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Randy

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early game
« on: March 03, 2016, 11:27:21 PM »
is it me or does the early game pirates have really high tech ships
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BuckCake

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Re: early game
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2016, 03:02:13 AM »
If you're having trouble with pirates at start, just get a lasher with five machineguns and safety overrides.
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Re: early game
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2016, 03:46:51 AM »
I tried that but there's next to no range on the mgs
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Re: early game
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2016, 04:42:11 AM »
Pirates very rarely uses high-tech ships during early game, except for the Wolf (mostly D variants). Of course, things are a bit different if you are playing with SS+, the fleet generation will sometimes throw very mean ships at you.

Also for the Lasher, range is irrelevant when nothing can outrun you.

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Re: early game
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2016, 06:05:27 AM »
Some Smugglers can actually have hightech ships and even phase ships, yeah. Early game, running into an enemy Shade or Afflictor can spell the death of at least one of your ships - RIP, my little Kite (A), that Shade stuffed an antimatter bolt up your tailpipe and it was game over...
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Re: early game
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2016, 07:16:25 AM »
Gotta say I find those pirate Wolf (D) ships annoying in the early game ;D as soon as you you get them to high flux they phase skim away and kite you until their flux drop, rinse and repeat ad nauseam. Hell, they seem to kite me even more than the actual Kite class.
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Re: early game
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2016, 10:59:17 AM »
Well imagine how it was before this patch when the Wolf (D) didn't have the Degraded Engine hullmod. =x
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Re: early game
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2016, 11:42:41 AM »
Quote from: billi999 on March 04, 2016, 07:16:25 AM
Gotta say I find those pirate Wolf (D) ships annoying in the early game ;D as soon as you you get them to high flux they phase skim away and kite you until their flux drop, rinse and repeat ad nauseam. Hell, they seem to kite me even more than the actual Kite class.

I still do. Killing them can be a real hassle. It always feels good when I am able to do it however.
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Re: early game
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2016, 03:19:12 PM »
ss+ nothing but alastors holy cow
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Re: early game
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2016, 10:57:31 PM »
Quote from: HELMUT on March 04, 2016, 04:42:11 AM
Pirates very rarely uses high-tech ships during early game, except for the Wolf (mostly D variants). Of course, things are a bit different if you are playing with SS+, the fleet generation will sometimes throw very mean ships at you.

Also for the Lasher, range is irrelevant when nothing can outrun you.



tried this lasher and holy cow its awesome
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