flight technique and limited introduction

Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:11 pm by fjodor

first time posting, although i have lurked about since i found out about the game, luckily that was no more than 3 weeks ago, thus saving me the excruciating wait. but enough with the introduction.

i have some questions regarding flight, and how to master it to the utmost efficency in combat, specifficly the engine kill function. i have found that i can maintain a siginfficantly higher avarage speed if i kill the engines coming out of cruise drive and then simply using the thrusters to keem moving at ~200 ups (units per second, i dont know if there is another term for it). what this does is give me a little over double the speed of my opponents, transforms the ship into a massive turrent, all at the cost of some manouverability. of course people already know of this.

what i am really getting at is that you actually can manover efficiently with the thrusters, the change of direction requires only about a second or two of thrust. for those who have quite a bit more experience playing freelaner (beta people) i have a question. this method of flight seems to work exelently, at least in liberty, but the opponents of liberty also have a rather limited ai, so the question is if this will still be a viable modus operandi in the later parts of the game? is there really any point in me attempting to master this technique, or should i just stic to regular manouvering?

and by the way, it is a great game, i am enjoying every second i spend with it!

-Sic transit gloria mundi-

Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:34 pm by Tachyon

Engine kill is still a good tactic wherever, because the AI won't do anything so silly to keep up

Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:47 pm by fjodor

great stuff!

now all i need is the full game

-Sic transit gloria mundi-

Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:16 pm by shinyhalo

I played the demo and have no clue what you are talking about. I wish I did.

Here is my limited understanding:

1. Going 300 ups in cruise mode
2. Spot enemies
3. Shift-W out of cruise mode and ship starts moving at my default 79 ups
4. Engage enemies

So are you able to somehow go into cruise speeds quickly? I have been clicking the universe map button on top left selecting a waypoint and then Goto the way point. Obviously my way is too slow for combat. By thrusters do you mean the Afterburners (TA

?

Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:33 pm by Harb

hmm i have not been able to do engine kills all that effectively with the engine kill key i more use the reverse thrust key to out brake change direction then afterburn etc. I also changed the cruise key to be the tab key and found that works much better in emergency escapes than trying to do a 2 button combo when your being shot to pieces cos 6 enemies turned up while tractoring in loot
(read that as me being totally surprised and in an absolute panic scrabbling to hit the keys

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Mon Feb 24, 2003 6:33 pm by fjodor

shinyhalo: yeah, by thrusters i mean afterburners.

and as far as i have experienced using the kill engine comand when you are in "go-to mode" does not work well. just enter cruise with shift+w, wait till you are going fast, then hit the kill engine button, you should be going in the same direction at ~300 ups, if you strafe your speed will go down, so dont do that if your engines are off. to change the direction you are going just point the ship that way and give a short burst from the thrusters, it should send you in the desired direction at about 200 ups

-Sic transit gloria mundi-

Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:39 pm by Lev Arris

I'm using this way of fighting pretty often myself and it works great. It feels a bit like combat in Elite II - Frontier.

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