I can confirm this. Every. Single. Time. I stopped shooting drives out for this reason. They can flee much faster without drives. I'd rather have them shooting at me.
Shooting NPC drives out.
- Thread starter Jezzah
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I can confirm this. Every. Single. Time. I stopped shooting drives out for this reason. They can flee much faster without drives. I'd rather have them shooting at me.
I told this allready in previous post.
Few day's ago, it happened. In patch 1.3. Man, i'm not crazy.
I will try, hard. But if you don't have patience. Don't read.
Few day's ago, it happened. In patch 1.3. Man, i'm not crazy.
I will try, hard. But if you don't have patience. Don't read.
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Saaaarah! We need heeeelp! 
Just a thought here..
NPCs and players use exactly the same flight model - this has been confirmed by Sarah multiple times, that all the AI logic does is provide control inputs. As a player, I can confirm that when my thrusters were shot out my ship maintained its velocity AND its angular velocity - If I was moving in a straight line I'd stay straight and not tumble, if I was turning I'd be tumbling. Losing my thrusters had exactly the same effect on my flight path as turning off FA, zeroing the throttle and letting go of the controls.
We know Sarah has been working real hard on making the NPCs "better pilots" and one of the things she's mentioned is they are making greater use of FA-off flight. Perhaps we're seeing a greater incidence of NPCs tumbling and receding at a high speed because it's just more likely that at the moment their thrusters were destroyed they were frantically dodging while FA-off boosting, just like you or I would be doing if somebody was shooting up our tails?
NPCs and players use exactly the same flight model - this has been confirmed by Sarah multiple times, that all the AI logic does is provide control inputs. As a player, I can confirm that when my thrusters were shot out my ship maintained its velocity AND its angular velocity - If I was moving in a straight line I'd stay straight and not tumble, if I was turning I'd be tumbling. Losing my thrusters had exactly the same effect on my flight path as turning off FA, zeroing the throttle and letting go of the controls.
We know Sarah has been working real hard on making the NPCs "better pilots" and one of the things she's mentioned is they are making greater use of FA-off flight. Perhaps we're seeing a greater incidence of NPCs tumbling and receding at a high speed because it's just more likely that at the moment their thrusters were destroyed they were frantically dodging while FA-off boosting, just like you or I would be doing if somebody was shooting up our tails?
Well, to clarify, all NPCs always turn off flight assist, it is never used by them. I believe they do that, so it's clear that shot-out drives should bring all ships using flight assist or not to a halt.
TheLoneTrucker
Banned
yup, pretty much. Instead of arguing physics, reality, accurate flight models and all that jazz. Why don't we decide what would be most fun in game. From what i can tell so far from this thread it would be. Not having to chase all over hell and creations for loots after I've split open the crazy cargo cow piñata. So we need to plea with Sarah and see if we can get the high speed death tumble stopped in the name of fun.
Small ship, does not work with Cobra.
Work with Anaconda, Imperial Clipper, Phyton, T9.
Eh? /chars
From my experience: If i destroy Cobra's Drives - Cobra die.
I've had my drives shot out by an NPC, I came to a dead stop and was eventually destroyed since I could never get them back up without them immediately failing.
And... Small ship = small hull mass, weak armor.
As a player, I can confirm that I came to a dead stop when mine were shot out.
Sarah Jane Avory
Retro Queen
Morning Sarah
Just a bump so you might see this thread as I posted it quite late last night.
Morning!
This is space. If your engines are dead, your ship keeps rotating and moving in the very same way it did the moment the engines went dead. NPCs should drift and tumble, as should players (afaik they do?). As for shutting down still functional drives manually, one could argue it is the ship computer first decelerating and only turning them off afterwards, but I'd actually prefer if you would also drift and tumble if you manually turned off your own engines.
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