Flight Mode - Uncoupled [ESP not configured - on Default].
Setup - Saitek X52, Saitek Rudder, TrackIR.
Game Loops - Salvaging, Gem Mining, Cargo Running, Sight Seeing, Ground Combat.
Firstly, I'm a new player to Star Citizen with just 4 weeks. In the Persistent Universe I mainly focus on calm and relaxing Game Loops with very little Ship Combat. I only first went into Arena Commander this week to try out Master Modes and thought I would provide a little insight on what I think of the new Flight Model arriving in Patch 3.23.
By all means I'm not a very good Pilot, my death rate for stupidity outweighs deaths by others by a long shot, however after trying Master Modes, I have to say that I don't hate Master Modes, I simply hate the limitations it has placed on our Ship Control.
Is Master Modes fun and engaging? Definately, they are in the right track for this, however one major issue I find is the lack of manoeuvrability. Although Master Modes is designed to balance all aspects of the Game, there is one argument that I tend to see a lot, which is the Ship Controls are just too difficult for close Combat.
I can agree that it can be challenging to control the speed of your Ship relative to the opponent, however, with a little practice it's not really that hard. Maintaining this throughout the duration of the Fight is the hard part. After 1 Month of playing though, with very little Ship Combat, I am very easily able to orbit opponents in Uncoupled Mode.
The reduction in the Speed though for me isn't really the issue, it's the reduction of Boost that came with that, which makes it near impossible to reposition behind the Enemy as the relative speeds are similar throughout the entire fight.
Squad Combat in Arena Commander can be pretty entertaining, however 1v1's can be extremely dull and you will usually find yourself stuck in a forever merry-go-round as you struggle to position yourself away from the nose of the AI who sticks to you like glue. Increasing the Boost would help break this cycle, as well as catching up to Targets in the distance as you tend to just chase from a distance and spray and pray until the Enemy starts heading for you.
So although Master Modes may be heading in the right direction, I hope some of the refinement they do, is increasing the effect of using Boost.
00:00 - Persistent Universe Combat
03:20 - Arena Commander Combat
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-- PC Specs --
Alienware Aurora R12, 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11700F [8-Core, 16MB Cache, 2.5GHz to 4.9GHz w/Intel Turbo Boost Max
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6
32GB Dual Channel DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz, up to 128GB
Windows 10 Home, 64bit