The Great Escape… Vector
Elite Dangerous Tips for Beginners
Interdiction is a bitch. There’s no other word for it. You’re flying along doing your bulletin missions or lugging around a Cargo Hold full of Palladium and some son of a goblin decides to pull you out of high speed travel. It might be pirates out to steal your booty.
It might even be the System Authority Service doing a routine spot check. Whatever it is, thanks to the Escape Vector minigame of Elite: Dangerous you can avoid Interdiction.
When some nefarious evil doer or goodie-two-shoes authority figure tries to pull you out of Supercruise, the whole screen goes a little… well fucked up. A blue hue fills your window and the very ship protecting you from the unforgiving vacuum rattles like a barn door in a tornado. If you’re trying to avoid this then whatever you do, make sure that throttle is pushed right to the limit.
On your screen is displayed a circle that looks similar to a target icon. In order to escape Interdiction, you have got to ensure that your own targeting reticle is close or upon this blue circle as much as possible.
Two bars are also displayed to the left and right of your targeting system. The blue bar on the left is the one you need to fill up while the red bar opposite is one you’ll want to see empty. It takes plenty of course correction and maneuvering to fully utilize the Escape Vector but when you do, you’re free and clear.
There are times mind you where suffering an Interdiction is a good thing. Those times are when you’re a bounty hunter. Should an enemy pirate pull you out of Supercruise, this is the perfect opportunity to surprise them with a bucket-load of fire in return for their mistake.
To do this, widely known as submitting to an Interdiction, simply decelerate completely and prepare to do a merry amount of damage to whoever dares to interrupt your Elite: Dangerous time. When you’re in systems that are listed as being in a state of Anarchy, every Interdiction will be a Pirate so be warned.
