Greetings fellow CMDR's,
after the Update hits the Servers on last Thursday, I encountered my first challenging fight with a Wing of 4 Ships.
Enemy Setup :
3 Sidewinder ( 1 of them had a thruster enhancement )
1 ASP with weapon upgrades.
My Setup :
FED Gunship A—Graded with Milit Armor / 3 PA / and MC.
The encounter caught me by surprise while i was scanning a wreck of an T9 in Space. ( btw. the atmosphere was brilliant, Planet with rings in the back with some asteroids around it.)
After the first “under attack” Message I transferred immediately the energy settings to Weapon’s and Systems and turned around to pick on the first one.
The 3 Sidewinders were flanking me and the ASP attacked with Canons and Burst lasers.
After first attack run of them, my shields where almost gone so I rethought my strategy and took out the first Sidewinder and was focusing on the ASPs thrusters. ( Bad mistake )
During my first run on the ASP i was able to take out the shields and forcing to evade my attacks in the asteroid field while the 2 remaining Sidewinder took down my shields as well forcing me to make a FA off U-Turn to chase them instead.
Managed to disable one of their Thrusters and it crashed and exploded on one of the Astros. ( Epic effect ).
After this little success I was focusing on the ASP again ( My Armor was down to 75%) and was able to hit it 3 Times with all 3 PA’s.
As soon the Armor from the ASP was reaching 13 % it was trying to get away but after 3 more PA hits and a bunch of MC bullets it blew up forcing the Sidewinder to run away like hell.
So outcome of this fight :
Loot, money and lots of fun.
As for the AI Changes and Weapon loadouts for the NPC I really like it.
After the fight I continued my scans on the wreckage and found a rare Data signature for the crafting stuff and some other resources on the planet next to it.
The first applied upgrades to my weapons ( only had material for 2 MC to upgrade ) got me a higher fire rate and now I’m focusing to try out the Thrusters upgrade.
On my way back to my “Home” System I got a direct message regarding a Hostage rescue as an emergency request so I landed repaired my ship and off again to rescue the hostages.
After scanning the System for 5 Minutes, I found a wanted Python ( Next time I should really check that rank it has ^^ ).
I interdicted it and made a scan what cargo was loaded and Bingo that was my target. So I managed to take down the shields and fired my hatch breaker limped towards it.
During that time the NPC got really mad and was throwing everything against me causing some real bad damage on 2 of my PA’s causing them to malfunction.
Managed to get the 3 Hostages and escaped the battle with 19% hull.
So far I must say even the missions are now fun ^^.
Ill try out more during the next couple of days and I think next time i’ll put on some Vids as well.
Fly Save
CMDR Durass out.
after the Update hits the Servers on last Thursday, I encountered my first challenging fight with a Wing of 4 Ships.
Enemy Setup :
3 Sidewinder ( 1 of them had a thruster enhancement )
1 ASP with weapon upgrades.
My Setup :
FED Gunship A—Graded with Milit Armor / 3 PA / and MC.
The encounter caught me by surprise while i was scanning a wreck of an T9 in Space. ( btw. the atmosphere was brilliant, Planet with rings in the back with some asteroids around it.)
After the first “under attack” Message I transferred immediately the energy settings to Weapon’s and Systems and turned around to pick on the first one.
The 3 Sidewinders were flanking me and the ASP attacked with Canons and Burst lasers.
After first attack run of them, my shields where almost gone so I rethought my strategy and took out the first Sidewinder and was focusing on the ASPs thrusters. ( Bad mistake )
During my first run on the ASP i was able to take out the shields and forcing to evade my attacks in the asteroid field while the 2 remaining Sidewinder took down my shields as well forcing me to make a FA off U-Turn to chase them instead.
Managed to disable one of their Thrusters and it crashed and exploded on one of the Astros. ( Epic effect ).
After this little success I was focusing on the ASP again ( My Armor was down to 75%) and was able to hit it 3 Times with all 3 PA’s.
As soon the Armor from the ASP was reaching 13 % it was trying to get away but after 3 more PA hits and a bunch of MC bullets it blew up forcing the Sidewinder to run away like hell.
So outcome of this fight :
Loot, money and lots of fun.
As for the AI Changes and Weapon loadouts for the NPC I really like it.
After the fight I continued my scans on the wreckage and found a rare Data signature for the crafting stuff and some other resources on the planet next to it.
The first applied upgrades to my weapons ( only had material for 2 MC to upgrade ) got me a higher fire rate and now I’m focusing to try out the Thrusters upgrade.
On my way back to my “Home” System I got a direct message regarding a Hostage rescue as an emergency request so I landed repaired my ship and off again to rescue the hostages.
After scanning the System for 5 Minutes, I found a wanted Python ( Next time I should really check that rank it has ^^ ).
I interdicted it and made a scan what cargo was loaded and Bingo that was my target. So I managed to take down the shields and fired my hatch breaker limped towards it.
During that time the NPC got really mad and was throwing everything against me causing some real bad damage on 2 of my PA’s causing them to malfunction.
Managed to get the 3 Hostages and escaped the battle with 19% hull.
So far I must say even the missions are now fun ^^.
Ill try out more during the next couple of days and I think next time i’ll put on some Vids as well.
Fly Save
CMDR Durass out.
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