It can't make frontier recognize its track record makes us sad........or has it?
Thwarptide
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Uh oh, Thargoid! (lock on target)
Here ship, hold my beer!
(nope, it can't do that either)
Here ship, hold my beer!
(nope, it can't do that either)
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The main problem with the Cobra for AX is hardpoint placement. Otherwise it is perfectly capable.
SLFs are generally bad for interceptor combat.
SLFs are generally bad for interceptor combat.
CIII can't convince me to buy it.
Well, tbh I do have a CIII, Frontier25 paintjob and tightly mothballed in the far corner of Jaques Station in Colonia. More a shelf queen than practical ship.
Damn good!
Unless I missed something, the build is not yet posted. Would you please post it?
Also, how many refills for what did you synth?
That's why I play it slow, only spending 10% of the money I make on new ships.
The rest goes in the kids' college fund.
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In terms of cargo hauling larger quantities - technically it can thanks to partial cargo deliveries - I suppose the question is whether one is willing to make the additional journeys. But it is possible at least.
As for luxury cabins - my experience with them has been mixed at best; ran both a Beluga and a Dolphin solely for this purpose for a while, and those Luxury passengers were either nowhere to be found, or if they were, the mission was not worth it (either too long, poor reward, or both).
I've since gotten rid of both ships and just haul passengers up to first class - weirdly enough quite often the most valuable missions are economy class. It's not like the luxury variants play out in any special way compared to the rest, either. Another missed opportunity there.
Of course, but given the size of the ship, compromises have to be made, but those cargo missions are at least not locked away from you because your ship is too small, like before we were able to do partial deliveries.
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Does it have small seismic charges?
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If you mean what I think you mean by 'straws', then yes - running out of gameplay options so ship building is the only area for me that still engages me greatly and is a lot of fun. Got a genuine buzz out of this last night.
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There are, but what we need are small pad only outposts. I'd love that.
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Yeah, I do like the PD 'trick' at those sites, but it makes them even more trivial than they already are when it comes to danger. But I'm also able to handle the SRV pretty ok, which helps.
Yeah, that's the one thing I don't like about the C3, but no ship's perfect which I like as it makes you work around the shortcomings. Still, if you keep your distance it's not a big deal provided damage fall off isn't too big. But doesn't lend itself to well for certain fixed weapons, that's for sure. Though what I did here (and it was a requirement from a heat management perspective also) was to assign the left and right hardpoints to separate firegroups, and fire in turn.
It shares the same capability for that as all the other ships
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The only thing I synthed was heatsink ammo, once. I added the build in the OP, the heatsink only carries 3 ammo, normally I would upgrade that to 4 but I borrowed the module from another ship as I was on my FC and didn't have any spares lying around.
Bloody hell, no repairs! So, you just ignored the swarm (other than avoiding it) and shot straight for the hearts. Really nice, I'll try to replicate this at some point. Naturally, the problem is extensive engineering...
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Ah yes, no repairs and I ignored the swarm, which you can do with a Cyclops at least - I carry a decon limpet (which I had to use, once) because you can't stack sufficient Guardian HRPs to greatly reduce caustic damage combined with the lower max armour pool the Cobra allows. If I hadn't had one with me, I wouldn't have made it.
My main AX ship is a Chieftan (previously Challenger, and Krait) - you can stack so many Guardian HRPs that you can pretty much ignore caustic damage on those, and even fly into the caustic cloud to nab the Thargoid Heart if you feel adventurous.
Another thing I didn't mention in the OP was that I got caught out massively in the beginning of the fight, where you're too close and the Interceptor uses some sort of tractor beam (no idea if this is the correct description) - you can't FA Off boost away and both the Interceptor and the swarm keep hammering you. I lost about 30% hull just from that very first incident.
After that, it was much easier - I flew in largely a triangle pattern in FA Off keeping both the swarm and the Cyclops at about 5-10km distance, until the latter dropped its shield. I also find the Cobra much more stable aiming the Gauss's compared to other ships - I'm really not a good shot with fixed weapons usually, and playing with an Xbox pad doesn't make it any easier.
As for engineering, the key bits are Thrusters (speed is vital) PP and PD - Guardian modules (other than weapons) help tremendously although some argue that G5'd HRPs are better - which is true in raw numbers, but the caustic damage protection (and not wasting a lot of mats on engineering) makes GHRPs my preferred choice.
I'm in two minds about the shield - tempted to replace that with another hull reinforcement, as it just draws power and doesn't last long anyways.
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The Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.
Absolutely my favourite ship and no, nothing important that she can't do.
And congrats. Great minds (or something something about fools):
Source: https://i.imgur.com/bXkWOyy.jpg
And congrats. Great minds (or something something about fools):
Source: https://i.imgur.com/bXkWOyy.jpg
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I envy you for that paintjob alone! Well done (2 years ago
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Shieldless with 3000HP and 4 fixed MCs. Survived multiple gank attempts back in New Borann no problem.
I do wish they would sell stuff like that again, but also appreciate they've stuck to their word.
I still remember it. Sparks were flying, modules were in bits and needed 2 reboot and repairs to get them back online to finish the fight, barely made it out. It was great!Well done (2 years ago
I think they're worth it if you're expecting to take damage, it's free hp each time you go for a heart to save the precious hull.
I killed three Cyclops (seperatly) on Sunday as a warm up for a small ship only Hydra hunt
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