I must be doing my tagging right, thanks for stopping by, though I do think the algo loves the keywords 'instant karma', cos we've all watched a few of those ;)
There is nothing dishonorable about ramming. IF these guys were deliberately ramming me (I don't think they were, I gave them no choice :) ) then they chose the wrong strat, and should know that a krait has a LOT more effective health. Knowing when to ram and when to avoid it is a huge part of battle strategy. If I start ramming people it's because that's a good way for me to get all my alpha damage on target (point blank frags) and trade some hp. If I can trade shield hp at 75% mitigation (4 pips to sys) against his hull with 0% mitigation, I would be an idiot not to do that. I get rammed hard by people better than me, but the truth is I initiated every ram in this video on purpose. I had a ship I wanted to kill fast so I had as much hp left to fight the other guy if necessary, I didn't know if I would be fighting 1, 2 or 3 fights in a row, or I would be fighting 1v2. I DO have a strong honour code in organic, you will never see me abusing broken builds and mechanics, reversing or using seekers, ghosting ir SCing to recharge...but ramming and avoiding rams is an important skill in ED pvp.
Making me feel great about my first noob level costly ship. Bought a Km2 and have rails in the same spot. I put Gimballed MCs top left and right and a fixed beam top center to help with aiming the rails. Still haven't finished engineering but I absolutely love this ship. Also nice moves in those battles, you've inspired me.
Great to hear, thanks! :) Yes, the medium rails are a must, the nice easy response of the ship to pitch and their perfect positioning make them delicious. :D
@@theashenfox Yeeaaa boi. Tasty. Hey, scrub question but I though I saw that you didn't target specific modules with the rails (or maybe I saw wrong). Do you get the slight snap to the target without specifically locking to a module?
macro keys really help i see with pip management, nice victories! I certainly wish that PVP/ combat in general was other than just shield tank, or shield/ bybrid tank.
Yeah I think shields should be much more energy intensive in higher tiers so a hull tank could buy worse shields but have better weapons where a shield tank would have to make significant sacrifices in modules or util. In the same vein shield boosters and SCBs should have the same restrictions.
I don't do any PvP myself, but this was pretty damn impressive. It's nice to see that I'm basically flying my Krait in the same manner as what was shown here, despite not knowing any of the fine details for combat etiquette. Totally different loadout on mine, but it still holds it's own well. And I'm flying with a controller. Don't ask me to pull any notable moves with fixed weapons though, still haven't got that down yet. Granted it's PvE, but just last night I got ganged up on by two Anacondas, a Corvette, and two Pythons. I believe the two Condas were simultaneously attacking, then the Vette jumped into the instance, then the following two Pythons were simultaneous as well. Didn't even lose shields, gotta love those prismatics.
Dude, I wonder if I was in system when this happened! Someone was asking about who was part of a wing of 4 while I was there the other day! What's your in game name, Commander? o7!
Krait mkII is generally considered a gank opportunity because of low speed, you disavowed them of this view. Also I note no FA off presumably because krait can permaboost. 07 cmdr.
I didn't explain it very well to be fair. :) So I was out testing a buiold in a chieftain, looking for a nice fair 1v1, when this mamba in the video interdicted me with his wingmate. I didn't fancy a 1v2 in the chieftain, it's not ideal for that, so I ran back to my carrier to get teh Krait, cos the Krait does have enough effetive health to deal with 2 mediums if there's a decent skill disparity as well. I then came back and didn't even have to look for them, one of them interdicted me and got his ass kicked (first fight), then I went to find his friend, kicked his ass (second fight and to be fair, the mamba did not team up on me, he just watched, which was very noble. Right up until his friend decided to leave and then the mamba decided he would have a go (end of second fight where I chase mamba off again), then because the mamba was low health, I chased him down, I guess he couldn't high wake, so I killed him fairly quickly. :) Moral: Be careful who you interdict in Deciat :D
I had to laugh about "cmdr digga". Digga is a term that is used in northern Germany and basically means bro and it is generally used by the youth and early twen section of the wannabee cool with base caps with the size sticker left on and listening to autotuned singers. Glad you blasted them like that.
How did you get different colours on your rail guns? Also, do you have a Coriolis link so I could check out your build? I'd love to try that on my Krait.
The railgun colors are actually determined by the special effect, super penetrator is the yellow one and feeback cascade is the blue one. Here's the build: s.orbis.zone/ch3n enjoy :)
Yeh, gimballed are the kings really, fixed frags is just increasing the difficulty for no reason. One of the keys to the effectiveness of frags is landing at least 2 out of 3 shots from each volley to match PA damage, which is extremely challenging with fixed, no matter who you are! Pacifiers make up for their fixed'ness' by having a tighter spread and faster shot speed making them significantly more useful at middle ranges rather than only up close, but even so I'd still go for gimballed if I really cared about effectiveness. :)
So, as a non-ED pvper, is this indicative of ED dogfighting? It look mostly like jousting. Interesting. SC, on the other hand looks to be more strafey.
Elite has a huge variety of ships, weapons and modifications for such, so you build a ship and fly it to its strengths. I prefer jousting to strafing as a general fighting style (especially in this ship, it can't furball for shit), but the top level of Elite pvp is typically very close furballing in Fer de Lances, what you would call more strafey. Here, check this vid where I get beat by someone much better than me, he's trying to keep me close where he is comfortable, and I'm trying to break out to joust. The only thing that makes us still play elite is the dogfighting model, it is still, by FAR the best space dogfighting to be had. Hope it helps. th-cam.com/video/tG3HpytLfAc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheAshenFox
@@theashenfox Excellent response. Thanks! I'll give the vid a watch. I will admit that I enjoy Star Citizen's fights.... but I enjoyed them much more back in 2.6 (a few years ago). With ED's 1st person mode coming soon, I will probably jump in. :) Thanks again!
I don't have it on mobile right now, but It's in at least three of the replies, please have a look at the replies to the other requests in this vid. Thanks!
@@RicardoFuertes1990 NP! They recover a % of your shields at the expense of generating a lot of heat. You can counter the heat with a heat sink but depending on the build and playstyle you can also just go without heat sinks and tank the heat like a boss. With certain modded weapons the excess heat can even amplify your damage output by a lot, so the heat can become a part of your strategy.
@@oscargarciahinde4247 ah! That explains it. Currently I have a hull tank cobra with rails and small beans. I have no experience with SCB nor shield boosters so I was confused. I guess if I want to go for the bug ships I need to use them eventually :p
@@Cheesus-Sliced It does, however, if you have say, 4 boosters on, the charge is half full, you turn 2 off, and your shield is back. You then have the choice to reactivate them and make your health pool smaller (and visually on the shield bars as you state) but gain back any resistance they offered, or leave them off and carry on. I think at one point, he filled on the half charge, then turned them back on, then used a cell.
Я иду в Deciat своим chieftain, и на меня нападает группа из трех кораблей. Я возвращаюсь на свой базовый корабль и беру своего крайта, и тогда начинается видео. Он снова нападает на меня, но я побеждаю и ищу его друзей. Я нахожу одного друга, бью его, и мамба атакует, я снова бью мамбу. Затем я преследую мамбу и взрываю его. Надеюсь, этот перевод Google поможет :)
This video made me realise how important my shield banks are, had they had them they probably would have been able to use it to get away or continue fighting
kinda, but really what they needed to have had a chance, was the ability to cancel mine, more than having their own. The mamba had some cells, but size 4 cells (the only cells the mamba can carry if using a size 5 shield) are very weak. The krait features size 6s which are not fully cancelled by a single medium feedback hit, as size 4s and 5s are, but these guys are gankers, they didn't have any feedback along with them, just frags (actually the mamba had a huge multicannon I noticed later, sensible, but still not useful for countering a cell heavy build like mine. The chieftain is a 50-50 proposition, it's such a great hull tank, it's hard to say if a size 5 cell would be more useful at the end of the day, sometimes yes, other times no. :)
Because real pvpers are hard to find, and we've all fought each other hundreds of times. Nothing left to do but speedrun carebears for the shiggles. I don't seal club newbies myself, but I understand it, and anyone with a decent ship is fair game.
@Inexcye Solm thanks for responding I guess. Cuz I have no fucking clue what I was even asking about anymore. Being that was a year ago that I asked. Besides that the "word" 'gonk' was being utilized in some kinda means that I didn't understand.
@@DavidHanniganJr Super late reply, sorry, I'm sure you heard the term since then, but yeh, gank is short for gang-kill. When more than one player gangs up and kills you alone, you got ganked.
Imagine ganking a dude in his empty hauler doing poll data delivery missions. Wtf why even bother, he's not kitted for combat and you gain nothing from killing him. What's the point. Bad game design not gonna lie.
Macros help ey? Just starting on pc coming from Xbox a couple years ago, are macros the norm? In just about every game ever that is some mega hard cheese or cheating as far as I know. If this is normal though I can set up an auto hotkey script for it, kind of takes the fun out of pip checking someone with a ram when all it takes is one tap to the left.
Macro software is supplied with every top end gaming peripheral in existence, and the devs of the game have approved the use of pip macros. I guess it saves them the effort of setting up presets. Cos, like, imagine a future where you had a spaceship, but not hte technology to move more than one pip at a time...in any case, using a fixed set of macros is actually a disadvantage compared to someone who learns the manual way, as I am stuck to the macros that I load up for use with that ship, where a pip master has total freedom. And yes, there are people who move the pips manually as fast as I do with the macro. This isn't an e-sport, but if it was, I feel confident that macros to move pips would be allowed under the rules. The Elite Dangerous pvp community is actually very active in self policing genuine bad actors and exploiters. Lastly, I assure you that the 144fps constant frame rate, the giant monitor, the $400 joystick, are all bigger advantages over players than pip macros, so how would a pip macro ever be considered cheating. Lastly, macros are available to anyone, I have a vid on my channel explaining how to create them using 100% free (not demo or shareware, 100% free) tools. Hope this helped :)
@@theashenfox I got em set up already when I realized almost everyone was using them lol. And normally 3rd party software is considered unsportsmanlike even if not outright banned by the eula. Imagine if your ak in rust was just a laser because of a macro that got toggled. In that example it’s not only an extreme competitive advantage but takes out much of the skill required to play competently. Or macros to execute tight tech in a fighting game automatically, hit one button and auto combo. I’ll admit it’s not as big an advantage in this game but it definitely makes a big difference on joystick where most people can’t use their secondary fire while moving pips. With this it’s one tap and go back to shooting while pips move themselves. Either way thanks for the reply, I didn’t realize this was the norm at the time of commenting
It was good to see the frag mamba and your wingman sit back and let you fight that second round 1v1. I know most people would not
ur right, respecc to both o7
This just randomly popped on my recommended. Pretty clean fight and cool build.
I must be doing my tagging right, thanks for stopping by, though I do think the algo loves the keywords 'instant karma', cos we've all watched a few of those ;)
that guy just kept on ramming him, hardly not clean from their side.
@@hamez877 clean as in the person filming fought very well.
There is nothing dishonorable about ramming. IF these guys were deliberately ramming me (I don't think they were, I gave them no choice :) ) then they chose the wrong strat, and should know that a krait has a LOT more effective health. Knowing when to ram and when to avoid it is a huge part of battle strategy. If I start ramming people it's because that's a good way for me to get all my alpha damage on target (point blank frags) and trade some hp. If I can trade shield hp at 75% mitigation (4 pips to sys) against his hull with 0% mitigation, I would be an idiot not to do that. I get rammed hard by people better than me, but the truth is I initiated every ram in this video on purpose. I had a ship I wanted to kill fast so I had as much hp left to fight the other guy if necessary, I didn't know if I would be fighting 1, 2 or 3 fights in a row, or I would be fighting 1v2. I DO have a strong honour code in organic, you will never see me abusing broken builds and mechanics, reversing or using seekers, ghosting ir SCing to recharge...but ramming and avoiding rams is an important skill in ED pvp.
pro tip : you can watch movies on Flixzone. Been using them for watching loads of movies recently.
Good god, I wish I were even half as good with fixed weapons like that.
They say pip management in pvp is 50% of the battle, notice his quick pip management, some folks set up macro keys to assist with this.
Well, Practice with Spinals, makes for a good fight.
Sometimes they can be up to 70% of your damage.
@@juan-pierreleroux8323 i wish i knew how to do that but nobody explains it
Making me feel great about my first noob level costly ship. Bought a Km2 and have rails in the same spot.
I put Gimballed MCs top left and right and a fixed beam top center to help with aiming the rails.
Still haven't finished engineering but I absolutely love this ship.
Also nice moves in those battles, you've inspired me.
Great to hear, thanks! :) Yes, the medium rails are a must, the nice easy response of the ship to pitch and their perfect positioning make them delicious. :D
@@theashenfox Yeeaaa boi. Tasty.
Hey, scrub question but I though I saw that you didn't target specific modules with the rails (or maybe I saw wrong). Do you get the slight snap to the target without specifically locking to a module?
@@liamfinlay2039 Yes, and you actually snap to specific modules across the ship very slightly as well without subtargets
@@eva2602 thanks for the info :)
macro keys really help i see with pip management, nice victories! I certainly wish that PVP/ combat in general was other than just shield tank, or shield/ bybrid tank.
Yeah I think shields should be much more energy intensive in higher tiers so a hull tank could buy worse shields but have better weapons where a shield tank would have to make significant sacrifices in modules or util. In the same vein shield boosters and SCBs should have the same restrictions.
There's only one word for this. HANDLED. Excellent flying.
damn the chat was so alive back them
great fighting though!
sad that it's dropped to 2000 concurrent players, u can barely find people let alone in hor 4.0
Nice fight! Just read you fly with a stick!! HOTAS pilots are best pilots :)
The mambas biggest mistake was underestimating the mk2 and going up against someone who knows what their doing. very well fought cmdr o7
I don't do any PvP myself, but this was pretty damn impressive. It's nice to see that I'm basically flying my Krait in the same manner as what was shown here, despite not knowing any of the fine details for combat etiquette. Totally different loadout on mine, but it still holds it's own well. And I'm flying with a controller. Don't ask me to pull any notable moves with fixed weapons though, still haven't got that down yet.
Granted it's PvE, but just last night I got ganged up on by two Anacondas, a Corvette, and two Pythons. I believe the two Condas were simultaneously attacking, then the Vette jumped into the instance, then the following two Pythons were simultaneous as well. Didn't even lose shields, gotta love those prismatics.
Dude, I wonder if I was in system when this happened! Someone was asking about who was part of a wing of 4 while I was there the other day! What's your in game name, Commander? o7!
cmdr ashenfox :)
@@theashenfox Right on, I'm CMDR majjinbuuhoo
This was very satisfying to watch.
Krait mkII is generally considered a gank opportunity because of low speed, you disavowed them of this view. Also I note no FA off presumably because krait can permaboost. 07 cmdr.
M8 your aim is...jaysus. Trying to snipe like that with rails makes me feel 90 years old.
Same, I just use overcharge gimbal MCs
Does no one know how to fly a mamba?
I do! Check my other vids with mamba content ;)
nice nice The Ashen Fox, we se us now! Good Video,Ty.....
This was you!? Haha, nice, gg guys, no hard feelings. o7
no no hard feelings, i can lose, i'm learning PvP, but i improved a lot over the last few weeks :)
I'm pretty sure I was hit by that exact same gang of gankers in Deciat. Barely managed to boost away as I wasn't equipped to fight them.
Either them or one of the thousands and thousands of other people using the exact same boring “meta” loadouts.
can't be the same person, it's an oft repeated build and a massive galaxy
ughhh that was satisfying
Nice flying man! Good to know you were achieving that accuracy and consistency with stick; too many combat pilots are KB+M.
Not everyone wants or can afford to spend 250 bucks on flight sticks
I'm new to elite so I don't understand a thing about what's happening here
I didn't explain it very well to be fair. :) So I was out testing a buiold in a chieftain, looking for a nice fair 1v1, when this mamba in the video interdicted me with his wingmate. I didn't fancy a 1v2 in the chieftain, it's not ideal for that, so I ran back to my carrier to get teh Krait, cos the Krait does have enough effetive health to deal with 2 mediums if there's a decent skill disparity as well. I then came back and didn't even have to look for them, one of them interdicted me and got his ass kicked (first fight), then I went to find his friend, kicked his ass (second fight and to be fair, the mamba did not team up on me, he just watched, which was very noble. Right up until his friend decided to leave and then the mamba decided he would have a go (end of second fight where I chase mamba off again), then because the mamba was low health, I chased him down, I guess he couldn't high wake, so I killed him fairly quickly. :) Moral: Be careful who you interdict in Deciat :D
haha you know your ass is whacked when you see "and ran back to my carrior to get my..."
The Krait is particularly good for 1v2, NGL :D
That’s my exact build on the Krait!!!
As in frag cannons and rails
I use the krait for long range exploring never used it for combat .
@@mathgasm8484 you use Phantom ? Cause the one in vid is MkII.
MKII is better suited for combat and Phantom for exploring
I had to laugh about "cmdr digga". Digga is a term that is used in northern Germany and basically means bro and it is generally used by the youth and early twen section of the wannabee cool with base caps with the size sticker left on and listening to autotuned singers. Glad you blasted them like that.
The hit rate with your Rail Guns was very impressive. Not easy to achieve with fixed points either, so well done you have a good eye and a steady aim.
Ahh, Gank. Ok. Although I was unaware of the group/gang prerequisite.
Awesome fighting, and I'm loving the build! could you share it?
Sure s.orbis.zone/cjp5 :)
How did you get different colours on your rail guns? Also, do you have a Coriolis link so I could check out your build? I'd love to try that on my Krait.
The railgun colors are actually determined by the special effect, super penetrator is the yellow one and feeback cascade is the blue one. Here's the build: s.orbis.zone/ch3n enjoy :)
@@theashenfox thank you so much 🤗
@@theashenfox wait really? my super penetrator rails aren't yellow...
Chieften hit it self on your ship allot
Hah, I actually remember see you there the other day (don't know if it was this specifically but still)
The chieftain is a tank i hate encounter gankers that are flying it.
Ram them when their shields are down ;)
Nice kill on the mamba. That's one more brainlet to the rebuy screen haha
Awesome flying CMDR.
Care to share build with an Elite gearhead? I run similar but with PA's
Sure :) s.orbis.zone/ch3n
That jousting seems fun
Those Frag cannons are gimbals... I thought they were all fixed!
Yeh, gimballed are the kings really, fixed frags is just increasing the difficulty for no reason. One of the keys to the effectiveness of frags is landing at least 2 out of 3 shots from each volley to match PA damage, which is extremely challenging with fixed, no matter who you are! Pacifiers make up for their fixed'ness' by having a tighter spread and faster shot speed making them significantly more useful at middle ranges rather than only up close, but even so I'd still go for gimballed if I really cared about effectiveness. :)
Vids like this show me how far I’ve got to go
So, as a non-ED pvper, is this indicative of ED dogfighting? It look mostly like jousting. Interesting.
SC, on the other hand looks to be more strafey.
Elite has a huge variety of ships, weapons and modifications for such, so you build a ship and fly it to its strengths. I prefer jousting to strafing as a general fighting style (especially in this ship, it can't furball for shit), but the top level of Elite pvp is typically very close furballing in Fer de Lances, what you would call more strafey. Here, check this vid where I get beat by someone much better than me, he's trying to keep me close where he is comfortable, and I'm trying to break out to joust. The only thing that makes us still play elite is the dogfighting model, it is still, by FAR the best space dogfighting to be had. Hope it helps. th-cam.com/video/tG3HpytLfAc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheAshenFox
@@theashenfox Excellent response. Thanks! I'll give the vid a watch. I will admit that I enjoy Star Citizen's fights.... but I enjoyed them much more back in 2.6 (a few years ago). With ED's 1st person mode coming soon, I will probably jump in. :)
Thanks again!
What kind of Mamba-build was that? Double-Paper??
Yeh, gotta assume it was a biweave, curious choice indeed! I think they were ganking easy targets and need the recharge between fights
Man, I thought conflict zones were repetitive..
gonk
@The Ashen Fox would you publish your build please?
I don't have it on mobile right now, but It's in at least three of the replies, please have a look at the replies to the other requests in this vid. Thanks!
Mind sharing your ship build? Would be interested to see
how the heck can that chieftain regen his shields so fast after broken???
Cheesus Sliced had the same comment below, reply to this message if you still have any Qs. Thanks for the comment! :)
Nothing impresive here, come see me bro.
Im a complete noob in combat. Why did your ship had random spikes of heat? Was that on purpose?
He was popping Shield Cell Banks.
@@oscargarciahinde4247 thanks! Never used SCB before. Dont know much about combat
@@RicardoFuertes1990 NP! They recover a % of your shields at the expense of generating a lot of heat. You can counter the heat with a heat sink but depending on the build and playstyle you can also just go without heat sinks and tank the heat like a boss. With certain modded weapons the excess heat can even amplify your damage output by a lot, so the heat can become a part of your strategy.
@@oscargarciahinde4247 excellent reply. :)
@@oscargarciahinde4247 ah! That explains it. Currently I have a hull tank cobra with rails and small beans. I have no experience with SCB nor shield boosters so I was confused. I guess if I want to go for the bug ships I need to use them eventually :p
Snpx get distance of gankers
The big slapp
Hold up, how did his shield come back up like that? Less than half charged, drifting, instantly back online?
By activating/deactivating boosters during the charge cycle.
@@theashenfox I thought that also changed the indicator position and speed? Mind you, I haven't done/seen this much and haven't paid close attention
@@Cheesus-Sliced It does, however, if you have say, 4 boosters on, the charge is half full, you turn 2 off, and your shield is back. You then have the choice to reactivate them and make your health pool smaller (and visually on the shield bars as you state) but gain back any resistance they offered, or leave them off and carry on. I think at one point, he filled on the half charge, then turned them back on, then used a cell.
@@theashenfox ah of course, that makes more sense now. I didnt think about the sheer power of the boosters, thanks for pointing that out for me
Nice flying CMDR!
that was sick. is that Chieftan not firing? i cant see anything coming from him... im new
the way good pilots fly is sick, i play and im stuck doin circles w or without flight assist 😂
Я конечно не понял что тут происходит ) но очень было интересно ))
Я иду в Deciat своим chieftain, и на меня нападает группа из трех кораблей. Я возвращаюсь на свой базовый корабль и беру своего крайта, и тогда начинается видео. Он снова нападает на меня, но я побеждаю и ищу его друзей. Я нахожу одного друга, бью его, и мамба атакует, я снова бью мамбу. Затем я преследую мамбу и взрываю его. Надеюсь, этот перевод Google поможет :)
This video made me realise how important my shield banks are, had they had them they probably would have been able to use it to get away or continue fighting
kinda, but really what they needed to have had a chance, was the ability to cancel mine, more than having their own. The mamba had some cells, but size 4 cells (the only cells the mamba can carry if using a size 5 shield) are very weak. The krait features size 6s which are not fully cancelled by a single medium feedback hit, as size 4s and 5s are, but these guys are gankers, they didn't have any feedback along with them, just frags (actually the mamba had a huge multicannon I noticed later, sensible, but still not useful for countering a cell heavy build like mine. The chieftain is a 50-50 proposition, it's such a great hull tank, it's hard to say if a size 5 cell would be more useful at the end of the day, sometimes yes, other times no. :)
@@theashenfox ah ok, I'm still very new so didn't know this!
Still never know why there are gankers. They gain nothing except a fine from attacking people like that.
Because real pvpers are hard to find, and we've all fought each other hundreds of times. Nothing left to do but speedrun carebears for the shiggles. I don't seal club newbies myself, but I understand it, and anyone with a decent ship is fair game.
solid flying, clearly you fly hotas
That's right :) Thanks!! VKB Gunfighter with SCG (kosmosima) grip and a TWCS throttle.
How do you get different colors on your weapons like that? i can only do just 1 color
Engineering effects changes the color, it happens to lasers and multicannon impact effects too
Build of you weapons?
remind me to never piss this guy off, he'd prolly make quick work of my anaconda
Anacondas are a specialty. XD
@@theashenfox also the fact that I play with a 450 ping. Oof
Love your videos!
Thank you!
The oooooo baby was funny😂
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Good job cmdr o7.
Does the mamba seriously not have any shield cells?
Omg the chieftain too? Even a small one would be better than none
are you using MnK?
Sorry for ridiculously late reply, no, this is stick and throttle. :)
@@theashenfoxat least you got back to him
The fuck is a gonk?
It's like a gank but with an 'O' instead. :)
@@theashenfox Steal? Or, "...to steal..."? What does 'gank' mean to you?
@Inexcye Solm thanks for responding I guess. Cuz I have no fucking clue what I was even asking about anymore. Being that was a year ago that I asked.
Besides that the "word" 'gonk' was being utilized in some kinda means that I didn't understand.
@@DavidHanniganJr Super late reply, sorry, I'm sure you heard the term since then, but yeh, gank is short for gang-kill. When more than one player gangs up and kills you alone, you got ganked.
Ahh, Gank. Ok. Although I was unaware of the group/gang prerequisite.
Imagine ganking a dude in his empty hauler doing poll data delivery missions. Wtf why even bother, he's not kitted for combat and you gain nothing from killing him. What's the point. Bad game design not gonna lie.
the fact you dont sub target drives oon a chieftain makes youo bad... letting them leave is embarrassing...
no u
Macros help ey? Just starting on pc coming from Xbox a couple years ago, are macros the norm? In just about every game ever that is some mega hard cheese or cheating as far as I know. If this is normal though I can set up an auto hotkey script for it, kind of takes the fun out of pip checking someone with a ram when all it takes is one tap to the left.
Macro software is supplied with every top end gaming peripheral in existence, and the devs of the game have approved the use of pip macros. I guess it saves them the effort of setting up presets. Cos, like, imagine a future where you had a spaceship, but not hte technology to move more than one pip at a time...in any case, using a fixed set of macros is actually a disadvantage compared to someone who learns the manual way, as I am stuck to the macros that I load up for use with that ship, where a pip master has total freedom. And yes, there are people who move the pips manually as fast as I do with the macro. This isn't an e-sport, but if it was, I feel confident that macros to move pips would be allowed under the rules. The Elite Dangerous pvp community is actually very active in self policing genuine bad actors and exploiters. Lastly, I assure you that the 144fps constant frame rate, the giant monitor, the $400 joystick, are all bigger advantages over players than pip macros, so how would a pip macro ever be considered cheating. Lastly, macros are available to anyone, I have a vid on my channel explaining how to create them using 100% free (not demo or shareware, 100% free) tools. Hope this helped :)
@@theashenfox I got em set up already when I realized almost everyone was using them lol. And normally 3rd party software is considered unsportsmanlike even if not outright banned by the eula. Imagine if your ak in rust was just a laser because of a macro that got toggled. In that example it’s not only an extreme competitive advantage but takes out much of the skill required to play competently. Or macros to execute tight tech in a fighting game automatically, hit one button and auto combo.
I’ll admit it’s not as big an advantage in this game but it definitely makes a big difference on joystick where most people can’t use their secondary fire while moving pips. With this it’s one tap and go back to shooting while pips move themselves. Either way thanks for the reply, I didn’t realize this was the norm at the time of commenting