Fireing Backwards..

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Fireing Backwards..

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It might just be me being dumb but when i die to missiles they are always fired backwards. I think this slightly ruins it for me but I wont complain..
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witch drive fuel injectors and ECM will save you hehehheheheh
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Pappy55 wrote:
It might just be me being dumb but when i die to missiles they are always fired backwards. I think this slightly ruins it for me but I wont complain..
What do you mean "fired backwards"? I don't understand.
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[/quote]What do you mean "fired backwards"? I don't understand.[/quote]

When I am chaseing a pirate fireing at his aft he launches missiles at me..
without ecm or fuel injectors thay can hurt..
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Well, what do you expect him to do? Stand still until you have slaughtered him?

Of course he'll use everything he's got in order to defend himself. And a missile is a nice defense, especially against someone who has no ECM. :twisted:
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Pappy55 wrote:
When I am chaseing a pirate fireing at his aft he launches missiles at me..
without ecm or fuel injectors thay can hurt..
Well to be frank, what else would you expect. I guess if you don't have injectors, or an ECM it's not a good idea to have a pop at a pirate.

Get yourself equiped and you'll be ok. Remember continued use of the ECM can also take out hardened missiles.

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I have actually sped forward using fuel injectors and hit my own missile.
Don't think it did me any damage, but it killed the missile.
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Post by Arexack_Heretic »

There is also an inertia/momentum/relativespeed factor in surviving missiles,
usually a fully juiced vanilla cobraMkIII can survive a missile in the rear, while dieing from a frontal hit.
So always try to run away if lacking an ECM, don't forget to dodge though!
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