Basic Rules, Tips and Tricks For Beginners?

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The good thing about Crossfire that I've always loved when creating a new char without credits is that the Very Heavy Fighters from the vanilla version of the game can be found almost EVERYWHERE. In each and every added system ( systems that you can go into from X-3043 ), on each and every station that is not selling any added by the mod ships, you can find Eagle, Titan and Sabre.

As for beginning you can spend some time in Liberty/Bretonia/Rheiland so you can get at least 800K-1 mil credits. After that you can make your way to X-3043 which is definitely not hard and get yourself a nice Eagle to fly with. I`m suggesting the Eagle as it's the perfect ballance between weapons slots and maneuverability, Titan is strong but slow, Sabre has a lot of guns slots but it's still not as good as Eagle. You will purshase the Eagle for around 500K and here comes the best part :

You will go to Arena, dock on the planet, and find ALL the weapons in the lvl range 1-9. This is great because you wont even need a good reputation with the faction to get their weapons

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If you remember, in the vanilla version of the game you need a good reputation with the Corsairs to buy Tizona del Cid. Well that is not needed on Crossfire!

After you get yourself some weapons and shields you can go at Freeport 7 and kill some nomads for Nomads Weapons. But, be careful, the damn bastards are hitting hard D:

Or, if you want codename weapons you can either - ask some player if he/she has some for sale, kill ASF/CSF ships in X ( they hurt even more than the nomads ), farm the wrecks

If you have any question, feel free to ask!

Regards,
Tyrael

EDIT : A few words about the Shroud :

The Shroud was, is and will be one of the best ships in Crossfire. It's great for PvE and PvP because of it's agility ( which I think got a bit nerfed in 1.7 because of complaints how fast it was ) and it's weapons slots. I`m using Shroud for around 4 years now and I can say that it's a great ship !

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lol after all this praises look at POS these days and u will see many Shrouds around, welcome back in club Tyrael m8

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i tried all ships and guess what happened lol j/k Shroud is not that good, this is just my way of fight against some Lagg's n00bs

Shroud indeed misses some of it's agility, but it can be lethal if you're using a specific setup and you know how to fly it

Ok, so here's a tip and a little known tidbit that people fail to take into account all too often. Projectile speed is important. It's not so much important that you have a high projectile speed as it is that the projectile speeds of your weapons are all similar, this is especially true with evasive enemies like you find all over crossfire. Shooting projectiles that travel at different speeds means you have to lead your target by different amounts for each weapon if you want to hit them, and that is an impossibility as all your guns are slaved to the single point your mouse is designating.

What happens if you pick a nice fast lazer cannon (like the justice from the beginning of the game) and pair it with a slow heavy hitter (like the lava blade or magma hammer from early game) is that your pipper (the handy little box that tells you where to aim) will guide your fastest projectiles into your enemy and you will meanwhile under compensate with your heavy hitter which will fly harmlessly behind them. My example weapons have a 250m/s difference between their respective velocities of 750m/s and 500m/s (don't confuse projectile speed with fire rate. different fire rates make no difference in accuracy, only in the weapons DPS). I'd recommend no more than a 100 m/s difference between your fastest and your slowest weapons and that's pushing it a little for weapons you really like. Remember, the closer the muzzle velocities of your cannons, the more of them you will get on a passing or swerving target at one time.

It's not impossible to do well with weapons operating at different speeds, but keep in mind that you will only get the full effect of all your guns when you are either right behind your target or when the two of you are going head on.

Best ship:

what wil that ship cost me

awesomeness

10000000000000000 .....00000000 ZzZ to Spiky for official buying a rights to be a "pink of CF"

LOL! Pink eagle FTW!
Anyways, welcome to the mod. If you see me, dont hesitate to hail me. There are many who would like to help a new player.
Cya in space m8!

yeah, but unless you're maxed out, watch out for ungrateful little snot new players. i learned that the hard way. thought i would go out of my way to provide a gratis escort to a group of basic ships who let me get halfway to kusari before everyone opened fire on me while docking with a trade lane. i don't care so much that i died, but that was a damn underhanded way to cheat me out of 20 escape pods. they could have just as easily told me to go away at the beginning. there. got that rant out.

:EDIT: to be clear I'm still happy to give anyone a hand if they ask, but I probably wont be inclined to jump in and help on my own anymore unless I know you.