DIARY OF A SPACEMAN
DIARY OF A SPACEMAN
PYRO SYSTEM
Vanduul Swarm
Maxime_Derway (Hornet)
Wishmasta (Mustang)
Pirxxx (Gladiator)
GreyMan (Super Hornet)
Good afternoon Gentlemen,
We "met" earlier in the Vanduul Swarm Co-Op arena. I'm sorry I didn't get to start at the beginning with the rest of you. I ended up jumping into the game during wave eleven. I also realize that the rest of you had probably taken quite a bit of damage during those first ten waves, which is why I found myself very much alone during wave sixteen. It was brutal, but that's OK.
I just wanted to drop you all a note to just say the few waves we faced together were extremely challenging, and exhilarating. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. I look forward to meeting you all again, both against the Vanduul swarm, and in the Persistent Universe.
Peace,
GreyMan
Wave 11
“Jumping into the middle of it. Wave eleven. Maxime_Derway in a hornet.
“Also, Asdrom...ummm...in a Gladius, I think.
“Also, Wishmasta, who just got killed.
“Wishmasta is back. Looks like he’s in a Mustang.”
Wave 13
Astrom was eliminated.
Wave 14
“Pirxxx joined.
Wismasta died.”
Wave 15
“I got Reaper. But in the end a Vanduul Alpha, I think got me with a missile.
“Pirxxx died.
“Astrom just died. He may have just committed suicide...or hit a rock.
“Am I it!?”
Wave 16
“I’m it. No one’s left. I just got hit by a bunch of guys. No weapons. In a spin. Ejecting.
“Going back into wave sixteen, probably by myself.
“Went back into wave sixteen. Tried to head for some kind of cover. These guys were right on top of me. (sigh) Had, like, four missiles launched at me. Quickly ended up where I couldn’t maneuver very well. Ended up ejecting.”
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Buddy!
Don't worry about anything happening in VS at the moment, it's all a big mess.
I'm pretty much fed up with SC right now, it's incredible, how they manage to make it worse with every new patch.
I can't really say, that i'm enjoying the game, but maybe it's ok to have such a challenging patch, to be prepared for PU, whatever it will be then ;)
Anyway, thx for flying with me/us, seems only a few remain now, doing all the testing work for CIG.
Hugz
Pirxx
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Thx you too! it was amazing experience for me in case it was the only second match at all for me !
hope to see you again within the Univers and best wishes to real life man!
(From wishmasta)
Thursday, August 25, 2016
And so what if all of us try to join together again and fight vc?
(From wishmasta)
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Pirxxx,
I see your point. It seems to me, during this latest patch, that RSI has programmed the Vanduul, during later waves, to be a little more coordinated than they have seemed in the past. Recently I think I've noticed a new tactic they are using -- when the Vanduul first appear, any player that charges them becomes the target, for all the Vanduul. It is then all the Vanduul seem to fire missiles at that single lead player. That player ends up with six missiles coming at him. And having been that player once or twice, I am here to tell you I haven't avoided them all yet. Quite the opposite, I limp away from that armada of missiles without much of a ship left.
I think this "tactic" is effective, but can be defeated. Unfortunately I think it requires tactics on the part of the players. And that may be easier said than done.
For the most part, it's been my experience in the Vanduul Swarm, when a wave starts, every player turns and heads towards the nearest Vanduul at full speed. And if that's what they want to do, then that's fine. But I think there could be so much more if some of us could coordinate better. Sadly, as far as I know, the message system between players that was integrated into the game has stopped working for now.
If players could coordinate, and instead of charging ahead, they could use one of my favorite tactics -- hide behind the asteroids, wait, and lure the Vanduul in piece-meal.
Now, I understand just how difficult that can be. We're thrown together with complete strangers, from different parts of the world, not speaking the same language. I'm from the United State, your profile said you are from Austria, and Wishmasta is from Russia. It's difficult for the three of us to coordinate easily. But I think Wishmasta is right. Maybe we can.
For starters, I have taken the liberty of adding you two to my contacts list. So if we are ever on-line at the same time, I will be notified. Please, feel free to add me to yours as well. And if you two ever want set a time to get together, please let me know. I can probably handle getting together on the weekends. Late afternoon in Russia, is early afternoon in Austria, is morning in the United States. Perhaps we can agree on some form of internet voice communication software.
(Just to warn you. I had some Russian in high school, and a little Deutsch in college, but that was thirty years ago. I'm not sure I can ask where the bathrooms are any more.)
Anyway, this discussion is probably more than you bargained for. I'm sorry you are not enjoying Star Citizen as much anymore. But would these ideas make things more fun for everyone?
Regardless, I am looking forward to meeting both you, and Wishmasta, on-line again.
Peace,
GreyMan
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Mate, all our tactics lead to nothing, if we get killed by bugs in masses!
as a player, who was on page one in VS since trial v 9.1. i think i can tell, that atm everything is totally rotten.
just f,e,:
.. i'm not able to zoom in and out, if i get killed and respawn
.. my avatar is totally crippled, legs in front of my head, often i cannot see, where i'm flying to because of that
.. two hits by a scavenger are enough to kill at least one of my engines (using markIV shield! on a gladiator!)
.. not to talk about missiles: if i have a missile on me, i can fire TEN countermeasures without effect, the missile will find me and either kill me or leave me with no weapons and engines, floating around helpless
.. i'm using gimballed weapons ever since, never had problems targeting, now it's almost impossible to get on target. i have to go in to a distance of 300-400 meters to get a first hit
.. even if i do not move at all, hanging totally still, i get attacked by all vanduuls at once (tried that hanging over the spacestation before(!) the new wave spawned. so where do they get my signature from?
.. there are LOTS of other bugs, but i don't want to annoy you with my list, i even gave up reporting them to CIG, it leads to nothing. i was testing every single PTU, reported everything, just to see, that the patch went live without any changes.
NOT ANYMORE! and if you dare to complain on the forum, you get all these wise comments by the "fanboys" about "alphabetagammaversions" and your discussion gets closed and moved to "somewhere".
what i hate most: whenever they implement a new ship, the older ones get nerfed to crap, gladiator f.e. was an amazing weapon platform, when it came out, but with every single patch since then it lost more and more of it's abilities. now it's a flying brick, big and fat, easy to target, with no offensive abilities. all i can do is try to kill vanduuls with missiles, with guns (all omniskys, completely nerfed, too) it takes minutes to fight down a scavenger(!). before i was able to kill even the bosses with guns only.
anyway .. added you guys to my list (wasn't easy, cause even the list appeared in perspective on my screen, almost impossible to read), hope to fly with you soon, hopefully in a better patch!
hugz
pirxx
Thursday, August 25, 2016
@wishmasta:
second match??? wow, u really did a very good job then! :)
maybe it's better to start now, when it's so hard to fly and not before, when all was easy fun.
forgive my whining, for me SC really is a pain in the a.. at the moment, i really love the idea behind it, but currently they destroy everything for me. somehow it's a bit like communism (you can tell ;) ) .. good idea, bad reality.
(from Pirxxx)
Saturday, August 1, 2015