Pilot Archive

These are the issues i have come accross with theY-8.

First is the windows being "tinted". It's all the windows on the ship. The windows are not transparent, and the pilot can not see where he is going without being in a 3rd person view.

Second is that tractor beams don't work in the two new turret spots. When you load a beam into one of those slots they are un-operable. The weapon does not render and you are unable to rotate. However there is a bug with fireing. I had a friend get in the turret and fire, then he got out and the tractor beams kept fireing. Although they didn't fire from the where the weapons should be mounted. Instead they fired from the bottom defense turret and the top turret, as well as the pilots gun position. Even though none of those spots were equipped with a tractor beam.

At one point there were 6 tractor beams comeing out of the ship. All shooting in a fixed direction

With all that said i was able to mine 1600 units in 3-5 minutes with the Y-8 useing just the pilot controlled elite mineing laser, and a MkIII mineing laser in the top turret. It has potential, being able to see and haveing working tractor beams would be nice though. Hopefully DP will see this.

For mineing tactics i just parks 400m from the asteroid. Shot it once to break off a chunk. Shot the chunk to break it up. Then i would go after the lowest fragment with the pilot weapon, while my top gunner went after the other fragments. In all that seemed to work fairly well.