Recon already needs some more work to make it fun.
Now someone has found a way to make it even less enjoyable.
They take an Interceptor, sneak around, and flank the Captain.
Then they aim at the Captain, fire the Microwarp Drive, yell “Banzai!”, and suicide to kill our Captain.
I sincerely do enjoy this game, but going Kamikaze requires ZERO skill.
Playing each battle should require at least some level of skill to win.
zero skill ? :o
have you tried ?
zero skill ? :o
have you tried ?
Have I snuck up on an enemy, aimed my hull at him, and fired my instant kill device?
No.
Bleh i use a frigate with Warp gate 
atm using double warp gates to kill him just as he spawns with team mate LOL
its hard though
Bleh i use a frigate with Warp gate
atm using double warp gates to kill him just as he spawns with team mate LOL
its hard though
At least you use the Warp Gate, then shoot him. Been there, done that before too.
No not really Lol
I use the warp gate to kill him, it is a 5K insta kill missile. we have been dropping warp gate chains to get there quickly so far.
Although you try lining up on a captain 5 k away and not miss whilst under enemy fire, 90% of the time warp gate gets shot before i can use it.
90% my butt! I’d say 90% of the time the warp gate suicide works. Kinda an unfair advantage
Recon already needs some more work to make it fun.
Now someone has found a way to make it even less enjoyable.
They take an Interceptor, sneak around, and flank the Captain.
Then they aim at the Captain, fire the Microwarp Drive, yell “Banzai!”, and suicide to kill our Captain.
I sincerely do enjoy this game, but going Kamikaze requires ZERO skill.
Playing each battle should require at least some level of skill to win.
I tried to do it at least few times, just out of curiosity and it’s hard as f* to synchronise distance, speed and timing to pull that off.
Ultimately - it’s your Captain’s fault that he a) never bothered to look at the map and noticed what is coming, b) was not moving (at least strafing) but camping there standing still.
Every second Combat Recon or so when I’m a Captain there are at least 2-3 kamikaze attempts like that and so far all of them ended up with 
instead of 
…
^^ +1
I practice this kamikaze thing. I can tell you it’s not new.
It’s really hard to master, believe me. And i know how to use my ceptors.
Any strafe of the captain, and attack is lost. If you’re lucky there’s no asteroid behind and you can survive.
The next step in mastering this skill is compensating the strafing movement of the captain. This usually ends in an obstacle : 
I got killed as the captain by a microwarp in a T4 game today by my TEAM MATE (thanks dvt you window-licking xxxx “I was just curious lol!”). But he was sitting right next to me. It is stupidly hard to aim a microwarp even at a stationary target, and hitting a moving on is like trying to shoot the wings off a fly at 200 metres.
I don’t think this needs changed, if they can hit with it, they deserve the kill.
I would sort of like to see the suicide module nerfed a bit however…
if they can hit with it, they deserve the kill.
Yeah that’s what i meant. Well put.
90% my butt! I’d say 90% of the time the warp gate suicide works. Kinda an unfair advantage
When using a frigate it puts a physical warpgate infront of you whilst under fire it gets destroyed very quickly !
Warpgates go a maximum of 5k and you should as captain already be moving into a good defensive position when they are at least 7k away.
Some laser ships can fire that far.
I MWD kamikaze occasionally. It’s actually very hard to pull this off on anything that isn’t a frigate, and even then it is extremely hard to do when they are moving. It definitely requires some skill.
I see nothing wrong with this tactic. It only needs to happen once to someone for them to adapt to it (if not, they are bad players, heh)
It is not even without risk. If you miss and get killed, you’re basically feeding your opponent kills, which can lose you the game.
I don’t deny the Frigate through a Warp Gate is legit.
It’s just the Microwarp Drive+Interceptor=instakill that seems OP.
Have I snuck up on an enemy, aimed my hull at him, and fired my instant kill device?
No.
Well, go rage.
You are in a beta test. It means you have to test before complaining. If you don’t, you just rage like a kid.
And we ignore you.
Test before, and come back later.
I don’t deny the Frigate through a Warp Gate is legit.
It’s just the Microwarp Drive+Interceptor=instakill that seems OP.
it’s more Microwarp Drive+Interceptor+luck+skill=instakill
I do think that the suicide killing is all based on the captain and teams ability to thwart it. From use of this with a 4 people squad dedicated to it, allot of the times we end up in a fist fight with the captain when attempts fail.
It does NOT always work. If they try to evade, than they will not usually instantly die.
it’s more Microwarp Drive+Interceptor+luck+skill=instakill
Even more Microwarp Drive+Interceptor+luck+skill+careless captain+frigate captain=instakill
I want to see those, who’ll try to kill instantly moving federation interceptor with MWD…
Even more Microwarp Drive+Interceptor+luck+skill+careless captain+frigate captain=instakill
I want to see those, who’ll try to kill instantly moving federation interceptor with MWD…
lol, yeah, you’re absolutely right 
(though my “luck” contained a part of your “careless captain”, now the formula is complete i guess)
This tactic is negated simply by having the Jericho Implant which transfers all collision damage to shields and reduces it by 50%. So whenever they do this to my frig they get this: and I go LoL as my kill count goes from 0 to 1. If for whatever reason I have changed this implant to something else, I simply hide inside an astroid where they can’t line up a shot farther away then 1000m, at which point I simply pop my pulsar, inhibitor, and missile D systems and shoot them. Its hard for anything to shoot me from behind when the only shot they can get on my backed into a crevice is facing my front and all 6 Heavy plas weapons / Laser / auto cannon weapons.