Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

When you fight what is your favorite subsystem to target?

Personally I have been targeting power generators on the big ships and FSDs on the smaller ones. Is it hard to hit canopies? Ive never tried or even thought about it before considering that NPCs shoot to kill, I have noticed that mine gets blown out regularly. I wish that you could comendeer ships this way.

I target power plants, this is the only subsystem that will cause an instant death, but I only do this on things Asp-sized and up because it does not seem worth the hassle on smaller stuff (but if I was in a tiny craft I would probably think otherwise).

As for hitting canopies, you can't target them but you could aim for them I suppose. However all that would do would give the enemy 5 minutes (or more) to get home , probably worth a laugh in PvP but worthless for PvE.

Feldspar wrote:I target power plants, this is the only subsystem that will cause an instant death, but I only do this on things Asp-sized and up because it does not seem worth the hassle on smaller stuff (but if I was in a tiny craft I would probably think otherwise).

As for hitting canopies, you can't target them but you could aim for them I suppose. However all that would do would give the enemy 5 minutes (or more) to get home , probably worth a laugh in PvP but worthless for PvE.

unless you take out the drives then the canopy

Ive been experimenting in the CZ in Eravate and some ships like the Asp has their lifesupport subsystem right next to the canopy area, two birds with one stone! Ive logged out for now but it might be useful in a pvp enviroment for a quick kill. Who knows?

bigger ships - power plant
smaller ships - FSD

Same with me on bigger ships target the power plants.

On the small stuff, my Cobra can strip the shields pretty quick so I don't bother. If the little ones become a pest I will use beams and multi-cannons, otherwise just slice them up with the beams.

Same here, bigger ships I target the power plant(big boom). FSD on smaller craft so they can't run away.

Wish there was a keybind for targeting certain subsystems(not just cycling through them).

Nanosmo wrote:Wish there was a keybind for targeting certain subsystems(not just cycling through them).

I think I have it off by rote what order the subsystems come up on certain craft, all I want to do is hit one key once!

Since I've reconfigured my Weapons systems I've changed the way I fight. Anything under and Asp I don't target, it's just not worth the hassle, 3 shots of cannon fire and Sidey is down, about 6 shots for all others (that is combined with multi-cannons and beans). Asp and up I go for the Power-plant, though if I can, mainly on Anaconda and Python I try get behind and screw up the engines too.