(except real capships ...)
Guns with autotracking are also deadly, but the question is which are more deadlyklauss wrote:Beams with autotracking are deadly. Perhaps you should try that.
You should probably have some beams, you may want to upgrade them (the milspec version's lasers and perhaps some other beams can be replaced with ones that do more damage, I think), and also autotracking systems for ALL of the beams. (I prefer beams)lee wrote:The Goddard is really nice
They do miss. I've wasted quite a few due to those misses. Anyway, I prefer dumbfires: they may be difficult to aim, but a single hit of those and any fighter goes Kaboom (provided you have adequately softened their shields).(They are the best medium missile, you can shoot them fast and they never miss)
Well, that's right. I was thinking about a new targetting key: Target nearest attacker, which would target the nearest bogie which is locking onto you. That would be a nice defensive feature. Fixing 'h' is impossible, since the order defined by targetting first the closer one would change all the time. It would be hard to create such an iteration. Instead, the "target nearest attacker" seems to do the trick. You can also have the "Target my target's nearest attacker", for escort missions. Those classic targetting modes are all missing.It takes only a second to destroy one of these attackers, but it takes ages to target them. How do you manage to select such targets quickly enough? If you don't, autotracking doesn't help much.
Hm, how many missiles do actually hit and are useful? It seems that there's no significant difference between Image Rec, Friend Foe and Heatseakers. All of them can hit when the target is not more than 3k off, but then, I can shoot it down with my guns much quicker than the missiles work.klauss wrote:They do miss. I've wasted quite a few due to those misses. Anyway, I prefer dumbfires: they may be difficult to aim, but a single hit of those and any fighter goes Kaboom (provided you have adequately softened their shields).(They are the best medium missile, you can shoot them fast and they never miss)
Well, it is an _essential_ feature. Without targetting, the fighters are almost invisible so that you cannot shoot them down unaided, and neither autotracking, nor missiles work. Targetting the closes attacker is actually the purpose of the 'h' key, but it doesn't work.Well, that's right. I was thinking about a new targetting key: Target nearest attacker, which would target the nearest bogie which is locking onto you. That would be a nice defensive feature.
That should be fixed soonThose classic targetting modes are all missing.
If you are flying using a three button mouse, holding the middle button will fire your missiles in rapid succession. (It's interesting to "add" launchers to your mounts by copying a mount and pasting it multiple times. Set the quantity to -1 and you have unlimited missiles. Sometimes I'm too lazy to just shoot at my opponents.)lee wrote:Is there a way to fire the launchers simultaneously if you have several of them?
IMHO a goddard is much better than an ox unless you want to spend lots of time watching the view crawl past your windows as the ox turns ever so slowly. Even a mule is too sluggish to be fun for very long.HammerFall wrote:I have 2 questions myself.
First, what's better, a goddard or an ox (if possible, list which ones are good/bad at)
Second, what's the lancelot good for? It seems to be an interesting craft, and since my reputation with area and rlaan are shot to hell, I'm not even gonna bother to try and sneak into a starfortress or anything.