Ships The Keelback Club

[RooksBailey]

Has anyone noticed a problem with the cargo scoop being misaligned on the Keelback? The other day I was intercepted by a pirate. We duked it out and I won with the help of my fighter. When I deployed the cargo scoop to hoover up the mats and escape pods dropped by the pirate, I noticed that even if I had the crosshairs perfectly centered on the cargo, it would still bounce away from the ship. The only way I could get the cargo in the ship was to deliberately maneuver so the cargo was below and to the left of the cargo crosshairs, then it would scoop it up. Later that evening I did a peaceful salvage mission and this problem was not present. Then I did another combat mission and the problem returned. It seems to be related to combat or ship-launched fighters?

The last time I flew a Keelback was in Horizons days. I recall this was a bug back then but I thought they patched it out. Is it back again or just never went away? Or just something on my end?

My Keelback flying past a spooky moon. Maybe I will share it for the #Screamshots contest....

 

[Torrigwynt174]

The old keelie is performing well under pressure! In and out of attacked outposts for evac

 

[Dushess74]

Only downside in such events - too small pax area

 

[Torrigwynt174]

As a break from evac missions I've gone on my first exobiology jaunt. As a xbox player I've never experienced thin atmosphere like this before.

 

[Fostat]

I have a (rather unhealthy) obsession with the Keelback. Of all the ships its the one I keep coming back to time and time again. Good enough for almost any job, but not so good you don't have to think about what you are doing. Taken me to Colonia and Sag A* and now back in the bubble.

Anyone know if there is a keelback squadron? I play in open and rarely encounter another player in a keelback.

 

[Torrigwynt174]

Really loving the keelie for exo and exploration.

 

[DB GUARDIAN]

I have a (rather unhealthy) obsession with the Keelback. Of all the ships its the one I keep coming back to time and time again. Good enough for almost any job, but not so good you don't have to think about what you are doing. Taken me to Colonia and Sag A* and now back in the bubble.

Anyone know if there is a keelback squadron? I play in open and rarely encounter another player in a keelback.

Played for years on xbox before being able to copy over to a PC account (non-steam version). Not many of the founding members are left in the player faction though (Origami Aerospace Industries). We used to run in groups of four with highly engineered keelbacks (efficient regen beams and packhounds). Never lost shields using regen beam lasers on each other, and 8 packhound racks going off together on some poor soul always brought laughter from the crew. A great little ship … extremely dangerous when working together. Our keelback crew was called “Keel Team Six”. I still play every now and then on PC. We are based out of KAMUY if you are ever in the neighborhood.

 

[Fostat]

Had a break for a bit but am back in the saddle of my trusty keelback. These are my current Multo-role and full explorer builds:

Multi-Role
Explorer

 

[Torrigwynt174]

Had a break for a bit but am back in the saddle of my trusty keelback. These are my current Multo-role and full explorer builds:

Multi-Role
Explorer

Nice! I'm pleased to see that my multirole keelie is very similar to yours; I must be doing something right.

 

[Torrigwynt174]

Is reviving a 11 months old thread a necro?

Anyhoo.......

With the introduction of the new SCO drives I decided to fit one in my keelie to see what it's like, and reading Mossfoots stories helped with the decision.
Well it slightly snowballed from testing the drive to soft resetting my account and restarting the roleplay. So now I'm penniless working my way around the backwaters in my keelie and loving it!

Has anyone else tried the SCO in their keelback?

 

[BackToTheMud]

@Torrigwynt174
11 months? Try 8 years.
If it's about the Keelback its always good.
The SCO works exactly as it should in the Keelback. I.e with a lot of character. It won't be a smooth ride, but that's as it should be.

 

[Lugzan]

you cant necro a keelback post because keelbacks are beyond the constraint of time

 

[Torrigwynt174]

And I'm back in the old keelback, had a stint in the mandy (wow!) and the cobra V (another wow!). Also flew the T8 for a while and I really like that ship.

But they all don't have the character of the keelback, SCO boosting is hilarious! I find it perfect for the various PP game loops, as long as i refit for whatever task (can't fit everything in for all tasks).

 

[BackToTheMud]

@Torrigwynt174
What is your standard, i,e what you tweek from for PP, Keelback setup? It's always interesting to see what other's come up with for the non meta ships, and especially for Keelbacks.

 

[Torrigwynt174]

@Torrigwynt174
What is your standard, i,e what you tweek from for PP, Keelback setup? It's always interesting to see what other's come up with for the non meta ships, and especially for Keelbacks.

This what I generally run with, currently experimenting with the weapons, I find that most PP opponents have been small fast ships so I'm playing around to counter that.

March Harrier

 

[BackToTheMud]

This what I generally run with, currently experimenting with the weapons, I find that most PP opponents have been small fast ships so I'm playing around to counter that.

March Harrier

I don't do PP, but from what I can google, it seem like the only thing you can't do with that is mining. (I assume I've probably missed something.) Sonit seem like a usefull build.
I've just set mine up to do as many different missions (non PP) as possible while keeping it as is, apart from the occasionall refit based on lessons learned (but last one was like 2 years ago), and then I just run another one for some peaceful core mining.