Elite: Game talk

01 Mar 2024, 11:58am
You just can’t hit anything else around the Titan well with them so I was considering to take AXMCs anyway, if I do Titan fighting with my alt - just to be able to swat Scouts easily.

Though a Krait can also fit three large AXMCs so it won’t be as bad as the FDL with its four mediums. Unless you’re using the huge hardpoint for a missile/multi.
01 Mar 2024, 12:19pm
MeowersAX Missile Racks is the absolute way to get the arse of that bastard handed to it. Just finished 1.4mil worth strike with <1% damage (to a FDL with 1.7k hull). Throw your pea shooters out of the window. :p

I've heard that the meta is made by Sirius.
01 Mar 2024, 12:28pm
Okay, now the big bug of the big bug. Sometimes, when you manage to shove a torpedo into a closing vent, the whole thing gets stuck. I've just lit up every one of his funny smoking holes, but got no corn sticking out of his back.
01 Mar 2024, 12:30pm
Meowersbut got no corn sticking out of his back.

Why do people assume the clearly much more heavily armored side of the Titan is its back? Seriously. They may be Thargoids but they can obey sensible design ideas.
01 Mar 2024, 12:31pm
Kasumi GotoWhy do people assume the clearly much more heavily armored side of the Titan is its back? Seriously. They may be Thargoids but they can obey sensible design ideas.
If it's the face, then, the Interceptors are going out of the... back part. Which is even more amusing.

"Your face, your arse, what's the difference."


Last edit: 01 Mar 2024, 2:03pm
01 Mar 2024, 12:44pm
It’s an entry/exit point for ships, like the mail slot. Urgh.
01 Mar 2024, 12:48pm
"Uhhh-huhu-huhu! Huhu-hhhuhuhu! Hey, Beavis, she said 'slot'!"

By the way. I know it's just going to disappear next Thursday but for some reason I want to make an attack at its 99%. :p


Last edit: 01 Mar 2024, 2:00pm
01 Mar 2024, 2:10pm
Kasumi GotoYou just can’t hit anything else around the Titan well with them so I was considering to take AXMCs anyway, if I do Titan fighting with my alt - just to be able to swat Scouts easily.

Though a Krait can also fit three large AXMCs so it won’t be as bad as the FDL with its four mediums. Unless you’re using the huge hardpoint for a missile/multi.

I went with the large AX MCs for flexibility. I did not want to run into a situation where I had to fight interceptors or scouts with missile racks. But as I later discovered, in practice, if you are flying in open or AXI PG, where you are guaranteed to run into other players, then you can leave CAP to the other players and dive in with all missile racks, all the time. In solo, you are your only support, and MCs are a better all-round option.

EDIT: Should also mention on the very first trip the Titan was bugged and vents could not be triggered, but did have to kill an interceptor. Which, with a half-dozen players and a Farragut taking part, took about a minute.


Last edit: 01 Mar 2024, 2:15pm
01 Mar 2024, 3:07pm
I had it in my mind that if I did anything (probably if/once Oya starts coming under focused attack), I’d probably be doing it in Open. Unless Meowers here wants to do things with me on my alt for Titan blasting in a private group but my internet, even though I am in a reasonably well-developed country, sometimes just decides to be about as useful as a can of empty olives. Then other days it’ll be running completely smoothly for hours on end.

I would have a wired connection if the guy from the provider that came over to look at the situation didn’t just say “Nah, this is too much effort” or something along the lines of it being a bunch of work and mom wasn’t having that attitude. Haven’t bothered since…

(Edit - may still prefer the AXMCs to cover for a support role instead of singular dedicated bomber… do like my flexibility in the things I use.)


Last edit: 01 Mar 2024, 4:01pm
01 Mar 2024, 5:13pm
Glen van Ross Which, with a half-dozen players and a Farragut taking part, took about a minute.

Farragut? In Maelstrom system?
01 Mar 2024, 7:15pm
Indeed.

Last heart is down, status currently lists
Titan in distress. Awaiting information…


I am heading there right now. No delays, no distractions.
01 Mar 2024, 8:07pm
Adam 'The detective' ŠtefánikFarragut? In Maelstrom system?

Yup, she was right beside Titan Taranis (absolutely dwarfed by it), firing away like mad at the interceptor. At first I thought it was a player Corvette peering down into a heat vent, but it was a Farragut.
01 Mar 2024, 8:42pm
I am not impressed by what Aegis has done. Not impressed at all.

How is this better than the mycoid, or the Proteus Wave? How can someone like Alba Tesreau accept this?
01 Mar 2024, 9:25pm
So, the Taranis is slowly progressing, currently around Medium Rare and expected to be Well Done in 21 hours or so. Going to restock some ingredients for my next shift on this hell's kitchen.

...And sort the stuff out in my own storages after a bout of panic buying. Why did I purchase six Thargoid Pulse Scanners...


Last edit: 01 Mar 2024, 9:33pm
01 Mar 2024, 9:39pm
I guess the one positive thing is that it is not wholesale destruction of all Thargoids indiscriminately, like the mycoid virus, or Proteus Wave. We're not inadvertently (or intentionally) threatening all Thargoid life everywhere. We can destroy the Titans, but the Goids living out in the Pleiades and Coalsack Nebulas aren't going to fall over and die.

The lousy part (to me) is that, as I said some days ago, Aegis has effectively endorsed the Azimuth philosophy. Sacrificing X number of innocent humans is just a cost of doing business so that more Thargoids get dead. The same Aden Tanner who threw away his naval career to stop Wycherly from endangering human colonies, is now totally okay with frying millions of captured humans as long as it cooks Titans too. Something something either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I hope Miseri is getting a lot of mileage out of this on the ACA Discord, because this is the victory of Wycherly's attitude and methods. Yes, we're winning; but we're killing a lot of people who never had a choice.

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