Using a fully decked out Anaconda in PvE feels like cheating lol

[CoyoteXStarrk]

I finally took the dive and decided to fully upgrade every single slot and module on my Anaconda to the best of my ability and I feel downright guilty now. Every conflict zone, every HazRez site, and every assassination mission I do now feels like a complete joke lol I show up, I release my fighter, and I go to work. I never even lose my shields anymore. Its just pure decimation. The closest I came to having trouble was when I came across an Elite Anaconda that was engineered to increase my heat by a ton, but even then all I had to do was be a little more careful about my heat management and use a couple of Heat Sinks. He very nearly had my shields down, but by that time he was already dead.



And I hear that the Corvette is even stronger in such situations and I am working towards that at the moment. I honestly can't wait to see how that goes lol

 

[WinterKing2112]

I finally took the dive and decided to fully upgrade every single slot and module on my Anaconda to the best of my ability and I feel downright guilty now. Every conflict zone, every HazRez site, and every assassination mission I do now feels like a complete joke lol I show up, I release my fighter, and I go to work. I never even lose my shields anymore. Its just pure decimation. The closest I came to having trouble was when I came across an Elite Anaconda that was engineered to increase my heat by a ton, but even then all I had to do was be a little more careful about my heat management and use a couple of Heat Sinks. He very nearly had my shields down, but by that time he was already dead.



And I hear that the Corvette is even stronger in such situations and I am working towards that at the moment. I honestly can't wait to see how that goes lol

Working on A-rating all modules on my Annie now, just need to get the military grade composite hull then I'm buying Horizons so I can do some engineering. Then I can mission stack as much as I want without having to fear those rotten interdicting npc's.... might even have a go in open too.....

 

[Nutter]

I finally took the dive and decided to fully upgrade every single slot and module on my Anaconda to the best of my ability and I feel downright guilty now. Every conflict zone, every HazRez site, and every assassination mission I do now feels like a complete joke lol I show up, I release my fighter, and I go to work. I never even lose my shields anymore. Its just pure decimation. The closest I came to having trouble was when I came across an Elite Anaconda that was engineered to increase my heat by a ton, but even then all I had to do was be a little more careful about my heat management and use a couple of Heat Sinks. He very nearly had my shields down, but by that time he was already dead.



And I hear that the Corvette is even stronger in such situations and I am working towards that at the moment. I honestly can't wait to see how that goes lol

Nice, would be interested to see the build you are using

 

[Hanerib]

I would like to see big ships toned down a little. A little bit less of prize Cutters basking. Perhaps shields should be made more expendable in this game. Do you often see players using fixed burst lasers? Perhaps burst lasers should have phasing sequence as default, and experimental modification of reverberating cascade as an option. Or perhaps reverberating cascade should be made to damage shield boosters instead. Currently, at long range, burst lasers are inferior to rail guns, at short range, inferior to many things.

 

[CoyoteXStarrk]

Nice, would be interested to see the build you are using

Its nothing fancy. This is not quite exactly what I have in terms of actual stats because my engineering numbers are a bit different, but you get the overall idea.

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[Rubbernuke]

BGS manipulation via 'accidents' always challenges, even with big ships. Wave after wave of elite / dangerous cops, escaping ATR, atmo kills, escalating issues from resupply, range, cost etc.

Base missions are really easy until you stack three or four, and get them all at once in the same system. I once had two elite engineered Corvettes, a pirate lord Anaconda, FDL and a whole compromised nav on me like zombies wanting brains (as I was also doing a cargo run) with hatch breakers (with me shaking them off). I had to reteat with sweaty palms, feeling exhilarated at being beaten into running.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I finally took the dive and decided to fully upgrade every single slot and module on my Anaconda to the best of my ability and I feel downright guilty now. Every conflict zone, every HazRez site, and every assassination mission I do now feels like a complete joke lol I show up, I release my fighter, and I go to work. I never even lose my shields anymore. Its just pure decimation. The closest I came to having trouble was when I came across an Elite Anaconda that was engineered to increase my heat by a ton, but even then all I had to do was be a little more careful about my heat management and use a couple of Heat Sinks. He very nearly had my shields down, but by that time he was already dead.



And I hear that the Corvette is even stronger in such situations and I am working towards that at the moment. I honestly can't wait to see how that goes lol

Just using an all frag Anaconda.
It basically turns the trigger in to an NPC delete button.

I had a load of laughs flying my exploration Krait Phantom (400 shields, 400 armour), with 4 frags around a CZ, killing everything.
Great fun!

 

[CMDR Bert Pigeon]

HAHA.
By comparison using a DBS with fixed stock lasers feels like an excercise in futility.

 

[Florenus]

Its nothing fancy. This is not quite exactly what I have in terms of actual stats because my engineering numbers are a bit different, but you get the overall idea.

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If I can offer some advice, Use "Mass Manager" experimental effect on FSD instead of "stripped down",
Same goes for Thrusters - "Drive distributors" effect will give you more speed, while you're not gaining much by stripping it down.
And as far as shield boosters go, consider using 3 HeavyDuty/Supercapacitors and 3 ResistanceAugmented/Thermoblock instead of going with all Heavy Duty.

 

[lomac]

I finally took the dive and decided to fully upgrade every single slot and module on my Anaconda to the best of my ability and I feel downright guilty now. Every conflict zone, every HazRez site, and every assassination mission I do now feels like a complete joke lol I show up, I release my fighter, and I go to work. I never even lose my shields anymore. Its just pure decimation. The closest I came to having trouble was when I came across an Elite Anaconda that was engineered to increase my heat by a ton, but even then all I had to do was be a little more careful about my heat management and use a couple of Heat Sinks. He very nearly had my shields down, but by that time he was already dead.



And I hear that the Corvette is even stronger in such situations and I am working towards that at the moment. I honestly can't wait to see how that goes lol

What is your combat rank? I’m Dangerous.

I have a similarly outfitted ship minus some of the engineering and wing assassination missions are pretty much impossible for me. Seems all are elite with engineered ships that shred me and my relatively new wing mates in literally seconds,

I don’t feel guilty at all

 

[CoyoteXStarrk]

What is your combat rank? I’m Dangerous.

I have a similarly outfitted ship minus some of the engineering and wing assassination missions are pretty much impossible for me. Seems all are elite with engineered ships that shred me and my relatively new wing mates in literally seconds,

I don’t feel guilty at all

I am........competent lol


95% of my time in the game was spent as a Trader. The other 4.9% has been spent exploring. I just dabble in combat, but after being roasted alive on my exploration trip to the Arcadian Stream thanks to some rather.....shall we say "unfortunate" route plotting by the game I have suddenly found myself interested in combat lol

 

[Backelaer]

Be sure to apply the corrosive shell experimental to one of your multicannons: they increase all damage taken by your target.
It gives your damage output a crazy increase.

(The effect doesn't stack, so one is enough. Apply it to the smaller mc as the effect will be the same regardless of size. On an Anaconda you might want two mc's with corrosive though so it's on target at all times)

 

[CMDR Cknarf]

[maniacal laughter]

Spoiler

 

[mikekim]

I finally took the dive and decided to fully upgrade every single slot and module on my Anaconda to the best of my ability and I feel downright guilty now. Every conflict zone, every HazRez site, and every assassination mission I do now feels like a complete joke lol I show up, I release my fighter, and I go to work. I never even lose my shields anymore. Its just pure decimation. The closest I came to having trouble was when I came across an Elite Anaconda that was engineered to increase my heat by a ton, but even then all I had to do was be a little more careful about my heat management and use a couple of Heat Sinks. He very nearly had my shields down, but by that time he was already dead.



And I hear that the Corvette is even stronger in such situations and I am working towards that at the moment. I honestly can't wait to see how that goes lol

The Corvette is a step up from the Annie, as its even more maneuverable. mine is setup with 2x Huge fixed G5 Efficient Beams (Thermal Vent), 1x Large Gimballed Burst Laser G5 Efficient Beam (Scramble Spectrum) and the rest all gimballed G5 Efficient Beams (Thermal Vent). i can sit in a REZ or CZ all day with no issues... (apart from boredom of the ez mode )

 

[WinterKing2112]

Be sure to apply the corrosive shell experimental to one of your multicannons: they increase all damage taken by your target.
It gives your damage output a crazy increase.

(The effect doesn't stack, so one is enough. Apply it to the smaller mc as the effect will be the same regardless of size. On an Anaconda you might want two mc's with corrosive though so it's on target at all times)

I have not done any engineering yet, but plan on it once I get Horizons. I read about incendiary shells increasing hull damage and shield damage. Have you tried those?

 

[sollisb]

1. You're 'competent' - Come back to us when you are 'Elite' and 0 deaths.. And have taken on and won against a trio of Elite Gunships. A wing of Elite Anaconda and 2 Gunships.

2. You engineer your Anaconda to max and then come complaining that the PvE ships at competent are too easy..???

I hope you have rebuys for that Annie... 1.4k shield? Lols

 

[Schmack]

I spent months engineering to make the fight easier. Pls nerf big ships. K thks bye

 

[ebbrell]

Go into a high cz alone, it wont feel like cheating then.
Basically the hres ships need a boost, they are to weak

 

[Schmack]

Go into a high cz alone, it wont feel like cheating then.
Basically the hres ships need a boost, they are to weak

Too few in my opinion. Used to see a few annies at once, only see one now and again these days. Never see cutter or corvette but we should.

If you aren't going to do player-vs-player, engineering your ship to the max is asking for easier battles. If you don't want easier battles then don't engineer your ship to the max. You can choose where along that engineering line you want to be. There's no reason to ask for tougher ships when you're just going to later ask for better engineering.

This is what fuels the power creep.

 

[Drelthar]

If these ships had been designed from the outset with a requirement of crew to operate all systems effectively (NPC could do it, just not as well as human crew) then these massive ships being super powerful would be way less of a "problem" (I don't -really- see it as one, more as a missed opportunity)