Elite: Game talk

Shuwar
11 Jan 2022, 8:19am
Is there a way to decrease joystick sensitivity for pitch simmilar to mouse fly control?

My y-axis are to fast, gently moving up increase my Y possition really fast.
My Joy (Thrustmaster USB PC 2960623) haven't got any special drivers / app tool to do this.
Episparh
11 Jan 2022, 8:30am
Yuna SakashiroBought my first FDL last night. Quite surprised about the maneuverability, even pre engineering. Best lateral thrusters I've seen on a ship so far.

Or maybe it's just because I spent the last few days flying a Cutter with no lateral thrust at all.

It has similar performance to viper mk3

I think FAS and Chieftain have even better maneuverability, you should try those too The yaw is particularly funny on those too.
Episparh
11 Jan 2022, 8:33am
Varius Kilz
You can't say the explosions wouldn't be Star Wars level epic though Lmao!!!! Having a months long combination PVP/BGS war was some of the best fun I've had in this game.


No doubt! But then for this to happen Frontier need to implement centralized synchronization authority and increase the instance capacity. Leaving end clients to synchronize with each other is a receipt for disaster.
sirsir
11 Jan 2022, 8:46am
fdev sadism is the answer ..
Episparh
11 Jan 2022, 8:52am
sirsirfdev sadism is the answer ..


Well, it was probably a financial decision. P2P is a lot cheaper approach.
Kaizimm
11 Jan 2022, 11:30am
Episparh In general countering BGS with pvp is far from optimal. You will prevent others to do work on the price of greater effort for pvp which would be more productive if focused on BGS work.


Unless you have one person shooting opposing BGS workers and many other people still doing the BGS work
Normally nobody bothers with that though. But sometimes people refuse the honorable, peaceful route. Then they become fair targets imo
Sakashiro
11 Jan 2022, 12:27pm
EpisparhIt has similar performance to viper mk3

I think FAS and Chieftain have even better maneuverability, you should try those too The yaw is particularly funny on those too.

I want to build a meta FDL for PvP, with PAs and/or railguns. Not sure about the loadout yet, I need to do some testing first. Rails are hitscan, but I think I prefer PAs, especially with long range mod for double projectile speed. I'm a bit worried about the thermal load though.
Meowers
11 Jan 2022, 12:38pm
Yuna SakashiroI'm a bit worried about the thermal load though.
It will be horrible.
Gryphnn
11 Jan 2022, 12:46pm
I've made a fun build with only PAs on it, all efficient with plasma slug. I like to experiment with infinite ammo builds.
Scooping ammo from stars counts as infinite ammo for me

I also had no heat problems.
Episparh
11 Jan 2022, 1:15pm
Yuna Sakashiro

I want to build a meta FDL for PvP, with PAs and/or railguns. Not sure about the loadout yet, I need to do some testing first. Rails are hitscan, but I think I prefer PAs, especially with long range mod for double projectile speed. I'm a bit worried about the thermal load though.






my choice is 3 efficient PAs and 2 long range rails .. but then I do not PvP and my build is very far from the meta.

Edit: Actually not so much different as I thought. My PP engineering is different and I run it with HRPs + MRP instead of SCBs to keep low on power. The lack of SCBs makes the heatsink obsolete, so I've used chaff (this one is quite useful vs frag mambas and all gimbaled weapons in general, although nowadays I used it only when fighting NPC wings). Yes, 1700 raw MJs less from SCBs but then armored PP, +1200 hull and 60% module protection. Unfortunately, PvP is not won by builds but with skills and I will most likely loose vs any half skilled PvPer

Last edit: 11 Jan 2022, 2:11pm
Sakashiro
11 Jan 2022, 3:20pm
This is the build I have in mind, for now at least.
Episparh
11 Jan 2022, 3:49pm
Not bad, but it is slow and have just low range weapons. If your enemy stays at 2-3+ km you will hardly do any damage.

I do not see any engineering material waste, so eventually you can reuse modules.

Hm, perhaps, this military armor. It makes you heavy. I would drop it for light armor. It is - 500 hull but then it almost double the ship price and lowers your speed a bit.

Anyway! Build it, try it. If you need aggressive punch bag I am getting back to the bubble Thursday night. Dial 555-Michael-Vohr.
Alezander Corben
11 Jan 2022, 4:05pm
Come on cmdrs, last big push to get to tier 5
Episparh
11 Jan 2022, 4:11pm
Alezander CorbenCome on cmdrs, last big push to get to tier 5

If the contributions do not drop, the Alcor CG will reach tier 5 tomorrow night.
Sakashiro
11 Jan 2022, 5:26pm
EpisparhAnyway! Build it, try it. If you need aggressive punch bag I am getting back to the bubble Thursday night. Dial 555-Michael-Vohr.

It will take a while to build because I don't have the prismatic generator yet, nor the materials required to engineer everything to grade 5.

The grind never ends...

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