These guys are right you know. I gave up on the original and I nearly gave up on the PC version of FFE, simply because whenever I got into a combat situation I would die...without question. A lot of the time my opponent was a big ship with a 100MW laser or maybe even a Plasma Accelerator. It seemed that no amount of shields would protect me.
I did sometimes use the "pause the game, line up opponent, shoot them before they have the chance to shoot me" trick, but didn't like it as it felt like cheating. I tried my old FE2 technique of thrusting backwards with my opponent on screen, but not in my targetter, as they would always miss and when they were close enough they were a sitting target, but that didn't work either.
No, what DraQ says about thrusting towards them while they're on the edge of your screen does seem to work, then as they break off their attack you immediately hook onto their tail...that method works well.
Not always mind you. Sometimes you will get hit within a second or two of the alarms ringing, but don't dally, (don't look at your scanner first, just engines off and move move move), and you'll find those percentages you mentioned dropping.
I don't play the game anymore, but I went from Constrictor to Asp to Tiger to Panter Clipper to Thargoid Vessel back to Asp, and I found my combat skills were slightly better than they had been the first time I flew the Asp.
I did sometimes use the "pause the game, line up opponent, shoot them before they have the chance to shoot me" trick, but didn't like it as it felt like cheating. I tried my old FE2 technique of thrusting backwards with my opponent on screen, but not in my targetter, as they would always miss and when they were close enough they were a sitting target, but that didn't work either.
No, what DraQ says about thrusting towards them while they're on the edge of your screen does seem to work, then as they break off their attack you immediately hook onto their tail...that method works well.
Not always mind you. Sometimes you will get hit within a second or two of the alarms ringing, but don't dally, (don't look at your scanner first, just engines off and move move move), and you'll find those percentages you mentioned dropping.
I don't play the game anymore, but I went from Constrictor to Asp to Tiger to Panter Clipper to Thargoid Vessel back to Asp, and I found my combat skills were slightly better than they had been the first time I flew the Asp.
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