Newcomer / Intro Trying to kill elites - again

technion

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Hey guys,

After my earlier post about elites, I've added a lot of equipment to my viper.

Today I came across an elite python with a 180K bounty. After 15 minutes of dogfighting, I was feeling pretty good. He was down to 20% hull, my shield cell had just regenerated my shield and the hull was 85%. Less than two seconds later, my window was smashed open and I was watching the death animation.

I don't even understand what hit me, but it left me with a 24k buy back and it's just depressing. I'm running out of useful upgrades on this (shields will come soon) and I just don't understand how to progress past these guys.
 

Skip Intro

Skip Intro
Stay out of their front firing arc, they have plasma cannon that just eat you alive. Stay at range, stay on their tail and chew them bit by bit as you were doing.
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Use the gimballed weapons' ability to hit subsystems when they're not directly on-target.

Either bind next subsystem/previous subsystem to keys on your controller, or use the subsystems menu in the left-hand UI panel. Semect "thrusters" as the target and go to town with gimballed multis when the shields are down. It's probably quicker to take out the power plant or FSD, but I enjoy the sadistic pleasure of watching the big snakes lose control. I got gubbed one too many times as a new player, and take great pleasure in seeing those big ships crapping cargo like an incontinent old man, so I sometimes take out the cargo hatch after that :)
 

BishopC

BishopC
It does sound like you placed yourself in front of the Condas nose. Class 3 plasma burns will fry you away in one shot if you have a small ship and a crappy shield.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showth...=103113&page=2

In entry 18, I describe the "Easy way to kill a Conda - Kiting". Maybe you should give that a try. Be warned though, the challenge is almost gone with that approach.
 
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Universal Evil

Universal Evil
You are in a viper which is much faster and manuveble than the conda's so use that to you advantage you can easily hit the conda from a far distance while they have trouble hitting you and when you are far away from them you can easily avoid their blue plasma balls whenever they fire at you... don't get to near them as their lasers will do much more harm to your ship than if you are further away...
You can also practice on lesser condas like deadly or experts before taking on the elite ones(I did that 'cuz I'm a covard ;) )
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
BishopC said:
It does sound like you placed yourself in front of the Condas nose. Class 3 plasma burns will fry you away in one shot if you have a small ship and a crappy shield.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showth...=103113&page=2

In entry 18, I describe the "Easy way to kill a Conda - Kiting". Maybe you should give that a try. Be warned though, the challenge is almost gone with that approach.
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It's not hard to kill Anacondas that way at all. However, it does give you plenty of practice in keeping away from the business end of big, powerful ships. I found I got bored of kiting after a while and started experimenting with more interesting approaches. Just one mission successfully completed effectively gives you a rebuy cushion on a fully fitted Viper, and knowing that gives you the confidence to get in close.
 
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