We all know how Buffalo's are treated in Corvus, they're glorified piñatas waiting to be cracked open for their delicious supplies... But today that changes! ( maybe! )
It's always bothered me that Buffalo MkII's were so mishandled by the AI so I've decided to see just how far you can push them.
The rules are simple:
1) Provide screenshot of the defeated ship and your buffalo still in (roughly) one piece.
1.5) Provide screenshot of refit screen so everyone can bask in your genius
2) Use the "Random Battle" mission to obtain a Buffalo MKII so as to avoid having any skill points
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PS: For the love of god use the Spoiler option for your screenshots
Edit: Forgot to mention the Full Damage setting :D
I'll start off with a Mule and a Hammerhead:
Mule Victory
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(http://i.imgur.com/tQqywUQ.png)
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Hammerhead Victory
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(http://i.imgur.com/YN6Zy26.png)
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(http://i.imgur.com/ZHfaluR.jpg)
Think you can do better? :D
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I'm done here.
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I'm done here.
I wanna get it done without the use of torpedoes. Also Paragon/Conquest.
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But I'm no magician, so here goes ;)
The main problem is getting around without taking too much damage. To do that, it's best to let the Onslaught burn-drive into a nebula, while you come towards him. That takes some practice (<- this is an understatement). Once you are in his back, you have to kill him quickly, you can survive there maybe a minute thanks to heavy armor. Also he will try to burn drive away, which you should not allow (I did though). So fire the two Reapers and then three Atropos from point-blank range, which obliterates the armor and brings the bad boy down to about 1/3 hull. Then the Vulcan, which does 500DPS now, melts away his HP. The Ion Cannon keeps his engines down (more or less) and helps suppressing weapons. When he's down to a few hundred HP, you have to get out of there and only keep your Railgun in range, which will hopefully finish the beast off while you're outside his explosion radius. Killing without surviving is comparably easy, just bring more torpedoes.
During this whole process it is important to turn around a lot so the incoming damage is distributed equally over your armor and so your weapons don't get disabled.
I'd make a video, but It takes a lot of repetition and I bored of that by now. Also I'd first have to get the software.
*UPDATE* After 20-30 attempts the best i have gotten is to hit the Doom with 1 annihilator rocket. MAKING PROGRESS!!!!
*UPDATE #2* After a further 30-40 tries i have been able to get the Doom to 1/2 hull until I ran out of missiles. I have decided to admit defeat. I will leave my strategy below so that others may learn from my mistakes.
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My most successful strategy was to attach an annihilator rocket pod to the large forward missile mount and rain rockets at the Doom. The AI would cloak the ship any time it felt threatened by the rockets, thus generating flux. Once it overloaded i would spam either torpedoes or harpoon missiles until (hopefully) the Doom was destroyed. Unfortunately due to the high flux dissipation rate of the Doom the overload only lasts a few seconds. When it comes off of overload your best chance of surviving is for the two heavy cannons to not be online. To attempt to counter this i installed two ion cannons to the front mounts. I have yet to survive past a single overload due to either running out of missiles or getting caught out by the superior speed and maneuverability of the Doom. I hope my trials will help you to defeat this monster. Good Luck!