Turn on annotations for some of the recent patch corrections made to Adaptive shields and Overdrive. The federation ships work best when played with an aggressive play-style. Hopefully this video guide helps to get you started on your road to bubble hunting.
When I get the chance I will make an Advanced Level Guide but that won’t be for a few months (work commitments etc)
If I have left out any obvious stuff leave a response below and I will add it into the thread or as an annotation on the video
How do you roll and stay on the targeting reticle. Personally I’d like to see how hard it is to defend against a roll attack but I think I have never seen it used against me. I have seen pilots drunk drive towards me but they can’t fire shots. they only way they could advance and shoot is if they roll attack or advance in a straight line.
Nice guide, should be watched by anyone wanting to learn to fly fast ships, it’s a good primer on many of the ideas relevant to it, not just for fighters but for interceptors as well.
How do you roll and stay on the targeting reticle. Personally I’d like to see how hard it is to defend against a roll attack but I think I have never seen it used against me. I have seen pilots drunk drive towards me but they can’t fire shots. they only way they could advance and shoot is if they roll attack or advance in a straight line.
practise. first try in pve on a nav station or something without overdrive, then with overdrive, then go to pvp and try on snipers sitting still etc. when you get used to it you can do it on empire gunships with rails/lasers as well (bit harder)
with the adaptive shield nerf, federation ships that use this style of play are now very weak. feel free to watch the tutorial anyway and learn from movements and theory of using the federation gunships (which can be applied to other fast moving ships) but as it stands the federation gunships t3 -> 5 are now obselete. try another faction
this is a bug and will be fixed next patch, game on
I like strafe implant for the manoeuvres but if you need more rotation, try rotation implant
It’s because you basically do a spiral when you spin around with strafe. And without strafe implant or a strafe engine, it won’t work. You’d move mostly in a straight line while spinning.
It’s because you basically do a spiral when you spin around with strafe. And without strafe implant or a strafe engine, it won’t work. You’d move mostly in a straight line while spinning.
The standard strafe is more than enough to do circles around frigates. You have to consider that on overdrive, your strafe speed is also increased 50%.
a new bug for adaptive shields has appeared where the effects do not stack. apparantly this will be fixed in the next patch so until then, replace one adaptive shield with some other flat resist. would advise thermal or em
