It's also worth mentioning that while the freighter (unloaded) might be able to outrun the pirate frigate, it probably won't escape from the escorts unless it starts running the minute it sees the fleet show up on radar. The escorts are usually fast tier II ships with shields and missile launchers, ...

I never did roll a targeting ROM. :roll: I finally had to order one from a commerce base - and I didn't get one of those until my first system with Ranx Dreads... <headdesk> Fighting Ventari destroyers with an omni-particle weapon that you can't even lock on target past 45ls or so is a losing propos...

Overall, the challenge level was quite a bit higher than .99c. Fun! - I like the new balance of shields to armor, though at some points my shields felt a bit like tissue-paper. - Enemy capital ships were VERY slow to kill through most of my game, though my weapon load-out was sub-par through most of...

You are quite correct as it turns out. I wasn't expecting the opposition in Heretic to be so short ranged - also, they at least did me the favor of dropping a functional iocrym veil, which helped a bit. After I got the veil, I ended up going back to pick on phobos dreadnaughts for a while. Head on c...

It looks like my current game stalls out at the very end. Upon reaching Heretic my wolfen is equipped with: 1.2G reactor Plasma shield (+40%) Full Octocarbide (+20% each) NAMI Heavy Launcher (w/M5 Nemesis missiles - ie, junk) FusionFire Howitzer (+30%) Ferian Plasma Cannon Omni Tev7 (+40%) Hyperdriv...

Well, I've rarely wasted quite as much time and effort on nothing as I did on missiles today. I figured after picking up a bunch of high-end ordinance in Point Juno that I'd outfit myself with a heavy launcher and some lvl X missiles. Took a good hour and a half playing with the fabricators, and voi...

Was doing my first CSC superfreighter escort mission. The freighter jumped in and I escorted it all the way to the CSC without seeing a single attacker. Upon arriving at the CSC, the escort cruisers and the CSC itself promptly blew the superfreighter to atoms. Mission failed. :cry: There were no hos...

A few systems further on and now I'm encountering a couple ventari cruisers, and a smattering of Ranx (no dreads yet tho). The Ventari appear to be immune to my peashooters, and my shielding only offers modest protection before they start burning away systems. Lost a couple devices and a reactor due...

Shields appear to have changed a whole lot. I was feeling pretty stylin in my fully outfitted omsk shield/armor - until a single salvo from a Huari station blew straight through it and took a sizable bite out of my aft segment. :( Yipe, yipe yipe yipe off to the dry dock I go. Time to start looking ...

The Arena is much, much cooler than before. I like the 'intro' free for all matches, and the way the difficulty graduates upwards much more steadily is really nice. It also seems to get much more difficult than before? Does it scale all the way up to the end game so you can keep coming back as you u...

I generally play #2. In .99c I found that if I made it as far as St.K's I was virtually guaranteed to complete the game from that point on. The vast majority of my deaths are prior to St.K. (with or w/o insurance)

I don't mod or play with mods as a rule.

We'll see how it goes in RC5/1.0...

Just starting out on RC5 tonight. The universe feels a good bit more alive and active, but I haven't made it very far. Had a promising start with a wolfen (full ceralloy armor in 3rd system!). Getting used to the new interface elements (I really like the armor data displays!), and trying to figure o...

After completing the objective of the 2nd mission from the mining station in Eridani I returned a while later and found its docking ports all occupied with additional ships orbiting it waiting for spaces. I hung around for a while on acceleration but never saw anything undock. I left and came back l...

For fighting the Iocrym range is paramount. If you can outrange everything but the quantumsphere you don't need to dodge. As to the Ares turret the key is to switch weapons. If you do nothing while it recharges your overall DPS is going to be kind of lame, but if you switch to a positron weapon whi...

That's because you're an omniweapon junkie. The IM90 does not perform at all well compared to the high level positron and plasma weapons, or even the ares lightning turret. I consider it an inferior weapon already. I've equipped and upgraded the positrons, but they did not impress me - I far prefer...