Rookie Combat
Today I have been playing Elite Dangerous, and I chose to venture into game play that I previously haven't felt brave enough to do. I took some combat missions! Most of them were missions where I had to kill a specific pirate. As I am a new player, my combat rank is “Harmless”. This allows me to take some easy missions that are pretty straight forward. Go there and kill this guy.
I can find them pretty fast, but once I get there, I am not very good at engaging them in combat. I was streaming the session, and some viewers explained that I need to stay within 800meters, to do the most damage. This means that I need to get a lot better at flying! An other steamer suggested that I practice “Flight Assist Off” for this.
Other missions were to kill ships from a pirate fraction. These were more complicated, because once you find them, they may have friends defending them. Here, I had to give up my first encounter, and go back to my base in order to change into a better ship. I had been flying an Imperial Eagle that I had bought earlier today, but hopped into a Cobra Mark III for the rest of the missions.
I'll get back into the grind tomorrow, and probably get better as time goes by. I also learned about the SCO frame shift drive. I believe that I already had one of those in one of my ships, but only today did I realize that it allows you to boost while in super cruise mode! This is very handy and makes long distance trips within systems a lot faster!