Well I got NPC'd

Falcon JSDF

Falcon JSDF
The last few days have been stupid. Every rescue I am getting interdicted. Every time they want my cargo. I have no cargo, only limpets. Jettisoning half the limpets doesn't stop the attack.
Every NPC is top ranked combat and has the most ridiculous super weapons that I am lucky to escape with any hull left. The penultimate attack had me to 20% with four shots. Well today my ship got creamed, I couldn't boost away In time. Don't tell me to turn towards them and boost past them because that didn't work. Fortunately I was on the way back from a rescue.
The weapons these damn Npcs have is off the charts. Every single npc has them. Fortunately I was on the way back from a rescue.

I get that no one wants to fight the "Flying Potatoes". I am thrilled for the players who can have the space battles they have dreamt about but that is not what I play for. I did not sign up for Halo online but a space trucking simulator. Evading fights is too lagged and buggy. I get that if you have 50 units of Panite pirates will come out the wood work. Why wouldn't they but to lose a ship over 10 limpets is wrong.

If you need Fuel don't hesitate to call us and I'll do my best to get one of my ships to you, I have a few credits stashed for rebuys, but this last update has killed the enjoyment I used to have for this game.

To those that explore or trade, fly safe.
To those that combat may your victories be glorious and many.

Falcon JSDF Fuel Rat.
 

Masagmarod

Masagmarod
Falcon JSDF said:
The last few days have been stupid. Every rescue I am getting interdicted. Every time they want my cargo. I have no cargo, only limpets. Jettisoning half the limpets doesn't stop the attack.
Every NPC is top ranked combat and has the most ridiculous super weapons that I am lucky to escape with any hull left. The penultimate attack had me to 20% with four shots. Well today my ship got creamed, I couldn't boost away In time. Don't tell me to turn towards them and boost past them because that didn't work. Fortunately I was on the way back from a rescue.
The weapons these damn Npcs have is off the charts. Every single npc has them. Fortunately I was on the way back from a rescue.

I get that no one wants to fight the "Flying Potatoes". I am thrilled for the players who can have the space battles they have dreamt about but that is not what I play for. I did not sign up for Halo online but a space trucking simulator. Evading fights is too lagged and buggy. I get that if you have 50 units of Panite pirates will come out the wood work. Why wouldn't they but to lose a ship over 10 limpets is wrong.

If you need Fuel don't hesitate to call us and I'll do my best to get one of my ships to you, I have a few credits stashed for rebuys, but this last update has killed the enjoyment I used to have for this game.

To those that explore or trade, fly safe.
To those that combat may your victories be glorious and many.

Falcon JSDF Fuel Rat.
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See the new sticky at the top of the page and if you were destroyed by the crazy engineered weapons, try putting in a ticket. Might get some credits back.
 

Falcon JSDF

Falcon JSDF
Thanks, after I had posted I saw a rebalancing was going to take place.
As for the ticket? No. Its only credits I can earn some more.
Just had to get the last few days off my chest.
 

Acuaricornio

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Falcon JSDF said:
Thanks, after I had posted I saw a rebalancing was going to take place.
As for the ticket? No. Its only credits I can earn some more.
Just had to get the last few days off my chest.
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I think quite a few of us had that on our chests, especially those who aren't end-gamers rocking fully spec'd end-game ships. It's peanuts by comparison but I've lost around 5-6 million in the past 48 hours by being blown up ridiculously quickly. Insurance + lost cargo = -___-

It seems that today (May 31) a hotfix is going out to do something about the NPCs. Not sure where to fall on that, since I want the challenge but I also want to not get destroyed by a dozen missiles fired 2 seconds after each other.
 

Fray

Fray
Acuaricornio said:
I think quite a few of us had that on our chests, especially those who aren't end-gamers rocking fully spec'd end-game ships. It's peanuts by comparison but I've lost around 5-6 million in the past 48 hours by being blown up ridiculously quickly. Insurance + lost cargo = -___-
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...don't forget lost profit if you were just about to hand in a job. ;-)

It seems that today (May 31) a hotfix is going out to do something about the NPCs. Not sure where to fall on that, since I want the challenge but I also want to not get destroyed by a dozen missiles fired 2 seconds after each other.
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I've not looked at the details yet (had no idea they were patching so soon), but I understand the fix is just to stomp a bug with NPC's rocking certain mods - so it's not supposed to stomp out challenge or AI flight.
 

Masagmarod

Masagmarod
Fray said:
...don't forget lost profit if you were just about to hand in a job. ;-)

I've not looked at the details yet (had no idea they were patching so soon), but I understand the fix is just to stomp a bug with NPC's rocking certain mods - so it's not supposed to stomp out challenge or AI flight.
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It will take all engineered weapons from npc's, it won't effect thier flying or combat techniques.
 

ThatRubberDuck

ThatRubberDuck
NPCs with engineered weapons im fine with aslong as they're not op but some of them aren't just engineered weapons they're bugged,

my corvette with 1 ring of shields and 100% military hull was taken out in 15 secs the other day by one of those machine gun plasma NPC vipers , I posted a bug report and a ticket and they thankfully refunded, I did have a clip of the last moments and the rebuy screen to show them,only happened once but I parked my corvette after that, I'm sure it'll be fixed soon though,
 

Acuaricornio

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Which may strike a better balance. I'm not sure if the weapons were the primary culprit, but if it's less a 1-2 punch to the face every time I get interdicted~~~

The one trick I liked pre-Engineers - flying in reverse, because the AI didn't know how to handle it! - seems gone. If that means their flying or combat techniques are improved, that's fine.

I look forward to someone else though reporting about the effects of the hotfix on AI combat. I'm back to running away for now!
 

Masagmarod

Masagmarod
Fray said:
So it was giving them Engineer gear that caused the bug for now?

Will this mean no scanned NPC's generate Engineer data?
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There will be engineered gear on board, just not some of the weapons. Check out the sticky for a link to the announcement from Zac.
 

4fast5me

4fast5me
ThatRubberDuck said:
NPCs with engineered weapons im fine with aslong as they're not op but some of them aren't just engineered weapons they're bugged,

my corvette with 1 ring of shields and 100% military hull was taken out in 15 secs the other day by one of those machine gun plasma NPC vipers , I posted a bug report and a ticket and they thankfully refunded, I did have a clip of the last moments and the rebuy screen to show them,only happened once but I parked my corvette after that, I'm sure it'll be fixed soon though,
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With only one ring of shields 15 seconds seems reasonable. There is a rapid fire mod for PA.

15 seconds =/= 1 second instakill.
 

CMDR Nef

CMDR Nef
I've had no issues with the A.I. this week. Then again, I've been in a A-rated Corvette with huge         beam lasers. :D MELT! MELT YOU        S! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 

ThatRubberDuck

ThatRubberDuck
i highly doubt it was just the pa mod until you see the bug it's hard to explain, it was clearly firing more pas than it should of almost instantaneously after the last
 
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Irishd08

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OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I actually made an account today to put something up that SOMEONE could read to say the new NPC ships are RIDICULOUSLY overpowered. I fly a Python with some shield boosters. I'm having problems with        g sidewinders. I do the 50% throttle thing and I can't turn into them for the life of me. I've also had 2 federal gunships just absolutely tear ME UP within seconds and get me down to around 10% before I escaped. This is not balanced at all right now. I pray some dev's read this thread and adjust. I agree that some changes had to be made, but surely this can't be the answer.
 

madbruiser

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i truly dont understand there comments of "ive had no issues, fine here"... you know your entering a thread were cmdrs are complaining of the ai and issues with it and yet your response is, im fine ( so it must be you )... give it a rest guys, ive enjoyed the vamped up ai but clearly its caused alot of people grief

maybe it was done to quickly or maybe it was done without scaling for less combat driven players, either way its a community and all this "im fine crap" doesnt help anyone, the combat wont be nerf batted hopefully but for the sake of the game it clearly needs to be looked at for many players enjoyment

think before you post, there threads for the im fine crew as well, dont step on fellow cmdrs when you know there struggling, lets at least try to not be that community
 
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