Don''t fall asleep out there... an amusing anecdote

Sat Aug 02, 2003 2:04 pm by Bulldog

NOTE: Cleansed to remove spoilers
NOTE: Opinions expressed in this story are mine.... no one cares what YOU
think.

So... I've completed SP and made my pilgrimage to the Outcast homeworld. I've got the baddest VHF with the baddest shield. I've killed a few wings of uber nasties, so I've got the baddest weapons. I'm thinking "Wow, I am baaaaad".

I go out to the jump point to trawl for more uber nasties. If you've been there you know that there is a lot of debris cluttering up the area. So, I'm sitting at full stop trying to find the jumphole and I see four red arrows on my HUD. The following "conversation" then took place:

Me: "Oooh, uber nasties. Must engage."
Computer: "ShieldfailedHullbreachimminent. Load Auto save?"
Me: "Oh"

The moral: You may be baaad. But if you don't pay attention you'll be dead - fast.

Bulldog

Sat Aug 02, 2003 2:20 pm by guardian

i've found that with the best shields in the game you can sit in liberty in the middle of nowhere and still live while having 4 or more guys shoot you. in the really outa the way places, keep the speed up at maximum or become meat on a stick

Sat Aug 02, 2003 2:24 pm by USLF Agent Delphi

Definately more than 4 guys. I had 25 or so Patriot firing at me all at once and didnt have to use 1 shield battery. Then I picked them off one by one.

Sat Aug 02, 2003 8:05 pm by kimk

i was in my eagle decked with lvl9 shield (the best one) and some nomad cannons ( is this considered a spoiler? ) and sat infront of the jumpgate into new berlin and blasted the trade lane so they started firing at me. sat there for a while longer and saw 3 valkaries coming in from my left and right, 3 more coming thru the trade lane. so total of 9. i fly around, somor come in. my reps not bad enough so i pick off a few of them and tick off the cannons on the border station. then more come in, decked with humpbacks(police riding humpbacks!!) i pick a few more, they multiply. soon, all four sides of my monitor screen is filled with bright red arrows. that makes up about 30-40 rheinland guys. thats only when i started to think about moving to let my shield recharge - well, most of the time they kept shooting at whree i was 10 seconds ago.

Sat Aug 02, 2003 8:24 pm by History Buff

yah, while in the homes of the uber-nasties, never sit still. Just fly in a line at the best, and search for the desired object in the HUD. Leave mouseflight engaged, and it will put you in a hard to hit spin too.

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