyway, after a few minutes, my chaffs were gone and my hull was at about 37%, I figured it was not working out. My brain was not in my topgame shape today after flying heavy ships for so long, but it was clear to me that the game itself certainly got a lot harder. So I backed off and pulled out my own Anaconda, went back to the fight and to my surprise, the AI was actually out-turning me. If not for my double-chaff spam it would have certainly got the better of me. Focusing a bit too hard on killing it - my 'conda was outfitted for trading, so I had only three fixed class-3 pulses and a class-4 plasma acc for large targets, the rest was filled with seeker missiles just in case - I got distracted and forgot to juice my shield with the 2A SCB I had, and just before I finishing it off, the AI breached my shield.
Total pay+bounty 200k. Repair cost 500k.
Well, guess the easy days of eating Elite Anaconda NPCs for breakfast in my Eagle is over. Now I need at least a Viper to be remotely comfortable in fighting them. Good job on FD for enhancing the AI, though I think the pay for those assassination missions should also be a bit higher now....
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