Freelancer - The Void

WatchWolf said...

"Lots of good talk here about offense, but IMHO... which I have heard validated by some very veteran players... the key to any and all styles is not what guns/missiles you use but how you defend yourself. DEFENSE is the key to winning. You can't win if you die. You have to survive. Outlast your opponent and you win no matter what your loadout."

This is so important to brawlers against snipers defence is everything knowing where the sniper is, is totaly key to even managing to compete with him.
There 2 things you can use to annoy snipers and find out where exactly they are when they manage to get behind you.

1. the torp, lets face it your highly unlikley to hit a decent Wa1 pilot with a torp but I dont use them to hit them with, I use them to scare them off thier shot, most of them if you watch carfully will brake hard stop in front of you and take a shot before dissapearing around your side and underneath. I use my torp to pre-emp this shot, before he stops I let it go ( using the fast torp trick ), if he tries the easy shot, he gets a face full of torp.

2. Cd a cd isnt just for shooting down missiles, if that slippery fellow is all over the back of you and your finding it hard to place where he is a cd will point him out to you like a big pointing arrow, meaning you can go evasive and hopefully get him facing you again.

Wa1 snipers are THE most evil things out there for a VHF brawling ship, use everything you can think of to surprise and kill him. Ill even go as far as trying to ram one if its shields are down, youll be suprised how much dmg a conq will do to a wa1's hull in a head on crash.

About the mines - I dont bother too much with them, there too unpredicatable to even waste time on imo, id rather spend the time putting dmg on the target with my guns than just hope they run into a chance mine.


Gl out there
Remember - if your pedictable you WILL die.

[quote="Watchwolf";p="205264"] You can't win if you die. [/quote]

[quote="Retribution";p="205214"]"If you dont lose your shield you cant lose your hull if you dont lose your hull you cant be killed"[/quote]

or

PvP wins that player who gets less hits

or

good defense is always better than bad offense

and so on..

yea it looks simply but exactly as Watchwolf said, defense is the right key to win the battle. Lots of peeps don't think about defense at all and that's a big mistake. Remember, it's always better to make a good defense maneuvre than very bad offensive maneuvre. This is what wins the battles many times. Logically you can't win if you die first. Don't be hurry, don't offer to your enemy easy chances to hit you, try to avoid hits and be patient that's very important. Then some good chances to hit your opponent will come, be sure.

great post guys learning alot. i just got back off the server from getting my rear handed back to me from the likes of ent

i will deffo be asking for a few tips when i next come on

Last night I built a brawling Wa1 - unfortunatly with the server problems I only got to test it once in combat.

Watch this space.

i used wa1 brawler with Nirvanas ^^ - power gone so fast but it laser-like effect ^^

Regards,
XENON

When your fighting someone good and your about to win for the love of god do not get greedy for the kill and put yourself in a bad spot. Experience is speaking. Always fly like you have one bar left and he has full hull.

& A note on boxing.
I don't know what happened but it doesn't seem as effective as it was three years ago. I guess people adapted. Cheers to the void for adapting! Back in christmas of 06' killing the best was as simple as sitting in one spot and strafing. Now its a hard job!

[quote="Symbol";p="205553"]
......killing the best was as simple as sitting in one spot and strafing. Now its a hard job!
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i think its a recent change .. before i left end of last year , sitting in 1spot strafing was still effective , and i have to agree , it doesnt work as well now...i still box but i gotta move or its just boom /dead/respawn !