Engineers CZs you gotta be kidding me
- Thread starter Max Qarnac
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The whole conflict zones have to be remade, right now it's a chaotic butchery, this is what it should be:
- Front zone: the main fight is here, very high danger.
- Back zone: it's still dangerous but overhaul far more allies are around.
- Safe zone: high security over here, you can still see fights but they are far enough for you to be almost safe. Generals and advisers are usually here commanding the fight from afar.
And the same zones for the opposite side, all this equal: you can infiltrate, you can support, you can avoid danger (most of the time), you can make logical decision.
- Front zone: the main fight is here, very high danger.
- Back zone: it's still dangerous but overhaul far more allies are around.
- Safe zone: high security over here, you can still see fights but they are far enough for you to be almost safe. Generals and advisers are usually here commanding the fight from afar.
And the same zones for the opposite side, all this equal: you can infiltrate, you can support, you can avoid danger (most of the time), you can make logical decision.
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Hello cmdr Qarnac,
i can really feel with you
i had the same experience in my freshly corvette. Before 2.1 all worked well with it, slowly but well. Now after 2.1 it isn't possible to go alone in the CZ's with bg ships alone. For these ships a wing is recommended. I think this is something that get changed when we can store and deploy our fighters in next big updates. The AI handles extreme vs the players, they ignore other npc's shooting at them complete, but with more player (-controled) ships, the AI seems to get dumb not sure, at whom they shoot at first^^My suggestion for you is as following. Forget the Corvette, use better small/medium and very agile combatships. I made very very good experience with the FAS, it feels like the boss in the CZ. As same as good is the FDL, he got nerfed but with the new class 4 weapons (except the beam...don't even think about it^^) he works very well. The Vulture is as great too, she is so agile, you can stand out of shootline from the enemys. FOR ALL SHIPS i can highly recommend the Bi-Weave shields, nothing else. Against the new AI forget the Prismatics, forget the standard shields, just use the Bi-Weaves. The fast recharge rate is all what count on PVE. And you have to handle FAoff/on really good. It did take a while but slowly i get used to it. There are new tricks to capture the npc's on their balls ;D It will need a lot of practice but if you have it, than it work as same well as in 2.0.
so far, fly safe cmdr Quarnac
i hope i was a little help
I just want to find a cz that's not in ceasefire! Anyone have any?
Just get a Vulture, was now about 2 hours in a cz getting bonds for Bris. Lost my shields once, could have been avoided if I would take SCBs with me (I won't!)
The npc's are way over powered and they are constantly trying to pull me out of warp. Its very annoying and they almost kill me every time. I have lost one ship to a fur de lance. I fly a Cutter for trade and all they send after me are Fur de lance's and Anaconda's constantly and there very over powered. They get me down to 60% hull damage before I can get away. My cutter is fit well it's the npc's not me.This has totally ruined the game for me. I am not playing anymore till this is fixed. I use to play so much that I have been able to get a Cutter and a Corvette. Now I don't play at all well done FD. I hate the engineers patch they should trash it and go back to the way the game was when people enjoyed playing.
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erm not sure what this has to do with CZ?
I have also started to believe this is the case. They removed the npc bug from 2.0 (stationary rotating npc bug) and then just buffed npc stats. What limited testing i did with some random commander he couldn't take out my shields with vulture with one beam and one Pa as fast as npc with same ship and load out. Also npc are master snipers haven't yet seen one miss my anaconda or python in turn/head on while most players can't make same shots. I feel like npc have unrealistically high change to hit player with PA, rails and missiles, engineered engines (maybe shields too) and some other other chances to npcs stats to give them edge over player.
Frontier say that npc don't cheat but i am not so sure about that. No game developer would admit that their npc cheat/use massively buffed stats.
I did find lots of different components in a CZ I visited a few hours ago. Heat dispersion plates and heat vanes among them. Well worth taking a look.
Honestly they just could have removed the constant deathspiral (which they did) and we all would have applauded.
Actually they didn't really remove much of anything, after the whine patrol got done the new AI is barely any better than the old AI, they still more or less just hang out in front of you. Half of them don't even shoot back at you. Its quite disheartening to see they dummed down the AI because of all the crying babies.
It's great, no more fodder farming, and big is not always better it's what you do with it that counts.
I have to ask, is it tactically sound to take a large slow vessel such as the Corvette unescorted into a conflict area?