Anyone tested Capital Ship Battles?

[TheTanjy]

Has anyone tested fleet on fleet battle dynamics involving capital ships? If so, how are the controls and what is the strategy like?

Anyone twitchstream something like this?

[Kaeltheras]

Has anyone tested fleet on fleet battle dynamics involving capital ships? If so, how are the controls and what is the strategy like?

Anyone twitchstream something like this?

Closest I've done is in a large trade ship vs some Xenon raiders. I was manually flying it though and kinda just let my turrets do all the work with my winged escorts (3 umm discoverers?) the controls werent bad. I did everything through the menu and it was pretty quick to get them all to attack the same target when needed?

Probably didn't help or answer your question! T-T

[TheTanjy]

Well, it was something, thanks.

I'm really interested in knowing how things play out tactically when you have larger ship battles. How was it in X3, if you've played that?

[Kaeltheras]

Well, it was something, thanks.

I'm really interested in knowing how things play out tactically when you have larger ship battles. How was it in X3, if you've played that?

hmm well X3 you had jump drives, which took a lot of the tactical game play out. Being in system and out of system would also effect how I'd approach a large cap/cap fleet battle and many other variables that I could cover if you asked more specific question! Tactically I think you're going to spend the beginning of the fight ordering your fleet through the menu, and after that join in or sit back and watch the fireworks. From what I've seen in my smaller scale fights, the approach really depends on you. RTS or FPS focused approach will dictate tactics.

hopefully that helped?

[TheTanjy]

Yup, it does, and really has an impact on my purchasing decision to be honest.

I've seen some twitch's of bridges with huge windows. Sounds awesome to me to be able to watch ship maneuvers from the bridge of a capital ship.

Also a lot of what you touched on (the lack of jump drives) means that strategic thinking (placement of forces before battles) will be a key role, which is one of the long term gameplay elements that I didn't know about, and frankly may make it worth it for me to invest the time into this.

Seen any twitch streamers do capital ship battles in X4?