Fighters - how it works?!

[Loken]

I'm far from the best and there are people much more qualified than I am to give you advice but I'll try to explain what I can from my perspective.

1. When a target moving back (by X-key), it does so quickly that it is difficult to hit. Maneuvers are felt or an extremely fast transition from braking to movement is felt (I don’t know how to explain this, I need a video). A similar maneuver in our case does not always work.

Make sure you strafe so you are moving in the y and z axis to throw off enemy shots, don't stop for too long and don't overuse it or it becomes predictable. The main ways I use reverse thrust are to stop moving and punish someone who turns too early, or just a tap to cut your momentum during a turn and end up closer behind the enemy.

2. The opponent uses the earlyturn technique. An attempt to repeat this technique leads only to varying success, but in fact it is also difficult to hit the target (it is either not visible, or visible, but after a corresponding risk with ship hull and shields). I understand that the risk is justified, but there is a feeling that I am doing something wrong anyway, and this feeling spoils everything.

This sort of thing is hard to explain mechanically, you just have to beat your head against a wall until things start to click. Your goal is to place yourself behind the enemy fighter as close as possible so they are easy to hit. If they get behind you, you can try changing the direction you are turning to throw them off. You really just have to get a feel for this yourself.

3. When trying to transition to an earlyturn, the opponent starts boxing. It is not clear how to turn the enemy's technique against him (although they could have done this against me when I was doing boxing). It is difficult to predict when it is better to start an earlyturn.

If someone is overreliant on boxing you can just drop a mine in front of them and they'll eat it almost every time. If you're practicing without ammo the entire "meta" changes however because it's not equivalent to how a real fight works, and this becomes harder to punish.

Also, a picture is attached. How to do it? I tried doing this in Connecticut, but I didn't fully understand what it all meant. Is there a video that shows this maneuver?

That guide was made a long time ago and I wouldn't think about it too much. Discovery has a lot of outdated tutorials and information floating around and basically everything on the wiki is very old info.

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