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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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Confusing results for today's combat efforts. Two medium ship based conflict zones as I didn't have time for a high intensity, and a ground conflict zone. What is confusing is my combat rank went up 2% through dangerous and my mercenary rank stood still at 14% through defenceless. Maybe a quirk of updates coming through to Inara 
Payout for the ground conflict zone was in the region of 400K credits.
The fun part was I got interdicted coming away from the ground conflict zone in my Viper MKIV. by a Challenger. Sporting a rapid fire medium multi cannon with indendiary rounds and another corrosive plus the two small dumb fire missile launchers with overload munitions the Challenger went boom with only 4% of 296MJ shields lost on the Viper MKIV. You know, the slow not very agile one. OK so it's engineered grade 5 dirty drives plus drag, but the Challenger never got to bring it's guns to bear as this Viper is plenty small, fast and agile enough to run rings around it. Granted the Challenger was only 'competant'.
I though it would be a closer fight than that.
Payout for the ground conflict zone was in the region of 400K credits.
The fun part was I got interdicted coming away from the ground conflict zone in my Viper MKIV. by a Challenger. Sporting a rapid fire medium multi cannon with indendiary rounds and another corrosive plus the two small dumb fire missile launchers with overload munitions the Challenger went boom with only 4% of 296MJ shields lost on the Viper MKIV. You know, the slow not very agile one. OK so it's engineered grade 5 dirty drives plus drag, but the Challenger never got to bring it's guns to bear as this Viper is plenty small, fast and agile enough to run rings around it. Granted the Challenger was only 'competant'.
I though it would be a closer fight than that.
It is fascinating how different the perception of this sound is amongst us players.
The Pilot called it a "Cessna", to me, it sounds more like a WWII fighter, for you, it has some digestive issues...
Good to know.
Cool. Thank you. This surely will bring some colour into my map.
I'm still in the Temple Region, and although it was a poor start when I first got here I haven't done badly since then on the Exobiology front, which is the main reason why I wanted to go to regions other than Inner Orion Spur. Everything I've found so far has been a codex discovery for me.
I've found quite a bit of stuff recently, including (as I understand it from earlier posts by others in this thread,) the Holy Grail of all the Stratums - the Tectonicas variety.
That wasn't on the planet in this screenshot though, it was on the one I landed on before this one in the same system. The icy planet I'm on here only has bacterium which by some miracle I've also managed to get three samples of. Also managed to pick up some materials from a couple of meterorites lying around (including some I'd never had before) but the main reason I landed here was because the icy bodies are always fun to drive on in the SRV.
I've found quite a bit of stuff recently, including (as I understand it from earlier posts by others in this thread,) the Holy Grail of all the Stratums - the Tectonicas variety.
That wasn't on the planet in this screenshot though, it was on the one I landed on before this one in the same system. The icy planet I'm on here only has bacterium which by some miracle I've also managed to get three samples of. Also managed to pick up some materials from a couple of meterorites lying around (including some I'd never had before) but the main reason I landed here was because the icy bodies are always fun to drive on in the SRV.
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The AspX engine sound is purported to be designed to sound like a WWII Wellington bomber. To me it sounds like a flatulent duck in a tin bath.
Been a long while since I had the dustsheets off mine but my recollection of it was that at times it sounded like a pulse jet as used in the doodlebugs.
These were well before my time, but older relatives spoke of those things and they were nightmarish. They used to say that, it was OK until the engine cut out, and then you never knew where it was going come down.
Of course, even scarier was the V2 - you never saw those coming at all.
I honestly count myself very lucky not to have lived through a world war.
I have been trying to relearn my “skills” in combat by shooting stuff at a Compromised Nav Beacon for one of the current Community Goals, I was amazed at the mistakes I was making during my first runs such as not being able to fire my weapons to assist my Ship Launched Fighter pilot.
- Are they still fitted, yes
- Are they powered, yes
- Is the capacitor charged/PIPs set correctly, yes
- Am I in Combat Mode, yes
- Are my bindings working, yes
- Have I selected the right firegroup, Oops.
Aye, my older relatives told me that about the V2 as well. In fact the playground in my first school when I was about 4 still had a crater in it caused by a V2 when I started there.
(Edit) The V1 Doodlebug I mean. As you also said, the V2 was the later one that you had no warning of at all.
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Note my knowledge if these comes from films, documentaries, my dads stories about the war and Scrapheap Challenge.
The idea you were safe(ish) if you could hear the engine of a V1 became unreliable later on as they fixed some of them to dive after a set time with the engine still on.
There was an episode of Scrapheap Challenge where one team built a pulse jet powered vehicle, which sounded much like the wartime footage/ accounts.
The V2 was supersonic all the way down so yes the first thing heard was the impact or explosion then the sound of its arrival.
My dad was in training for RAF ground crew at that period of the war and was near/in London for part of that time then they were moved to Scarborough while there at a dance the air raid sirens came on dad and his colleagues kept on though the local lads looked nervous then all of a sudden all the RAF lads disappeared under the tables to the amazement of the locals the next day it got around that a doodlebug had hit somewhere after passing over the dance.
While at Scarborough one really clear cold morning my dad saw a strange thing (he saw several senior officer types looking at it as well), straight out to sea there was a vertical line of smoke going up and up. He reckoned that it was a V2 test launch.
The last weapon I'm doing. I have all I need now. I may do one more suit... maybe... I'm unsure at the moment. It could go either way. However, my mat grind for on-foot gear is over *
* Unless they do on-foot 'goid hunting that needs AX weapons...
* Unless they do on-foot 'goid hunting that needs AX weapons...
I can hear the Wellie in there...
Still, your description of that sound is not that far off...
Strangely some Wellingtons would have sounded more like Mosquitoes!I can hear the Wellie in there...
Still, your description of that sound is not that far off...
There was a small batch built with Merlin engines rather than the usual Bristol radials.
Which means they would have sounded a bit like this car:
Yes, someone put a Merlin engine in a car - not supercharged as it was in various aircraft, though.
It's gotta be said, if you're going to make a spaceship sound like a vintage aircraft with a piston engine, THIS is how you do it:
Not too dissimilar to (skip to 0:50 - can't paste the timing):
I've been next to one when they do this - it's... interesting.
Right, the MK2. But this was not the first Rolls Royce engine to be featured in this airframe...
During early development, they were powered by Rolls Royce Goshawk engines, which proved to be not powerful enough to be up to the task.