Yes, they can.

A point. I can kill several TIE defenders in the WTS mod 2.4 with the starting ship, a Mavrick. It's about equal to a patriot. If the VHFs hit me even once (and I'll admit it, I don't always survive), I'm radioactive toast. yet, I still manage to beat the crap out of them.

I'd only suggest a Lf if you're a good pilot, an ace. Me, while good, prefer a HF, the valkarie actually, since in my opinion it's the best looking ship in the game, but if there was a good looking VHF, I'd be on it pretty quick.

Actually, the only diffrence in handling I can see in the game is between normal fighters and Fighter/freighters. Those handle noticably worse than fighters.....



Captain of the Kep Salu

Trekkie and proud of it!

Let's not forget LF's are good if your poor. Anyway, in other games LF's are usally vastly faster and more manueverable then HF and VHF. In freelancer since everything moves at the same speed (whoever thought of that, I'd like to know) LF's seem to be an afterthought. They are more manueverable, but without speed they seem to be pretty worthless.

JohnHawke
C-in-C Wing Commander:Gateways Project
E-mail: [email protected]
MSN: Same

it doens't really compensate. you need to waste missiles with light fighters. unless you have patience to dodge aroudn shooting.

strafe! the three VHF's are equal in strength
You wouldn't use a cucumber to chop a tomato!

Yes, manouvrebility is damn usefull. but i cant say more than that because it would be a spoiler. but remember skilled drake players are very capable of killing skilled VHF players. dont underestimate them. <--- reason why my patriot is such a succes in pvp

I dunno, if they made them faster, but I'll prefer Rippers and Cannonballs to Stalkers and Erasers any day.
Not to mention the Eagle is closer to a HF than a VHF more manuerverable, considerably lower firepower, etc.
But it still has class 10 slots and infinite power.

---

infinite power.

---

No (unmodded) ship has infinite power. If you stick 4 codenames and a couple of Wyrms on your Eagle, its power will go down.

Infinite power so long as you don't use insane amount of energy that is.

A LF will always beat a HF imo, but VHFs cream everything really. I still like LFs if I'm in large multiplayer fights, because I can distract my enemies, so they wind up firing at me, which I dodge easily, leaving my pals free to blow them up.

LFs are way cool to fly, too. The only decent HF I know of is the Falcon. So for me it's VHF or LF.

___Corsair~MMIV
Truth, justice freedom and all that other nonsense

I LOVE THE VALKYRIE! It's an awesome ship, I use it in SP and on alot of my servers, class 8 weapons arent that bad.

Problem is, against a VHF a valkyrie would be dead in seconds- it can't dodge a thing.
LFs may not be able to take as many hits, but their ability to dodge means they only get hit about once per minute anyway.

___Corsair~MMIV
Truth, justice freedom and all that other nonsense

I killed a guy in a Sabre once with my Dagger. Well i have to admit the guy was a poor PvP. I used 2 pulse guns (class 3) and 3 of those Outcast weapons (class 4). Acualy LF and VHF rule! HF dont stand a chance against them. I preffer a Banshee over a Valkyre everyday!

In the Victors Mod, Light Fighters can easily stand up to the Heavy and Very Heavy Fighters. That's why I always fly a Dagger in that mod. Otherwise though, PC in a LF vs. a NPC in a HF or VHF is doable. PC vs. PC with same ship types and you're screwed.

I fly already for real long the dagger around..

also i killed hf and vhf with it... and i'm not scared off taking on titans, sabres or eagles... their are only a few ships in the game with are real worth to fly, a few lf, maybe 2 hf and only 2 vhf...

agility is a powerfull thing on the battlefield, also hit profile off the your ship and the enemy ship... a bloodhound has a small head-on profile, but it's profile is real big from side-on attacks...

______________________________

Pirate clan on the Boston server.

Dragonbreath has an excellent point there - the profile can make a difference on those ships, and that is for sure.