Engineers Ship Builds & Load Outs PA and APA engineering effects.

[Kayvan]

My opinion, I'm probably wrong, but this video shows nothing but flying faoff among the asteroids. The haphazard tossing back and forth and the pile of asteroids keeps the player from getting hit.

That may be so, but if I tried that with FAOFF and permaboost I'd either run full smack into asteroids every couple of seconds or be 5km out of the ring before I could react.

Still I'd also like to see a video how this flying style is used for offensive purposes and bringing those rails to bear.

 

[Slange Lands]

Below is the final fight of last year's PvP league tournament. Many tournaments, in order to be more fair, outlaw thermal conduit on PAs because they are too OP. Hence this year the meta was the prismo srb rail mc build.

Kayvan, your comment above is exactly correct. Smacking into rocks is terrifying and deadly. Even with a prismo, boosting into a rock at 560 m/s with 4 pips to shields will cost at least half a ring. With biweaves, at least half your shields are obliterated.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbkpYzM2-N0&t=412s


The guys in the above video are some of the best pilots in game.

[Edit] fyi, Rui Rebui uses a mouse and joystick as control setup.

 

[SergMx]

fyi, Rui Rebui uses a mouse and joystick as control setup.

Yes, I know them, as a rule they are good fighters. They use the mouse to aim at the faoff.

 

[Stabby_Dave]

Ok. Bought a Chieftain and slapped some engineered modules from my Challenger on it. Currently running 2x L focused APA with TLB and dispersal, a medium focused PA with phasing and 2 small efficient thermal vent beams and a small high capacity corrosive multi on the smalls.

As I said in the OP, this is for PvE practice/learning only. Thinking about changing the experimentals on all 3 PAs to phasing just to see what happens

 

[Chaodiurn]

This thread weirdly got me interested in PvP. And all I wanted to do is to dip my toes into engineering after all these years. Well. Where can one investigate further into this swinging activtiy?