Newcomer / Intro Lost my ship to another entering supercruise

[malkythealky]

Well at least that is the only thing I can think that might have happened.

I was just about to take out a Cobra until it tried to escape. Putting all my power to the engines I caught up with him pretty sharpish and ended up pulling in front of him. All of a sudden my ship is telling me to eject and I blow up, all whilst having full hull integrity and shields.

Moral of the story is don't get in front of someone whose about to enter supercruise!

 

[willowfan]

You've basically had a collision at very high speed. No shield is going to stop you going BOOM.

 

[Mountain Dewed]

I wondered about something similar as I've seen some whiz by me very close calls when approaching a station. I wondered if those in faster cruise mode can make contact with us or not?

 

[HipToss]

I wondered about something similar as I've seen some whiz by me very close calls when approaching a station. I wondered if those in faster cruise mode can make contact with us or not?

I bought a Sidey and tried to ram others in SC to see if it was possible. After 30 minutes and maybe 100 tries, nothing. The closer you get you realize how fast you are going. And trying to ram on their 6 is very hard as well. Matching speed is insane and I always over shot. Anyone else try this?

 

[Ophion]

I've tried it but was never successful.

 

[malkythealky]

I bought a Sidey and tried to ram others in SC to see if it was possible. After 30 minutes and maybe 100 tries, nothing. The closer you get you realize how fast you are going. And trying to ram on their 6 is very hard as well. Matching speed is insane and I always over shot. Anyone else try this?

I think it'd be good to have a control to match the speed of your current target, it could make dogfighting more interesting. Also, does anyone else find the ship to be really unstable when trying to point in a specific location with flight assist turned off? It just seems to wobble around everywhere. I know there could be plenty of explanations for the way it handles, but it'd be nice to be able to accurately lay down fire without battling with the controls to stay on target. I'm a keyboard and mouse user btw

 

[Xoie]

I've seen fsd's go through ships a couple times, never seen a collision or explosion though