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Yes.. When I go after caps I attack head on until about 4-4.5 km away and then slow down to under their speed or match speed and then strafe left or right.. You'll get hit a couple of times but mostly all the turret fire will pass by you..!!So if I slow down when attacking a target(match speed) and then keep "strafing" I should destroy most ships in my Osprey
The reason I created this post was I'd only just started to use the strafe drive and like you I bought one without even trying it.. The reason people say something is overpowered is because there may just be a hope that the Dev's can modify it in a patch.. Either make it so the AI is capable of hitting you, let the AI use it too, or remove it from the game.. And as you've said before you can choose not to use it I know.. But I would much prefer the X2 Universe to be more balanced..The whole damn thing is if something's stronger or better than something else, or something's really good and will make the game easier, people are going to use it, hell, exploit it if you want to call it that, whatever. I have a Strafe Drive but do not use it, mainly because I forget about it. My point is.. If you don't like something, in this case because it's 'overpowered', simply do not use it. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
Exactly what I want to avoid. It should be free for people to use if they wish and free for them NOT to use if they are so inclined. I think restricting it or editing it or whatever would be a bad move.The reason people say something is overpowered is because there may just be a hope that the Dev's can modify it in a patch..
Not really the AI should still be able to shoot at and hit a target travelling in a straight line wether forwards, backwards, left, right, up or down (or any combination)... ...Brianetta wrote:Moot point anyway. The strafe drive has already been made much less powerful (you should have seen it before version 1.2 - it strafed you at up to 1000 m/s).
In X-T the constant direction strafe technique worked to avoid enemy fire, however I have found that the Khaak can still hit me if I strafe in a single direction for several seconds....Gazzareth wrote:I don't think that the drive is overpowered - however the AI *SHOULD* have some ability to track you whilst strafing.... If you strafe in one direction constantly then it should be easy for the AI to lead you as it is with constant forward motion - changing direction of Strafe should make it harder to hit.
I was mining in a Paranid sector when a Khaak ship spawned waay above the ecliptic. Straight away an AI Nemesis and 2 Perseus's headed to intercept, so I ignored it and carried on mining. About an hour later, having cleaned out all the asteroids in sector, I jumped into my Dragon, and flew off to kill the Khaak M3 myself - an M6, and 2 M3s had, in nearly an hour of fighting, succeeded in killing all the Khaak M5s, but they'd never taken the M3 down below 75% shields with weapons fire - they did actually nearly kill it at one stage - by colliding with it a few times in quick succession, which actually caused hull damage, but that was it - in actual dogfighting, they were incapable of destroying a Khaak M3. I think pathetic sums that up really!EverythingXen wrote:Unfortunately the non-Khaak M3s have a hard time of things. I watched an Orinocco and a Demeter dogfight for *5* real hours yesterday (well, not watched as much as checked in periodically since I had a sat in the system and usually sweep through sectors I have presence in every hour or less). It was pathetic.
