After reading so many bad things about the Fer-de-Lance I skipped straight past it in favour of the much loved Python.
Investing considerably into the Python and fully kitting out my Clipper and Asp. I eventually had some lazy money floating around and thought I'd try out the FDL myself. I kitted her up (mostly B class with a few A's, couplings, fsd, Power)
- I head out to a RES and spent about an hour shooting up smaller ships, getting used to it in combat.
My load out (Class 2 Gim Burst all round, with Gim Class 3 Pulse on the large hardpoint) predictably made short work of all the smaller ships, when I could manage to get a bead on them. I was having a fair amount of trouble maneuvering the ship onto the smaller ones ( compared to the Clipper or Python) but I put this down to my in-experience with the ship handling.
Eventually I came across a wanted npc Clipper.
Feeling confident, I snuck up on it, targeted it's power supply, and took out it's shields in a couple of cheeky volleys directly into the tail pipe.
I also managed to take about 30% of the Clippers Hull before it quickly turned to face me.
I thought, "Ok here we go, I have the full advantage.. The Clipper had no shields and was already suffering a 30% loss to hull integrity."
I thought I could safely go toe to toe in a full frontal battle.
Let's do this.. both facing each other, we both unleashed..
I was wrong... so very very wrong..
The Clipper absolutely decimated me, while I only managed to take a further 20% off it. (leaving it at 50% hull)
It's probably a good time to point out I'm no slouch when it comes to combat, by no means the best, but I am currently rankd Dangerous and about 37% off becoming Elite. I have earned my stripes.
How and why is this ship so bad..
It handles like a Yak9 in combat, and sports a payload which feels more like a Cobra than 50 million dollar Fighter Class. (I will take some responsibility for the latter)
I love the sounds and speedy feels, but man, as the largest fighter... it's reputation as a lemon is not exaggerated.
Hope this ship gets a bit of love at some point.
In the mean time I'm back in my Python.
Investing considerably into the Python and fully kitting out my Clipper and Asp. I eventually had some lazy money floating around and thought I'd try out the FDL myself. I kitted her up (mostly B class with a few A's, couplings, fsd, Power)
- I head out to a RES and spent about an hour shooting up smaller ships, getting used to it in combat.
My load out (Class 2 Gim Burst all round, with Gim Class 3 Pulse on the large hardpoint) predictably made short work of all the smaller ships, when I could manage to get a bead on them. I was having a fair amount of trouble maneuvering the ship onto the smaller ones ( compared to the Clipper or Python) but I put this down to my in-experience with the ship handling.
Eventually I came across a wanted npc Clipper.
Feeling confident, I snuck up on it, targeted it's power supply, and took out it's shields in a couple of cheeky volleys directly into the tail pipe.
I also managed to take about 30% of the Clippers Hull before it quickly turned to face me.
I thought, "Ok here we go, I have the full advantage.. The Clipper had no shields and was already suffering a 30% loss to hull integrity."
I thought I could safely go toe to toe in a full frontal battle.
Let's do this.. both facing each other, we both unleashed..
I was wrong... so very very wrong..
The Clipper absolutely decimated me, while I only managed to take a further 20% off it. (leaving it at 50% hull)
It's probably a good time to point out I'm no slouch when it comes to combat, by no means the best, but I am currently rankd Dangerous and about 37% off becoming Elite. I have earned my stripes.
How and why is this ship so bad..
It handles like a Yak9 in combat, and sports a payload which feels more like a Cobra than 50 million dollar Fighter Class. (I will take some responsibility for the latter)
I love the sounds and speedy feels, but man, as the largest fighter... it's reputation as a lemon is not exaggerated.
Hope this ship gets a bit of love at some point.
In the mean time I'm back in my Python.
