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Thread: counter-measures? What is what?
If I fire 3 missiles at a target simulatiously, will my opponent have to fire 3 ECM's to counter the missiles?
ElChubacabra wrote:
found a good description of them in one of the shipwright stickies, don't remember which one
Kassuff wrote:If I fire 3 missiles at a target simulatiously, will my opponent have to fire 3 ECM's to counter the missiles?
ElChubacabra wrote:
found a good description of them in one of the shipwright stickies, don't remember which one
From my experience, CMs won't decoy multiple missiles fired at different intervals, but I'm not positive about missiles fired simultaneously simply because it doesn't happen against NPCs. If I know a player is engaging me with missiles, I analyze his craft, if it's a B/X/Y-Wing, every missile warning I'll get, I'll dump two chaff - with A-Wings, one.
Personally, if you're flying straight and level enough for a human opponent to get a lock, you either weren't checking your ass properly, or you need to learn to shuck and jive.
Also, from my personal experience, Microchaff is the way to go. Plenty of headroom for effectiveness - the more points past 100.0000 you can get, the more of a chance the missile will be decoyed, as a higher max should effectively add onto the minimum.
Still, considering the goddamned COST of countermeasures, if you CAN take the hit, take it. If a PLAYER is shooting at you, dump 'em like hay.
Message Edited by KaylBreinhar on 01-05-2005 05:29 PM
KaylBreinhar wrote:
Personally, if you're flying straight and level enough for a human opponent to get a lock, you either weren't checking your ass properly, or you need to learn to shuck and jive.
Message Edited by KaylBreinhar on 01-05-2005 05:29 PM
Hehe...I managed to get a missle lock in Pvp against a buddy flying an exceptionally outfited a-wing. In our previous head on runs, we both approached each other doing erratic manouvers. On the last run, I chopped my throttles to almost zero at 650m, got lock and fired a pair of mark 4's. Boom, no more engine 
Other wise, that a-wing (and the pilot) were just too much for my opressor. Unless he made a mistake, I couldnt touch him.
In another fight, we both took hits, but my opponent knocked out my capacitor. I chopped my throttles and he swung around front to look me the "eye". Another lock, two more mark 4'sand no reactor. It was a cheap shot but we both got a good laugh out of it. We both know he won that dogfight
BTW, has anyone noticed the capacitor on the Oppressor gets hit often, almost before anything else takes damage? Is there a big red bulls eye painted on this thing?