Share your tips and tricks!
So I imagine a number of people (myself included) are new to flight simulator games and have been drawn in by this release due to it being a part of the star wars franchise. So to those of you with ...
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@MandatoryIDtag also:
1. watch Youtube videos of people playing and see what they do, pick up on their play style.
2. Research loadouts for specific ships, pick one that you feel plays to your strength and practice the hell out of that loadout. Modify to taste.
3a. Practice doing a specific thing for an entire day. If it's learning the drift one day, it's pinging targets for your squad to attack the next day, then tracking your squadmates under fire and assisting them the next day, etc.
3b. The point is to get used to your button mappings so you click on things as second nature rather than struggling to remember what to do in a specific situation. Nothing sucks more than trying to hit the 'target attacker' button and ending up focusing your shields to the wrong side of your ship.
4. Practice flying around the debris fields doing tight turns around floating junk at as high a speed you can. The better you get control over maneuvers, the less you'll care about missiles and be able to 'stay on target'.
5. Unlearn flying head on against another fighter. Always start a match by flying out at an angle and try to circle around and take enemies from the side or back. If someone tries to go head on, forget shooting and start jinking a pitched roll to get out of their crosshairs. Only go head on with a tank.
6. Learn how to use the Target wheel. Or map specific targets to buttons so you can quickly shift between knowing where your squadmates are, mission objective, capital ship systems, etc.
1. watch Youtube videos of people playing and see what they do, pick up on their play style.
2. Research loadouts for specific ships, pick one that you feel plays to your strength and practice the hell out of that loadout. Modify to taste.
3a. Practice doing a specific thing for an entire day. If it's learning the drift one day, it's pinging targets for your squad to attack the next day, then tracking your squadmates under fire and assisting them the next day, etc.
3b. The point is to get used to your button mappings so you click on things as second nature rather than struggling to remember what to do in a specific situation. Nothing sucks more than trying to hit the 'target attacker' button and ending up focusing your shields to the wrong side of your ship.
4. Practice flying around the debris fields doing tight turns around floating junk at as high a speed you can. The better you get control over maneuvers, the less you'll care about missiles and be able to 'stay on target'.
5. Unlearn flying head on against another fighter. Always start a match by flying out at an angle and try to circle around and take enemies from the side or back. If someone tries to go head on, forget shooting and start jinking a pitched roll to get out of their crosshairs. Only go head on with a tank.
6. Learn how to use the Target wheel. Or map specific targets to buttons so you can quickly shift between knowing where your squadmates are, mission objective, capital ship systems, etc.
@BullitMagnit74 Haha yeah I guess, I'm over here from apex legends originally, the whole kill hunting habit is hard to shake off. 😛
Some good tips there though, thanks again!
@2RoGaming I believe that the issue you're struggling with is known, patches don't happen instantly though. You can always file a bug report over at the appropriate section of the forums. :D
- @MandatoryIDtag Congrats on getting this pinned! I just logged on and it’s great to see the community has been swift to establish a way to help each other.
I haven’t played it yet, but I know some stuff:
- Learn manuevers (I spelt that wrong) and tactics from real life, and try and apply them
- Play the campaign. It teaches you how to do everything basic and builds up to more advanced stuff like drifting. Apparently. Also the story is reportedly not too bad, which is great as I see it would be kind of hard to fix a good plot into different maps and tutorials.
I’ll leave it at that until I’ve actually played
@BullitMagnet74 said some really good points.@HCarbonic Yup thanks!
I'm a firm believer in AHQ being about more than just grumbling about bugs. 😛
Always willing to do my bit to help others and I applaud anyone else who does the same. :D
Use the practice range!
Practice flying in debris fields, like everyone has said here.
There is oversteer, it is not point and click. We all have to deal with it regardless of peripherals. It is very manageable.
Use boost and drift to your advantage. I can't tell you the multitude of players who do not use it to their advantage or use it at all. You have a mechanic that allows you to change vector almost immediately. Use it, practice at full engines, and fly around debris fields in the practice mode.
Play around with builds against Ace level AI in practice mode.
Don't get discouraged. There are a lot of people who have years of experience (like myself ) with flight sims and space sims current and past that have the same/similar mechanics this game has. Mouse users can be just as effective as joystick users and vice versa. You will learn, have fun with it, and know with every death you learn something.
One other thing. Joystick users...bump your sensitivity to 100% until they fix the dead zone issues. Without that added curve it's a sloppy mess.
