05-08-2003, 02:23 AM
To whoever mentioned the daggers weapons, those are scorpions, they are a xenos weapon. Hull damage of 73 i belive with refire 3.03, very effective killers. You can find them by killing xenos, the advanced versions are even better. If you want good guns at these lower levels they are what I would suggest. Although they lack range, they are fine in the close combat firefights in the early missions. Also, killing xenos is incredibly good for your reputation so dont worry about making new enemies, they hate everyone and everyone hates them.
Keenduck, I was going to suggest this earlier but you got past it. Get something aside from the defender, to be frank, its a bus. It turns like crap and i'd take ANY maneuverable ship over the defender any day, you will survive much longer when you can maneuver well.
As for anyone else, might I suggest the benefits of an engine kill mid flight? (default z key) you will continue to move at your current velocity and in the same direction however you can turn and shoot in any direction like a turret. This can be used to an even greater effect in a move called a powerslide in which you coast towards the enemy in this manner, cut the engines, turn around and shoot back at him after the first pass, hitting him while he is still turning around with full thruster power, like this:
x = you, y = enemy, --> = flight path, z = point of engine kill, use afterburners for thrust (pulse them).
each line is a new frame
x --------------------------------------> <---------------------------------------y
x---------------> <-----------------y
x---------------------------->
<------------------------y
x------------------> z
<--------------------------y
<-----------------------y ***** <--------------------x
-Wapptor
Keenduck, I was going to suggest this earlier but you got past it. Get something aside from the defender, to be frank, its a bus. It turns like crap and i'd take ANY maneuverable ship over the defender any day, you will survive much longer when you can maneuver well.
As for anyone else, might I suggest the benefits of an engine kill mid flight? (default z key) you will continue to move at your current velocity and in the same direction however you can turn and shoot in any direction like a turret. This can be used to an even greater effect in a move called a powerslide in which you coast towards the enemy in this manner, cut the engines, turn around and shoot back at him after the first pass, hitting him while he is still turning around with full thruster power, like this:
x = you, y = enemy, --> = flight path, z = point of engine kill, use afterburners for thrust (pulse them).
each line is a new frame
x --------------------------------------> <---------------------------------------y
x---------------> <-----------------y
x---------------------------->
<------------------------y
x------------------> z
<--------------------------y
<-----------------------y ***** <--------------------x
-Wapptor
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