really this update is horrible for causal player like me.(few hours / week). i dont play much, playing mouse and keyboard because im used to it from other games, however, after this patch i dont intend to play or buy frontier stuff.
as a huge fan since elite II and especially frontier first encounters im disappointed, that one patch can basically ruin the game for me (and from what i read, also for many more).
I lost in two days 4 or 5 pythons just because NPC during _under 100k reward mission run_ kills me under 10 seconds :
- during deploying hardpoints i lost almost all schields
- cell bank was basically useless as well shield boosters.
today it was fer de lance (or what ever the ship is called) and i died twice in matter of minutes... and not speaking that i was not able to resist the interdiction due another bug with that.
- im not speaking about looking at "stand by" always during mission board for like 20 seconds each time during loading accepting mission etc...
really its like x-rebirth release, i think frontier is loosing player base with such releases and after certain game(s) will come out, it will loose more
sorry to say that but thats what im thinking, as i loved to just fly in space, w/o question the best part of this game (apart from supercruise), i even didnt mind the grind and space trucking.
I too have an A-Class Python and it's the only ship I can use, my FAS is in lockdown because I can't transfer what I have for mods into it, doesn't have the cargo capacity. So here is what has worked for me in running out from interdictions.
1. Most interdictions come right after you come out jump space near a sun, pay attention to the message board, if you get an interdiction message, slow down immediately and drop down to normal space speed. This way you won't have to play the stupid escape interdiction mini-game that is an RNG thing and really doesn't have anything to do with flight skills IMHO. Also, you won't experience the long FSD cool-down after you come out of the spin cycle, which in 2.1 are quite violent. This will give time to do what is next.
2. Go to the destination selection, select a nearby random sun to jump to out of the system you are in. Be ready to select a second one if your first choice is obstructed by the nearby sun. Boost as often as you can while you're doing this. I don't know if it helps but it makes me feel good.
3. You have two choices, one is jump to that random system as soon as your FSD is available, or if you can stomach a little combat, wait till the bad guys show up and you can see what the ship is. For me almost 90%+ of the interdictors are FAS, FGS, FDS, FDL, Python, either elite or deadly, with those guys, all I do is boost and jump to a random jump selection. With Explorers or less, I have been taking them on out of principle and been successful (that means I survived with most of my hull, I have been down to 50%) the bounty usually covers the repairs with a little left over.
3. Proceed to your original destination from your random selection sun. This wasn't possible until FD toned down the interdictions, right after the upgrade, I was interdicted by the same Python 3x's after going through three different systems and got blasted to bits due to the instant death bug they also removed. Now if you are quick, and do what I do, you have a good chance of getting away. And I have never given up one ounce of cargo to the bad guys.
Good luck CMNDR
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because of that i avoided high paid missions. I