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[QUOTE=Daemon White;47504178]If I get enough REC to buy another ship, how long will it stay with me?[/QUOTE]
One week, same as everything else
Help, I'm actually having fun.
[vid]http://a.pomf.se/ufiifo.webm[/vid]
[QUOTE=Why485;47503775]Supposedly there's a roundabout way to do it by fiddling with the F1-F2 screen on the left but I don't know how.[/QUOTE]
so I guess it's basically go into weapon power settings and turn off the ordnance you don't want to fire?
lame
I was born ready for this new missile meta.
[vid]http://a.pomf.se/cfuzxg.webm[/vid]
They're not actually that powerful, not on their own. When used in conjunction with guns they are good, and that's how I think it should be.
Anyone tried the server's since last night? Have they replaced any chewing gum yet?
There's still a chocolate bar melting on the servers.
[QUOTE=capgun;47508215]Anyone tried the server's since last night? Have they replaced any chewing gum yet?[/QUOTE]
visit the site and look at the top bar for server info
[img]http://i.imgur.com/awSrWdC.png[/img]
[QUOTE=dai;47508254]visit the site and look at the top bar for server info
[img]http://i.imgur.com/awSrWdC.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Yeah, I was skimming that thread. And it sounds like its hit or miss. Was just wondering if there were any first hand reports
[QUOTE=Why485;47507421]I was born ready for this new missile meta.
[vid]http://a.pomf.se/cfuzxg.webm[/vid]
They're not actually that powerful, not on their own. When used in conjunction with guns they are good, and that's how I think it should be.[/QUOTE]
Goddamnit, you're making me [b]want[/b] to buy a Gladiator, and the only upgradable LTI boat I have bar my standard Super Hornet is an Aurora.
gladiator > super hornet
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fyi you can ccu back and forth between the two for free
Mind explaining that in a bit more detail? I have a SH currently.
Well I managed to get into a match, got pwned by a gladiator, annnnnd ctd'd
[QUOTE=Alsojames;47508380]Mind explaining that in a bit more detail? I have a SH currently.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Cross-Chassis-Upgrades/F7C-M-Super-Hornet-To-Gladiator-Upgrade[/url]
[url]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Cross-Chassis-Upgrades/Gladiator-To-F7C-M-Super-Hornet-Upgrade[/url]
Tried again, "Capgun has invalid ship selected". So yeah, shit's still on fire, yo
those ccu things will probably go away when the limited sale thing is over. Also the gladiator will probably be nerfed, too much armor manuverability, speed, and firepower all in one package right now.
I'll stick with my Super Hornet anyway. I do hope they make the Gladiator available permanently, though. This limited sale BS bugs me.
[QUOTE=krail9;47508448][url]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Cross-Chassis-Upgrades/F7C-M-Super-Hornet-To-Gladiator-Upgrade[/url]
[url]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Cross-Chassis-Upgrades/Gladiator-To-F7C-M-Super-Hornet-Upgrade[/url][/QUOTE]
No I meant in what ways is the Gladiator better than the Super Hornet.
You know, the ingame lead and lag pips might not be entirely necessary. I say that because i just won a BR match where my reticule and target circles never appeared. Using decoupled mode you can aim by matching your velocity to people manually and do your best to do leading. I only had the radar ball functioning but i still did well. That is, until i died 2 minutes before the game ended and this happened:
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16970274/Screenshots/StarCitizen%202015-04-12%2002-01-58-56.png[/t]
Even if chaff doesnt cancel everyone's radar locks in the future, i hope we get something similar that does. Just so i can kill people who think they're invincible because i dont have a lag pip.
I hope there are more tools and tricks to take yourself off radar or disrupt peoples firing computers. It's really interesting to watch people go dumb when you disappear off their radar and get untargeted. The Gladiator is really slow and heavy, so there were a few times where I found myself in a giant furball and was able to save myself by saturating the whole area with chaff to buy time and finish off some people who think I died. Plus, if they can't target you, they can't lock you with missiles either.
[QUOTE=Why485;47509341]I hope there are more tools and tricks to take yourself off radar or disrupt peoples firing computers. It's really interesting to watch people go dumb when you disappear off their radar and get untargeted. The Gladiator is really slow and heavy, so there were a few times where I found myself in a giant furball and was able to save myself by saturating the whole area with chaff to buy time and finish off some people who think I died. Plus, if they can't target you, they can't lock you with missiles either.[/QUOTE]
the missiles thing is why i like to spam chaff when up against a gladiator. Not that it always stops them from spamming you down.
I wish you could tell what kind of missiles were being fired at you by name, the best method to avoid tempest CS missiles is quite different from the method for avoiding strikeforce CS missiles.
edit: so it turns out gladiators aren't giving the point amounts they're supposed to and they're not taking damage when they should. The primary way to kill them is cockpit shots and those don't give many points at all. Another broken ship this patch for people to abuse i guess.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;47509307]You know, the ingame lead and lag pips might not be entirely necessary. I say that because i just won a BR match where my reticule and target circles never appeared. Using decoupled mode you can aim by matching your velocity to people manually and do your best to do leading. I only had the radar ball functioning but i still did well. That is, until i died 2 minutes before the game ended and this happened:
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16970274/Screenshots/StarCitizen%202015-04-12%2002-01-58-56.png[/t]
Even if chaff doesnt cancel everyone's radar locks in the future, i hope we get something similar that does. Just so i can kill people who think they're invincible because i dont have a lag pip.[/QUOTE]
smack [right shift] or [left CTRL+Tab] to change to mouselook mode, then back. Seems to fix reticles for me
also for some reason the radar ball in the cutlass is gifucknormous since the update, I don't recall it nearly reaching my forward reticle before, that but then again I didn't have much time to dink with it pre-1.1.1
A bunch of people in the match I was in either quit or crashed, leaving me in my Gladiator versus a Gladius. He had one kill up on me after I killed him, so he decided not to respawn and then wait out the remaining 7 minutes so that he could maintain the lead and win the game.
The only winning move was to not play. The missile meta was too strong.
yall were excited about landing 3 ships on the pad before, we're ramping up our space efficiency
[img]http://i.imgur.com/txiCDI7.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Why485;47514519]A bunch of people in the match I was in either quit or crashed, leaving me in my Gladiator versus a Gladius. He had one kill up on me after I killed him, so he decided not to respawn and then wait out the remaining 7 minutes so that he could maintain the lead and win the game.
The only winning move was to not play. The missile meta was too strong.[/QUOTE]
there's a bug right now preventing respawns sometimes, not even stuck in console works to fix it. Its what happened when i got stuck inside the big laser planet drill thing.
Also:
[video=youtube;vd7_SA0pLik]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7_SA0pLik[/video]
can I get suggestions from you nerds who know what guns are cool for a weapon loadout on the cutlass? the two suckerpunch things aren't exactly useful right now.
I'm not a fan of the 3-shot ballistic guns being on the gunner turret, way too hard to tell if I'm landing shots with those over my nose laser, and the limited ammo starts feeling the crunch pretty fast. Might just push those to the hard-mount in place of the suckers so I can manage ammo and wait to land shots on unshielded targets, and find something else to jam up on the turret
...checking the cutlass detail page, there's a discrepancy when viewing the default loadout in the [url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/ships/drake-cutlass/Cutlass-Black#holo-viewer]holo viewer[/url]. The wings still show the suckerpunches (S1 instead of S2), there's no note of the nose gun (which was an S2 of some sort if I remember right), and the turret shows two NN-13 Neutron guns (also S1 instead of the S2 ballistics I have on the REC rented one). Can't get onto the game til later tonight but does anyone know if this is just like, the REC'd version of the ship comes loaded but the paid-for ship starts with a small generic setup? The max stats show [below], but again I'm pretty sure the turret guns were S2 when I checked it last
[t]http://i.imgur.com/vu7JysM.png[/t]
also the gun I paid REC for last week seems to have 2 days of time left, and is showing active time left in a current day slot. Haven't flown a ship with it attached since the first two nights, but it IS mounted to my 325a in the hangar so it is visually loading. I thought someone mentioned earlier it didn't seem to eat up a credit until you actually go into AC with it, miiiiight be wrong
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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfUF3LVgWgg]youtube videos[/url] show the REC loadout I had, so I guess that answers that
also thank christ this guy found the button to open the cockpit from the outside, I've accidentally fell through/clipped out of the cockpit and couldn't get back in the damn thing before. on the landing gear, wonky
[t]http://i.imgur.com/2VEge8n.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Wirutml.png[/t]
also back-right leg for the rear ramp-
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZWA1tU6.png[/t]
all stats are subject to change/this is an alpha/etc, also they never update that page
they've said from the beginning that each time you log on you eat a day of your rental regardless if you actually use it or not
[QUOTE=Mattk50;47515945]there's a bug right now preventing respawns sometimes, not even stuck in console works to fix it. Its what happened when i got stuck inside the big laser planet drill thing.
Also:
[video=youtube;vd7_SA0pLik]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7_SA0pLik[/video][/QUOTE]
I've tried doing that many times before but I was never impressed, and honestly his accuracy isn't terribly impressive either. He doesn't seem to be appreciably more accurate than when I just used fixed guns (or gimbals with lookahead), which is what my conclusion has always been about that method. It certainly [I]looks[/I] impressive though.
At this point, I've just settled on using the mouse for any ship with gimbals because of the incredible accuracy it affords on gimbal based ships.
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the translucency hurts
also I'm definitely upgrading myself to a cutlass once my REC rental runs out. Not willing to spend anymore than that on the game, and it's more capable than my 300i in everything but speed. Not gonna race with it anytime soon but it can load up lots of cargo and unload lots of damage. Upgrading to the blue once persistent universe comes through would be awesome if bounty hunting has a good flow to it (also I hear you'll be able to remove the holding cells if you just want to haul cargo at times?). Being a nice hauler with heavy firepower and ridiculous maneuvering thrusters is some solid ground to start on, it's essentially the Milennium Falcon
also frat pirate idea from dalndox: get a cargo crate full of eggs and fling it out of the airlock into people's windows
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Pilot: new contact on the radar, it's a cutlass black. They're scanning our cargo hold, ma'am, they may be pirates
Captain: Open hailing frequency, we need to buy some time before they dig into the computer
*kssshht*
[surfer dude voice] oh... Hello miss cap-i-tan. This is the pirate ship 'Alpha Sigma Sigma' of the Syndicate Frat.
C: I assume you already found out for yourself, but our cargo hold's empty, we're an explorer group between missions. We don't want any trouble
[A.S.S. Pirate] Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded, we're not here to hurt anybody. Our only request is to [i]plunder that booty[/i]
[dudebros cheering in the background]
[egg shipment drifts gently across the cockpit]
Probably still using it.
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