Leaving with a bad taste in my mouth, given that we both know who should have won that duel!
How can you play in open normally? without loadout set up for PvP ie I've got KWS, limpet drone, heat sink, cargo racks, so one SCB and 2 chaff launchers along with the fact that other missions use up some of your defences..it makes the whole experience pretty depressing!
Basically, with PvP, who wins? the best pilot or the ship with the most internal compartments?..the game mechanic is truly awful in this respect, but, as I said..roll on 1.4.
Face it: you lost that. There is no who should have won. You lost.
If you want to get past a stack of shield cells you need to be more cunning than firing with normal ammo.
You need the best lasers or rail guns and add some unexpected ramming to take the shields down before a cell kicks in.
You are in the faster ship - it should work.
Also pack some torpedos to make quick work once the shields are gone instead of risking them getting up again having to repeat the process of bypassing the cells.
Everyone saying it ruins tactics or anything: I just showed you how it expands required tactics. There is no end all tactic and you may have to switch yours if you want to best certain tactics.
You ran and it was the right thing to do with how the fight evolved.
edit: and if you do keep playing open you should run again if you are not prepared to face an opponent with several shield cell banks - you can see the modules as sub targets after all. Skip the fight earlier.
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