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Q&A / Re: Flare Gun: viable?

« on: May 24, 2013, 07:51:32 am »

I pretty much only play with a full crew and we usually pack a side flare gun when we fly a Pyra.  Aside from the occasional ability to apply flame stacks to a component, it's proved invaluable when someone tries to flee into cloud cover - pretty much guarantees we can stay on them accurately.  It's also just a short trip away for our main hull engineer to fire. 

I'm not sure it would be nearly effective with a crew that was less communicative, though - we tend to use it more for revealing vision/scouting clouds than the actual damage output.

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Gameplay / Re: Is the Squid Underpowered?

« on: May 19, 2013, 02:07:34 am »

I really want to like the squid, and I've only tried it twice, but both times I found it tough to be more than a nuisance.  It's not that you can't destroy ships with a gatling/flak combo, or disable ships, it's just that it felt like other ships did it better.

You can't really take a hit, and generally other crews can keep their ship in the air as you maneuver to stay in their blind spots to keep the appropriate weapon trained on them.

It's not that the squid is useless, just that other ships do these roles better, at least from what I've found.

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General Discussion / Re: I played with X

« on: May 19, 2013, 01:57:20 am »

Played a few games with NikolaiLev a few days ago.  Was great fun.