Newcomer / Intro NPCs a lot tougher in 1.1?

zabadoh

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I've only been trading in solo so far.

I started practicing combat just before the patch. After I patched up to 1.1 tonight, I haven't won the Sidewinder Face-Off in Training mode, where I used to win about half the time.

I've read that NPCs got more aggressive in the regular game since the patch. If this is what is out there in the "real" universe, I'm going to need a lot more practice...
 

Zylark

Zylark
Haven't found it much more difficult than previously. Though a major overhaul of the NPC AI is in the works, both for combat and behaviour around the stations and outposts. So in 1.2 they might provide a bit of a challenge for one thing, and for another they may not get caught in the toast-rack and slot that often. They may even begin to dock pretty well. The last thing will make the Docking Computer useful and less of a gamble, as NPC and the Docking Computer use the same AI code for entering a station/approaching an outpost and docking (as far as I know).

By the way, the bots in the training module, is much tougher than in the game proper. That said, a stock Sidewinder won't impress anyone much, but a few upgrades or even better, an Eagle or Viper, will do short work of most NPCs up to Cobra size at least.
 
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