Was in Sol! USS popped! !Distress Call4! INCREDIBLE!

tulextreme

tulextreme
So i was transitioning from Mars to Mercury (Deadalus has a nice black market facility) when i fished this USS distress call. Went in and was surprised by this Federation Class Farragut. Suddenly waves after waves of pirate ships engaged the Imperial Cutter "Lady Vashj" ... After destroying about 10 or so fighters that omni sent sound of space matter displacement happened... Another Farragut warped in and started engaging the others! I Just recalled my fighter and took these incredible Elite Dangerous moment! :D

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Dedhed

Dedhed
So, if I'm reading this right: you were attacked at a USS by a pirate Farragut and it's fighters, then another Farragut came to the rescue?
 

Cmnd Fulsom

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This encounter has always been in the game. It's a Farragut being assaulted by pirates. After you defeat the pirate waves a pirate Farragut jumps in and begins attacking the damaged one. Unfortunately, to my knowledge USSs still don't really lead to anything more after you've cleared them out. Shame, really.



Stay Frosty,



Cmnd Fulsom
 

Conch

Conch
ive been to lots of these and never completed them, they allways seem bugged.

just this weekend i went into one, where the capital ship hitboxes didnt match, so there was a giant invisible wall.
 

Andovar

Andovar
It absolutely is an awesome experience the first time it happens to you.

Then eventually the novelty wears off, you start finding all the bugs, and realize it's the same staged event every time.
Add this to the list of core things to fix in 2.5
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
This happened to me the other day, it is about as close as elite gets to emergent gameplay, but yeh, it's totally scripted. I was all 'wow, this is cool', until the second cap ship came in and started break dancing. I was like 'yeh, time to leave before that flipping fish decides to flip on me!'. lol.
 
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Conch

Conch
Andovar said:
It absolutely is an awesome experience the first time it happens to you.

Then eventually the novelty wears off, you start finding all the bugs, and realize it's the same staged event every time.
Add this to the list of core things to fix in 2.5
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yes PLEASE!!!

is there even that completed this event?
 

tulextreme

tulextreme
that's EXACT how it played out! there was three Farraguts in a present moment... was thrilling... too bad after i obliterated the pirate ships nothing happend anymore... just a warning from the pirate Farragut "don't get too close cmdr" ... Well was good while it lasted! :X
 

Morbad

Morbad
All Threat 4 distress calls in Federation systems are a Pirate Farragut vs. a damaged FNS Farragut.

Encounter has been around for years, but only very recently were capital ships given the ability to maneuver.
 
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Speedy O

Speedy O
Aashenfox said:
This happened to me the other day, it is about as close as elite gets to emergent gameplay, but yeh, it's totally scripted. I was all 'wow, this is cool', until the second cap ship came in and started break dancing. I was like 'yeh, time to leave before that flipping fish decides to flip on me!'. lol.
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Happened to me the other day!...
I got phantom tail-slapped coming out of Palins base... trying to boost through the Farragut's belly... @800m/s

I died. Very very quickly.

On another point, opened this thread hoping to see a meme of John Paul 2 with a caption like "threat 4" or "Yo dawg.... You just got poped, son..."

Oh well...

Edit... titles been changed now... awwww.....
 
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Aashenfox

Aashenfox
tulextreme said:
that's EXACT how it played out! there was three Farraguts in a present moment... was thrilling... too bad after i obliterated the pirate ships nothing happend anymore... just a warning from the pirate Farragut "don't get too close cmdr" ... Well was good while it lasted! :X
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I shot the pirate farragut and got a federation bounty. That was a surprise. It was red to me after engaging hte 'wanted' pirate fighters, and I had noted that the farragut was not 'wanted', but it was RED!! Luckily it was only a test shot so 600cr, 9 minutes and one jump later, all good.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Aashenfox said:
I shot the pirate farragut and got a federation bounty. That was a surprise. It was red to me after engaging hte 'wanted' pirate fighters, and I had noted that the farragut was not 'wanted', but it was RED!! Luckily it was only a test shot so 600cr, 9 minutes and one jump later, all good.
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It used to be wanted and you could take it out legally (which is what you're supposed to do to save the other Farragut, if you desire to), but they broke something a while back.
 

sb413197

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Aashenfox said:
I shot the pirate farragut and got a federation bounty. That was a surprise. It was red to me after engaging hte 'wanted' pirate fighters, and I had noted that the farragut was not 'wanted', but it was RED!! Luckily it was only a test shot so 600cr, 9 minutes and one jump later, all good.
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Yep I reported this bug before. Apparently not fixed yet.
 
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