Question about mercenary and combat missions

[Dorian Grey]

So guys, I have a question. I have my arrow and Hornet WF that I usually play with on AC Swarm mode to test loadouts and such. So I select the loadout of my ship. Arrow with 3 S3 Mantis Gt-220's. Got my patrol mission/ecn/you name it mission that has combat in it. I QT to the destination and as soon as I hear the word bogey, i am one shotted to death w/o even seeing what killed me. I tried all missions with the Arrow and WF with the same results. On the Freelancer I died in 3 hits and finally saw what was killing me. An aurora! . I don't know if they are bugged or I suck at combat (probably the latter) but when I pop AC, i have no such issues, i do die too but I get kills and can actually enjoy dogfighting lol.
Any thoughts?
PS. I probably really suck at combat lol

 

[Hybus]

no idea for that, i did a pile of merc missions in a saber on the weekend, none of those problems. only thing I had was 75% of the time the npc ships just sat there.

 

[marcsand2]

Right now in 3.3.7 the PU pirates don't do much, except shooting. They hardly move. If you attack them frontal, then they have a clear shot on you.

 

[Dorian Grey]

Will try sides then thanks!

 

[marcsand2]

Will try sides then thanks!

Keep in mind, The Pirate Gladius use gimballed GT-215. as long as you strafe sidewards, it won't hit you, but you have to attack the Gladius from the rear.

 

[Bambooza]

The other thing to remember is the servers can get laggy and you'll see weird effects like the Pirates not taking damage or you not being updated on the damage until its to late. The worse is when the mission doesn't update.

 

[Printimus]

From what I remember about the Q&A about the Arrow, its a pretty fragile ship too.

 

[marcsand2]

From what I remember about the Q&A about the Arrow, its a pretty fragile ship too.

Yeap, fragile, but a smaller cross section than the Gladius, so harder to hit.

 

[Shadow Reaper]

Yeap, fragile, but a smaller cross section than the Gladius, so harder to hit.

I would so love to see how hard it is to locate while wearing Void armor.