Kill of the Week, September 2: show us your best recent Elite kill!

Posted by Alex Sinclair in Elite Dangerous

Welcome to a bounty that we're trialling as a weekly feature. To win the $10 prize, send us video footage of the best kill you made this week! 'Best' is subjective - it could be prettiest, biggest, most epic, or most surprising. We'll judge each kill on its own merits.

We'll accept on-foot kills or in-space kills, but we'll favour PvP takedowns over PvE. Include at least a couple of sentences to contextualise your kill, for example, tell us who you were fighting and what led up to the showdown. Ideally, the kills would have transpired over the last week, but we won't disqualify you if they're a few days older. If your video is over five minutes long, it may be disqualified if you don't timestamp or otherwise indicate the moment of the kill.

Important: To enter original video bounties like this one, you must first connect the YouTube or Twitch account you're sharing the video with. It's how we prove authenticity.

Bounty Rewards

$101 reward

Reward closed

Created at 10:51am, 2nd September, 2024. Page last updated at 10:44am, 9th September, 2024.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 8th September, 2024.

Submissions (6)

RicZA9/8/2024

Tensions within the squadron had flared, and the only way to settle the argument was the old-fashioned way— a dual! A brief skirmish erupted among the rings of a nearby planet, but it didn’t stop there, the fight quickly spilled over onto the planet's surface, where things took an unexpected turn. Some ground-based sympathizers decided to get involved, raising questions of foul play. Still, as they say, "to the victor go the spoils."

I had a blast capturing this moment, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!

Verified

Vuldriel9/7/2024

Verified

My brother just beat the final boss of the Elden Ring DLC at level 1 with no armor and no scadutree blessing, and in that spirit I decided I would build a sidewinder and try to take it pvping.

Blowing up other ships in the tiniest ship in the game is very difficult, but on the bright side it is also very difficult to hit, especially with silent running.

After a few failed attempts, I managed to single out a pvp Python Mk 2 who was looking for a fight in Shinrarta Dezhra. This was my bossfight with him :P

Kill at 7:47

mastercesspit9/7/2024

Verified

USCSS9/7/2024

Destroying a Thargoid Cyclops in less than 1 minute in a settlement under attack

Jimmy0916 / Cmdr Donald Duck9/4/2024

Verified

Organised wing-fights in asteroid belts is the cream of Elite:Dangerous, an already impressive game. They demand skills, experience, team-work and training (and some luck), to achieve victory. Embedded in an incredible flight-model almost fully simulating 100 % real physics, most fights can end either way, if pilots minding above mentioned ingretients participate.

However, in the present fight I could kill two opponents, one at 16:19 and one at 18:51 of the video linked above.

It's obvious that the main damage to these opponents had been done by my wing-mates (and rocks) and I was there at the right time just to finish them off. During the fight I did my share of damage, evaded long enough to bind one to two enemies and buy my team time to blow up other opponents.

In case I should earn this bounty, I will brotherly share it with my wing-mates and we will donate it to charity.

o7
Cmdr Donald Duck