Elite: Game talk

Daddy O
14 Feb 2022, 3:52pm
SalmoneaBest opurtunity to learn FA OFF and aiming with fixed are Anti Xeno Conflict Zones. Great practise is shooting fast and agile thargoid scouts with gauss cannons. Also hydra is very often changing direction of flight, its also excellent practise keep the right distance and aiming the subtarget (thargoid heart). For everyone who wants start with PVP I recomend AX combat first.



Do you use [maneuvering] thrusters much when fighting?
Sakashiro
14 Feb 2022, 4:15pm
Salmonea
Yuna SakashiroYup, that's jousting. Pretty much all that ship can do. I thought FA off would make a difference, but no.


It does a big diference! Try hunt thargoids with FA On-impossible.
1st you can fly with full speed and have 0 power in pips to engines
2nd for enemy is hard to shot you when you are FA OFF
3rd iaming and vector of fligt is separated, so it gives you more options in fight,especially with fixed weapons

BTW try to imigane situation when you are in a cutter and agile enemy is chasing you. They can fly around you. But when you boost,go to FA OFF and turn back, you can shoot them in full speed in reverse, they cant fly around, they can fly only behind you and you can destroy them very easily.

FA OFF is the main key of real fight.
Its about to get enemy where you want to have him.

I just meant to say that other ships seem to benefit from FA off more than the Mamba does. On the Courier it's a difference like night and day.
Salmonea
14 Feb 2022, 4:40pm
Daddy O
SalmoneaBest opurtunity to learn FA OFF and aiming with fixed are Anti Xeno Conflict Zones. Great practise is shooting fast and agile thargoid scouts with gauss cannons. Also hydra is very often changing direction of flight, its also excellent practise keep the right distance and aiming the subtarget (thargoid heart). For everyone who wants start with PVP I recomend AX combat first.




Do you use [maneuvering] thrusters much when fighting?

a lot
Salmonea
14 Feb 2022, 4:41pm
Yuna Sakashiro
Salmonea
Yuna SakashiroYup, that's jousting. Pretty much all that ship can do. I thought FA off would make a difference, but no.



It does a big diference! Try hunt thargoids with FA On-impossible.
1st you can fly with full speed and have 0 power in pips to engines
2nd for enemy is hard to shot you when you are FA OFF
3rd iaming and vector of fligt is separated, so it gives you more options in fight,especially with fixed weapons

BTW try to imigane situation when you are in a cutter and agile enemy is chasing you. They can fly around you. But when you boost,go to FA OFF and turn back, you can shoot them in full speed in reverse, they cant fly around, they can fly only behind you and you can destroy them very easily.

FA OFF is the main key of real fight.
Its about to get enemy where you want to have him.


I just meant to say that other ships seem to benefit from FA off more than the Mamba does. On the Courier it's a difference like night and day.

Yes, I can agree with this.
Aleksander Majjam
14 Feb 2022, 7:49pm
InverusHey fellow cmdrs, returning after long pause I have few questions. First, i want to transition from PC to PS4, anyone has any experince transtioning from keyboard + mouse to gamepad? Second, I realy liked core mining, is it still viable? And third, as I want to transfer from PC to PS i have to grind fed ranks again yay (wanna my vette fix) is the old Ochosi Chapka loop still working?

Thanks for you answers.


Stay on PC because they have upgraded to Odyssey. Console is still TBD if at all.

As for the gamepad, PC players here acting like console players have not mastered the game via gamepad. It's perfectly doable. Even more so if you went with a paddled SCUF/Elite (but those are expensive). My squadron came up with an optimal setup for the gamepad. It's Xbox, however you can still get the same functionality with a PS4 controller. Let me know if you'd like it.

Also, if you've got the money for it, there are HOTAS options for console as well.
Bruno B
14 Feb 2022, 8:05pm
Episparh

We do not want to hint players of upcoming war CG for which they can collect bonds right now if they have Summerland permit granted by Imperial Navy rank of Baron


So that does work! Great, time to farm some combat bonds for Darkwater!

Gotta even the scales somehow, I'm a bit disappointed that most players seem to be batting for the anti-NMLA side. The eternal allure of the space hero fantasy I guess.
Episparh
14 Feb 2022, 9:55pm
Bruno B
So that does work! Great, time to farm some combat bonds for Darkwater!

Gotta even the scales somehow, I'm a bit disappointed that most players seem to be batting for the anti-NMLA side. The eternal allure of the space hero fantasy I guess.


Sorry to bring you the bad news but we haven't seen a CG to protect Darkwater. And good luck. That will be a very one sided CG even if not by mechanics.
EdwardLThompson
15 Feb 2022, 5:27am
If you need to grind Fed Rep, the Polyakov Station in Duamta to Patterson Enterprise in Sirius is hands down the best run to make if you have a decent transport ship on Large pads! Paterson Enterprise has almost every item the mission givers need! I only had to use NoblePort in Luyten 674-15 one time for some items that Patterson didn't have. Even fully loaded both are a 1 jump run in my Cutter with 784 T of cargo! That means the highest Rep missions are easily achievable with one or two runs at most. I'm flying through the Fed Rep! 5 of the 7 mission givers at Patterson are affiliated with the Feds so most of the time there are only Fed missions.



Last edit: 15 Feb 2022, 5:37am
EdwardLThompson
15 Feb 2022, 5:42am
I've breezed through the first 5 Fed ranks with little effort.

Light-Hawk
15 Feb 2022, 7:05am
EpisparhMamba is made for Zoom , Zoom , BOOM!


Lets be honest. The Mamba only really serves as the space ship equivalent to the sports car someone buys during a mid-life crisis.
Episparh
15 Feb 2022, 7:59am
Light-Hawk
EpisparhMamba is made for Zoom , Zoom , BOOM!



Lets be honest. The Mamba only really serves as the space ship equivalent to the sports car someone buys during a mid-life crisis.


That is true! And it is slower than trading Clipper or exploration Orca
Meowers
15 Feb 2022, 8:09am
Episparh
Light-Hawk Lets be honest. The Mamba only really serves as the space ship equivalent to the sports car someone buys during a mid-life crisis.
That is true! And it is slower than trading Clipper or exploration Orca
Porsche Replica 1.4?
Light-Hawk
15 Feb 2022, 8:33am
In my opinion, the Mamba's design looks like it took inspiration from the Offshore Powerboat Racing catamaran boats.
Bruno B
15 Feb 2022, 10:41am
EpisparhSorry to bring you the bad news but we haven't seen a CG to protect Darkwater. And good luck. That will be a very one sided CG even if not by mechanics.


True, but the one CG we saw pop up was someone pulling a big oopsie at Frontier, and the standard for most of the NMLA-related combat CGs so far has been to have two opposed CGs running in parallel. I'm still willing to assume that we're gonna see one pro-Darkwater CG and one anti-Darkwater CG pop up.

And if not, well, I'll at least have made some money.
Episparh
15 Feb 2022, 10:49am
Bruno B
True, but the one CG we saw pop up was someone pulling a big oopsie at Frontier, and the standard for most of the NMLA-related combat CGs so far has been to have two opposed CGs running in parallel. I'm still willing to assume that we're gonna see one pro-Darkwater CG and one anti-Darkwater CG pop up.

And if not, well, I'll at least have made some money.


Yeah , I know but do you really believe that you have a chance vs all those who bask in Her glory ?

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