phungus
2012-12-23, 08:14 AM
Other then bugs my ESF doesn't die much (I've even gotten good at avoiding friendly air collisions). I have a racer 3 mosquito with A2A missiles for the cheese, and a hover 1 sythe with rocket pods. I recently switched to using the nose gun exclusively as it seems to be just as effective at taking out enemy air as the gun designed for it, since most pilots in this game are aweful. I used to play alot of free allegiance as well, never was great at that game (inter 13 was my rank when the game pretty much died) but the dogfighting in that game has made me pretty much an ace in this one, only about 1 in 20 pilots I run into out there kill me. And honestly my sythe's rocket pods are usually better then the A2A missiles for dogfighting, except when overwhelmed by multiple enemies. I have racer on my mosquito because I often go to the continent where we are being dominated and try to find enemy air zergs and pick off aircraft, racer allows me to escape once I take down 1 or two enemy ESFs and the swarm descends (this is very fun to do, I recommend it for anyone who is feeling like playing as a lone wolf, but finds themselves being bored of rocket pod farming or rolling around capping empty bases).
My mosquito has started dying to liberators though, quite frequently. It's been insta gigged 3 times now while I was dogfighting by the tank buster cannon. I wasn't hover spamming, just trying to clear the fighter escort before taking on the lib for obvious reasons. I've also lost a couple to the Dalton (first time was my mistake, the other times I've been impressed with the pilot's and gunner's ability as I was trying to flank the thing and get to it's side and above an the pilot just flipped his belly at me and fired, and I was trying to take evasive action), and libs have another trick to turn into you and force a ram, meaning you must break off and come at them again, giving them more time to escape.
I decided to try the tankbuster and just bought it, and I haven't quite got it down, as it seems to have narly drop, but it was effective, and allowed me to destroy 2 fighters, one that had one of my squad mate's tails and was going in for the kill, allowing me to save him. I haven't quite gotten down the whole Dalton roll, but a couple of friends I have been on teamspeak with have succeded a couple of times taking out ESFs with it, and I think with practice we will get very, very good at it. My mentality in a liberator is now such that I hunt ESFs, and don't fear them, unless mobbed by no fewer then three (pretty much the same as when I'm in an ESF).
I'll still use my mosquito and sythe as that's more enjoyable, but when rolling with my outfit I'm pretty sure I can be just as effective at clearing enemy air with the lib as my ESF, plus I'll have the added ability to pound the ground with the most lethal effectiveness in the game. Any other players who pilot libs and ESFs starting to feel the same way?
My mosquito has started dying to liberators though, quite frequently. It's been insta gigged 3 times now while I was dogfighting by the tank buster cannon. I wasn't hover spamming, just trying to clear the fighter escort before taking on the lib for obvious reasons. I've also lost a couple to the Dalton (first time was my mistake, the other times I've been impressed with the pilot's and gunner's ability as I was trying to flank the thing and get to it's side and above an the pilot just flipped his belly at me and fired, and I was trying to take evasive action), and libs have another trick to turn into you and force a ram, meaning you must break off and come at them again, giving them more time to escape.
I decided to try the tankbuster and just bought it, and I haven't quite got it down, as it seems to have narly drop, but it was effective, and allowed me to destroy 2 fighters, one that had one of my squad mate's tails and was going in for the kill, allowing me to save him. I haven't quite gotten down the whole Dalton roll, but a couple of friends I have been on teamspeak with have succeded a couple of times taking out ESFs with it, and I think with practice we will get very, very good at it. My mentality in a liberator is now such that I hunt ESFs, and don't fear them, unless mobbed by no fewer then three (pretty much the same as when I'm in an ESF).
I'll still use my mosquito and sythe as that's more enjoyable, but when rolling with my outfit I'm pretty sure I can be just as effective at clearing enemy air with the lib as my ESF, plus I'll have the added ability to pound the ground with the most lethal effectiveness in the game. Any other players who pilot libs and ESFs starting to feel the same way?