I finally got into an interceptor this weekend. To give you and idea of it's size, here I am backed up to a loot container:
It's teeny tiny! I got it as a toy surprise in my cereal.
It cruises along at around 500m/s, 3000+m/s with an mwd. Not that I can really fit an mwd very well, as it also only has 36 power units. Trying to outfit this thing is hell.
But I've gotten the hang of it. Flying this ship is totally unlike the rest of the game to date. I'm armor tanking in it, and the game is no longer about "pick target, fire guns, pick next target". Instead it's a fine dance between turning on and off the armor repairer to juggle the cap levels -vs- nearness to death, orbiting at very high speeds around my targets as I web and blaster them, and keeping all other baddies in sight so I can make sure I keep flying so that my lateral velocity stays as high as possible. Because with an inty it's all about flying so fast sideways around/past everyone that their guns can't track you.
One on one I can shred any NPC with it. Groups at a distance can make me hurt, though. I'm working on that.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
After taking that pic I picked up a Crow instead. It's painted blood red and has these two huge launchers on it. When you look at it upside down, it looks vaguely like a penis and balls.
I think maybe that's what he meant.
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Ok, we then choose to continue making wild, outlandish (yet accurate due to lack of counterexample) interpretations.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
It is indeed the shit. A little cap-bosting tech in there and it's possible to run it with the MWD on full-time without emptying out. 'Course then you don't have much space for anything else.
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Before you go into battle with it, though, read up on armor tanking. don't try to use shields on it, they are completely worthless. Although it's not really meant for soloing missions or being the main target, armor tanking can get you some survivability.
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Not sure, I never tried. In theory yes, but if you tried to warp to that location it would take you to the jump gate instead of directly to them.
The thing about probes is there's a problem with the z-plane (unless they fixed it in a patch). So a 3AU probe goes out in a 3AU circle, but goes up and down only a few million klicks. Very annoying.
Unless the ships I've probed for that I couldn't get to were ones in deadspaces, maybe that was the problem.
Regardless, it's a bit hit or miss, but it's pretty cool when it does work.
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