[Elite: Dangerous] Mach Chicken

"Mach Chicken" [mach ˈCHikən] - (noun):
1. The act of jousting one another in supercruise with an SCO (supercruise overcharge) FSD until one ship or the other runs out of fuel.
2. A game which will probably soon drive CrimsonGamer99 to drink.
I don't expect you to watch this whole thing. I certainly did not. Here's the highlights:
0:23 Mach Chicken begins
2:10 Chat PvP
5:23 bigbird runs out of fuel
6:25 drop on low wake
6:53 SCO-assisted interdiction
7:22 duel begins
8:41 first shield break
11:36 beans
18:50 MAKE IT STOP
19:33 second shield break
20:43 banzai

[@CrimsonGamer99]

I don't expect you to watch this whole thing. I certainly did not. Here's the highlights:
0:23 Mach Chicken begins
2:10 Chat PvP
5:23 bigbird runs out of fuel
6:25 drop on low wake
6:53 SCO-assisted interdiction
7:22 duel begins
8:41 first shield break
11:36 beans
18:50 MAKE IT STOP
19:33 second shield break
20:43 banzai

[@ninjajagyr]

The "oh no" when bird realizes what's happening

[@higgsbonbon]

"hmmmm today I will play chicken at 1200 times the speed of light"
this is the future I want for humanity

[@XShaneX19]

What this thing did for the game so far:
Great way for players to annoy gankers
Great way for gankers to annoy players
Great way to make Fuel-Rats members rediscover their will to live.

[@YveltalExtreme]

1:49 Target cargo dropped, in supercruise....... something tells me their cargo hatch melted away lol

[@Hissymaster]

The cargo is now flying out the system at twelve hundred c... or it just evaporated.

[@karboblarbo1476]

@@Hissymaster The cargo instantly decayed into relativistic particles.

[@driftgmd]

This Orca at the beginning is literally named "Battle Bus." 💀

[@Hissymaster]

The throngler is gonna be running laps around these cowards.

[@zenammu]

Yall are making me want to pvp. Then i think about all the materials i got to farm and my enthusiasm dies

[@CrimsonGamer99]

That's next in my tutorial series

[@TerracottaBrick]

You can easily fill up on mats and forget about them for a long time.

[@Shuttle-256]

Jameson crash site for Encoded; Crashed Anaconda for Raw; Dav's Hope for Manufactured
Should only take a few hours.

[@TerracottaBrick]

@@Shuttle-256 HGEs are way better for manufactured, don't go to dav's. Also crystal shards for raws too.

[@virtuallyglace]

@@Shuttle-256 crashed anaconda is only good for a few mats, much better to take one trip to the crystal shards, use flak + collector limpet trick and get everything,
davs hope also sucks since material traders were added, HGE searching much faster even just for one certain material

[@grantjeffcoat3142]

Missile spam, reverski, dude, he's got ALL the tricks.

[@FakeJeep]

17:40 that was a satisfying bonk lol
20:35 but that one was better xD
"Battlebus" I love it.

[@flipmiller8816]

This was quite fantastic... I thought PVP vids would be dead for a little while with the new drives... GG's for Bigbird staying to play and a fantastic performance from both of you, I thought it would be 'over' in less than a minute after interdiction. Battles like this is when ED really shines.

[@happymoonmonkey]

Good job. SCO interdictions are going to take some getting used to.

[@deavo74]

SCO battle was interesting. Good work o7

[@Squidgy55]

I got ganked earlier. Really pissed me off.

[@CrimsonGamer99]

refer to my second most recent video.

[@Squidgy55]

​@@CrimsonGamer99Cheers. I had intended to watch that at some point then forgot. I guess that's what I get for procrastinating... Mistakes were made.

[@margotrosendorn6371]

Move over, Mach Jesus!

[@stefanlight]

there is one lifehack, I remember it worked for me - you can intercept even in a FSD supercharge, and when you can use the interceptor, you will instantly stop on the enemy’s tail and will be busy with interception, and not with how to stop.

[@CrimsonGamer99]

Requires being aligned with their rear, which this guy managed to prevent

[@Blaze10523]

Packs and reverski... what a fuckin goober lol

[@CrimsonGamer99]

I was about to cede victory when I lost all the guns, but I decided to spam reboot out of spite.

[@mint_the_mighty]

this was the most elusive throngle ive ever seen

[@genogaron]

TLDW, I'm happy for you, or I'm sorry that happened.

[@CrimsonGamer99]

yes

[@HyperMuffin12]

not even 2B funny launcher can hold against the throngler

[@Frank_Likes_Pie]

I watched the whole thing.

[@perfect_sinner]

Dude, toggle on and off your silent run every 3 seconds. It will interrupt missile targeting. They couldn't focus on target in this time

[@scalie]

what a goober

[@JaxVictorino]

Everyone say woooooooou

[@koncuzion9511]

Cant believe your still playing this, thought you were done with elite

[@CrimsonGamer99]

I have posted an elite dangerous video on average once every two weeks for the past 6 years.

[@koncuzion9511]

Gee probably have some catching up to do then haha good shit 👍

[@NPC-nn4qe]

It wasn't until 3 minutes in that I realized what those dashboard decorations spelled out.
smh.

[@papadaniel1773]

Come get throngled lmao

[@matthewhill5734]

do you use mouse and keyboard or a flight stick and throttle, if the latter, which one do you recomend?

[@CrimsonGamer99]

I use a VKB Gladiator and a VKB Omni Throttle.
HOTAS is better than gamepad by a longshot, but keyboard and mouse are perfectly viable. Some of the best pvpers swear by KBM.

[@Blackout1945]

this is almost like that time i fought you for half an hour

[@rougehawk]

uwu sus

[@Neo-vz8nh]

Yea seems like it is better toy for the gankers, as nobody doing else want much lower jumprange. But if you afraid of gankers, you can equip one before hand... Or go to solo

[@xPara]

It seems like it's primary intended purpose was to quickly navigate to the further thargoid Titans. Hopefully we get some better versions of this FSD at some point.

[@CareyEvans]

I put one in a Dolphin and sure, I miss the range, but I can do surface scans of whole systems without the interminable waiting to get from planet to planet. Then I put one in an Eagle for pirate elimination missions in a neighbouring system, did some exobiology on a distant planet as well, and with the scans and exobiology I made enough credits that I don't need any more credits.
Anyway, hi from someone who's not a ganker and is having fun with it.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

@@CareyEvans It is not about fun. I made a build which can reach 1 million ls. But the vast majority of players and builds won't sacrifice this much range. It think 95%+ of ships you encounter will has normlas FSD. This could be better if it could be engineerable.

[@virtuallyglace]

a lot of people are missing the point i feel, imo its mostly for combat ships that dont even need jumprange in the first place to drop onto a wingmate faster for all pve/ax/pvp or get to places like the titan

[@Neo-vz8nh]

@@virtuallyglace so for gankers.

[@franceschik1]

what engineering do you use on your power distributor?

[@CrimsonGamer99]

The only modification you should ever put on any power distributor (with rare exceptions) is this, the meta distro:
Maximum size, A-rated
G5 Charge Enhanced
Super Conduits experimental
The Throngler is an exception, and requires a rare off-meta experimental, using cluster capacitors instead of super conduits (everything else is the same). The only reason for this is that cluster capacitors provides just barely enough weapons capacitor charge to fire all five plasmas. You would never put cluster capacitors on a build that doesn't need it, because you want to maximize your recharge.

[@franceschik1]

@@CrimsonGamer99 Thanks!

[@Sir-Complains-a-Lot]

Tldw

[@j4rvismick]

So
Who has maore fuel? 🤣🤣

[@barkeepermo2732]

i think i know that guy....

[@barkeepermo2732]

i DO know that guy.... he applied to join The Code

[@B0ss4n0v4]

aside from being annoying as fuck, what did he accomplish there?

[@xPara]

he played the game with someone who played back

[@seanm.9334]

Mfs when people have fun in a game