I might have to bring the Imperator over. See if we can't melt the smiles off these seccessionist traitors' faces.
EDIT: Watch out, traitors, the Imperator has arrived.
I'm not too bothered about the missile launchers, I just hate terrorists, traitors and seccesionists! I've destroyed nine of your cutters already!
EDIT:
This is quite fun!
It's a healthy mix of challenging spec ops ships, rewarding heavyweights like cutters and T9s, and tedious clouds of vipers, couriers and cobras that are too small and too hardy to be taken down easily, but still need to be dealt with.
The Imperator is acquitting itself admirably. At one point I got so fixated on taking down their cutter that when their spec ops ships jumped on me I was alarmed at how quickly my shields were dropping (four elite ships fixating on you will do that, I guess), but shield cells kept them above 50% or so long enough for me to kill the cutter and boost out to safe shield-recharging let's-have-2-minutes-break range. After which of course I came back and took out all four of the spec ops ships, making them pay dearly for the insult.
This seems to be a recurring theme - I'll get in, get halfway through destroying the biggest ship there (usually a python, but if I'm lucky a cutter will find itself under my guns), and before I know it, there are four elite NPCs trying every position of the Spacecraft Commander's Karma Sutra on my head with their ships, and it's a gritted-teeth who-blinks-first situation as I fight to destroy my target before they push me back. Three times this has happened now.
But yeah, the Imperator is hard wearing for sure. She has the speed to boost away, the shield tank to suck it up, and the long range to reach out and touch someone.
I'd always avoided conflict zones before, because having every ship turn against me used to be a pretty terminal experience. A few thousand hours later and it's more of a case of Under Attack - "Yeah, I'll deal with that gnat when I've finished with this worthy prey". It's ego boosting.
The SpecOps are still a challenge, by themselves they're dangerous and a handful, four at once is beyond any daydream I've ever enjoyed. But they fall quite nicely, one by one. And I can always kite the more mundane ships while my shields recharge.
Great fun, so far!
EDIT: Watch out, traitors, the Imperator has arrived.
I'm not too bothered about the missile launchers, I just hate terrorists, traitors and seccesionists! I've destroyed nine of your cutters already!
EDIT:
This is quite fun!
It's a healthy mix of challenging spec ops ships, rewarding heavyweights like cutters and T9s, and tedious clouds of vipers, couriers and cobras that are too small and too hardy to be taken down easily, but still need to be dealt with.
The Imperator is acquitting itself admirably. At one point I got so fixated on taking down their cutter that when their spec ops ships jumped on me I was alarmed at how quickly my shields were dropping (four elite ships fixating on you will do that, I guess), but shield cells kept them above 50% or so long enough for me to kill the cutter and boost out to safe shield-recharging let's-have-2-minutes-break range. After which of course I came back and took out all four of the spec ops ships, making them pay dearly for the insult.
This seems to be a recurring theme - I'll get in, get halfway through destroying the biggest ship there (usually a python, but if I'm lucky a cutter will find itself under my guns), and before I know it, there are four elite NPCs trying every position of the Spacecraft Commander's Karma Sutra on my head with their ships, and it's a gritted-teeth who-blinks-first situation as I fight to destroy my target before they push me back. Three times this has happened now.
But yeah, the Imperator is hard wearing for sure. She has the speed to boost away, the shield tank to suck it up, and the long range to reach out and touch someone.
I'd always avoided conflict zones before, because having every ship turn against me used to be a pretty terminal experience. A few thousand hours later and it's more of a case of Under Attack - "Yeah, I'll deal with that gnat when I've finished with this worthy prey". It's ego boosting.
The SpecOps are still a challenge, by themselves they're dangerous and a handful, four at once is beyond any daydream I've ever enjoyed. But they fall quite nicely, one by one. And I can always kite the more mundane ships while my shields recharge.
Great fun, so far!
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