Griefing the gankers with a melee FDL | Classic Elite Dangerous PVP 

People are little girls in this game lmao imma have to play it and make people cry 🤣

Calling other people douchebags or salty because they do pvp, seems about right.

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Back when I used to play this game, I would always play in open because I enjoyed the idea that you don't know what other players are going to do.

same... i find the whole notion of playing in Solo, ridiculous. I feel for ppl who get ganked and I agree, many of those gankers take it beyond realism...but still, what is the point of playing, at all, if there is ZERO RISK??? @@donnysheldon5835

When I used to play Elite I would play in Open almost exclusively, except when I was exploring. If getting killed didn't delete all your data then I wouldn't care, but the game punishes explorers way too harshly for dying, even if it's just at the hands of a troll. An exploration ship is woefully underequipped for PvP, unless you're using an Anaconda. There's literally 0 risk to a ganker if he goes after an exploration ship so I can't really blame players for mitigating the risk.

Nowadays you sell on your carrier so you can't lose your data. And before carriers you just go solo as you return from a big trip. Why would someone risk their data from a long trip? And if they do, they do, right?

Thanks for the reminder; I've updated the description to include a link to this build. The PAs here are all grade 5 efficient with a mix of target lock breaker, dazzle, and dispersal as the added effects.

I agree, excellent instructions and use of slow-mo, thank you. I'm a long time player but still ropey at PvP. This kind of clear instruction really helps.

A bit old for PVP aren't you? By my estimation, anyone who's had an account for over 14 years must be at least 26, but probably 30 (!) maybe you should focus on something more age appropriate and suitable for your reflexes, like mining 😂

@@DarthWall275 your estimation is an absolute nonsense.

@@81DocSem Oh?

With lots of practice at situational awareness, pip mgmt starts feeling natural. I don't even min/max it; there are even quicker ways to manage it that most serious PVPers use: pip macros that automatically dump pips into prearanged patterns. I'm manually moving them using a hat switch on top of the stick.

@@VlLEconsumer Good riddance, honestly, given your childish attitude. This is a sim, and real(istic, even in a space sim) fight isn't about sparky maneuvers that make kiddos go "wooooow". PS. Golf have much nuance too it - but definitely not for people with attention spam of a temperamental teenager too, for sure.

​@@catladygames_ So what?

Cringe.

The flight model is unmatched, truly. It can't die as long as that's true.

It has the best everything

@@empyrean-jamelgreaves8034 "material grinding" "Engineering"

the flight model in incomparably better in star citizen unfortunately, that's what ultimately made me quit

@@gr_egg We must be playing different Star Citizens then, it's more comparable to Starfield than Elite lol are you being serious?

Very fun

Hat switch on top of my stick (Thrustmaster T.16000 FCS). Shields left, engines up, weapons right. Not macro'd like most PVPers use, so it's a bit inefficient moving pips one at a time.

I believe it's a stock voice you get with the game: Victor.

I've used the same method since 2016. Open "C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\elite-dangerous-odyssey-64\GraphicsConfiguration.xml" in Notepad, scroll down a little to "GUIColour", "" and change the MatrixRed, MatrixGreen, and MatrixBlue numbers. My color's called Baron Blue (got it from a guide on the offical forums years ago): 0, 0.33, 0.75 0, 1, 0 1, 0, 0

My recommendation would be EDHM.

Relative mouse

@@mikeenslin3009 And a lot fo fiddling with the curve, sense and deadzone.

Those are symptoms of gankers, not the act.

This video is from 2018. At the time I was playing ED with my roll bound to some slaw device RX Viper pedals. I had wracked up a lot of hours on them and the insulation on one of the cables to the RJ45 connector for my right pedal actually wore through during the fight causing the axis bound to my roll to short out. Starmony was a homie and gave me time to electrical tape the connection and rebind the axis. At the point shields broke that last time I could have still left but I wanted to stick around to see it through. Obviously I stuck around till death and gave a gg afterward, not sure what else you would want me to do at that point lol. He definitely earned the kill and the 900k credits that came with it. Either way figured some context would be interesting for you to have.

The tip or pointy bit of a lance, a lance is a spear.

it's a classic

I guess I can get pretty good at running lol

​@@sonic-bbdon't be a coward lol I ain't never seen a gaming community so afraid to play a game 🤣 have fun! Or play by yourself

@Say-ro4rq I mean it's not fun getting hunted by end game ships while I'm in a sidewinder :/ (not that I'm in one anymore. But I'm just saying)

@@leemills6825 I believe you're referring to Rinzler's epic The Git Gud Guide to Trading in Open: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Uh9AWV_BWo0.htmlsi=ZLcvriRYjqtxr6GX

This is basically why I haven't done any pvp even though I've got close to 7000 hours.

@@ordinaryman5070ive been doing pvp since 2017, only encountered one cheater and it was hilarious, it wasn't even a proper fight. Not sure where you encounter all those cheaters...

Correct! It's generally better to run engineered shield cell banks in the two class 4 slots and leave when shields are done. That plus switching out the hull to engineered lightweight give you 10-12 m/s better speed then this particular build.

yep

Yeah but putting something like "killing gankers" in the title never fails to get an amazing feedback from the community... Like it's just normal pvp in a meta lance lol

too many people are saying that shit is staged with absolutely nothing backing up their claim

Did you ever get involved in active player groups that focused on PVP? There was a glorious golden age of Elite around the times of these videos (2017-2020) where lots of organic PVP happened at community goals and founders world between lawful groups like SPEAR, AA, 13th Legion, etc and criminals/gankers like SDC, Nomads and The Code along with plenty of random wing fighting and 1v1s among everyone in a constant battle to see who the best are and who just talk a good game. These three fights were during a period where I was being actively hunted by several groups (long story), so I was taking the fight to them when I could isolate them. As for right now in 2023, yeah...there isn't as much threat from gankers anymore. All but the most dedicated like Andy Polaris (just hang out in Founders World long enough and you'll see his gang) have moved onto other games. But there definitely are still organic fights to be found if you go out looking.

Either provide proof for your claim or you will be punished.

Post a video to prove it or shut up.