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Author Topic: rebalance tutorial first enemy ship loadout  (Read 499 times)

Vind

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rebalance tutorial first enemy ship loadout
« on: May 15, 2023, 06:24:53 AM »

So i began a new playthrough starting with tutorial and chose wayfarer as a starting ship. First ever pirate cerberus totally wrecks wayfarer unless you use side mounted ion cannon to disable his thumper. I cant imagine new player will do fine here using one ship as without specific tactic pirate will win most of the time. As first tutorial ship basically used as a moving target swapping thumper for flak is a good idea.
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Re: rebalance tutorial first enemy ship loadout
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2023, 06:51:34 AM »

Tutorial should give you a hammerhead to salvage, iirc

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Re: rebalance tutorial first enemy ship loadout
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2023, 06:56:50 AM »

That cerberus is a near training dummy that you fight *before* you can even salvage the hammerhead.
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Re: rebalance tutorial first enemy ship loadout
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2023, 08:01:24 AM »

Shouldn't you also have a Shepherd or Wolf in that fight?

I also struggle to understand how a thumper could even get through Wayfarer's shield...
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Re: rebalance tutorial first enemy ship loadout
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2023, 09:12:37 AM »

I also struggle to understand how a thumper could even get through Wayfarer's shield...
Thumper has been buffed since 0.95, while wayfarer isn't as tough as you might think, especially when it might come with combat related D-mod.
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