Python is a hauler (king) that can fight, and Krait is a fighter that can haul.
What I like most with easy to earn CR is the ability to buy ships, try them and if I like her, to engineer her.
Hmmmmm, what will I fly today?
Need help with Combat
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What I like most with easy to earn CR is the ability to buy ships, try them and if I like her, to engineer her.
Hmmmmm, what will I fly today?
Yea. I didn't say that 4 pips to sys is the "always do" thing. It very much is situational, there's also advantages to pips at other places. For engines speed, agility and being able to boost more. Even for weapons, there's not only the obvious "weapons stop firing when out of energy", but the energy status also determines how much heat weapons generate.
But 4 pips to sys when under fire (or best, just before taking fire) is a really good start for a beginner. It makes a huge difference, the rest takes more time and experience to learn.
PIP management is something i'm familliar with. No problems there. But i'm gonna get some HRPs for sure. Also PA sound fun. Even though i cannot aim
THAT brings back sooo many UT memories
Anyway, i tried a Krait with 3 PA and 2 Rails. Engineered for like pvp - that is no Plasma Slugs... and i went in a Haz Rez to test them.
OMG at the amount of holes i put in the sky and at the amount of materials used to replenish ammo.
But the thing i liked most was the light effects on the enemies hulls from the plasma bolts passing majestically close by.
I will do it again, but this time with plasma slugs on everything.
I am curious about the build since you say normal npcs are melting your shield. I plopped together a very weak combat build on my krait 2 when I visited colonia on the way back from DW2 to get the three engineers out there unlocked and up to 5. Didn't get melted even a little. Granted, I've been shooting npcs for a long time.
It almost sounds like an undersized shield.
Also, pick your battles. You aren't going to take on anacondas out of the box. Not successfully anyway. Don't be too proud. The proud are just dead. If you are in trouble, there is nothing but your pride saying you have to stand and take it. The npcs don't care. They aren't impressed with your bravado.
Don't take on wings of enemies right away either.
Don't panic. Not saying you were, but I've tried to do some game combat training with some people who panic when the light show starts and just staring blasting at anything.
It almost sounds like an undersized shield.
Also, pick your battles. You aren't going to take on anacondas out of the box. Not successfully anyway. Don't be too proud. The proud are just dead. If you are in trouble, there is nothing but your pride saying you have to stand and take it. The npcs don't care. They aren't impressed with your bravado.
Don't take on wings of enemies right away either.
Don't panic. Not saying you were, but I've tried to do some game combat training with some people who panic when the light show starts and just staring blasting at anything.
Because the lead indicator can only account for the current movement vector of the target, not any changes that occur between firing the shot and the shot reaching where the target would have been...compensating for that is on the shooter.
Gimbals and turrets are more for widening the arc of fire than compensating for poor aim; they don't compensate at all for changing target motion vector and this, combined with the slight wobble, makes most projectiles fired from gimbaled mounts relatively easy to evade at any significant distance. Most CMDRs who are decent shots can out do a gimbal...they still increase time-on-target and still allow for more active evasion while being able to keep firing at said target.
LOL, I remember that grind, and when I finally got them, I couldn't hit a barn door with them, so my gimballed frags went back on!
OP,
If you really want to avoid jousting and get better at combat, I suggest you watch maneuvering videos. Vindicator Jones has some excellent ones. I am guessing you are not using your lateral thrusters enough. Until very recently, I was practicing in Rez sites with an unengineered Viper. After seeing a maneuvering video, go to a high res and take a cheap stock ship like the viper or cobra and practice just getting behind the target. Don't worry about aiming yet. Just try to stay on their six. Not only will this make it difficult for the target to hit you, it will also make aiming much easier. You really need to see a video showing the trajectory of the ships and how to counter them.
Yes, loadout helps, but really it's about maneuvers. You can do it and it is really fun.
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If you really want to avoid jousting and get better at combat, I suggest you watch maneuvering videos. Vindicator Jones has some excellent ones. I am guessing you are not using your lateral thrusters enough. Until very recently, I was practicing in Rez sites with an unengineered Viper. After seeing a maneuvering video, go to a high res and take a cheap stock ship like the viper or cobra and practice just getting behind the target. Don't worry about aiming yet. Just try to stay on their six. Not only will this make it difficult for the target to hit you, it will also make aiming much easier. You really need to see a video showing the trajectory of the ships and how to counter them.
Yes, loadout helps, but really it's about maneuvers. You can do it and it is really fun.
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I would love to have pilot-controlled turrets in the game. But despite that, my gimbal long range cannons work pretty well. They fire at the speed of a multi-cannon, so no, no one can dodge them if I get a lock. And that lock, I always confirm with beams. It's a cute trick. Both are gimballed. If the beams are hitting, then the cannons are free to fire. BOOOOM!
That's fine and dandy, until you meet a deadly/elite FAS or a FDL. They do the FA-OFF trick and you just can't keep on their tails. Jousting ensues. Always.
I really cant git gud with PAs
Nope. You can get good, Krash. Akuma told me an interesting trick. Make as if you are going to ram your target(in FA off), then when it's the right time, fire your plasma potatoes.
I have to practice this myself. The reticle is not enough by itself. I know you like ramming. Your name says it all.
Edit: ramming in FA off.
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Yeah you've got a point. I fly FA off most of the time. Nevertheless, if OP doesn't shoot, he/she can practice maneuvering to her hearts desire in a high rez.
Also, OP, try to get the trick of boosting with lateral up/down thrusters pressed. The ship moves faster in that direction. It's a great way to counter/match the oponent's boost.
Big part of the success to plasmas is force feeding your target. Boost at them like a dive bomber and fire at such a time where missing is very unlikely. Additionally learn the boost times and cooldowns of the ships you're facing. Catch them when they aren't able to maneuver.
Of course don't forget PIP management. No need for WEP if your capacitor is charged. Make use of your distributor to give you an edge.
In the end though it's just practice, practice, and more practice!
1600m/s projectiles are far from impossible to evade at medium-long ranges. Depends on ship profile and manuverability of course, but if I'm trying not to get hit in a an agile medium, a significant number of projectiles are not going to hit the ship I'm piloting if there is much more than a second of travel time. With something like a Viper or Courier, I can usually ignore most MC and focused/LR PA/cannon fire outside 1.5km
If you are talking about NPCs, they never use FA Off...not that it's required to keep any ship off the tail of a FAS.