disagree if often fight with 30 ships against one ship and if he tries to run we all go after him like a manhunt/dogfight and he does everything to shake my/us of....

DoN'T hATE ThE PlaYEr,
HatE The GAmE.
I hAte The DeSiGnER.......

GoT VisuAl On BOgeY,KiCKinG His AsS....

Edited by - Dextervt on 7/29/2004 6:16:26 AM

Edited by - Dextervt on 7/29/2004 6:17:41 AM

Whoever wrote that hasn't played the game! You have to stick with one enemy at a time and chew them up. Go head to head -- unless you are well past the story line game and have the highest level guns -- and you will never eliminate anybody.







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Head-to-head in this context means they way combat is carried out, i.e. head-on passes at each other. Most sims involve getting on the enemies 6 and staying there... Can you do this in Freelancer for 90% of the fight? I can't.

Actually, these are just encounters because there are so few ships. By the end of WWI, where "dogfight" was coined, many didn't consider it a full dogfight unless 80 aircraft were involved. The only true dogfights in the game are in the storyline, for example;

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when Walker and his escorts help you take on the Navy, when you have to bust out of Alaska, when you and the Order take out nomads.


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Becuase there are dozens of ships out there all firing at each other, it is a true dogfight. Me coming across a bounty hunter in some god forsaken corner of Liberty and blasting him to kingdom come is just a skirmish. --- VH16

I am Nobody; Nobody is Perfect; Therefore, I am Perfect

Obviously this guy hasn't played the game for more than 2 minutes. The only time I get into a head-on pass with a ship is when I first encounter them. After that it's a game of cat-and-mouse, with both fighters trying to become the cat.

The Oxford English Dictionary states: dogfight [n informal. A fight between [usually two aircraft. So I think any form of aerial combat could be counted as such if you want. Sorry VH, I felt inadequate not being able to dogfight after my SP campaign..............

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Obviously this guy hasn't played the game for more than 2 minutes. The only time I get into a head-on pass with a ship is when I first encounter them. After that it's a game of cat-and-mouse, with both fighters trying to become the cat.

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Dunno why you think it's obvious that the guy hasn't played it for more than 2 minutes. I could say the same about you, but seeing as I don't have any hard evidence to support the statement, then I wont.

My experience of dogfighting in Freelancer is that you do a head-on pass (as does the other ship), you kill engine, turn around, hit the thruster and do another head-on pass (as does the other ship), and then continue to repeat the above until one of you dies.

In Freelancer, it's just a series of head-on passes as I described in the previous paragraph, this I believe is due to the limitations of using mouse control instead of a Joystick.

If you had ever played Starlancer or any other similar combat space sim or even flight sim, then you would get on the enemies tail (enemies 6 o'clock) and you would stay there shooting while the enemy tried to shake you and escape with his best moves. I guess you need a Joystick to do this.

Perhaps I'm not understanding your post correctly, if so, could you please elaborate and explain to how you actually fight, when in a dogfight in Freelancer, by that I mean can you stick like glue to an enemies tail whilst using a mouse, or is it just series of head-on passes?