@@Astyrrean it really is seconds, I was in a chieftan with as much armor as I could pack onto it when an intercepter dropped in outside of a station, my dumb ass decides to go start shooting it thinking it to be a cyclops or something more tame. Its opening volley dropped my hull from 100% to 15% in 3 seconds
@@scarecrow1298 This Eagle had 670hp :). So little in fact that a couple of repair limpets on a 3D controller was all it needed to get back to full health after each heart!
There are at least a half dozen things that, at my very best, I'm mediocre at. And here you're doing all of them, simultaneously, with a flawless precision that I didn't know was possible. This is both humbling and inspiring, and I also learned a few things from your excellent commentary. o7, CMDR. GLORY TO MANKIND!!
I'm not religious, but I thought this verse summed up the achievement well: "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I. Send me.'"
Imagine being your race's biggest and baddest unit and you get owned by a person in a small Eagle with Angel With a Shotgun playing in their cockpit, damn
Cmdr Mechan..... this is awesome! The rotating of fire groups during combat, synthesizing during the fight, FA off, using landing gear to slow yourself down, and sniping those hearts. This is truly an art you've appeared to have mastered 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 o7 cmdr
Thank you for this. Eagle vs Hydra has always been a white whale of mine, to the point where I didn't think it possible. I now know it is. Well freaking done!!!
More specifically, hitting unexerted hearts “deletes” the breach damage portion of your damage - exactly 50% for gauss, even more than that for shards, and a little less than that for plasma chargers
Child vs a pitbull. Who will win? But seriously, this battle is probably so incredibly hard that its beyond my comprehension. I can't imagine what you had to do to get this far. You be living in the W life my guy.
I IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED TWO STEPS FROM HELL AT THE START. I LOVE PROTECTORS OF THE EARTH. I'll keep looking just to be sure. You have an amazing choice of music by the way!
This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I'll be sitting around feeling proud after destroying a Krait II in my IEagle and then come across something like this hahaha
I'd be happy to survive long enough against on of those things to expose the first heart, and that's in my engineered Krait! There aren't enough o7's for this, Cmdr!
Absolutely stunning. Too bad you got so little views, but I guess it's the Elite's community interactions that's going down these days. You sure put an immense effort to accomplish such an astonishing fight, so, hats off CMDR
Thank you Davide! By the standards of Elite, I'm actually quite happy with the views on this video. It's not something that the average player of the game can appreciate fully, and there's not many players left to begin with!
Nah Imagine the rage this Targoid must have it's like trying to swat a fruit fly just constantly buzzing around your face with a single chopstick XD good stuff man
Indeed. Definitely my most technical fight ever. Though in between hearts when you repair and rearm you get a few minutes of respite - which help quite a bit.
Main issue is none of the in-game ranks challenge you to improve your flying skills … it’s just kill lame NPCs over and over and over again doing the same repetitive thing and voila - you are now combat elite. That’s why we rather have skill-based ranks in the AXI Discord.
Pretty slick piloting. Popping the landing gear open to control your speed reminds me of downshifting a manual stickshift in a vehicle to prevent sliding on ice. I don't think I can beat you in a dogfight, but I would love to try
Oh I've done plenty of unengineered Hydras - in fact I have done the FIRST unengineered Hydra kill (in a Chieftain) a LONG time ago. Sadly, the Eagle Mk2 specifically isn't able to do this fight without engineering.
TSFH again at 16:41! Sweet! I heard it at the start and TH-cam deleted my comment I think smh. Protectors of the earth is a great song and can't remember the one at 17:32 but I recognize it
You are great but i have a little concern: I'm seeing there is a Cmdr named "Stroyer." in your thanks list. I have blocked him some times ago because he literally ganked me while I was fighing a Cyclops. Is the same Cmdr? He has the final dot like you wrote.
Attacking CMDRs who are engaged in AX combat is worthy of the “conspirator” tag/rank in our discord. If you have evidence of the encounter, you can file a report in our discord and we will look into it.
@@Astyrrean Thank you. I will report a file in the Discord channel as you suggested. I checked my EDD log and there is a clear evidence that should be examinated.
Eagle (and it’s imperial sibling) flies in such a unique way. Now back into a Challenger (an agile ship by most standards) and man it feels like I’m flying a space truck in comparison.
It is a remix of SAO’s Swordland called “Find your sword in this land”: m.th-cam.com/video/LGqp-uktNzc/w-d-xo.html And yes Angel with a Shotgun too - that you should find easily on TH-cam.
Repair limpets. You can check the raw footage of the fight if you'd like - it's linked in the video description. The ship build is also linked in the video description. The Eagle only has 610 hull hitpoints. It repairs very quickly.
@Astyrrean don't get me wrong (like some of the easily exited kids here), I think it's an even bigger demonstration of skill and stamina with an eagle with cargo and a repair limpit controller and likely AFMU, that must have been a paper eagle 😉. How long does your macro for the fire group cycling and heatsink mania hold up before you need to synthesize? Only 4 heatsinks in the eagle. There's a lot of ways to die in this constellation, kudos. I really prefer bigger sticks for that task 💥💣
@@BlueSideUp Hey there. The build info is also in the video description. The ship has 610hp, and carries 4 repair limpets - each of which repairs up to 180hp with a Class 3 controller (plus I believe I synthesized an additional 4 at some point during the run.) The ship had TWO 1A AFMUs - due to paranoia of accidentally losing a single one to damage (two can repair each other - a single one, if lost, means no more module repair ability.) You need to start synthesizing heatsinks every 22 seconds to realistically survive - even a single stray shot from the swarm will break synthesis .. and you die. With a 22-second cycle you get a single "second chance" - if your first synthesis fails, you get a second one and, if that works, you can keep going. If your second synth fails, you die. The "Sirius" pre-engineered heatsinks allow you carry 5, which actually helps a lot on this build.
@@Astyrrean According to first hit on Quora, no: "Grass and lettuce are two very different things and there are reasons why humans don't eat grass but do eat lettuce." :)
It was an honor to be chosen to make the thumbnail for this video
Who would win?
The hardest enemy in the game, capable of shredding a fully engineered ship in a matter of minutes
OR
One agile boi
*seconds. Direct Hydra cannon fire or direct Hydra thargon missile strikes will shred most ships in seconds, not minutes ;).
@@Astyrrean it really is seconds, I was in a chieftan with as much armor as I could pack onto it when an intercepter dropped in outside of a station, my dumb ass decides to go start shooting it thinking it to be a cyclops or something more tame. Its opening volley dropped my hull from 100% to 15% in 3 seconds
@@scarecrow1298 This Eagle had 670hp :). So little in fact that a couple of repair limpets on a 3D controller was all it needed to get back to full health after each heart!
Great choice in music it obviously worked well to disorient and ultimately cause the hydra to kill itself
Didn't even watch the video yet, but such boldness deserves appreciation. 👍
Thank you. Arguably my best fight ever.
There are at least a half dozen things that, at my very best, I'm mediocre at. And here you're doing all of them, simultaneously, with a flawless precision that I didn't know was possible. This is both humbling and inspiring, and I also learned a few things from your excellent commentary. o7, CMDR.
GLORY TO MANKIND!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm not religious, but I thought this verse summed up the achievement well:
"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I. Send me.'"
Imagine being your race's biggest and baddest unit and you get owned by a person in a small Eagle with Angel With a Shotgun playing in their cockpit, damn
Wel to your credit you owned them 750 times before, so the K/D doesn’t look too bad for you lol
Mechan doing Mechan things. Congrats, buddy!
My God he's done it again.
Cmdr Mechan..... this is awesome! The rotating of fire groups during combat, synthesizing during the fight, FA off, using landing gear to slow yourself down, and sniping those hearts. This is truly an art you've appeared to have mastered 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
o7 cmdr
A legendary battle achieved by a masterful pilot. Well done, CMDR o7
Glory, to Mankind!
Thank you!
Thank you for this. Eagle vs Hydra has always been a white whale of mine, to the point where I didn't think it possible. I now know it is. Well freaking done!!!
Thank you! It is possible, if only barely :).
This is epic.
You are the Legend.
GG CMDR!
Congrats Mechan. Inspirational dedication to something so difficult.
Thank you!
Thanks for tip that you actually do more dmg to hull while shooting center , never heard that before in any guide.
More specifically, hitting unexerted hearts “deletes” the breach damage portion of your damage - exactly 50% for gauss, even more than that for shards, and a little less than that for plasma chargers
Man this vid is like every Ace Combat final mission
Feisty boy in a fighter vs incomprehensively complex combat machine
Child vs a pitbull. Who will win?
But seriously, this battle is probably so incredibly hard that its beyond my comprehension. I can't imagine what you had to do to get this far. You be living in the W life my guy.
Thank you! Yes - It's without a doubt the hardest fight I've ever done (and I have done a few far-from-easy ones.)
Awesome work!
So much fun to fly an Eagle Mk II, and to see you killing a hydra in it, is too satisfying. 😍😍
Thank you! Yes; now back into a Challenger and it feels HEAVY in comparison!
Congratulations Mechan! Making the impossible possible!
Now this does look harder than the sidewinder 😅, that one utility slot doesn't do much justice. Awesome music choices as well.
I IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED TWO STEPS FROM HELL AT THE START. I LOVE PROTECTORS OF THE EARTH. I'll keep looking just to be sure. You have an amazing choice of music by the way!
Thats awe inspiring
Congrats on hydra humiliation!
Lots of sweat on that fight but glad it worked, and that you find it inspiring. It’s arguably the pinnacle of my AX career.
This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I'll be sitting around feeling proud after destroying a Krait II in my IEagle and then come across something like this hahaha
I recognized at 7:42 legends never die, you really do have an amazing taste in music
I'd be happy to survive long enough against on of those things to expose the first heart, and that's in my engineered Krait! There aren't enough o7's for this, Cmdr!
Absolutely stunning. Too bad you got so little views, but I guess it's the Elite's community interactions that's going down these days. You sure put an immense effort to accomplish such an astonishing fight, so, hats off CMDR
Thank you Davide! By the standards of Elite, I'm actually quite happy with the views on this video. It's not something that the average player of the game can appreciate fully, and there's not many players left to begin with!
@@Astyrrean Indeed. See you in the galaxy cmdr. Fly safe! o7
Nah Imagine the rage this Targoid must have it's like trying to swat a fruit fly just constantly buzzing around your face with a single chopstick XD good stuff man
More like, I’ve swatted this same fly some 750 times now… has it evolved or something?! :)
meanwhile i am dying to a basilisk in a krait
We were all there, struggling and getting our teeth kicked in. Keep at it CMDR!
Brilliant fight. must have been difficult to maintain this level of concentration for the entire fights.
Indeed. Definitely my most technical fight ever. Though in between hearts when you repair and rearm you get a few minutes of respite - which help quite a bit.
Well done commander, truly a cut above the rest. o7
Thanks!!
Marvellous work!
Amazing! Well done, now to do it in an e rated eagle!
If it were possible I’d try but, alas, it isn’t!
Well done for overcoming the long ordeal!
Awesome!!!
Congratulations!
And good selection of music :)
ありがとうございます、光栄です。
You just made me wanna play elite dangerous again :3
Do it!
Impressive!
I struggle in a Vulture...don't think I have the patience to try an Eagle. o7
Vulture is most fun small ship (together with the Hauler) - have a look at our Fun Small AX Ships video!
Imagine how rage enducing this is for the flower lmao.. 😅
Well he did get somewhere between 500 and 1,000 kills before this one … so must be thinking “750 K to D ratio isn’t so bad after all” lol
Great work, CMDR!
Thanks!
simply amazing! subscribed!
-So are you a good pilot?
-Oh yeah, I've got a bazillion hours in this game.
-Watch this video:
-Oh... Ok, I'm crap.
Main issue is none of the in-game ranks challenge you to improve your flying skills … it’s just kill lame NPCs over and over and over again doing the same repetitive thing and voila - you are now combat elite. That’s why we rather have skill-based ranks in the AXI Discord.
Just... Holy shit. What's next, a hauler?
We’ve done 3 haulers versus Hydra already (you need at least 3, can’t really be done with fewer.) Video is somewhere in my channel!
Magnificent!!!
Thanks!
Pretty slick piloting. Popping the landing gear open to control your speed reminds me of downshifting a manual stickshift in a vehicle to prevent sliding on ice. I don't think I can beat you in a dogfight, but I would love to try
Ha you’d be surprised - I am actually far from exceptional at PvP dogfights, mostly owing to the fact that I have very little practice shooting PAs
Sasageyo starts playing at the middle of the fight... epic
Great fucking job CMDR, and as always... do it unengineered now lmao
Oh I've done plenty of unengineered Hydras - in fact I have done the FIRST unengineered Hydra kill (in a Chieftain) a LONG time ago. Sadly, the Eagle Mk2 specifically isn't able to do this fight without engineering.
That is ironic, Erwyn commands to PRESENT YOUR HEARTS, and Hydra presenting a heart.....
TSFH again at 16:41! Sweet! I heard it at the start and TH-cam deleted my comment I think smh. Protectors of the earth is a great song and can't remember the one at 17:32 but I recognize it
It’s the bonus track version of Compass
You are great but i have a little concern: I'm seeing there is a Cmdr named "Stroyer." in your thanks list. I have blocked him some times ago because he literally ganked me while I was fighing a Cyclops. Is the same Cmdr? He has the final dot like you wrote.
Attacking CMDRs who are engaged in AX combat is worthy of the “conspirator” tag/rank in our discord. If you have evidence of the encounter, you can file a report in our discord and we will look into it.
@@Astyrrean Thank you. I will report a file in the Discord channel as you suggested. I checked my EDD log and there is a clear evidence that should be examinated.
Core Dynamics
Eagle (and it’s imperial sibling) flies in such a unique way. Now back into a Challenger (an agile ship by most standards) and man it feels like I’m flying a space truck in comparison.
Incredible!
amazing skillz there 😄
Thanks 😁. My personal hardest kill ever!
By chance is that the SAO OST in the background? If not could you link me? Hold up Angle with a shotgun too?
It is a remix of SAO’s Swordland called “Find your sword in this land”: m.th-cam.com/video/LGqp-uktNzc/w-d-xo.html
And yes Angel with a Shotgun too - that you should find easily on TH-cam.
amazing focusing..👏👏
Thank you 🙌
When I've heard SAO ost on background I knew that hydra is f*cked. Noone can stand against power that you have when SAO ost plays....
Lol. It does provide quite the inspiration!
INSANE!
Yes. Not very sane.
2:48
You tricked me!
I did? :)
outstanding kill and decent vid!
o7
Took me a while to realise that there's a SAO music used in this video
SAO, Attack on Titan, Two Steps From Hell, Arcane … bit of a mixtape!
How are you repairing your ship? At the end of each heart, the ship is damaged but at the beginning of each you’re at 100%. Am i missing something?
Repair limpets. You can check the raw footage of the fight if you'd like - it's linked in the video description. The ship build is also linked in the video description. The Eagle only has 610 hull hitpoints. It repairs very quickly.
And there's the attack on Titan, ha! 11:05
Belin Mechan!
Are you using a macro for the fire groups?
Yes simple “next firegroup” keypress macro
Madness
Yes
Tough fight !
It sure was - arguably my hardest ever, and maybe the hardest I will EVER do.
心臓を捧げよ
Considering that an AXI pilot took down a hydra in a sidewinder….
Why not?
That is this same pilot CMDR ;)
@@Astyrrean yeah.... ill stick to cyclops and basis.
now do it in a type-7
Already done a long time ago by Euan, and a LOT easier than Eagle Hydra - m.th-cam.com/video/o0eGs9dOYuA/w-d-xo.html
Well, you repaired in between hearts?
The full raw footage is available as an unlisted video linked in the video description if you'd like to see it.
He repaired using on-board limpets. There is no station in this instance to repair at.
Looking forward to your repairless eagle vs hydra video. o7
Yes… he repaired while killing a hydra in an eagle… clearly Mechan isn’t a good AX pilot because he used repairs.
Also, hydra when?
@Astyrrean don't get me wrong (like some of the easily exited kids here), I think it's an even bigger demonstration of skill and stamina with an eagle with cargo and a repair limpit controller and likely AFMU, that must have been a paper eagle 😉. How long does your macro for the fire group cycling and heatsink mania hold up before you need to synthesize? Only 4 heatsinks in the eagle. There's a lot of ways to die in this constellation, kudos. I really prefer bigger sticks for that task 💥💣
@@BlueSideUp Hey there. The build info is also in the video description. The ship has 610hp, and carries 4 repair limpets - each of which repairs up to 180hp with a Class 3 controller (plus I believe I synthesized an additional 4 at some point during the run.) The ship had TWO 1A AFMUs - due to paranoia of accidentally losing a single one to damage (two can repair each other - a single one, if lost, means no more module repair ability.) You need to start synthesizing heatsinks every 22 seconds to realistically survive - even a single stray shot from the swarm will break synthesis .. and you die. With a 22-second cycle you get a single "second chance" - if your first synthesis fails, you get a second one and, if that works, you can keep going. If your second synth fails, you die. The "Sirius" pre-engineered heatsinks allow you carry 5, which actually helps a lot on this build.
wtf
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Congrats mechan now please go touch some grass
Does salad count as grass?
@@Astyrrean According to first hit on Quora, no: "Grass and lettuce are two very different things and there are reasons why humans don't eat grass but do eat lettuce." :)