You Can Still Kill Skimmers from Your Ship

Frenotx

Frenotx
Edit: You can do these quite quickly, if you don't mind getting in close. This "touch'n'go" method has you land smack-dab in the middle of the base, deploy the SRV to draw out the skimmers, immediately retreat back into the ship, and blow the skimmers away! Things got a little hairy when I couldn't find the last few skimmers, but it gets the point across:
[video=youtube;4QeTkTG795w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QeTkTG795w[/video]


---Original Thread---

Don't panic, folks; if you really want to, you can still do skimmer kill missions using dumbfires, mines, or whatever ship-based weaponry you desire. All you have to do is drive up to the base in your SRV first to draw the skimmers out, then return to your ship to actually kill them. Video evidence:
[video=youtube;Tytnm_czAJg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tytnm_czAJg[/video]

FDev: if you really want players to do skimmer killing activities using the SRV, I suggest making skimmers retreat to cover when:
  1. A hostile or unknown ship is present, and
  2. There are no SRVs around
Skimmers have no hope of doing damage to a ship anyway, it only makes sense for them to hide when there aren't and SRVs around for them to menace.
 
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Vardaugas

Vardaugas
They could add skimmer bunkers, point defense emplacements and sentry drones that alarm skimmers when they detect an SRV. Beats them coming magically out of the ground and turning into dumbfire fodder
 

Furnace

Furnace
First of all, thanks for the clip, OP. Point proven. [up]

I haven't played a single Skimmer mission in a looooong time. Busting stationary targets to pieces is not my kind of thing. There's just something so out of place when you can boil these flies with a beam laser. Last time I played a Skimmer mission I remember landing near a base, next thing happening my ship's PDF's went postal and shot down nonstop every incoming base defense rocket / missile the moment I exposed myself in an SRV. Nothing could touch me.

If you ask me, these Skimmer missions should be removed and get a complete overhaul before putting them back. Yes, I know. A lot of people like them because it's easy money and fun as there's no challenge. I think it's bad mission design. These missions could be so much more. The one and only thing where you need your ship should be the base's anti-ship weapons. Skimmers should belong somewhere either underground, or a complex hangar area, preferably under a shielded forcefield dome where no ship can enter or fire through. If all these Hack / Scan / Destroy Generator- missions were re-thought a bit and placed more strategically with Skimmers securing them, Only then will the SRV's have a real role.

I hope Frontier takes note. Summing-up all the above > There's something about this Skimmer mission type that perplexes me. You have a ship that is far superior to the SRV, however you're not supposed to use it, yet you can.

Skimmers, Skimmers, Skimmers,
Skimmers, Skimmers, Hey!

Skimmers, Skimmers, Skimmers,
Skimmers, Skimmers, Hey!

This should a song. Who's with me?
 

Susanna

Susanna
I've never bothered with the skimmer missions, but having watched your video, it looks fun! If only for a little while! A local IFC would be handy to clear the bounty... Otherwise, seems simple enough and a bit of fun blowing defenceless moths away :eek:

I'm game! Thanks for the post!
 

Frenotx

Frenotx
master_xean said:
Hey OP I wanna be strait with U


S.T.O.P. S.N.I.T.C.H.I.N.G.


Nobody likes a snitch.
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Hey Xean, I wanna be straight with you:

I.t.'s. b.a.d. m.i.s.s.i.o.n. d.e.s.i.g.n.

Not only that, but it's pretty clear that not how the devs want these missions to work. This may be a crazy concept, but despite the fact that I don't have enough money to buy all the stuff I want, I don't really care about preserving broken mechanics for the sake of easy money. I want this game to be the best it can be, and currently, these missions are far from that. Is this the only problem in the game? No. Is this even a major problem in the game? Not really. Does that mean it should just be ignored and never dealt with? Absolutely not.

Susanna said:
I've never bothered with the skimmer missions, but having watched your video, it looks fun! If only for a little while! A local IFC would be handy to clear the bounty... Otherwise, seems simple enough and a bit of fun blowing defenceless moths away :eek:

I'm game! Thanks for the post!
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Planetary stuff can be pretty cool. Good for shaking things up. It gets REALLY fun when you're working with somebody, such that one person's on the ground, and the other is in the air. It's cool being the eye in the sky providing directions, and laying down air strikes as needed. Highly recommended.
 
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Globusdiablo

Globusdiablo
Furnace said:
...A lot of people like them because it's easy money and fun as there's no challenge...
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You mean an I win button that stimulates omnipotence?... :)

Sorry for going off-topic OP, but the above quote caught my eye and made me smile. The simple pleasures are apparently indeed the best. :)
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Changelog clearly states that goal is to use SRV to lore skimmers out. How you deal with them afterwards is your own problem.

So it is not a snitching, devs know you can still kill skimmers with ship.
 
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