My first elite anaconda kill

jockmcplop · Feb 12, 2015

So i've come with victorious, and yet puzzling news.

I finally killed an anaconda by myself in my viper. Fantastic.
Now for the weird bit, which is how it was done.

I closed in on Robert Harris's ship. It loomed in front of me monolithic in its presence and mass. Then he unloaded on me. Rail guns and all, took down my shields in mere seconds. RUN. So i ran away really really fast.
So fast, i concluded that i got caught in some kind of relativity effect and by the time his anaconda had caught up with me poor Robert had died of old age. I conclude this because his ship was no longer being controlled in any kind of way. No shooting, no turning, just floating in space. Now, i could have investigated this ship to see what had happened, but our friend Robert (Bob, if you will) is known to be a sneaky man at the best of times, so erring on the side of caution as i so regularly do, i shot him for about 4 minutes from 200m until his ship blew up.

This concludes the glorious tales of the pure heroism of Commander Jock McPlop. Tune in for more next week.

Surly_Badger · Feb 12, 2015

Perhaps he died of a heart attack from laughing at the initial effect his rail guns had on you?

Any victory is a good victory! Congratulations!

Double_Tap · Feb 12, 2015

Well done Jock. No doubt the tale will be a wee bit embellished when you tell the tale at Jaque's Bar.

MACMAN86 · Feb 12, 2015

You lucky git! What was the bounty or was just mercenary mission alone?

IAM GROOT · Feb 12, 2015

jockmcplop said:
So i've come with victorious, and yet puzzling news.

I finally killed an anaconda by myself in my viper. Fantastic.
Now for the weird bit, which is how it was done.

I closed in on Robert Harris's ship. It loomed in front of me monolithic in its presence and mass. Then he unloaded on me. Rail guns and all, took down my shields in mere seconds. RUN. So i ran away really really fast.
So fast, i concluded that i got caught in some kind of relativity effect and by the time his anaconda had caught up with me poor Robert had died of old age. I conclude this because his ship was no longer being controlled in any kind of way. No shooting, no turning, just floating in space. Now, i could have investigated this ship to see what had happened, but our friend Robert (Bob, if you will) is known to be a sneaky man at the best of times, so erring on the side of caution as i so regularly do, i shot him for about 4 minutes from 200m until his ship blew up.

This concludes the glorious tales of the pure heroism of Commander Jock McPlop. Tune in for more next week.

That's funny

. Last time I took on an Elite Anaconda, had the wrong weapon load out but still managed to get him down to 33% hull before I had to bug out, made it back to an outpost with 5% hull 6 mins of air left BUT sensors destroyed so I couldn't land, went out in a blazing fireball against the landing pad tower, good job there's never anyone in there

jockmcplop · Feb 12, 2015

IAM GROOT said:
That's funny . Last time I took on an Elite Anaconda, had the wrong weapon load out but still managed to get him down to 33% hull before I had to bug out, made it back to an outpost with 5% hull 6 mins of air left BUT sensors destroyed so I couldn't land, went out in a blazing fireball against the landing pad tower, good job there's never anyone in there

This has happened to me so many times, running away after thinking i had the basketballs to take on an elite anaconda. Those missions are so tempting though, aren't they??
I got 200000 for this one.

jockmcplop · Feb 12, 2015

OK so i realized what happened here after thinking back over the fight.
The anaconda shot at me quite alot with his rail gun in the opening exchange. He then let loose a load of missiles. Perhaps he ran out of ammo. He could have at least rammed me to death or something though.

So if you ever come across an elite anaconda with missiles and rail guns, keep running for the easy kill.

Dash · Feb 12, 2015

I ran from one the other day, but kept him in my scope, so maybe I didn't run far enough.

It had missiles so I just let my PD drain that dry, alas still lots of turrets on it when I did engage. Don't think I could have done it after the 1.1 patch by the sounds of things.