My first attempt at bounty hunting I dropped into a conflict zone as a capital ship dropped in on top of me and I was sent spinning out of control hahaha, the shift in music made the whole thing horrifying.
I dropped in to a conflict zone on 10 Tauri last night to try a quick load out. 2 battling Capital Ships dropped in and just started raising hell. It was great.
Sorry for the poor quality screenshot. I play in VR and the screenshot captures the mirrored window on the monitor which runs at super crap quality.
that's awesome haha. I still remember the first time a cap ship dropped in on me, July of last year. I was already having a blast because I was flying in a Courier (the most entertaining combat fighter in the game to this day!) and then INCOMING CAPITAL CLASS SIGNATURE DETECTED.
Shit mine as well have been one of the better episodes of Battlestar Galactica. The cap ship was ks'ing all of my kills because of some changes to how they work (in the past, people would exploit capital ships by letting them do most of the work, then swooping in to deal a little damage to get credit for the ship kills) but by gawd it was the funnest. The music, the scene, the scraping for every kill (because you have to work for every kill in a small ship)...it was glorious.
If I could only fly one ship in the game all the time, it'd be a Courier. With due respect to my FdL and $700 million+ Cutter, Corvette and Conda (all combat loaded). They're so strong combat becomes boring. I sip tea while doing combat in those ships. But the Courier? Each and every kill is satisfying. If not for trying to level these fucking engineers, I'd be flying in it right now. Alas, the combat Cutter will have to do for now. Fun in its own right when you can perma FA-Off turn boost and burn ships down with 5 multicannons. :333.
I need to get to a conflict zone now that I'm more comfortable with combat. I haven't seen a capital ship in-game yet!
inexplicably (Frontier is really good for inexplicable shit), conflict zones are awkward to find, and pinning down a capital class ship in one is the definition of dumb luck. I played as a pure combat pilot (CZs and RES sites) for 7 months before I ever saw a capital ship.
One really big quality of life improvement I think ED really needs is "hot spots" in the galaxy menu. Let players know where high concentrations of other players are. Let players know where capital ships have been detected. Make it clear what systems are in WAR state with conflict zones present. Do it right in the galaxy map with special symbols. That can help make the galaxy feel a lot less empty, allow players to find other players if they want to, and jump right into combat zones if that is their play style. Streamline this shit.
