X3 albion prelude repair laser trial#

How can a MD bypass shields? The shields aren't just for combat, they also protect the ship from space debris. I hate that stupid weapon.ġ) I agree with Yaotzin, when your in a heavy class ship and have to pay millions to repair hull damage when your shields never dropped below 75% during combat is just dumb.Ģ) Physic wise it is also stupid. I once see a lone Khaak M3, and as I approach it my eclipse were shot down in 3 seconds flat by its MD beam, provided if I did scan it at 5-Km range, that still wouldn't change anything.Īs for the MD. Well, you can shoot everything you see with missiles, but I don't think it's the point. Mistake means it can be countered, and the player didn't employ such counter measure, there is no such scheme here.

X3 albion prelude repair laser trial#

This has nothing to do with mistake, aside from trial and error (save before you engage, reload if it's an MD). The player should never ever learn from his mistakes. I once fought a patrol mission for 3 hours, against some 60+ ships including 20+ M8 that chased me the entire sector. And this is assuming you're facing only ONE enemy. And frankly, at that range you can't pull away if you want to if the enemy already locked into you, even with a jumpdrive. And for a fighter, the difference between 5km and firing range is about 2sec, and in that 2 sec, hitting the scan button, look up the info and pull away is hardly an option. Unless I'm missing something, a max scan range is 5km. Shooting stuff is fun, scanning it isn't. Yes, I could probably avoid it, but it would suck all the fun out of the combat missions. This wouldn't be more than an irritant later on, when I can comfortably afford the repairs. I'm complaining about a pitiful little M4 or whatever costing me 5m in repairs because I didn't scan all 50 of them. I'm not complaining about a heavily armed frigate wasting me or something. The player should not ignore missions he can't reasonably do. 2) Why should an M7 even need to scan them? M3-5s go from harmless to seriously threatening my bank account (if not my life really) with just the one weapon. The poor range on the scanner might condemn me to damage anyway. Even with the new scanning command, I still have to actually look through every one of them. Scanning all those ships is a serious pain. Two issues though: 1) Alas, the X interface.

The player should never scan ships before engaging in combat.