So.. I was doing some Missions in my Prismatic Python (1600mj) doing some bootleg liquor retrieval missions and low and behold there was some stingers! Alright cool I was shooting at them and one was stuck in the ground so I decided to play with it. I eventually got it to explode and WHAM my srvs shields evaporated. I did not think much if it and got the rest of my cargo and reentered my ship. There was more just a few meters away! So naturally I try to shoot them with my rail gun.. People do that right? Right? >_> no just me? oh.....anyways I went and sure enough the skimmers where there and I proceeded to crush them under my hull I was 2-4-0 at this point sure as rain one pops and my Shields EVAPORATE all 1600 from 100 to 0 in no time flat and 3% hull damage. Me being 0.0 OH SNAP THATS COOL...So not sure if this is a bug but man what is the DPS on that explosion!
Wow! Stingers and Skimmers explosions can delete shields!
- Thread starter CMDR Plexus Ironrot
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Yeah, it's been long known that Skimmers kill shields, for the exact reason that commanders were cheaping skimmer kill missions (and other base missions) by doing them in ships instead of the intention of using the SRV. There was a bug a while ago where skimmer rained down from the heavens when they spawned. That was glorious.
Anyway, heavy handed FD design correction ftw.
Anyway, heavy handed FD design correction ftw.
Wow I did not know that! Honestly I don't even recall hearing that! But makes sense. I never did the skimmer farming I had a really good trading route at that time. Still do actually makes good credits
They are still easy to kill from ships, but you can't just use your adder to run them down like street workers in GTA since they added the shield and thruster reboot effects to them.
Crushing them is still one of the fastest was to kill Goliaths though:
Source: https://youtu.be/JGRlcYJTU9k?t=70
Of course, the fastest way to do any mission that doesn't require surface salvage is to simply take a fast ship in and scan any terminals/datapoints from the ship, without ever landing.
Crushing them is still one of the fastest was to kill Goliaths though:
Of course, the fastest way to do any mission that doesn't require surface salvage is to simply take a fast ship in and scan any terminals/datapoints from the ship, without ever landing.
Deplete shields.
