Reccomendation for late game ship

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Brand new game! and my head is still spinning

well, nobody can claim i have been lazy in the past 3 years

Can't remember, that anybody claimed that, but many demanded more and more and more and ... in always
shorter and shorter and shorter time .... of the amazing stuff you come up with for what you've done
... only already ?

I like the new Redemption!
Vardek

I have several Iguana btw... and you're correct bro... the agility is a bit different... bit slow actually.
And the damage taken is more compared to CF1.9 version ...
Seems like its getting bigger too... where i have difficulties in passing through asteroids field... keep bouncing around ...

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well, nobody can claim i have been lazy in the past 3 years

there is one thing op you can be sure of as you are that this statement would be the furtherest on our minds. more like creative and patient and consistant comes to mind. what ever you do there is always the knockers and whingers.keep the vision going .

kermit

Nuc Nuc what is your online chars name?
Vardek

@Vardek
Just have a look to le left ... below my avatar pic, section Freelancer Ch...

Or at my signatur, you might get the main idea : ... anything with ...APE... in it
(tbh : quite a number of chars I "have to care" for )

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Nuc Nuc what is your online chars name?
Vardek

I can answer that ... anything/anyone who look like or fly like an APE, he's NucNuc ... hehehe
Just kidding handsome bro... hehehehe....

Well, maybe someone can help me as well. I am currently playing the campaign and i think i'm in the latter half already or even close to the end. I'm probably at this point in the game:

So far i've been flying a sabre, which is a bit old fashioned, i admit. Still i'm not seeing ANY chances in combat anymore. The

just rip me apart. I've been playing Freelancer for many years now and i think i have quite some experience (mostly online, but story as well), but i really think, my ship is far to weak by now. I even had the chance to purchase a cruiser before, but i didn't take it. Maybe I should have? I see, that the sabre isn't state of the art anymore, but the other VHF in this thread aren't *that much better* than a sabre, or are they? (Talking only about the use vs npcs! - Singleplayer!)

Tl;dr version: Can someone recommend me a good ship (fighter or gunboat prefered) to end the campaign with? Which stands a chance? (I understand, that CF is significantly harder than the original FL singleplayer) And maybe also give some hints about equipment i should get? My loadout is still pretty vanilla, no shield reactor boosters or anything. But please no spoilers about the story or what is yet to come

Edit: And i kinda like the Bullpup MKIII Freighter. It has a lot of firepower for sure. Would that be an option? Or is he far to big and slow to stand a chance against whatever the story is yet to throw against me? Loadout suggestions (for the MKIII or whatever ship you recommend) are also highly appreciated

@Spaceman15: which guns do you have (All equiptment) ?
And https://swat-portal.com/forum/…i/crossfire/combatguides/ is absolutely recommended.
I would probably choose another ship, but actually idk that much about Sabre

I can confirm that Coalition Saber is a good ship for IC (Used it myself there several times).
Also, on that adversary:

Sorry guys, what do you mean with IC exactly?

maybe?

About the weapon setup/equipment:

So i'm flying my chimera right now, but I think i'm going to check out the Rhineland VHF and the Coalition Saber as well. I think either should work fine, but the 2 sunslayers from the Chimera sound nice to me. Anything else I really need to proceed?

Yeah, don't pick up lvl 9 weapons to combine them with Gatlings. That doesnt work. Use here missiles, especially those which you cannot buy but only find

And with Rhineland VHF you mena the Rapier VHF, or? Not very agile.

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Sorry guys, what do you mean with IC exactly?

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maybe?

Exactly. Also, Class 9 hardpoints are advised for missilesoops, didn't notice.