Return of the ramming cops ?

Stern Winter

Stern Winter
Since 2.4 dropped, I've been repeatedly rammed by station cops trying to scan me when leaving a station in my Cutter. This hasn't happened to me in ages. Is anyone else seeing this as well ?
 
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Old Duck

Old Duck
Here I thought this was a PS4 bug. Question - are you also getting dozens of "Scan Detected" messages? From what I can tell, it's one or two ships trying to do a scan, but they are flying so aggressively that they overshoot and don't complete the scan, so they have to make multiple passes to get that scan of theirs. It's almost as annoying as being rammed...
 

SimImperial

SimImperial
i was just thinking of those just the other day. Thats crap for us. you get a fine if your speeding and they hit you. Murder if they die.
 

PhanttoM

PhanttoM
It's not just cops - it's anyone who wants to scan you, which includes pirates. (Been rammed by some at a HazRes)
 

sollisb

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The HazRez's have become crazy. All the medium to large ships go full out trying to ram. All ships now have this crazy idea of moving in front of you to scan you while you're in combat. With the effect of the 400cr bounties for hitting other ships.

But in saying that... There is a huge benefit. Ignore the scanning ships. They'll go hostile, so you can immediately get back to them. As for the Ramming, that just makes for easy bounties :D
 

d8veh

d8veh
You need to keep 4 pips to shields whenever you can now when you#re in a RES or around the station. The ramming now makes speeding in the no-fire zone much more risky. Has anyone incurred a bounty yet for being rammed? That was the main problem last time.
 

sollisb

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d8veh said:
You need to keep 4 pips to shields whenever you can now when you#re in a RES or around the station. The ramming now makes speeding in the no-fire zone much more risky. Has anyone incurred a bounty yet for being rammed? That was the main problem last time.
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Ah well, soon as I exit the grill, I 4 pips to engines and boost, boost :D They wanna play chicken with a vette... be my guest :D
 

Mobediah Jones

Mobediah Jones
Going back and forth with the ongoing community goals, 2/5 times leaving the station I'll get hit by a police.
Installed a dashcam on my head after the first one to get police brutality on tape.

Recorded while in VR
[video=youtube_share;BDSC0dSVzS4]https://youtu.be/BDSC0dSVzS4[/video]
 

Hossi

Hossi
Sigh. Yes, happend to me as well. I saw him comming at me half a second after I clicked boost, which was about 2 seconds before the station vaporized my cutter.
Guess I'm starting to get careless. That was the first time ever I lost a cutter, these things are expensive.
 

Tikigod

Tikigod
Was one of the first threads to pop-up after 2.4, but yeah the AI are back to ramming into you when trying to do approaches. 2.4 seems to have reverted some of the AI back a fair bit to before the problem was previously fixed.

Could be trying to dock at a station and a authority ship will fly right at you and collide whilst trying to scan, then you'll get a fine for reckless flying.
 
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Tikigod

Tikigod
Old Duck said:
This is my first major update. How long does it usually take FDev to fix bugs like these?
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Half a year?

Sometimes more.

Typically they don't bother with fixing these kind of things in a bug fix build. Instead they figure out the cause and just sit on the fix until the next major build release (Which I'd guess would be 3.0, unless they have a mini-major build planned to trigger some Thargoid stuff) which can be anywhere from 4 to 9 months depending on how things get delayed.

We once went over half a year with a lot of the combat missions broken.

Another time I think it was 5 months with retrieval missions (Black boxes etc) impossible to hand-in.
 
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