FA-Off Training
- Thread starter War Eagle
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Anything you like really, but the sidewinder is a damn good starting point.
Come and chat with Newtons Gambit if you're interested... https://discord.gg/
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Asteroid dodging, Coriolis trenches and actually just toggle it off and resist the urge to toggle it back on again. Toggle off and accept your new noobness until muscle memory and synapses clicking into place make you a pilot again.
FA off training will also help you with SRV "flying" and your real life shopping cart skills!
FA off training will also help you with SRV "flying" and your real life shopping cart skills!
Powderpanic
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First I would build a Viper with grade 5 Dirty drive and drag. Charge enhance the capacitor and produce a nimble perma boost ship. A rate the rest ( d rate the sensors and life support. You will need an A rated shields too, will be more than enough.
Then find an outpost and practice boost circling it and just get the hang of it using the outpost as a static point.
Once you have the basics of keeping your ship in control ( which will take a good long time )
Move to an asteroid belt, find a rock to orbit. Do much the same to start with the added worry of stuff around you.
Then start picking a rock, circle it and keep guns on. Both lasers and then PA's. Learn not to chase the reticle. Obviously you cannot target the rock to PA it but you will get a feel for where your PA's land. Or if you are feeling braver pick a fight with a large ship NPC. Dont try the small ones just yet, will make you suicidal.
Then pick a fight with a friendly player and see where you are. Once you understand how to control your ship and how to land shots, the PVP practice will make up the rest. I would do the PVP practice in the ship you plan to use moving forward. Which will most likely be an FDL or Mamba.
It will take ages and it feels horrible to start if you moved to KB+M. If you started on that, the whole journey is much easier.
Powerpanic
The Voice of Griefing
Then find an outpost and practice boost circling it and just get the hang of it using the outpost as a static point.
Once you have the basics of keeping your ship in control ( which will take a good long time )
Move to an asteroid belt, find a rock to orbit. Do much the same to start with the added worry of stuff around you.
Then start picking a rock, circle it and keep guns on. Both lasers and then PA's. Learn not to chase the reticle. Obviously you cannot target the rock to PA it but you will get a feel for where your PA's land. Or if you are feeling braver pick a fight with a large ship NPC. Dont try the small ones just yet, will make you suicidal.
Then pick a fight with a friendly player and see where you are. Once you understand how to control your ship and how to land shots, the PVP practice will make up the rest. I would do the PVP practice in the ship you plan to use moving forward. Which will most likely be an FDL or Mamba.
It will take ages and it feels horrible to start if you moved to KB+M. If you started on that, the whole journey is much easier.
Powerpanic
The Voice of Griefing
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spin wildly out of control, screaming as the the nonexistent gravitational forces act on your body as you struggle to adjust the joystick from a phantom force and right your ship. Tumbling across the barren landscape of a rocky world, the horizon begins to fade as the blood begins to rush to your head. Loading....Rebuy screen....
Hi @War Eagle,
Learning FA_off is a very personal thing to be honest. We at Newtons Gambit try to help with that process as much as we can.
The Gambit's creator Moxen Wolf (CMDR Hobbs) created a series of tutorial videos to help some basic exercises. Check them out.
Also feel free to come on our discord and ask any questions you have. https://discord.gg/mACjS8h
I would say the 'simplest' way is to use a stock sidewinder and just go out and do it...
Yeah. I also don't do this perma FA off honor thing... I'm flying a spaceship and FA off is a tool in the box. An awesome one I use most of the time, also for docking and most other things, but I have no problem toggling it off if that's more useful in that moment. Mining is an example where I toggle a lot.
That said, FA off skills are not getting better by toggling off whenever it's convenient, so if someone wants to learn it, I would keep it off as often as possible. There is so much that can be done with a bit of practice, I wouldn't want to waste that potential.
Three years and still learning, do everything you can in FAoff, mat grinding, cargo scooping, landing, taking off, asteroid flying etcetcetc..
Also Hardbass will increase your learning efficiency by 300%.
Also Hardbass will increase your learning efficiency by 300%.
Hardbass?
I just turned it off and never turned it back on again. 'twas the quickest way to make it second nature.
Sure, picking up mats or placing charges was awkward for a good while, but now it's more awkward for me to do anything FA On, so I don't. I can place seismic charges and still manually detonate because there's so much time left, I pick up every mat dropped by an Anaconda NPC before the mats reach 0%, and so on. All of this is no big deal now because FA off feels the new normal. On a couple occasions I have restarted the game and left the station forgetting that the game defaults back to FA On. Immediately as I leave the landing pad I feel it -- I'm driving with the handbrake on.
Crutch, most effective, I don't care. FA Off is the only way I want to fly a space ship and I'm salty every time I have to fly SC because the dampened flight model makes it feel like I'm flying in thick soup.
Sure, picking up mats or placing charges was awkward for a good while, but now it's more awkward for me to do anything FA On, so I don't. I can place seismic charges and still manually detonate because there's so much time left, I pick up every mat dropped by an Anaconda NPC before the mats reach 0%, and so on. All of this is no big deal now because FA off feels the new normal. On a couple occasions I have restarted the game and left the station forgetting that the game defaults back to FA On. Immediately as I leave the landing pad I feel it -- I'm driving with the handbrake on.
Crutch, most effective, I don't care. FA Off is the only way I want to fly a space ship and I'm salty every time I have to fly SC because the dampened flight model makes it feel like I'm flying in thick soup.
DeletedUser191218
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Everyone has their own preference. I've experimented and personally find toggling between on and off during certain combat manoeuvres is the optimal method. It simply takes time to know when to use it and when not to use it.
Wat? The Dropship is totally fun to fly FAoffSome ships are just more fun FA On (Dropship), so keep that in mind also.
Wat? The Dropship is totally fun to fly FAoff
Agreed, FDS is massively worse in FA on.