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Elite: Dangerous
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I tried to solo a Cyclops this evening. Thought I did pretty okay. But no luck in the end
I tried to record it, but was playing in VR and it recorded my whole desktop. Here are some snippets though!
I managed to destroy the 4 hearts
But I got hit with that electro blast unfortunately and my shields were gone again
Very challenging and good fun. Lost count of the number of times my shields went down. I think having a human in a fighter would help. A human fighter pilot could probably draw the thargoid away a bit easier so the mothership can regain shields.0 -
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Internet Friend wrote: »Ouch, you were so close as well...
On the positive side it is genuinely challenging. Regular NPC bounty hunting is nothing compared to Thargoid hunting Also I'm only using a reinforced alloy module as I couldn't afford the military grade composite. I'll do a bit more regular mission and bounty hunting stuff and then go buy that military grade composite module. It was so close, I can't help but feel I might have got it if I'd had that 50% extra hull the military module has over the reinforced. 0 -
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Internet Friend wrote: »Agreed.
Shield/Hull tank it, SCBs, fighter bay and stick on gimballed weapons. Sit in a Res/CZ all day long! Something like this maybe?
Being honest, I've never spec'd a combat build on the cutter only used it as a cargo runner! I got it after the corvette and to me there's no comparison.
I have some friends in game who have amazingly well engineered combat Corvettes. They also use their Cutters as cargo cows But the first time I encountered one in game was when a guy in one winged up with me for some Haz Res bounty hunting. We were attacked by 4 player pirates and my main memory of that event was just how unstoppable the Cutter seemed. They couldn't take it's shields down and couldn't stopping it leaving if he wanted to. He didn't even have to high wake it out, boost and then super cruise.
In the end I'll probably get a Corvette as well. But before that I'd like to do some basking in a Cutter 0 -
dreamers75 wrote: »Joined a wing (player controlled faction) to see if it can drum up my interest in ED.
feelsbadman for the pirates they sent me after.
Did it work? Are you still playing? 0 -
Sesshoumaru wrote: »
In the end I'll probably get a Corvette as well. But before that I'd like to do some basking in a Cutter
I'd go with the corvette first that thing is a serious machine and great fun, its maneuverable almost like a mid sized ship and boy oh boy that fire power
its addictive, melting everything in a haz rez
Regarding the Cutter I have one of those also and I never take it out omg is that thing a tank takes about a week to turn it around feels like a whale. I never fully engineered it so never realized its potential maybe only useful thing I did with it was mining :P the cargo capacity was great fill it with limpets plenty of space for all the ore etc not great though for zipping in and around the asteroids....6.1kWp south facing, South of Cork City
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ECO_Mental wrote: »I'd go with the corvette first that thing is a serious machine and great fun, its maneuverable almost like a mid sized ship and boy oh boy that fire power its addictive, melting everything in a haz rez
Regarding the Cutter I have one of those also and I never take it out omg is that thing a tank takes about a week to turn it around feels like a whale. I never fully engineered it so never realized its potential maybe only useful thing I did with it was mining :P the cargo capacity was great fill it with limpets plenty of space for all the ore etc not great though for zipping in and around the asteroids....
It would be logical to go for the Corvette. But in a not very logic based decision I decided to grind to King rank first (which I've done now) as I thought the cockpit of the Imperial Courier (which I already had) was such a nice place in VR Now I want a taste of the bigger Gutamaya ships! Right now I'm making about 80 to 90 mil an hour in Robigo with my Anaconda so I can maximise the potential of my future Cutter
I've grinded a lot in this game for engineering, guardian tech and rank etc. But never really just kept going to make as much money as possible. While doing so it did make me think what an amazing ship the Anaconda is. It really can do just about anything in the game!0 -
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Literally joined the wing/faction before I posted here last night
So yeah played a few minutes last night, playing now to do "BGS somfin overthrow somfin 60% somfin influence"
"murder pirates" yup can do :pac:Sesshoumaru wrote: »
I've grinded a lot in this game for engineering, guardian tech and rank etc. But never really just kept going to make as much money as possible. While doing so it did make me think what an amazing ship the Anaconda is. It really can do just about anything in the game!
Wing missions are where the money is at nowadays.
Once ranked with the local faction 40 to 50m missions are normal.
And a few cutters makes light work of some space trucking.0 -
dreamers75 wrote: »Literally joined the wing/faction before I posted here last night
So yeah played a few minutes last night, playing now to do "BGS somfin overthrow somfin 60% somfin influence"
"murder pirates" yup can do :pac:
Wing missions are where the money is at nowadays.
Once ranked with the local faction 40 to 50m missions are normal.
And a few cutters makes light work of some space trucking.
I'm more of an ad hoc wing up type of player at the moment Although I was asking for advise in game from people I know who have them and wing missions + cutters immense cargo capacity did come up in conversation along with "it will make you billions in game". So I do believe you!
Can I ask what players group you joined? Would you recommend joining one?0 -
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Sesshoumaru wrote: »How did you choose a player group? There are so many...
Any that one have:
Gawdy graphics.
Forced play styles
role players
clan structure
Were removed picked one of the 3 or 30 that were left 0 -
Really pleased with my first attempt at a Cutter build. Only got to take her out for a 30 minute spin in HazRes as it took so long to put together!
https://s.orbis.zone/kqd
Kind of like all the "space drifting" you do in one 0 -
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Sesshoumaru wrote: »Really pleased with my first attempt at a Cutter build. Only got to take her out for a 30 minute spin in HazRes as it took so long to put together!
https://s.orbis.zone/kqd
Kind of like all the "space drifting" you do in one
You have a real mix and match of engineered laser's focused and efficent , now I havnt payed in a good few months and I only play PvP and I think that's what your build is but Ive always gone with long range.
Long range doesnt draw any extra power really but you can go out to nearly 6 KM with 100% (if I remember correctly) now in my corvette build and that is only a PvP build I have 2 huge multis and the rest are (and that's a lot :cool:) are turreted long range beams. What this enables me to do is target them before they are in range, I fire my beams from 6km out and let them go to work. Thing is with turreted lasers and big ships is the smaller faster ships will try and get behind you and with turrets the arc of fire is amazing and you will almost inevitable always have fire on them.
Now with a cutter I would think, this is even more important and that thing is bus and does not turn quick at all.6.1kWp south facing, South of Cork City
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