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Is the Squid Underpowered?
DeltaForceTwo:
For me I feel is really just not posible to kill a ship with the firepower of a squid alone.
First to say I really like driving a squid, runing around the enemy blind spots, getting in and out the fights easily. releasing black clouds everywhere to see <"captain name" destroyed everything>
But them, how can you kill with a squid? I tried with a flank in the front side and a gat in the right side, but is really hard to shot them both at the same time (yes, posible but is not like with the spire or the junker, is a lot harder.
I used a carronade and well... you can annoy a ship for some time yeah, but that's about it.
Fire... I gave fire a try too and well, getting veery close is pretty dangerous and not really that rewarding so what's the deal?
As I see the Squid is the most rare ship in the battlefield, I never ever see a Squid unless playing a resource race.
When I'm flying a Squid I feel like I have to stay in the blind spot of an enemy for like 1 minute to kill him and if I get in a bad spot I will die in 2 seconds.
So I'm asking, is the squid underpowered? should I try something diferent? Or it's me that I'm just bad?
Shinkurex:
It's not that you are bad (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you were flying against me)... You did real good to annoy me, and if I didn't have the crew I did, I would've died 9x's over... The Squid has always been a support ship... annoyance is it's role... knock out a few components to get the heavy hitters in to deal the final blow... Now the squid does have the ability to kill (and if you watch the cogs, BFS did it well) you just have to find that sweet spot to get two guns on the ship
Machiavelliest:
The Squid has the gat/flak combo. It's really a function of patience, because unlike the Pyramidion, where you can trade blows, with the Squid you obviously can't. You may have to engage/disengage four times to put enough permahull damage down to kill. When to make the call to disengage is the defining factor of kills in the squid, for me.
DeltaForceTwo:
The thing is, if they move the Right side gun closer to the Front side one so is easier to hit with two guns, will that make the Squid overpowered?
Machiavelliest:
--- Quote from: DeltaForceTwo on May 17, 2013, 10:36:30 pm ---The thing is, if they move the Right side gun closer to the Front side one so is easier to hit with two guns, will that make the Squid overpowered?
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Nah, it's pretty easy to hit as it is. You just need to make sure your crew spots them. The fact you're in the blind when maneuvering to fire is one of the Squid's key challenges.
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