Taking damage = time to leave!
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Taking damage = time to leave!
Cobra might have had a thermal weapon with a special effect on it, some damage shields more and hull less.
I am actually not an amazing pilot, I just know how combat works.
If you equip too much shields or heavy armor/bulkheads then you'll get hit more because you have far less agility and far more momentum. This makes it easier for the AI to hit you. Hence if you equip it you will need it because you equipped it!
A lighter weight build is less likely to get hit, so less likely to need armor or shields. It's also more fun, and cheaper if/when you mess up!
elite could be a combat free zone , with everybody running from conflict
Could it be that you play it wrong? You can't just tank in your FAS with hull. You have to use SR to have such a good survability. Chafs and hit sinks. But may be i really don't yet ecounter something like this. I see conda Elite, lot of FDL's elite, Corvette Elite, i don't see any Python yet.
Corvette elite and FDL is a most dangerous ship in AI hands. They are very good) Even players don't do 90% of things what they do. With Elite you simply can't figth without FA OFF. Not to roll with FA OFF. FIGTH with FA OFF. That is for sure.
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Thanks Vyse, your thoughts, if you don't mind? is it unplayable, or just different?
Same thing here, I don't pretend to be an ace combat pilot, I have clawed my way to Dangerous over the past year - I know my limits - flew a Python for 6 months before thinking about getting an Anaconda last weekend, mainly for trading but have decent turreted weapons and shields etc.., upgraded last night to 1.6 and within half an hour got interdicted by a single FGS on my way to the station for the CG - I couldn't escape, as he took out my thrusters and FSD, tried to repair - but was ejected before I could use them again - I appreciate that this is what some players will love, but to go from no real threat to lethal in a single upgrade, I am going to sell the 'conda and go back to a smaller, less expensive ship now as I soon won't have enough to cover the insurance, if we all need to be combat aces now - then there should be somewhere in solo where you can practice with each new ship you buy against actual NPC's to achieve the skills required to fly it.So, my experience of first time out in 2.1 flying an asp built for smuggling, ie fast and light. Interdicted on 2nd mission (40 tons of wine) and despite my usual response of immediately throttle down; prepare to run, within seconds I got; failed interdiction, FSD failure, uncontrollable spinning ship, warning! thermal attack, warning! module malfunction, warning! thruster malfunction, warning! shields offline, warning! canopy critical, eject, eject eject... please deposit just over 1 million credits with your friendly buy back screen. At no point during any of this process did anything I tried to do have any effect whatsoever on the outcome.
BTW, thanks for all the warnings lol, really useful
Perhaps we could have a NPC skill set that does match my skill level
Somewhere Below "Harmless" there can be "Crighton"
(apologies for the water mark, having issues with usual video editing software so used a free one)
Please enjoy for some lighter side humour as we progress in the thread
Somewhere Below "Harmless" there can be "Crighton"
(apologies for the water mark, having issues with usual video editing software so used a free one)
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Please enjoy for some lighter side humour as we progress in the thread
15 second huh? I think people are experiencing time-contraction. Maybe repressing memories while being stunned, parking in front if the enemies guns for 60 seconds? But for some reason can only recall 1/4 of the actual time lapsed?
Please post an unedited video of these uber NPCs. You may be surprised to realize how much time you actually had to react.
agreed , at least have the npc scan you first maybe , give you a chance to do something
We have very good proverb: "По одежке протягивай ножки".
It mean, in short, do what you can do
If you're skilled combat pilot - welcome to action, if you not - try to do something else, not so risky.
But if you're not a combat pilot and going to action...
Then I think usefull to remember this:
- How much wins have moderate skilled pilot of WW2?
- Moderate skilled pilot was shot down
It mean, in short, do what you can do
If you're skilled combat pilot - welcome to action, if you not - try to do something else, not so risky.
But if you're not a combat pilot and going to action...
Then I think usefull to remember this:
- How much wins have moderate skilled pilot of WW2?
- Moderate skilled pilot was shot down
I think some people get other people wrong when some says this is unplayable and they reply they don't know how to play well our make a good outfitting. For sure there is some they don't know how but i don't think everyone one who says it's unplayable are noobs or not good fighters.I think it's more a discouragement of not getting enough money to build right. For example i need 109 millions for my mirrored armour on my fer-de-lance .. i hate trading wich is the best way to get money but it's boring, exploration don't give enough and now bounty is harder and makes us back to stations faster so money is hard to make. I think those who say to others they don't know how to play have already their annaconda or big ships so they don't have to worry about cash anymore.My friend have his annacondas and even if Ia is harder he still kill everything easily. So what i do to get 109 millions now not buying a type 9 for sure ....
The FAS is meant to be a heavy hull tank with high maneuverability. You know combat in smaller lighter frames, but really hulling out a FAS just makes it slightly slower, not less nimble.
FA OFF in a FAS has negative use. The ship is nimble enough; FA OFF just adds drift that the ship doesn't need more of.
I really like the new ai I'm terrible at combat but it's making me think about my approach to situations I sold my moderately equipped anaconda last night to buy an a rated fdl for combat missions and an a rated asp for trading to speed away I love actually having to think about how to approach a situation and no I haven't got good I've got dead a few times though I do tend to agree with some of the comments about NPC modded weapons I personally find it a bit rp damaging thinking that everyone has got Rep with engineers not just the select few I mean when do the engineers sleep! I would also like to be able to reduce my combat rank as I've got expert basically by accident whilst playing stupid ai
nice
Adapt. Survive. Improve to fight again another day. Really respect this kind of problem solving attitude. Especially in the face of a new challenge.
and there is a place to practice this with zero loss of CR:
1) beginner tutorials
2) CQC (Arena)
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And fly safe
I was in my mission running python. At least one of the ships that jumped me was a deadly ranked FAS (I'm comp. ranked in combat), I didn't wait to look at the other. Yes, it was the same ranked trade level mission as myself, a tycoon. I was gonna to square up to them and the shields went in 2 hits... I ran like a screaming girl, dicted a extra 12 times, til i finally made it into dock.
Fun isn't the word I'd use, there was a lot of swearing if that helps!
My ship: http://coriolis.io/outfit/python/07...4v402022f.Iw18eQ==.Aw18eQ==?bn=mission python
Well i am speak from my point of view. I am on Corvette for now. And on Corvette agains Elite FDL you have to be REALLY GOOD. You have to not only roll in FA OFF. You have to figth in FA OFF. I don't want to fly on a cheap ship, cause i know how to play and i think i earn my Deadly rank and can be good enouth to don't care about insurance and play as i want.
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