I've done solo pvp, but never an official bonified 1 vs 1 before, so I was a little nervous. Not to mention I rarely fly frigs at all and have really bad navigational skills. (I think the mwd skill is trained to 3 or something.)
But ...it was just tech 1 frigs right? If I died in a fire it wouldn't matter a whole lot. It would still be fun.
I decided to drop the point, figuring since it was arranged it was doubtful he'd run away. Instead, I fit a tracking disruptor I'm apparently very noob because I couldn't fit the tech 2 version and had to settle with a meta 3 I found lying around in my hanger.
We fleet up together and I run to an insta undock due to his friends camping the station. Then, I warp in for the kill.
I'm not usually over excited like some people are when they kill stuff, but this time my heart was actually beating pretty hard. I wanted to win!
He refused to engage until I had found him. For some reason, he wasn't showing on my overview, neither on my friendly nor hostile overviews. So, I had to manually find him in space. When I locked him, it began.
In a topsy turvy, round-about, roun-about mess of flashing lights we lit into each other. I quickly saw it was going to take a while to get through his tank once I hit his armor. Oddly, he had only gotten through about 25% of my shields. And...I was armor tanked.
The fight lasted at least 3-4 minutes, but felt like ages. Finally, he admitted in fleet that he had burned out his armor repairer. He was going down hard.
Until...he ran away. I was so mad, I yelled at him in fleet that he didn't honor his 1 vs 1 and he should come back and tank it like a man. (LOL) He admitted he had been spamming to get his pod out---a force of habit among pvpers.
To my surprise, he came back in. I instantly saw him hitting my shields. I had to mwd to get near, but he was dead within just a couple of volleys.
Nice to know there are pilots out there who still enjoy a good fight.
You were lucky. Typical 1v1 running away isn't actually seen as a dishonorable action, although I personally fight to the death, others feel differently. You can kind of see their point, since you didn't bring a point, nothing is stopping them. In a way it compensates for you fitting an extra mid and possibly tipping the fight in your direction.
ReplyDeleteEither way, he came back, so that's that.
Though I myself don't do it, escaping a losing 1v1 isn't dishonorable, if it can be managed at all.
ReplyDeleteDisrupting a 1v1 by say, decloaking some buddies, now THAT is dishonorable. I'd even call it "dezgra stravag!" in Battletech talk :)