How do you fight in this game?

[hencook]

I'm new at BC, and just getting through single player...

So let's say I'm trying to disable a ship's cannons. Do I:

A: Directly "Disable" that ship's cannons
B: Disable Shield Generator, and then disable cannons
C: "Destroy" ship until the shields are down, and then disable cannons
D: Disable the specific side shield that the cannons are behind, and then disable the cannons (which i have no idea how to do?)


Does boosting my sensor array help track cloaked vessels? If I'm already attacking a vessel that I can clearly see, can I reduce the sensor array to 1%? Can I get through the Captain difficulty without Manual Fire? Are compressors a type of phaser cannon?

[FarShot]

In the top left corner there is a target list full of ships.  Obviously you know that if you click one of those ships, you target it.  If you click the ship's name again, a submenu appears, allowing you to target specific points on that ship, such as Bridge, Compressors (essentially alien phasers), and at that point, you don't need manual targeting (there's manual targeting and manual control, I think you mean where you use the mouse as a targeting reticule).

As for tactics, I just point and shoot 
Oh, and dropping sensor power to one basically only detects ships that are right next to you.  I usually don't fiddle with power things -- run and gun dude, run and gun.

I hope this has helped.
Ryan out.

[hencook]

As for tactics, I just point and shoot 
Oh, and dropping sensor power to one basically only detects ships that are right next to you.  I usually don't fiddle with power things -- run and gun dude, run and gun.

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[RCgothic]

Personally I set sensors to 1% unless I'm targetting subsystems. Engines, sheilds and weapons all get boosted to 125%, which increases your sheild recharge, speed, manoeuvrebility and damage potential.

[Billz]

I normally go with targetting the impulse engines of enemy ships as that area tends to be a blind-spot for shields. Once I knock out the engines, they are a sitting target meaning that they can't do much with me now pounding on their sensors.

A ship is only a good weapon when its moving.

Stop it moving, and they are pwned.

[MLeo]

Unless you install a mod that uses Sensor power (such as the Inaccurate Phasers from FoundationTechnologies) then you can safely drop the sensor power to 1% (but not 0%!).

I tend to go after the Sensor array first, since if you take that out (so being disabled is enough), then the ship can't target anything.

[hencook]

So I figured it out... The whole time I was playing this game, I was multitasking, giving orders to Diaz and not actually manually piloting the ship. Once I started manually piloting, the game became REAL easy... but it's a total pain when Diaz is fighting for you. Have any of you guys been successful at playing the game without switching over to manual flying?

[Billz]

Diaz and Felix are pretty much useless in a fight.

You are best off flying the ship and firing the weapons yourself.

[FarShot]

Have any of you guys been successful at playing the game without switching over to manual flying?

I have.  I monitor them like a hawk.
If you want to do something real cool... Well...
http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/Shoot_Bridge_Commander_voice_profile_for_KM10;91090
You can edit that to your liking.  Here's mine that I use.  http://files.filefront.com/bridge+commanderxml/;13273003;/fileinfo.html
Note that the keys here are not mapped the same as KM or stock BC.  They're to my own configuration.  You can try to figure out exactly what each voice command does, or you can make your own.  To do that, use this - http://www.gameclubcentral.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=429

[MLeo]

May I just point out that you can't use that xml out of the box? The minus (-) in front of some nodes will prevent that.

[FarShot]

I just copy and pasted that from the actual XML file that I'm using.

[MLeo]

You copied from Internet Explorer? If you attach the actual file, then it will be fine to use.

The - are mostlikely for folding nodes, right?

[FarShot]

Edited so it doesn't take up half the page  .

[LordReserei]

it depends on the ship your using and the ship/s your fighting. Each ship has it's strengths and weaknesses, it takes time to get to know them unless it's pointed out in the readme or TGL files. Either way, I usually have weapons, and engines to 125% while sensors at 50% depending on how far I distance myself from the enemy and how many enemies I'm fighting, boost it for when I have to scan the area for cloaked ships and shields usually set to 200%. Boost shields when needed or redistribute them when I'm running low on power.

If I'm outnumbered, shields failing and low on torpedoes, depending on the situation I send out a distress call for ships to help or I go to a point, enter silent running far out of sensor range of the enemy until enough repairs have been made, slowly intercept the target and end silent running when within torpedo range and fire quantum or photon depending on what I have although I try my best to have a few quantum torpedoes when the odds don't look good and I have to do the previously said.

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Either way, like I said, depending, I usually target the shields and then impulse before weapons, another thing I like to do when the shields are down is transport a torpedo or transport crew members off the ship....damn I love KM and oh so many mods which has made ST: BC more like the movies and tv shows. lol


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