Can't destroy drones in training

migo · Post by **migo** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:54 pm

I'm running into a problem in training for Arvoch Alliance, and have gone back over it a couple times, but I can't seem to solve it. Whenever it's time to destroy the drones, I don't seem to do any damage to them. I'll see a blue flash indicating the shield has been hit, and get some audio feedback to the same effect, but the stats for the drone always remain the same and no matter how much I hit them they stay flying.

I didn't have this problem with the training in Evochron Mercenary, there it was pretty much point and click and drones go boom. So I'm completely at a loss.

Wasp89 · Post by **Wasp89** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:10 pm

Hello Migo,

Are you firing your beam weapon at the drone or just your particle weapon? The beam weapon will drain the shields so that your particle weapon can start to do damage to the hull. I believe that the "n" button will cycle between your weapons (IIRC).

(You can also bind keys and mouse or joystick buttons to fire the particle weapon and beam weapon independently of one another so that you don't have to switch mid flight.)

Keep in mind that the drone's shields will recharge, so if your aren't landing multiple consecutive shots on the drone in short succession it will give the drone a chance to recover.

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:39 pm

I've discovered that, even though your weapons might have a range of 500 or 600 km, they only pack a real whallop when inside 300 km.

migo · Post by **migo** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:28 am

As far as I could tell I was firing both all the time. Every time I'd click the LMB two beams and two particles would shoot out.

I'll see about maneuvering inside 300km (I get the feeling it could take me a while). I hope that the reverse is also true, that enemy ships don't deal much damage outside that range?

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:14 am

From post: 120210, Topic: tid=8171, author=migo wrote:I'm running into a problem in training for Arvoch Alliance, and have gone back over it a couple times, but I can't seem to solve it. Whenever it's time to destroy the drones, I don't seem to do any damage to them. I'll see a blue flash indicating the shield has been hit, and get some audio feedback to the same effect, but the stats for the drone always remain the same and no matter how much I hit them they stay flying.

I didn't have this problem with the training in Evochron Mercenary, there it was pretty much point and click and drones go boom. So I'm completely at a loss.

Hi Migo, welcome to the game and forum. First put all your energy to weapons with the ] Key then switch to laser weapon only and keep firing till the shield of the drone start showing red then imediately switch over to cannons only and keep firing and watch the enemy's status display and make sure you have enough energy to always keep firing at a fast rate. If your energy level to weapons drops to much it will fire to slow and gives the drone a chance to recharge its shields If its shields are green again in the enemy status display switch to lasers again and make them red again before using cannons again....! experiment with it and make sure you are within targeting range of your cannons. Cannons alone will not always bring down the shields of the drone but some times they can....

[Edited on 11-24-2011 by Maarschalk]

Busch · Post by **Busch** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:46 am

Hey Migo. Welcome aboard! Maars, Marv, and Wasp offer excellent tips on combat/weapons employment. Very sound advice. Would presume that you're paying attention to your HUD during combat. Patricularly ship's status, radar gymbal, and target radar. Right, center, and left lower MFD's. To access target status info (right-lower MFD), toggle the keyboard "G" key. This will permit the view spoken of by Maars, as in watching for the target shield indicators to change state to red. Check this info in the instructions, or on-line at the EM site. btw, kybd "T" keys toggles thru targets on this MFD as well.
A thought.

[Edited on 11-24-2011 by FADM Busch]

Ravenfeeder · Post by **Ravenfeeder** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:31 am

I agree with Marvin. Though I found that when I closed to 450 I was hitting the drone, just a couple of hits and it went bang!

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:52 am

From post: 120252, Topic: tid=8171, author=Ravenfeeder wrote:I agree with Marvin. Though I found that when I closed to 450 I was hitting the drone, just a couple of hits and it went bang!

It all still relatively depends on your weapons range, cycle rate, yield and energy!......some precise shots from 900 meters distance with a flarebeam after shields of enemy have been drained with lasers can be quite devastating.....

:P

Dingo · Post by **Dingo** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:01 am

From post: 120263, Topic: tid=8171, author=Maarschalk wrote:
From post: 120252, Topic: tid=8171, author=Ravenfeeder wrote:I agree with Marvin. Though I found that when I closed to 450 I was hitting the drone, just a couple of hits and it went bang!
It all still relatively depends on your weapons range, cycle rate, yield and energy!......some precise shots from 900 meters distance with a flarebeam after shields of enemy have been drained with lasers can be quite devastating.....:P

That's my favorite way too.
except that I once was accused of cheating.
"How can you hit me at 900m!"

Post by **Marvin** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:25 pm

I'm not very fond of events where you have a limited amount of time ... so, when one comes along, I go for the quick kill.