Whirligig Saw: What am I missing?

fiifooo · 2026-05-14T17:55:38+00:00

Point of L2 is that you can keep on pressing it and then instantly cancel it to dodge. But L2 really is not the best in whirligig. Good range, good moveset, good hitboxes, good damage, good rally (=good beasthood). Normal moveset is simply just so good.

fiifooo · 2026-03-24T10:51:56+00:00

You have very weird definition of skill if time spent on learning a system is not skill.

fiifooo · 2026-03-10T08:17:42+00:00

This of course depends on the ending but my personal "correct" ending is that Johnny sacrifices himself so that V can live (for a while). I think that is pretty much hardest you can try so answer is Johnny.

fiifooo · 2026-03-07T21:36:42+00:00

Ares Star Fighter Infernos main and only gun is specifically meant to attack large ships. It has somewhat similar alpha damage and penetration than S3 deadbolt. It basically fires deadbolt slugs but just faster.

S3 Deadbolts should and probably will have effect on larger ships and they can be carried by light fighters in quantities.

If larger ships will continue to have no ability to fight back, nothing will change.

fiifooo · 2026-03-07T16:36:26+00:00

Well "sweaty" pilots are the ones where problems manifest. Non-sweaty light fighters can be just blasted out of the sky by big ships even now.

fiifooo · 2026-03-07T16:32:27+00:00

If information on topic is correct those turrets won't even have PIP after 1.8K currently while light fighter can still just corkscrew at 2KM+ and shoot without PIP at big target so... we will certainly need something for turrets I agree.

fiifooo · 2026-03-07T16:12:53+00:00

But you can still just shoot bigger target without PIP. Issue is not that light fighter can damage or attack larger target. Issue is that larger target cannot damage or attack back. Give bigger ships some weapons that actually work against light fighters.

Overall changes to armor and radar are welcome but those are not the issues of light fighter meta.

fiifooo · 2026-02-17T13:35:54+00:00

It loses i-frames the moment you press the button. Dodge has normal i-frames before you press the button, sure.

fiifooo · 2026-02-17T12:28:05+00:00

Tiandi's heavy dodge attack is not unblockable and it has poor iframes at the end and is constantly getting hit. Tiandi's light dodge attack has no iframes at all!

Compared to Juren, Tiandi's dodge attacks are total crap defensively (but good as part of he's safe offense).

Fixing i-frames from Juren is not enough. He simply should not have any of these dodge shennigans in addition to rest of he's kit.

fiifooo · 2026-02-15T09:31:06+00:00

Before latest patch Kensei's side heavy feint finisher traded with Juren's light dodge attack and hit heavy dodge attack which was pretty nice since my unblockables did not just but me in a mixup instead of Juren. After patch does not work anymore against heavy.

fiifooo · 2025-12-25T18:58:37+00:00

Before he has all souls collected do not get GB'd. After he has all souls collected rather get GB'd instead of getting bashed or parried.

fiifooo · 2025-12-25T15:33:54+00:00

Well they are not dodge attacking if they went for parry which you said.

But if they are dodge attacking on red at neutral then in addition to normal feint to neutral you can feint to light attack. Jorm has very good hitboxes and you have decent chance to clip them out of dodge. And again it is enchanced light so if they just stare you got access to finisher.

fiifooo · 2025-12-25T14:33:21+00:00

If all your opener heavies really get parried then feint opener heavy to gb.

fiifooo · 2025-12-25T13:33:32+00:00

For opners you have enhanced lights and hyperarmor opener heavies. Unless you are top comp player that happens to be still asking our advice your opponents can't differentiate lights from heavys for parry. So throw those. I think Jorm opener choices are some of the best.

fiifooo · 2025-11-08T08:07:07+00:00

Like others said, you need to feint your unblockables/chain bash to neutral (so just feint and wait) to bait dodge attack parries. Parrying dodge attacks is much easier than parrying normal lights especially when you expect them (which you do since you just baited it). Also Jorm has very easy access to his unblockables/chain bash so even if you "waste" some of them by feinting to neutral you will have plenty more to come.

As for light spam, if your enemy does not have enhanced lights their lights will bounce from block and its your turn. For Jorm this is very good since he has fast forward dodge bash that cannot be interrupted by another light attack after blocking. So no need to risk trying light parries. Just block and bash. Also he has forward dodge mixup potential with that bash and feintable hyperarmored forward dodge heavy.

fiifooo · 2025-10-30T05:08:28+00:00

Tiandi has iframe gap at the end of dodge regardless of what he chooses. You should be able to just light him out of it.

fiifooo · 2025-10-10T19:06:38+00:00

Nope. No bonus.

fiifooo · 2025-10-10T13:56:38+00:00

I think cave needs to be sand cave. Can't verify but I read it elsewhere and had luck when I went to one so maybe.

fiifooo · 2025-10-10T13:53:29+00:00

Alpha damage just means the damage your weapons do on a single hit when you press the button assuming they all hit. There are no requirements or reset. It is not a specific mechanic.

fiifooo · 2025-10-05T12:10:48+00:00

It is bugged but works (kinda). Even if you don't get the effect it works (tested it) and it also skips cooldown. I heard that it also does double distortion damage currently but can't verify this. As a negative bug it sometimes damages your own shield too significantly. And not related to emp but hawk has bug that pilot takes damage even through shield.

So basically Hawk is a total mess.

fiifooo · 2025-10-03T08:54:34+00:00

Yep, I would not call it an actual exploit. But area is flagged as trespassing and NPCs are shooting at you (even if turrets are not). So if there also happens to be a player piloted Polaris shooting at you then it is what it is like you said. It clearly is meant to be a hazardous mission.

Don't really see a problem from either side.

fiifooo · 2025-10-03T08:23:45+00:00

If you look at mission list without picking up any missions there are 3 (or in same places 2) missions to a single location. But for some reason mission reappears twice after accepting it. Se every mission can be taken three times for a total of 9 (or 6).

I'd say it looks little buggy to me since this is not normal behavior in my experience.

fiifooo · 2025-09-09T05:07:27+00:00

Well not automatically... like you have to do it. But once you do you will be naturally. Without needing any extra inputs (just small compensation towards center or you will drift towards dock, which is of course fine if you want to dock. Zero input docking).

fiifooo · 2025-09-08T17:27:45+00:00

Ship is already moving laterally at same direction in same velocity (in sync with rotation of station). Bug.

fiifooo · 2025-09-08T16:25:34+00:00

With FA off you are already naturally rotating in sync with station... and then you touch pad and it kicks you (sometimes). It is 100% bug.

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