Drake Buccaneer

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I don't know - yesterday I fought against a Delta within AC and I'll blew it outta space pretty quickly. The structure seems not very stable...?
Or the pilot didn't know how to dodge. If I Go into Royal Battle, then everybody first tries to beat the "weak" ships. Not a chance there.
In Squadron battle it is a different story, if the squads are balanced. Yesterday it was 3 Sabres 2 Sabres an 1 Gladius against 1 Delta. If you fight a Sabre then you can't turn your back on him, just keep the guns at him all time. If he starts to fly by, make 180 and repeat this, then you are practically a sitting duck in the middle and all other can take an easy aim at you.
 
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Hmmm... maybe it's the z95 Headhunter (also Starwars)
Ooooo, good call.
Ugh i just cast off the shackles of drake dont make me do this again.
I feel the same way. I had ditched Drake altogether, now I'm the proud owner of a Caterpillar, with a Buccaneer coming soon, and I'll probably end up with a cutlass again as my general purpose ship.
When this thing go on sale? 27th? for what period do concept sales tend to run? Its ugly, needs a diet, my Super hornet will still cream it but I'll buy one or two if its LTI! I'll turn that ugly duckling into a Redeemer (swan) :D
Melt that extra Super Hornet you have, the non-LTI one. Then buy the buccaneer. It's a concept sale, so it will have LTI.

Its a pile of scrap. I am happy with my elegant Sabre.
I shall own both.
Your elegant saber will be a pile of scrap the second a round hits your ship. Meanwhile this thing and the hornet will be missing both wings half primary stlystem shut down and still flying along and fighting. Then your bill will come to cost an arm and a leg the bucaneer will just duct tape it back on and the hornet will simply buy military salvaged uprgaded replacements.
This ship already suits my personality more than the Sabre. Which is unfortunate, because I do like my Sabre.
I reckon the Sabre will be for dinner parties and galas. The Buccaneer will be for bush parties and camping.
 

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. If he starts to fly by, make 180 and repeat this, then you are practically a sitting duck in the middle and all other can take an easy aim at you.
STRAFE! You can make a BOOST STRAFE that makes you spin in a begin wide hard to hit circle.

If you want to see someone do it constantly, watch The_moon_shiner on twitch. He also gives away pirate skins... just throwing it out there. @Shiner
 
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STRAFE! You can make a BOOST STRAFE that makes you spin in a begin wide hard to hit circle.

If you want to see someone do it constantly, watch The_moon_shiner on twitch. He also gives away pirate skins... just throwing it out there. @Shiner
Yup, I do nothing else, my strafe finger hurts all the time, even more then my fire finger. The boost finger doesn't has to work so hard to get it boosting :D. But strafe only helps if you do it in the right direction ;). I need to get my rudder delivered, I don't have roll at the moment.
How is the fridge doing? Still need some emergency food-parcels?
 

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I found out the neighbour lady is one of those cat people, so I bought some twine and cat food and I've been eating a lot lately. Cat food doesn't taste so bad, and the twine is for picking it out of my teeth cavity holes
Better then this????
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The sausages are delicious :p!!!!
 

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STRAFE! You can make a BOOST STRAFE that makes you spin in a begin wide hard to hit circle.

If you want to see someone do it constantly, watch The_moon_shiner on twitch. He also gives away pirate skins... just throwing it out there. @Shiner
Yup, I do nothing else, my strafe finger hurts all the time, even more then my fire finger. The boost finger doesn't has to work so hard to get it boosting :D. But strafe only helps if you do it in the right direction ;). I need to get my rudder delivered, I don't have roll at the moment.
How is the fridge doing? Still need some emergency food-parcels?
I need to practice strafing more. I'll have to re-bind it on my HOTAS I think. I do love flying sideways. Haha.
 

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Someone posted this minor edit on reddit, adding in some Cutlass like vertical stabilizers on the wings and tightening up the cockpit a lot. I think that overall it makes the Buccaneer look a ton ton ton better and really like the Cutlasses "cousin".

I look at it and it just don't click for me. There are things I can't put into words atm but it just looks wrong to me. Maybe its the engines being so freakin large that it throws the whole scale off for me. I don't know. I like the cockpit and thats it.
 
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