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lemonadesweetheart posted:They only die if your main ship is destroyed. Fighters can explode just fine. Lol "escape pods."
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chaosapiant posted:Lol "escape pods." it's because we're all simulacra in a Thargoid simulation to best plan their invasion.
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Aug 30, 2017 07:24
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chaosapiant posted:Lol "escape pods." The rationale was that yes, the NPC does have an escape pod, too, but they just won't have anything to do with you once your ship got blown up around them. And yes, it's still stupid. Somebody suggested just knocking down the NPC down a level or bumping their pay up a notch (hazard pay and all that). IT's weird as poo poo that everything else in the game is easily replaceable except for the fighter pilot NPCs.
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Aug 30, 2017 08:07
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What are they then? One-use limited-scope biomorphic companions? 
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Your NPCs are piloting fighters via telepresence, they're physically in your main ship with you.
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Drone posted:That system's pretty standard, really. Big, but nothing super special. Come back when there are several planets that orbit the barycenter of two stars in a trinary system, rather than orbiting one of the stars themselves. Now those are neat. We don't go to HIP 63835 any more…
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Mercurius posted:Your NPCs are piloting fighters via telepresence, they're physically in your main ship with you. If that's true, which is dumb, but if it's true then what am I when I pilot my fighters? Am I still physically on my ship?
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chaosapiant posted:If that's true, which is dumb, but if it's true then what am I when I pilot my fighters? Am I still physically on my ship? Yep. Just TPing to the fighter
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Chrysophylax posted:Yep. Just TPing to the fighter Ugh that's dumb. Why am I flying my ship in the first place? Am I also even sitting in my buggy when I go joyriding? I'm going to ignore this dumbness.
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If you listen to all the radio chatter, it always refers to it as a tele-presence.chaosapiant posted:Ugh that's dumb. Why am I flying my ship in the first place? Am I also even sitting in my buggy when I go joyriding? I'm going to ignore this dumbness. VR is just REALLY good in the 34th century.
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chaosapiant posted:Ugh that's dumb. Why am I flying my ship in the first place? Am I also even sitting in my buggy when I go joyriding? I'm going to ignore this dumbness. It’s 👏 a 👏 video 👏 game 👏 mechanic 👏
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How jaded do you have to be to not think telecommuting to your fighter pilot job is rad as hell?
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I replaced the 3C Frag Cannon on my FDL for a 4A Multi Cannon and moddified it for Rapid Fire and I gained a secondary Damage buff, independent of Rate Of Fire and Damage Per Second. How the hell does that work?? If Damage goes up but Rate Of Fire stays the same, shouldn't the Damage Per Second also go up?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Check back in 3-5 years if atmo is a must-have.
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We have remote controlled drone fighters now. This is not a weird idea
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lemonadesweetheart posted:They only die if your main ship is destroyed. Fighters can explode just fine. Ok good, been working on this guy from Harmless to almost master now, just wondering if I get him to dangerous and put him into a fighter with plasma rifle shots and he explodes will I lose his dumb rear end. At what rank to the NPCs become great pilots? is it Master or Dangerous?
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Ok good, been working on this guy from Harmless to almost master now, just wondering if I get him to dangerous and put him into a fighter with plasma rifle shots and he explodes will I lose his dumb rear end. Master you can probably stop worrying about them, but a Dangerous NPC pilot is basically an unstoppable killing machine. Once you get a Dangerous Pilot, you can run gimmick builds like a supertanked Conda which you AFK in a CZ while your NPC prints spacecash for you.
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I seem to occupy this weird middle ground of experience in CQC. I can stomp new or casual players all day long, but when one of the good players comes on, I might be lucky to get one kill on them the entire gaming session. I suppose I'll get there eventually. At the moment I'm playing about 30 minutes to an hour a day.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Master you can probably stop worrying about them, but a Dangerous NPC pilot is basically an unstoppable killing machine. Please explain more with build links and how to. For science!
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For the first 3 levels they can't do a lot. At competent they stay on target well. After that they're using AI hacks against the hacking AI and they're a great way to avoid all damage. Have them engage first and between the target swapping between you both and your great combined damage you can melt most things before there's much reply. If you like that kinda thing aim for a gunship. The combined damage is frighteningly fun.
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Side note : beware of elite npc anacondas as they release elite fighters. The damage can be extreme.
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Khablam posted:Side note : beware of elite npc anacondas as they release elite fighters. The damage can be extreme. Seconding this...I have an anaconda fitted to the teeth and takes out anything pretty easily...but if you pick on another anaconda or something big, and suddenly you are fighting two red dots instead of one and there was no one in the wing, you have serious problems.
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Mr. WTF posted:Seconding this...I have an anaconda fitted to the teeth and takes out anything pretty easily...but if you pick on another anaconda or something big, and suddenly you are fighting two red dots instead of one and there was no one in the wing, you have serious problems. You need to git gud then, elite condas are a joke. Ignore the fighter, and burn down the conda. The sooner it goes down, the quicker the fighter goes away. Edit: The trick is to burst down their shield before the SCBs kick in. If you pack enough firepower, you can batter right through them. This thing makes mincemeat of fat ships: https://eddp.co/u/Rem9nHlt Kurr de la Cruz fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Mr. WTF posted:Seconding this...I have an anaconda fitted to the teeth and takes out anything pretty easily...but if you pick on another anaconda or something big, and suddenly you are fighting two red dots instead of one and there was no one in the wing, you have serious problems. Engineering tips the balance to the player every time. If you're flying one of the big 3, go for ~6 engineered shield boosters (3 HD and 3 resist) and put therm resist on your shield generator flavor of choice. In no time you'll be face tanking NPC condas and vettes and barely losing 1 ring of your shield before the NPC is dead.
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Krycek posted:Engineering tips the balance to the player every time. If you're flying one of the big 3, go for ~6 engineered shield boosters (3 HD and 3 resist) and put therm resist on your shield generator flavor of choice. In no time you'll be face tanking NPC condas and vettes and barely losing 1 ring of your shield before the NPC is dead. Not true. HD gives a better return than resist. I usually run 4 HD, 1 Resist, 1 Thermal, and 2 Heatsink launchers (High Cap) on a Hardened 5 Class 6 Prismatic Shield. The Class 6 Prismatic lets me fit a Class 7 SCB and 2 Class 6 SCBs, instead of just 3 Class 6 SCBs, which means even more durability long-term. Kurr de la Cruz fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Not true. HD gives a better return than resist. I usually run 4 HD, 1 Resist, 1 Thermal, and 2 Heatsink launchers (High Cap) on a Hardened 5 Class 6 Prismatic Shield. The Class 6 Prismatic lets me fit a Class 7 SCB and 2 Class 6 SCBs, instead of just 3 Class 6 SCBs, which means even more durability long-term. I run a size 7 biweave on my vette, so that may shift the calculus a bit. Higher resistance means that my extra regen is even more beneficial over time. But generally I have used this guys data to decide when to engineer a booster for HD or regen. His basic conclusion is that pure HD is better than pure resist, but a mix of 3 and 3 wins out.
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Goddamnit there's nothing worse than missions that unknowingly send you to stations 250,000LS away from the star.
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Less Fat Luke posted:Goddamnit there's nothing worse than missions that unknowingly send you to stations 250,000LS away from the star. Sure there are! Missions that send you farther! 
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chaosapiant posted:Sure there are! Missions that send you farther! 
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The fact that the devs allow Hutton Orbital to exist (and it stocks rare resources now?) reveals a good deal about the design mentality of this game. Supercruising for the better part of an hour in a straight line is kind of like... the opposite of quick time events. I think I'd rather "HOLD F" to quick-jump to the station.
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I just tried driving the SRV in VR. Never again.
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Kramjacks posted:I just tried driving the SRV in VR. Never again. Oh man nothing beats tumbling and crashing down a steep canyon slope in VR! 
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Kramjacks posted:I just tried driving the SRV in VR. Never again. I see you had a good time with that rolling puke fest.
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I think there is a "lock camera to horizon" option. Some people find that helps with motion sickness. Other people prefer to lock the camera to the cockpit (I'm one of these people, horizon lock makes me queasy) Try each of these modes to see if one works better for you.
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I figured everyone handled it like I did: just squeeze your eyes and rear end in a top hat shut and say to yourself "I'm at home in my chair, this isn't real!"
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Asimov posted:The fact that the devs allow Hutton Orbital to exist (and it stocks rare resources now?) reveals a good deal about the design mentality of this game. Supercruising for the better part of an hour in a straight line is kind of like... the opposite of quick time events. I think I'd rather "HOLD F" to quick-jump to the station. Alpha Centauri was a bit of a meme even back in the day. So I don't really care that they let Hutton exist. That said, other stations in the rear end end of nowhere don't make a lick of sense, and no ammount of 'muh immersion' will change my opinion. poo poo, the brown sea dads even admit they'll go brew some tea or what have you during one. 2.4 is bringing with it a 'distance from star' thing for missions, and missions will scale with that distance.
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Mike the TV posted:The Federal Gunship. After that- the Anaconda. I love my FGS. The fighter bay is almost cheating to keep the enemy confused while I cut them in half with my MCs in the blink of an eye. I've been thinking about getting something with range to get around places so I can call my FGS. I was gonna get an Asp E, but then I noticed the dolphin is a lot cheaper and only a slightly smaller jump range. Thinking of just getting the dolphin and going in luxury. This will be purely for going from A-B and I guess maybe honking along the way if I can be bothered. Worth it?
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The Dolphin is very enjoyable to fly. Very nimble. I was thinking of getting one to use as a shuttle in the bubble myself.
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The thing I don't really get is if you can FSD to one star in a system why the gently caress can't you do it to others in the same system? Is there some bullshit that explains this? If you could just pick the star you wanted to FSD too it would cut down on all the messing.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:The thing I don't really get is if you can FSD to one star in a system why the gently caress can't you do it to others in the same system? Is there some bullshit that explains this? If you could just pick the star you wanted to FSD too it would cut down on all the messing.
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