10 Combat tips in Elite Dangerous

10 tips for combat....and chads! The never ending FDL & Cutter superiority, shield META, best shield discussion, PVE & PVP builds. All the latest combat tips to guide you in this chad-eat-chad world of weapons, explosives,lasors,shields,hulls and death!
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[@wiytchery]

My first battle consisted of unloading all my ammunition in the guy’s right thruster. Not because i forgot to change targets, but just because i didn’t like that thruster in particular.

[@drink15]

You must be a left thruster supporter. I’m with you brother, we need to remove right thrusters from the galaxy and cleanse outer space.

[@wiytchery]

@@drink15 left thruster for the win.

[@blakeirvin3011]

If it's right, it ain't..right?

[@MediHusky]

This might be off topic but I hate those filthy central thrusters guys. With right thrusters you know where they stand, but central thrusters? Who knows. It sickens me.

[@ravenvalentine4919]

@@drink15 what i am against is the not centered seat in the fe de lance....

[@paulspencer2542]

The biggest tip I learned recently is if someone uses stuff to cause you too loose gimble lock, just unlock the target and shoot them like fixed guns :)

[@liamfalvey5142]

Or just get so close you literally can’t miss

[@gho5tspartan26yt]

Wait you can do that…? Holy shit, all these years and that just blew my mind.

[@arminmoller9927]

Yes , Play often the build in Challenges of the Game. Your will master fixed Weapons in shord times

[@ericcson3429]

I love stacking assassination missions from different factions and having the situation occur whereby you drop in to take on your wing target, and suddenly another one of your mission targets pops in and opens fire on them. NPC on NPC carnage.

[@leakystds6946]

Wut 👁👁

[@thewatcher62]

I just saw same minor faction shoot each other in my assassin mission 👁👄👁

[@alfie.j_2465]

@@thewatcher62 for some reason I saw system defence authority ships firing on each other

[@wickermind6668]

"If you pick anything that is not a Fer-de-Lance or a Cutter-" But what about the vul-

[@AleK0451]

NO

[@lettuce7378]

I love my vulture

[@AleK0451]

@@lettuce7378 so do i but in pvp vulture gets fucked

[@Kili098]

So I shouldn’t have bought a Mamba? 🙈

[@AleK0451]

@@Kili098 use that stupidly fast engine to get the fuck down to a canyon and turn flight assist off

[@DarthWall275]

Protip: To defeat the Thargoid, shoot at it until it dies.

[@quasur57]

works every time

[@FXWLL]

I knew I was doing something wrong. I was self destructing on contact

[@mrexists5400]

Hmmm... yes, the floor is made of floor.

[@Motoboo_Marine]

You can actually do that if you can out DPS the heart's regen. You typically need a wing loaded up with shard cannons but it's possible.

[@planexshifter]

But what does the synthetic meat taste like? ;)

[@paulcharisse7746]

I'm here for the station landing tips 😂

[@LeonserGT]

Protip: to land on a station, fly towards it until you land

[@wiytchery]

First, emit a docking request while being 7.5 km away or closer to the station. Once they approve, they will tell you a landing pad number where you must land. Keep a low speed (one that you can easily control at least) and go through the mailslot (opening of the station). Then, find your landing pad and approach slowly. Press L (or whatever key you binded with deploying your landing gear) and get yourself approximately above the landing pad. Pressing X (or whatever to go down), you should start to see the map in your ship showing your position on the pad. Make sure the ship’s nose is looking forward with its back turned on you on the map, and use Z and C to control the x axis and center yourself on the pad. Once the target is blue, you can lower the ship slowly and it will dock automatically once you’re close enough. And fun fact, while approaching a station, the station’s dispatch (if you are clean and don’t have any fines to pay) will call you by: [ship manufacturer], [military tags for the first 3 letters of your name] so if your name in the game is commander paul and you just started out with a sidewinder, it should say: Delacy Papa Alfa Uniform

[@TechnoMinarchist]

It's easier in FA Off imo. FA On landing feels clunky.

[@CardamomCake]

@@TechnoMinarchist Indead turn Flight Assist off, then begin docking. Ass soon as you hear “shields offline” you know it wont be long before you find yourself docked on a space station. Its a lot faster than waiting in que.

[@TechnoMinarchist]

@@CardamomCake I was serious. Besides, it's more fun to land with FA off: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnKYYnqwp9Vgldk kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2GooXt_bKllbpI

[@sirenia755]

1:41 you need a fer-de-lance with 2 med pulse lasers and 2 med multi-cannon, lasers vs shields, multi-cannon vs hull for a quick kill.

[@puskajussi37]

A small note about sys pips. If your sys capacitor is empty from charging shields, you cannot use utilities that use sys energy like heatsinks.

[@florbfnarb7099]

Rule #1 when fighting Yamiks: fly an Asp Scout!

[@c0baltl1ghtn1ng]

For the PVE build, I'd go against 'Oops, all lazers.' Yes, you'll need to go back and rearm now and then, but Multi-cannons can serve all skill ranges extremely well; The basic ammo is cheap, it rips through NPC hulls like it ain't there, the ammo is cheap, and they look cool, to boot: 1,300 years into the future, and humanity is still using Rotating barrel firearms and 4-barreled flak cannons. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I can make 2-4 million credits in a haz-res before I run dry, and the ammo only takes maybe 2% of that at most. For the healyz, if you are having power problems, even a pulse lazer with concordant sequence is an amazing boon. Not as quick as the actual beam of regeneration sequence, but it doubles the target's natural shield regeneration rate for 10 seconds. Unlike the healy beams, though, Concordant Sequence does not stack. Either way, just make sure that your wing-mate still has shields; Healy Beemz don't work if there ain't no shields to restore, and instead they give an oof. Regarding Pips; mostly incorrect. 4 pips in SYS It ups the Resistance of your shields, not give an amount. It technically *does* add to the effective health of your shields, but that's the only 'technically correct' part.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

Agree here about the weapons. I love the feeling of projectiles.

[@sgtfury7402]

Assassination Mission in conjunction with stacked Massacre Pirate Missions. Make sure the Assassination Missions are in the same system as the Pirate ones and you can walk away with 120 mil or more in an hour easy. Takes time leveling up factions, getting rank, but 20 bil in cash/22bil in assets is proof that combat is a viable means to earn credits. Yes even those 2.5 mil assassination missions help. Nothing like fighting multiple Corvettes at once :).

[@crossxfire0074]

I do this as well. You have to pick the missions that you can handle though and make sure the targets belong to the same faction as the massacre mission targets. It works very well. Especially since the assassination targets chase you into rez zones, and you can take them out quickly there and they count as massacre mission targets too.

[@sgtfury7402]

@@Fm-us4pk So, I'm triple elite, made allies with a bunch of systems near my home world. I grab 39 mil mission from one faction, 39 mil from another, some 20 and 17 mils and stack them. Then I grab as many assassination missions, these are for pirates ( and are usually 2.5 mil per). My home world keeps all these activities in one system, 1 jump away. As I fly to the haz site to kill pirates, the assassination mission targets will interdict me, I let them, normally there will be a corvette or two, an anaconda sometimes and a FDL. These all count towards the massacre missions as well. Once you finish your massacre missions, and if you still have a assassination one, scan the system with your FSS after you gong it, the gold USS is where they will be. If by chance the target fled, it will update with a nark in another system that will rat him out. Go to that system, fly towards a base and a small craft will alert you and jump out. Jump on him and he will tell you where the target is. Pretty easy actually. The trick is to rank up and make all factions allies so you get the "good" missions. It was not like that in the old days, I think that is what Yamiks was referring to.

[@nicholasvinen]

@Zenkat but mining is boring and combat isn't

[@ElecManEXE]

If you want to make money on combat, find a system with multiple factions that give pirate massacre missions that all go to a single nearby system with good RES sites. Build your rep with all factions, stack massacre missions from each, and you can actually make decent money. Because missions from different factions can be completed at the same time, where if you have multiple missions from a single faction you can only do 1 mission at a time. 17 million for killing 30 ships is the usual pay rate for one max-rep elite pirate massacre mission, so if you can stack one mission from 3 or 4 factions at a time you can be making 60-80 million a run, and finish it in an hour if you're quick and have good luck with spawns. Just avoid wing missions unless you're actually winging up with other folks, they boost up the kill numbers too much to be worthwhile alone. Not mining money or anything, but it's decent cash, and if you want to make money on combat it's the best way to my knowledge. Make sure you don't take missions for pirate deserters, though. Those are traps and the deserters are basically non-existent.

[@RMMinc]

Actually, if you lucky with mission random you can stack in the end simple (not wing) massacre mission from the same faction. Thanks to Fdev nerf, kills in such mission would not count untill first one(winged) is completed. So you just chain respawning easy mission beacon. Kinda useful if you lack fully engineered OP ship.

[@AleK0451]

if you have 4 people, you can all take wing missions which share progress even if the mission isn't shared, then go back and share the missions and cash in

[@salindanandasena5326]

That landing tip was the best of it all. 😂🔥

[@jackd23]

Instructions unclear. Asteroid has been depleted.

[@saifer21]

Elite needs more action in combat, adding some capital ship to fight, alien ship, pirate station destroing etc...

[@eaglegaming2301]

a week or 2 ago you did a video asking players why they still play elite dangerous, can you make a counter video and find players and ask them why they no longer play elite dangerous?

[@TheYamiks]

i pretty much have seen and heard why... i dont think that would be such an interesting or productive video.

[@dariustaefreeman2171]

A video with nothing but people whining or bitching about a game that is pretty fun? Sign me... Out.

[@boomerkobold3943]

@@dariustaefreeman2171 criticism does not equal bitching. ED is fun but it has issues.

[@Mithguar]

well the first tip didn't age well. Assassination missions pay decent money, that 1h window is mostly gone, your targets will often come to you. Only issue is if you take like 10 of them, you might find yourself fighting a lot of targets at the same time as they are going for you. And kills count towards pirate massacres missions. Also they boosted bounties rewards recently.

[@zacharycurdy2237]

I'm glad you still make videos thanks man

[@ravenquinn7774]

"if you run capacity builds youre limited to energy efficient weapons" me in my fdl laughing maniacally with 4 railguns of pain and a plasma accelerator of doom while my temp spikes 180 WELCOME TO HELL BOYS

[@donlamarco5386]

the low-level "kill 2 pirates a jump away" missions may be el cheapo, but I think it's perfect to take 3 or 4 of them upon building up a new ship and using them as testers/target practice.

[@kubel83]

Do not let go of the trigger until your target goes 💥

[@GeekyNerd54]

I just wanted to say your videos have been super entertaining and helpful as I am picking up elite on epic games when its free

[@TheYamiks]

well pick up 2 or 3 ... why not!

[@planexshifter]

Welcome and congratulations on your acceptance into the pilots federation. Fly safe CMDR 07

[@HNTR308]

Welcome to the endless grind 😂😂😂

[@planexshifter]

I like the low heat hull tank builds- DBS can be a lil beast-

[@Parzec]

I enjoy some hazres bounty hunting in a Vulture with two Pacifier frag cannons. Sure, have to synth ammo now and then but I think it's worth it. Doesn't bring in any big bucks but it's fun to do once in a while.

[@batonnikus]

Made fighter phantom with almost 500 shield and 3100 hull + nice resists and I will ignore meta as well because I like to pew pew and not have 5ly travel. Also I like to tank those missiles with my 50% resist if need be.

[@MediHusky]

Hey now, Assassination missions are great to roleplay as a bounty hunter.

[@kumoryuu]

And as a Novice newcomer taking out a bunch of Mostly Harmless pirates, the pay isn't so bad. I managed to get enough to buy an Explorer in just a few days of bounty grinding. I just wish the combat happened in places other than boring empty deep space...

[@nicholasvinen]

I get about 5mil per easy (Deadly rank) kill. Stack 10-20 of them and you can make 50-100mil in about 30 minutes. I don't see the problem. It tells you the difficulty before you accept the mission. Only Elite missions involve fighting more than one pirate at once (unless you're unlucky and another mission target drops in while you're fighting the first one). It pays a LOT better than CZs.

[@dagoelius]

Thanks for the tips Yamiks. I still suck at combat though.

[@Johnny-ge7yb]

Wrong assassination missions have not been like that in years. Highly recommend them.

[@WantedChaos]

And as an add on to that, assassination wing missions are the only ones where you will run into highly engineered ships with wing mates.

[@Senzorei]

He said "Back in the day", perk your ears up.

[@xInvisiblexx]

@@Senzorei he did, but it is a false statement in a video aimed at newbies and furthermore not that hard to check if something has changed over the years

[@Senzorei]

@@xInvisiblexx "Back in the day" implies that it is no longer the case though.

[@TheMajorpickle01]

I took my noob mate into a 200,000 cr assassination wing mission... they had a python and THREE vultures.. for 200,000 credits I'd expect maybe one large ship or an engineered medium. Not four of the fuckers!

[@Fuck_google666]

11 - You can ram to death any npc spaceship without starting a fight;) One/Two "shooting" small ship pirates * Just be sure to have bigger ship than the enemy

[@ChadeGB]

This video was no doubt very insightful, if only I understood the jargon and references, it would then probably be helpful too.

[@dylansteed-conway4146]

Do you play the game?

[@Flying_Scorpion]

This was probably one of the most helpful videos for me. After reading the comments I am surprised how nitpicky the commentors are. Anyway thanks for this vid!

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

assassination missions pay ok now and they are valid for just under a day - i usually stack 20 at a time

[@JayT546]

My first battle consisted of me getting pelted with rockets in a mining python

[@MrCarvion]

Realls like this series

[@shaamaan]

Depending on the ship and what you want to do with it, resistance builds CAN work. I'm using the biggest bi-weave one can use in the game on my Cutter, and when fighting in a HazRES or CZ the shields will practically never drop below ~50%. By the time you start fighting the next target these bad boys will be back up to full. Admittedly these are NOT good for a prolonged fight against multiple enemies - so either you need to learn to disengage or go for the Prismatics if that's your fancy. But other than that I love never having to stop to worry about shields. Admittedly, yes, the ship also uses ammo... but with so many shield boosters strapped to it it would be hard to put in more lasers. :P

[@swapertxking]

11. Kill warrant scanner! If you go bounty hunting in a wing and you want everyone to make maximum money, sniffing a target with the KWS will work for all wing members. You get full bounty for the system your in plus any additional bounties on that target. It’s exceptional cash when you meander a resource extraction site hazardous for an hour and sniff the wanted pirates before gunning them down. You can make millions of creds in a single jaunt against medium and large ships...

[@dalkra99]

You say not to do assassination missions but I’ve had two that I have done that led to sub contracts worth at least 1.5 mil and more. I know it’s not a lot but for me just starting off that’s a decent amount of cash.

[@jamesb6102]

Excellent video. 5/5 Asp Scouts

[@viktorgavorn4635]

I do enjoy using loadouts and engineering to make useless ships useable. The asp scout is... the hardest yet. But I REALLY wanna get my hands on a cobra mk4... lol probably never will tho...

[@sidpomy]

Krait Mk II, five frag cannons, double shot upgrade. You can one shot most small and medium ships that are below elite. And big ships you can stick to so they don't stand a chance. Only requires 0-1 pips to weapons and save the rest for shields and engines. It's a res site murder machine.

[@zibafu]

frag cannons ? you mean the shotgun type gun ?

[@chq89]

anti xeno combat can be quite profitable once you get decent at it, ive made more than a billion from thargoid bonds, some folks in the AXI have done up to 11b

[@JohnDoe-ni9zm]

and in what timespan did you make that billion?

[@chq89]

@@JohnDoe-ni9zm about 2 months before the buff, now you can make far more

[@OmletKing]

God damon it! HOPE OF SUCCESSSSS FOR SC! ):0

[@SeanyKrabs]

I've been fighting the same ship for 30 minutes. It takes forever to get it's shield down, and I barely do any damage to it

[@cmdrlightwalker_9877]

I love combat in elite, spaceships go boom!!!

[@ddpp3492]

Thanks for the broke back tips

[@1zanneth]

i coulda swore the passives for pips was something like 40% extra damage reduction to shields and 40% extra damage from weapons with 4 points, did this get changed at some point long ago or did i missread something 3 years ago?

[@leonico76]

Love to bounty hunting with my ASP explorer full of multicannons, just for the fun

[@tjyuy9685]

How well the does that perform? I just got my asp explorer today for passengers

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

@@tjyuy9685 Not very well. The ASP Exploder is a paper spaceship. Safe up for a Krait and give it beam and multicannons.

[@nicholasvinen]

@@JimmyStiffFingers or an Imperial Clipper which is a lot of fun.

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

@@nicholasvinen And made of cardboard. Slightly sturdier than an ASP Exploder, but still no fighting ship.

[@randomgal5196]

Huh, I’ve been running an iEagle with duel engineered multi cannons as well as a beam laser that has an infinite firing time when weapons have full pips to weapons. I’ve had no problems fighting AI ships of any size.

[@mattc9009]

I have the same ship with dual rail guns, seems to kill most things, the trick is to get in tight.

[@micahjones7837]

@@mattc9009 Ayy I run double rail guns on a mkii eagle!

[@deBussyLicker]

Idk, i sometimes get like 4million mission for one kill without a need to even interact with the hub acces terminal so there are missions where you can make nice profit

[@reillythompson664]

Bad idea or good meme to make a flying fortress Type 10 covered in turrets, full of reinforcement, birthing fighters? PVE only.

[@brianlam5847]

good meme

[@davekennedy6315]

I LOVE the Type 10! In a CZ they are incredible when fitted with Reactive armour and HRPs and MRPs. I fitted a Bi Weave shield, maybe not the strongest of shields but in a well Engineered 10 it really doesn't matter if your shields drop. It is such a flying tank that it can handle the incoming fire until your shields recharge. I fitted mine with mainly Multis (gd5 OC) and a couple of turreted lasers to annoy those flying close. It might be slow and turn badly but it's certainly tough!

[@reillythompson664]

@@davekennedy6315 I ended up building mine out with all laser turrets and naming it Pink Floyd. I can sip coffee, rotating around in space while a laser rock show happens all around me. I added an A-rated collector controller to scoop up the engineering materials. As one pirate goes poof, some other silly pirate comes up and asks if I have anything nice. :-)

[@davekennedy6315]

@@reillythompson664 haha you've certainly given it the perfect name then. I've heard of others on the forums doing something similar. Best of all you're getting credits and mats at the same time completely hassle free. Glad you like your Type 10 as it really doesn't get much love.

[@felthirbuck1531]

Yes... I totally agree when it comes to some effects of egeneered weapons, as per e.g., "The Healing Shields", but there are a few others I'd also appreciate if they'd rid the game of them. Nice job mate Oh... And by the way, I bought a mouse like the one you showed, And I can't figure out how someone can really use all those buttons as they were in "theory" designed to provide players with that... lol

[@doublejesusful]

Do you mean the execution of using them or practical applications? Mice like that were originally designed with MMO's in mind, if you had a vanilla shaman trust me you could use all those buttons. As far as execution it's all about training muscle memory in a smart way, similar to learning an instrument.

[@felthirbuck1531]

@@doublejesusful Oh, hi there... Actually, could be a a personal issue of mine and few others I've heard too. But in short, I guess, in my case at least, the issue is due to my hands and more especifically my thumb being a bit too big, therefore I have a hard time when it comes pressing the buttons in mice such as these, Since I seem not be unable to type at least three or more buttos whem trying to enjoy the bennefits that it can provide. I've tried configuring it to insert commands/ macros,etc. only in some frontal bottons and another command in some buttons on the back buttos. So being unable to use it's potential to the fullest. Let's just say that overall I'm better at handling other styles of mice... I hope I've been able to provide you with a more precise explanation concerning this. I'm glad that it works for others sadly not my kind. So I now make use of another one with fewer buttons for the thumb but works way better for my "style" so to say, :)

[@doublejesusful]

@@felthirbuck1531 Oh I understand completely I have the same issue with my big sausage fingers. I also have a tendency to death grip my mice, something I'm working on since it causes stress on my already inflamed ulnar nerve. I never had the money to get one these back in the day and now I couldn't use one due to how badly my hands have gotten. (don't fancy a WoW addiction AND play guitar in a band without proper hand care) I do like and use the g502 it's buttons are located in a way that's much more ergonomic than the mess on those mmo mice. It also has editable key bindings that can do things like copy and paste straight from the mouse.

[@FreeFragUK]

Personally I've always felt as though Elite's greatest weakness (beyond unfinished mechanics and lack of depth in various errors) has always been the ships and their lack of identity. More often than not there is little reason to run a ship which doesn't fall within the "multirole" category in each of the three size classes as fighters/combat ships rarely hold any meaningful advantage in combat over multirole ships. If anything selecting a dedicated combat ship severely restricts your gameplay options, unless of course you own multiple ships. Admittedly the same could be said when picking a hauler/freighter too when drawing comparisons to multirole vessels. While I accept Elite for what it is, I've always held the opinion that Frontier really need to re-work ships and armaments. Personally I look at the Viper Mk IV and can't help but see a variant of the Viper intended to perform torpedo or bombing runs against larger ships but this simply isn't viable/an option. I don't know, maybe I just miss games such as Freespace 2 too much and the way ship roles were handled there.

[@W00JDA]

2:18 that is called bad balance

[@Youda00008]

I'm having a dilema about a button bindings. Does it make sense to shoot only primary or only secondary weapon separately, or you always just shoot all together?

[@nicholasvinen]

The whole point of having two triggers is that you don't have to fire the same group all the time. For example, put beam lasers on primary and pulse or MC on secondary. Fire both until you WEP capacitor is nearly drained, then switch to secondary only. Go back to primary if you lose targeting and the capacitor refills by the time you reacquire.

[@justince89]

Good thing combat payouts just got a huge buff!!!

[@gregbagel791]

Brokeback mountain reference in the year of our lord 2020, also make the Eagle a viable ship please!!! It by far the best looking fighter in the game and I spent money on the cosmetics for it not knowing it sucked so bad when I first bought the game 4 years ago

[@cmdrmaskime]

Assassination missions is THE BEST and quickest way to get G5 materials like biotech conductors...so no, they are not « useless »

[@Senzorei]

Robigo runs would like to have a word

[@inokainemis]

i genuinely wonder what kind of firepower it would take to break a cutters shields being healed by a class 4 healing beam

[@JohnDoe-ni9zm]

The "a lot" kind

[@redmoon383]

The "effectively impossible" kind which is like all APAs or PAs, a bunch of beam laser fighter with heatsinks running, and at least two wings of people

[@NatoXemus]

Praise to the horse gods I was bored as hell

[@Screwtxpe.]

Appreciate the Videos Yamiks..im about to try combat for ths first time shotrly..ive shyed away from but cant be the space han solo without it lol. Cheers bro

[@vahnn0]

Maybe it's just due to my location (S E C R E T), but Assassinations can be worth it now. My base is a station that will often give me up to 8 or 10 assassination missions, all located in 2 nearby systems (all 3 systems are one jump from one another), and always killing 2 different factions of pirates, with each faction located in one system. I usually find that if I avoid scanning for the target signal source and just fly in a big circle at the jump-in point in a system, I'll get interdicted by one of my targets. And at least half the time, another target will jump in to help my current target. Along with the cops, who will help me kill them both. One time, a third target jumped in! Even without that miracle happening to make my job(s) easier, finding 3-5 targets in a single system and killing them usually takes a few minutes each. Then jump to the next system and repeat. Within 20 or 30 minutes, I have anywhere from 10 to 40 million in mission payouts, all collected at my base system. The bounties aren't worth turning in after each set of mission, but after a couple of hours of killing targets (in ALD space), I'll have accrued an additional 10-25 million in bounties, although I have to travel to two systems to turn them in (although one of my target systems has an Interstellar Factors contact where I can sell the other system's bounties, but that's at a 25% penalty.) I'm not saying assassination missions rival other forms of income, but it can be pretty close to bounty hunting, and it's certainly a nice change of pace from just cycling targets endlessly and melting them in a RES for hours. I also get plenty of elite wing assassination missions, which I'm fully capable of soloing in my Corvette, but I've never been interdicted by a wing target, and the target is almost always in a wing of 3-4, with a second wing of 3-4 ships nearby, and they always all seem to attack at once. Still soloable for 4-10 million payout, but usually requiring me to either dock for rearm/repair, or wait a long time for shields to fully regen before taking on the next target.

[@joedollarbiden9823]

Oh well assassination, massacre, obliteration, mayhem and carnage missions are fixed The solo carnage pays about same with wing missions and massacre can pay up to 25 million credits for Annihilation of around 20 pirates. (which actually be done quicker than I thought, plus you can chose to interdict any of the random pirate ships, it spawns various of targets.)

[@highrider9168]

Im a multi-canon and missile rack type of player. Hit hard fast and get out.

[@nicholasvinen]

The problem with missiles is that one you get to a certain level, pretty much every ship you go against has point defence. I love multicannons but got sick of constantly having to fly back to a carrier or base to rearm. Lasers are slower but you can fight for hours.

[@thelazygamer3788]

Yamiks in a nut shell. I hate this, i hate everything, do play the game....then builds his entire life around the game.

[@TexasRy]

Love the humor, you crack me up, thanks for the tips, I'm piped up for Shields 😁

[@slickrick8279]

Unless youre a superior commander by a large margin ... fang, gluttony fang is the name

[@marcuswalters8093]

During the PVE guide, what kind of shield does he say to pick? I'm really struggling to understand what he's saying there.

[@thomasparal2724]

Normal, or Prismatics if you have them. Quick charge builds are ones which use Bi-weaves. Some ships may benefit more from bi-Weaves than others. The Chieftain is a prime example, being better suited for hull-tanking than shield tanking due to limited size of optional and number of utility slots. Of course, as mentioned, the current meta is shield tanking, ships like the FDL and Cutter being favored for their exeptionally strong shield potential.

[@marcuswalters8093]

@@thomasparal2724 Thanks. I really don't understand anything about ships to be honest, after a year of playing this game. One day I'm smashing ship after ship in my vette, the next, some bloody federal assault ship peels me out of it after a minute.

[@Flying_Scorpion]

The cutter is a PVP meta ship? I didn't know that.

[@havocsurge7667]

Apparently you can make it into an invulnerable shield god

[@nicholasvinen]

My trading cutter has a shield generator two smaller than maximum (6A vs 8A) plus some boosters and I've fought three Deadly pirates at once and blew them all up and still had about 1/3 shields left. Imagine how strong it would be with 8A shields and SCBs. Not my favourite combat ship though. Too cumbersome (very fast though).

[@messageprocyber_techsonins5138]

Killing cyclops in a sidewinder. Your a god.😁😁😁😁

[@NightOwlGames]

i tried assasination missions in my bounty corvette it handles high res and hazardous sites pretty well so i was confident i could do assasination missions i tried it and got my ass handed to me, pulled the bounty outta supercruise then i realized he wasnt alone there was 4 ships i got messed up BIG TIME cost me 30 million to get my ship back.... never again! i NEED a wing for that crazy to think i risked all that money to try earn a million for the job NOT worth it!

[@nicholasvinen]

Must have been an Elite ranked mission. They're the only ones with multiple ships. I can kill them all in my Corvette but it takes effort. Usually I need to deploy SCBs to keep my shields up after killing the first couple.

[@k4iman]

As an Eagle fan I am deeply sad that small ships aren't really viable against big ones in this game..... those 3 pathetic class 1 hardpoint slots........

[@klarinogabr0ss150]

Ιd REALLY love to show Yamiks what high res/high regen builds can do. He's so wrong in this lol. My phantom eats FDLs and Vettes for breakfast 😂 And I'm playing with a freaking DS4.

[@klarinogabr0ss150]

@@Cooldude-ko7ps DS4. It's the name of PS4 controller. DoualShock 4. And controllers are highly handicaped compared to KnB and especially flight sticks. That's why I'm mention it.

[@patrickpetersen9442]

Can you share your build?

[@klarinogabr0ss150]

@@patrickpetersen9442 you've seen any of the fights I posted to make sure you like it? Cuz it needs a lot of pip and heat management. Also are you on PS4?

[@pottyputter05]

Disagree on all laser weps. 3 pulse 2 multi on fdl with even mid range engineering just shreds through pve

[@Keln02]

G600m team It's a discontinued series.

[@irvinpalacio1955]

Devs have gone and boosted the rewards for killin folks.

[@nfapeng187]

Im new to this game, but im surprised they don't got viable small ships. Or 1 that you can buy thats totally outrageous. Like i said im a new player, but I im hoping by the time i get totally tired of the game. They still have some kind of newer content coming out. Cause i really like this game, just traveling around I enjoy on top of everything else.

[@FroopLoop]

There are viable small ships, but you need to really know what you’re doing for them to be good.

[@khorney202]

Any help for combat zones? My build is for the most part very effective against pirates or in most assassination missions, but it becomes like shooting spit balls at a wall in combat zones!

[@lennert8530]

Opponents in combat zones are just magnitudes tougher than other NPC's, especially their hulls. Their weapons aren't anything special though, so it's not like they are killing you any faster than you are killing them. I'd advise to take some hull shredding weapons like a bunch of multicannons with at least one having the corrosive effect.

[@Senzorei]

Pip management is paramount if you're flying a large ship that gets focused often for more survivability. Also ships in a CZ use different builds, often times with more MRPs, more hull or prismatic shields which you don't see as much of on pirates as they have module space reserved for cargo and limpets.

[@khorney202]

@@lennert8530 given the experience I’ve had I am inclined to believe you. I was running a heavily modified cobra mk3 (until I ran out of credits and had to go back to the baseline) and my build used the 2 small slots for rockets which were VERY in affective!

[@khorney202]

@@lennert8530 I think this is where being a more experienced player would make the difference, I am not a true newb but I’m still trying to find what job I want to do if you know what I mean

[@khorney202]

@@Senzorei unfortunately I am not an experienced enough player to know what those abbreviations mean sorry. I have about 40 hours played intotal over 2 accounts so I’m not fully aware of most of it.

[@michaelmyers5102]

I would lay on my stomach and let this man take me from behind!

[@mateusfelipecota]

What's the language that yamiks uses on all it's intros?

[@elixwhitetail]

It's English, but written using the Futurama "alien" script AL1. Every character in AL1 directly maps to a letter of the alphabet. This video's message is "JEFF SUCKS".

[@JohnDoe-ni9zm]

@@elixwhitetail and who's jeff?

[@elixwhitetail]

@@JohnDoe-ni9zm No idea

[@micahjones7837]

I run an eagle maxed for manouverability and two rail guns. Guess im weird. Im also only rank competent so whatever

[@CreeperDude-cm1wv]

Ehh, point defenses can help eat missiles Unless they are packhounds

[@Infrosor]

I want pizza

[@redpillproductionscanada5563]

A trustworthy horse, ahem, source, you have never steered me wrong, except for that one time.....

[@PrivilegiaVid]

YOU PLAY WITH THE MOUSE???

[@FlecheDeFer]

Now that I know your face, it can't be the same...

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

What does "meta" mean?. Please help.

[@elegathor4251]

In most games it means an exploitive way which you will be overpowered and as such rendering all other means of playing relatively useless.

[@WingManFang1]

And suddenly Combat is how we make money now

[@Nexus-2318]

I think mining is so much better

[@ZakuZuko]

New player here. Still trying to figure this out. Made enough money to buy a new ship viper mk3 went out to do missions killing pirates i keep getting my ass handed to me. Its a little ( ok alot) vexing haven't kill anything and running out of money getting blown up every encounter. I don't want to do courier missions don't want to be a space mail man. Lol

[@nicholasvinen]

Check the difficulty before accepting the mission. Missions that pay better are usually against harder targets. Mostly harmless ones should be really easy.

[@markvuraldi]

I guess I am a total psychopath for doing pvp in a vulture

[@biggusdiccus6969]

How that’s a problem?

[@markvuraldi]

@@biggusdiccus6969 issa joke.

[@kaiserjoe2316]

Is it the Chieftain that looks like a Gorilla stopping for a crap?

[@Sonally4ever]

NEWSFLASH!! Bounty Payouts have increased 4-10 fold, depending on the Targeted Bandit. Obsidianant has confirmed this. watch

[@planexshifter]

CMDR threeofnine may disagree with this video....

[@weisserth]

Combat is not rewarding financially?! Take a T10, slightly engineered for long range lasers. Take a SLF with a decent pilot. Put some cargo on your T10. Park it in a low resource extraction site after loading up on wing massacre missions from the surrounding systems. Be AFK and have your T10 earn hundreds of millions in a single night. There's probably no other method to rake in space cash at a rate like this.

[@jchoneandonly]

Cutter for combat? How?

[@RegisTraiter]

PvP: Engineered prismatic shields, shield boosters, chaff to fuck with scrubs and railguns everywhere. L2Reverski, l2faoff and l2hitwithfixedweapons. Then pick whatever you want to kill and kite it to death. PvE: Engineered bi-weave shields, shield boosters, turret beam lasers (efficient+oversized) in L and M slots up top, multicannons on the bottom. Drive into your favorite PvE zone and turn the turrets on and let out the SLF. Anything smaller than a Vulture dies. Anything larger than a vulture also dies, but faster if you shoot it with multicannons after the shields are gone. Almost input-free.

[@jchoneandonly]

@@RegisTraiter interesting

[@jchoneandonly]

@@RegisTraiter I find my cutter to be a pain to use. Granted I'm going the armed trader route rather than fill combat.

[@RegisTraiter]

@@jchoneandonly Once engineered, it flies like a faster unengineered Conda. Don't overuse boost and you'll be just fine.

[@technoviking2415]

Meta lance has to be number one. Oops i read top 10 combat ships lol

[@Mama_joo]

Im the big mama

[@wrathfuljim2143]

You are making little sense with the shield segment....high effective shield is what you need in PVE, the more value one point of your shield has the better. Good luck recharging 8k shield with shield cell banks and regen.

[@BackToTheMud]

Well done, this was mostly a list how to make PvE combat as boring as possible…

[@jerrybarnette5148]

This game just isn’t fun everyone using the same ship and build

[@Raawaim]

Idiot for not using meta FDL in pvp? Funny

[@TheYamiks]

Let's be frank here mate, what would you as a player perform better in?! FDL or smth that is NOT FDL? A lot of folks tend to dismiss things just cuz they can kill others in almost anything, but that's a testament to their piloting skills NOT that the ship they use is better most of the times.

[@Raawaim]

@@TheYamiks Dude, there are plenty of options to fly in meta pvp that arent the FDL, check out my channel and couple of my latest videos. Chieftain for example can be just as competitive as FDL, or sometimes even more.