[Guide] [VIDEO] Hot Sweaty Reaver Action

Extended Reaver play on Amerish

ThundaHawk I've dealt with yourself and many other BR 90+ ESF pilots on Mattherson . That being said I was wondering, if you had to choose the top 5 ESF Pilots on TR,NC,VS on Mattherson who would they be?

Might be I'll name names when this thread goes to page 8

Yes i know that but it really when turning and stuff I keep doing a 360 and loose control lol.

How do you pick your targets? Did you see something regarding that galaxy that made you not engage? Admittedly I am a terrible pilot. But when I see a galaxy roaming like that, I would have been on it. Also what loadout do you use?

Racer?

Previously he was saying he uses racer on Reaver and Mosquito. That is a good question though. I would have been on that galaxy like white on rice, what made you not want to pursue?

And the scythe that jumped you just following the galaxy going down: Did you turn to see him out of luck or did you hear him and see the contrails in time?

Great stuff man, I've really been enjoying these vids, thanks for sharing. The tips have been helpful, and I appreciate the insight watching an Ace like yourself in action provides, it's given me some perspective on how much room I have to improve. I'm just glad you play VS on Helios, I get shot down plenty without another pilot of your caliber to contend with.

I wanted to ask, how can a scythe counter the reaver? i have been trying and i'm not the best ESF pilot but i want to really learn about flying ESF. I have noticed that they can rotate and shoot veeeery fast. More than i could do and gives them a very large advantage. I dont know what am i doing wrong but anyone knows what i could do? those reavers always finish behind me shooting with reverse burner

Just found this thread, been enjoying watching through the video, and has given me a few tricks to look for when fighting other ESFs. Also I have enjoyed dodge fighting you over Mattherson as well though I believe you have gotten me more for sure in those engagements

When I tagged/spotted the Galaxy I saw that the pilot had already bailed out. Unlike some other craft that can land alive on their bellies without a pilot, galaxies tend to explode when abandoned so I didn't bother. I checked the wreck for the pilot with NV, but around that time I heard the Scythe coming (Scythe afterburner is the most audibly distinct of the 3; it sounds like pttteewwww).

You want to exercise some caution when attacking things like 1 man Sunderes, 1/12 galaxies and 1/3 liberators. These targets have a lot of hitpoints and if you tunnel vision you're more likely to not notice the ESF about to gank you.

Lol.

You should stop spamming A2A missles from the flight ceiling. Naterian's gonna find ur house and break in...

i think you got the wrong guy as i hate using a2a, i like my rocket pods too much.

Na I think I remember your name. We were fighting a BWC air group on Amerish and Nate/Corewin were like 'this EmperorCanadian ***** is locking me from the ceiling again" and "we gotta kill that EmperorCanadian *****".

Watch out A2A weasels.

Face-to-face, the Reaver is the easiest of the 3 ESF to hit and the Scythe is the most difficult. This makes the most difference when the ESFs engage starting at longer distances and is compounded by the Reaver's gun offset compared to the Scythe's rotary, which seems to have the least bullet deviation and fires the most directly from the point of origin to the reticule.

If you're fighting a Reaver with a Scythe you want to
- stay far away
- stay facing them

Sorry but that sounds like you got outmaneuvered. If you're a newer pilot you'll just have to learn positioning.

Gotta give a brother props, most of the CM guys are rather skilled. I really have to try to kill most of them and you guys stick together well.

Gotta admit that you do something in a Reaver that I don't do and that is boost in a turn when the engines are point down to get a nice fast turn.

I will start doing that from now on.

Just be careful you don't crash. Hover mode has a bug where it fails prematurely causing you to rocket forward.

2:50

GOOD for you that you play on the most skillfree and overspoiled faction of all sides- Most broken overpowered weapons on the Reaver with +30% dmg caused in the same amount of time with the least reload time neccessary.

The air combat balance is broken since the patch where they adapted the maneuverability of the reaver to the lvl of Mossie and Scythe while leaving the broken OP weapons untouched.

=> Looks funny BUT is utterly skillfree when you consider that most of what was shown in the video will simply not happen in e.g. a scythe.

BUT

Anyway - the Nc faction for the soft brained and weak minded - which steadily strife for the easiest mode - are the perfect vitcims for the pay to win mechanic - thats why NC got most players and also get the most OP weapon equivalent on every Empire specific gear release. Check out the new weapon systems on the test server like the Sparrow for the max combined with shield and you exactly know that the **** is going to accelerate not only in account movement for SOE but also in imbalance and players shiftig to NC or stopping to play.

Amerish is so much fun to fly on.

In the future if we have cross-server competitions like I'm dreaming of, the flying portion better be on Amerish.