FAOFF Appreciation thread

Name Inspiration

We are going to make it a group we just need a name now...

I fly FA-ON (for now) but I'm a fan of the hard mode FA-OFF jockeys. I don't know if you've picked a name yet, but when I think of the freedom and grace of this style of flying I immediately think of John Gillespie Magee Jr and his famous poem. I think this group embodies the feelings within that poem and so I would humbly suggest a name fitting of that bond and the surreal movement one can make without the limits of the flight assist:

Gillespie's Ghosts

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God
 
Greetings CMDRs!
I am delighted with this thread, awesome one and great videos. I would be super interested in joining you guys for several reasons.
I love challenges involving fight skills, i dislike "CODE" ( from a RP perspective in most cases :p) and try to fight them as much as i can, and you guys seems to have to have some kind of honor code which i do have my self. And of course to learn from your experiences too and share some knowledge.

I have been playing almost as bounty hunter since alpha but during the past month i decided to try pirating and joined Delaine. But always acting with a honor code.
I have a decent fleet of ships but i normally flight in a FDL.

Anyway, i dont have any recordings or even know how to do it, so i am afraid i cant show anything. But i am very engaged learning and getting as better as i can with the FAO, and my latest achievement which i feel very proud btw was making run away a CMDR´s clipper with my stealthy sidey using FAO after managing to put almost down his shields. I tried against other ships( They always interdicted me, so easy to attract pvp predators) but didn´t worked that well since the Sidey is too weak, but at least never died trying :p

Cheers and congrats again for the videos!

Welcome Cmdr,

similar story to mine. Started off BH'ing but quickly moved on to pirating. Then PP came and I joined Archon too.
Now I don't pirate and I am just a merc now, still with Archon but tbh I do my own thing now.
 
Good flying there buddy, with fixed weapons as well keep it up :)



Give it a go mate, Jacob found some great editing software that's easy to use and cheap to boot
http://filmora.wondershare.com/

Cheers mate, I got it setup and recorded my first video.......ever!
Ill probably play around with the editing features sometime in the future.

[video=youtube;9e4v7L6ian0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e4v7L6ian0[/video]
 
As promised first PvP vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj15oex1EfQ&feature=youtu.be

Not great, I've watched it a few times and picked up a lot of mistakes (forgetting to toggle after firing the rails, firing the MC's when they don't have lock, generally skidding around at full boost) but man was is exciting.

Hopefully next time I'll keep my cool and do better.

Pointers please? I was having some real trouble out maneuvering him and lining up rail shots, though on paper I know his ship and mine would have about the same turn rate.

On the plus side I didn't die and he had to resort to ramming.
That was really good for being your first time and nonetheless against a Clipper. That being said, your first mistake was boosting passing your target and giving momentum back to him, you don't want to give him so much space because he could use all four weapons on you, so when you are fighting a Clipper you want to hug him just stay away from his front. However, if you want to use boost to your advantage I will hit boost while holding one of my laterals thrusters so I will stay away from his line of fire while I am could still return fire, but you could only use Laser with that tactic. look at my video below and notice what I do when I'm boosting, that how I practice start watching at 0:57, if you want a better example let me know I will make one for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkKGs09hoNA
 
Not meant to be an FA Off demonstration, but this 1440p60 test video I made does feature me messing around with FA Off:

[video=youtube;PVjoyYtJ0kk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjoyYtJ0kk[/video]

1440p60 probably won't be done converting for a while, but 1080p60 works now.

I don't use FA off much (it's highly situational if you have solid thruster control), so don't have the practice with it some do, but I can get around with it disabled, if I need to.
 
Been playing with Filmora (thanks again Jacob for pointing it out) done 2 video's of myself training. I blame Lancer for the 2nd one, it was his idea :p

1st

[video=youtube;-Bqi0TmNuxg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bqi0TmNuxg[/video]

2nd

[video=youtube;ZXj7CJzwvdg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXj7CJzwvdg[/video]
 
Greetings CMDRs!
I am delighted with this thread, awesome one and great videos. I would be super interested in joining you guys for several reasons.
I love challenges involving fight skills, i dislike "CODE" ( from a RP perspective in most cases :p) and try to fight them as much as i can, and you guys seems to have to have some kind of honor code which i do have my self. And of course to learn from your experiences too and share some knowledge.

I have been playing almost as bounty hunter since alpha but during the past month i decided to try pirating and joined Delaine. But always acting with a honor code.
I have a decent fleet of ships but i normally flight in a FDL.

Anyway, i dont have any recordings or even know how to do it, so i am afraid i cant show anything. But i am very engaged learning and getting as better as i can with the FAO, and my latest achievement which i feel very proud btw was making run away a CMDR´s clipper with my stealthy sidey using FAO after managing to put almost down his shields. I tried against other ships( They always interdicted me, so easy to attract pvp predators) but didn´t worked that well since the Sidey is too weak, but at least never died trying :p

Cheers and congrats again for the videos!
Welcome to our club Cmdr, I am glad you like our thread and videos we just like sharing our knowledge and tactics, hopefully you would the same. That being said, I have an FDL as well and I do like to fight the Code is like one my main missions, so you could only guess that I will welcome your presence if you want to terrorize Leesti with me. I know the guys would like to come over help me take out the trash, we just got to make time myself included. Once again welcome, anyways, I see you like using a stealthy sidey but have you tried the scout they are deadly in that regards, I am still learning how to properly employ one but I am getting there.
 
Hands shaky, heart beating, swearing under your breath, maybe a slight touch of hyperventilation, tunnel vision banged out to the max, loss of fine motor-control and complex mental processes, ringing in your ears...yup you were riding the adrenaline-beast man.

No way anyone can give feedback on this, you were no where near your 100%. :)
Like I said before you want to brake the ice in Eravate, I know they are a bunch of newbies and that is mess up, well I am not asking to kill them is just practice once they start running just let them be. They will let you know when they are done, just get a bounty and they will bring the fight to you at the nav beacon, also great practice since the cops will open fire as well.
 
So true Platypus, once I had learnt it opened up a whole new feeling to the game entirely. You won't regret the time you put in, even if in the end you only use no assistance in spurts. Stick at it, it really is highly addictive, I couldn't agree more I can't get enough of it personally. I look forward to seeing you post a few vids of your progression :) Edit: unless you're a veteran already :O
Same goes for me I was playing since Beta and I felt the game was too easy and I needed a challenge so I decided to start learning from your videos until I finally got it. Now it feels like a whole different game because even when you land your are in the zone everything feel like an adventure.
 
Haha I don't think I'd ever be confident enough to call myself a veteran, since I reserve that status for yourself, Jesse, Isinona and many other skilled pilots in this thread. As for posting videos, I must confess I have 0 experience in recording though I would be interested to give it a try.
Do you have an Nvidia card 660 or above, if you do you already have built in recording software if not? ask Marshal he has many links he could provide. That guy is the master of swearing and research if you want to know something he finds the answer.
 
I fly FA-ON (for now) but I'm a fan of the hard mode FA-OFF jockeys. I don't know if you've picked a name yet, but when I think of the freedom and grace of this style of flying I immediately think of John Gillespie Magee Jr and his famous poem. I think this group embodies the feelings within that poem and so I would humbly suggest a name fitting of that bond and the surreal movement one can make without the limits of the flight assist:

Gillespie's Ghosts

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God

I like it, far better than anything I've thought of.

Gillespie's Ghosts
I like it a lot anyone else?
 
Not meant to be an FA Off demonstration, but this 1440p60 test video I made does feature me messing around with FA Off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjoyYtJ0kk

1440p60 probably won't be done converting for a while, but 1080p60 works now.

I don't use FA off much (it's highly situational if you have solid thruster control), so don't have the practice with it some do, but I can get around with it disabled, if I need to.
That was really good man thanks for sharing. I looking forward to more videos I know you are a PvP veteran, I hopefully you share some of your knowledge.
 
Like I said before you want to brake the ice in Eravate, I know they are a bunch of newbies and that is mess up...

I'd not even thought about that...think it can be done without being messed up actually...hmmm...

...That guy is the master of swearing and research if you want to know something he finds the answer.

Along with a new expletive, faoff has given me...quite the dictionary.

Holy crap that was some certified smooth landing, right Marshall?

I'm beginning to feel inadequate :D That more than qualifies as 'C.S.S.'.
 
Gillespie's Ghosts
I like it a lot anyone else?

+1 from me

That was really good for being your first time and nonetheless against a Clipper. That being said, your first mistake was boosting passing your target and giving momentum back to him, you don't want to give him so much space because he could use all four weapons on you, so when you are fighting a Clipper you want to hug him just stay away from his front. However, if you want to use boost to your advantage I will hit boost while holding one of my laterals thrusters so I will stay away from his line of fire while I am could still return fire, but you could only use Laser with that tactic. look at my video below and notice what I do when I'm boosting, that how I practice start watching at 0:57, if you want a better example let me know I will make one for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkKGs09hoNA

Thanks Jesse and good vid, it's one of those annoying things where in theory I know what I want to achieve but in the heat of the moment it doesn't quite pull off. Still it'll come with practice

I think I've been playing the game a bit too much recently and need to just go do some flying for the sake of it, those vids everyone has been posting look fun, think I'll go try some station flying.
 
That was really good man thanks for sharing. I looking forward to more videos I know you are a PvP veteran, I hopefully you share some of your knowledge.

Thanks.

I should be making some more PvP videos soon, now that back from Sag A*.
 
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