[haloboy100]

he must be drinking again.
Taurvi FTW

[Man-Whore]

Mara. There's no substitute for getting in close and launching Tempest after Tempest at some poor bloke's arse.

[Colonol Dekker]

You could use the maxim to get them from 2k .p

[Davros]

Obviously some of this isnt relative in space

How to live and die in the virtual sky:
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/acmintro.htm

[Man-Whore]

You could use the maxim to get them from 2k .p

Not if they have shields.

Plus, the Maxim depletes your gun energy within seconds.

[haloboy100]

plus, it's horribly inaccurate, and it shakes your vision (a thing i find VERY annoying with the afterburner).

[blowfish]

I find maxims and trebuchets capable of taking out even bombers like the Seraphim and Nephilim which would normally survive dual trebs.  You launch the trebs, and you can either fire your maxims before or after they hit (or both).  If you fire before, the maxim does enough shield damage to weaken their shields a little, so by the time your missiles hit, they will have less shields to chew through.  It is probably more effective to fire them after though, when at least one quadrant is all-but gone, and your maxims can just chew through their hull.

[Colonol Dekker]

The maxim did me well back on squadwar in my sekhmet *remembers fondly

[Mobius]

Obviously some of this isnt relative in space

How to live and die in the virtual sky:
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/acmintro.htm

I don't see the difference in dogfights with missiles. Everything changes with guns.

[Man-Whore]

plus, it's horribly inaccurate, and it shakes your vision (a thing i find VERY annoying with the afterburner).

That's why chase view is handy.

[haloboy100]

The maxim is still inaccurate, though.

[CP5670]

The Maxim actually has perfect accuracy, just like any of the FS2 primaries. If you're trying to hit something at a long distance, you generally want to aim before firing (or fire in short bursts if it's moving) to counter the shudder effect.

[General Battuta]

I don't see the difference in dogfights with missiles. Everything changes with guns.

Missiles fly lead pursuit courses, so launching from a lead-pursuit angle gives the missile an energy advantage and a better probability of kill. If you launch from lag pursuit, the missile needs to spend a lot of energy turning, which loses airspeed and runs the risk of breaking track on the target.

That is in the real world, at least. I guess it kind of applies to Freespace, in reference to some missiles.

[Snail]

The Maxim actually has perfect accuracy, just like any of the FS2 primaries. If you're trying to hit something at a long distance, you generally want to aim before firing (or fire in short bursts if it's moving) to counter the shudder effect.

Not if you add $FOF:, but that's non canon anyway...

[haloboy100]

That is in the real world, at least. I guess it kind of applies to Freespace, in reference to some missiles.

Yeah, it's definetely true for the harpoon.

In fact, Freespace has probably the smartest missiles i've ever seen. Every other game with missiles (including freelancer and every first person shooter to date) has lag-homing missiles. Because the designers are too lazy to implement a homing missile script, they make the missiles super fast with a very slow turning speed, making them pathetically easy to dodge by simply flying at a right angle to the missile's trajectory. And people always say i'm hacking when i dodge a huge 30+ volley of missiles in halo because they all fly this way...

Of course, thats what makes the hornet so easy to dodge too. But the flying in freespace is so fast that it's hard to line up the right angle to dodge when your constantly being fired upon, and the hornet also has a rather large turning speed for a lag missile.

[Caligma]

Aww brings back memories.

I remember back in the day I took LOA--Auger and LOA--Riggs on, 2 v 1. It was so much fun. Both died out because nobody could figure out how to do the barrel roll back then. It was a secret only used by 4th Angels Squadron members, specifically taught by ICE-4th

[Colonol Dekker]

Those are some names from the past. . . ICE.. Whoaaa. Do you remember Suzzanna from Darkwing?

[Mobius]

I don't see the difference in dogfights with missiles. Everything changes with guns.

Missiles fly lead pursuit courses, so launching from a lead-pursuit angle gives the missile an energy advantage and a better probability of kill. If you launch from lag pursuit, the missile needs to spend a lot of energy turning, which loses airspeed and runs the risk of breaking track on the target.

That is in the real world, at least. I guess it kind of applies to Freespace, in reference to some missiles.

Only if the killer is close to the target. I don't think there are any difference when the distance is considerable.

[Caligma]

Yea, I remember Suzanna. Her and Mustang used to play late at night all the time.

[haloboy100]

I think i remember her too...it was stupid being a 9 year old kid in the darkwing squad
Of course, i was 9 years old when i played multi, meaning i maybe only THOUGHT i was on Darkwing i think i was, though....