So I'm cruising through an anarchy system in my cobra doing some scanning while I'm making my way back to my favourite trading route. Slightly monotonous but entertaining in a Zen kind of way.
Suddenly I'm being interdicted, a smile spreads across my face, I like this part. I submit.
I take a bead on my opponent. A Python! My first thought is 'Run'. I've watched at a nav point once a python take out everything it came up against, scary.
But then I notice it has no shields!. OK I can do this. I'm up for it.
We do a few passes while I'm trying to get a lock with the KWS and he's hitting me with fragment cannons and pulse lasers. Not too bad, I just hope he doesn't launch some blue balls of death at me. I'm hitting him too with beams and multicannons but he's not taking much damage. My shields are down to one ring so I dump a shield cell into it (please don't take these away!).
Finally the scanner completes. Quickly I set to target his FSD, I look up and he's going for a ram!
I've been caught out like this before, never again. I slam thrusters full down but too slow! He clips me and I'm sent spinning. Shields are down, hull at 44% and sparks filling the cockpit. And he hardly took a dent.
I boost away and again I think 'Run away' but no I tell myself, I can do this. While I'm waiting for my shields to come back up he's peppering me with fire and to rub salt into the wounds he pops me with a missile. Hull now at 27%. Finally my shields are back up and I pop another shield cell into them and I'm back with 3 rings. Time for some payback.
Just then my elderly Mum (for whom I am a paid carer) shouts from the kitchen "These rissoles are ready". The rissoles! I put them on only a few minutes ago! I look at the clock .. No it's been twenty minutes. Such is the time sink that is Elite Dangerous.
"OK" I shout back but don't move from my chair, no way I'm going to lose this fight for some damn burnt rissoles.
OK, time for the big guns, heat seeker missiles. by the time he's lined up and the missiles have lock I'm down to 1 ring on shields again. Another shield cell fixes that and it's missiles away. 2, 4 then 6 missiles later he's done, and I've won.
I love this game.
And the rissoles were not burnt, and were quite tasty, thank you very much.
Suddenly I'm being interdicted, a smile spreads across my face, I like this part. I submit.
I take a bead on my opponent. A Python! My first thought is 'Run'. I've watched at a nav point once a python take out everything it came up against, scary.
But then I notice it has no shields!. OK I can do this. I'm up for it.
We do a few passes while I'm trying to get a lock with the KWS and he's hitting me with fragment cannons and pulse lasers. Not too bad, I just hope he doesn't launch some blue balls of death at me. I'm hitting him too with beams and multicannons but he's not taking much damage. My shields are down to one ring so I dump a shield cell into it (please don't take these away!).
Finally the scanner completes. Quickly I set to target his FSD, I look up and he's going for a ram!
I've been caught out like this before, never again. I slam thrusters full down but too slow! He clips me and I'm sent spinning. Shields are down, hull at 44% and sparks filling the cockpit. And he hardly took a dent.
I boost away and again I think 'Run away' but no I tell myself, I can do this. While I'm waiting for my shields to come back up he's peppering me with fire and to rub salt into the wounds he pops me with a missile. Hull now at 27%. Finally my shields are back up and I pop another shield cell into them and I'm back with 3 rings. Time for some payback.
Just then my elderly Mum (for whom I am a paid carer) shouts from the kitchen "These rissoles are ready". The rissoles! I put them on only a few minutes ago! I look at the clock .. No it's been twenty minutes. Such is the time sink that is Elite Dangerous.
"OK" I shout back but don't move from my chair, no way I'm going to lose this fight for some damn burnt rissoles.
OK, time for the big guns, heat seeker missiles. by the time he's lined up and the missiles have lock I'm down to 1 ring on shields again. Another shield cell fixes that and it's missiles away. 2, 4 then 6 missiles later he's done, and I've won.
I love this game.
And the rissoles were not burnt, and were quite tasty, thank you very much.
