The Crusade: We take on CODE (Video) 3vs3 Battle

lonewarrior · Apr 15, 2015

As some of you may know, CODE has a bit of a grudge against me
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Anyway, last time they kept using this obvious exploit with wings for instant shield regen so I logged off and refused to fight them
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But then they attacked me again, and this time I evened the playing field with some backup and wanted some revenge, so heres what happened:

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[video=youtube;t_yRoT-ZpbQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yRoT-ZpbQ[/video]

Dave Angel · Apr 15, 2015

What sheild exploit?

lonewarrior · Apr 15, 2015

Dave Angel said:
What sheild exploit?

Ive already been told off by the devs for posting it on here before, there is a way to restore your shields to full using an exploit, im not going to post the method here though

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Although if you search WING on the search of the forums there are some posts abut resetting shields

TieKnee · Apr 15, 2015

Well done +1

Midian27 · Apr 15, 2015

Sounds about right, bunch of cowards. Unless they outnumber or cheat they can't win.

Nefarious Moogle · Apr 15, 2015

It's rather depressing that people are making use of that tactic, to be honest, and one of the reasons I really don't fancy getting involved in any of this sort of thing lately. :/

Globusdiablo · Apr 16, 2015

lonewarrior said:
....But then they attacked me again, and this time I evened the playing field with some backup and wanted some revenge, so heres what happened:....

Nice piece of video editing, and nice can of ....

[video=youtube;aG59WqrAN3M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG59WqrAN3M[/video]

Well done commanders.

Fly safe

Xodz · Apr 16, 2015

lonewarrior said:
As some of you may know, CODE has a bit of a grudge against me
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Anyway, last time they kept using this obvious exploit with wings for instant shield regen so I logged off and refused to fight them
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But then they attacked me again, and this time I evened the playing field with some backup and wanted some revenge, so heres what happened:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yRoT-ZpbQ

Video really shows off just how pointless the huge weapons are against players.

Evangel · Apr 16, 2015

Reminder that combat videos of any kind are considered naming and shaming.
Or videos with other players period.

lonewarrior · Apr 16, 2015

Xodz said:
Video really shows off just how pointless the huge weapons are against players.

Yeah I can see what you mean, although the PA does pack a punch when it actually hits

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And thank you very much everyone

Webferret · Apr 16, 2015

Good job, Poor lil pirates having to use known exploit to keep in the fight LOL

Nauht · Apr 16, 2015

Unlike combat logging I think this shield exploit is probably something FD can do something about. Shield state persisting doesn't sound like a network issue.

Omega Fighter · Apr 16, 2015

Had a nice fight with code few days ago.7 of them vs 4 of us, they manage to kill one of us but we also kill one of them.

Think i got it recorded somewhere.

CaptainKremmen · Apr 16, 2015

That shield thing is just one slightly silly mechanic + another slightly silly mechanic adding up to something more silly still.

Here's an old vid from June 2014, showing the infamous Commander Yan ("Yaaaaaaaaaan!!!!") addressing the minor inconvenience of his shields dropping by zipping out of station masslock range, skipping to supercruise, then reappearing with 100% shields...

https://youtu.be/WxbHmIrwF74?t=1m23s

That was a weird quirk then, and it's a weird quirk now. Reported that to FD as a "bug" back in July 2014....

When dogfighting, any smart player who loses their shielfds spools up frameshift, "hops" a few hundred kilometres in supercruise, then reappears with magic 100% shields - and dives in on the person who had just stripped those shields.

This leads to endless and pointless "hopping" of duelling players to pick up some Mario Kart mushroom in supercruise that gives them new shields...

...or, alternatively, the SC-hopping player totally smashing the one not using this...

That was obviously "working as intended" back then. It's still here now, nearly a year later.

It's just that, now, it's having its wicked way with Wings (alliteration ftw!), thereby making me wish it had been looked at a bit more seriously in mid-2014.

Mephane · Apr 16, 2015

The good thing about the "SC-hopping shield reset exploit" is that it is completely fixable by FD (unlike combat logout which is a tricky issue). The bad thing about it is that this hasn't happened yet.

magot · Apr 16, 2015

"skipping to supercruise, then reappearing with 100% shields... " -> not sure bout this but i think if you jump to sc and then out of it ( don t know how long you have to be in sc but from my exp . not long ) you will have your shields back online , not the full shields tho but you can use scb then to full recharge .

but seriuosly , whats with the pirates in this game ? i was a pirate in eve online playing in pirate corporation. we were never refusing a good fight and we were not afraid of loosing ships . i know other pirate corporations there that were doing the same . i am not a pirate in elite coz its not profitable but even if i am a pirate i would change proffesion as i see how pirates act in this game , they are such cowards and a**holes . their only goal is to get on your nerves . for example they ll combat log as soon as somebody interdicts them and then they ll log back on to send that person message like : you combat loged you p*ssy ! i must say that from time to time i do menage to destroy their ship but only if i do it very fast and it feels good

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i just wanna say to pirates : grow a pair! we need pirates in this game as we need all the other proffesions .

Ceo · Apr 16, 2015

Great work.

Sadly it's the levels of cheating and exploiting that's stopped me bothering to log onto Open play now days. Not worth the headache as a fairly casual player.

magot · Apr 16, 2015

and last time my group was fighting a pirate group and we made video of them combat loging , several times . video was sent to frontier as proof of them using exploit , don t know if this will give any result.

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Ceo said:
Great work.

Sadly it's the levels of cheating and exploiting that's stopped me bothering to log onto Open play now days. Not worth the headache as a fairly casual player.

its not that bad , i usualy ask targeted ship in sc if he wants a duel and if he says yes we fight . in 95% of cases they don t combat log .

ciger · Apr 16, 2015

magot said:
and last time my group was fighting a pirate group and we made video of them combat loging , several times . video was sent to frontier as proof of them using exploit , don t know if this will give any result.

FD wont do jack about it

Caspar · Apr 16, 2015

Good work team. The shield thing is a bit sucky. Hopefully in 1.3 they'll address that. I guess your only other option is to mass lock them to death.