FDL this, that, best combat ship, FDl and nothing else - that praise about FDL in every discussion forum was one thing. Those muppet gangs in FDLs were other thing, diverting my anger from them to the ship, in my head FDL was a personification of a muppet ganger. I even built me a MINER FDL to humiliate this ship even more. I resisted FDL to the point where I became a hardcore Mambist even I hated Mamba's terrible pitch rates - sweet lemons rationalization.
But not so long ago I decided to remove that mining junk and geared the FDL into fully engineered combat ship with prismo shield, force shell cannons and plasmas with same projectile velocity paired on one trigger. I wont start praising FDL as a zealous neophyte, instead I'll humbly put my newest ship into work in space battlefields.
And this is how I felt after leaving Palin workshop, he is always a last stop when I work on a ship. Everything turned out to be well balanced and deadly.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgqJfG1gHE
But not so long ago I decided to remove that mining junk and geared the FDL into fully engineered combat ship with prismo shield, force shell cannons and plasmas with same projectile velocity paired on one trigger. I wont start praising FDL as a zealous neophyte, instead I'll humbly put my newest ship into work in space battlefields.
And this is how I felt after leaving Palin workshop, he is always a last stop when I work on a ship. Everything turned out to be well balanced and deadly.
I spent many hours flying Adder so I got used to these quirks, but I think the most meh factor may be stalling and losing momentum during turns. I'm able to control it during slower paced res fights and using drift as an advantage, but in pvp engagements during recent CG's I was losing my head due to aggressive handling I have from FAS and I stalled with every turn, FDL is a different animal and it will take time to master the combat flight.
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