Deus Siddis
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"The slylandro are INSANE."
Not really, if I recall correctly they're just bad programmers and the one you talk to is maybe a pervert.
"It's only by abusing the AI that you can survive fights with them at all."
What? Do you mean the destruct code? Because when I played through UQM, I made a major part of my resources from killing 500 credit probes.
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Halleck
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You can train yourself to know exactly where cloaked ilwrath are. This is because of how the game centers the view.
What happens is that the game draws an imiaginary line between your ship and the enemy. The game then centers the camera at the midpoint of this imaginary line. That means that wherever your ship is, the enemy will be at the exact opposite position on the screen.
Also, notice that cloaked ilwrath can blot out stars.
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Deus Siddis
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I have abused nothing. It is a probe, it is not meant for combat (it doesn't even have the missiles that it was supposed to.) I am a human- a species of lifeform well evolved for warfare. You shouldn't expect a circuit board to go up against something like that and win. 
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Death 999
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The mere fact that you've overrationalized your abuse of the AI doesn't mean it isn't AI abuse.
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Deus Siddis
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So what? Probes don't pull your arms out of their sockets when they lose. 
File a complaint.
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Captain_Smith
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There are many good threads on this board about how to do different fights. In fact, that's where the highlight of the game is (even past the RPG element, that's the best part that's left).
When you practice be sure to practice on "Awesome" though - that's where the CPU generally is when you are in the RPG part of the game.
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Clay
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However, nothing quite compares with the all-out mayhem piloting a Pkunk with an analog stick...
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Michael Martin
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