i see killer limpets are back with a vengance :( dont fly over 500m/s

[Kenneth McGrew]

Killer limpets are back out in force, avoid flying over 500m/s as this seems to be happening quite alot, and this also appears to be the threshold, i thought i was just rubberbanding inside the asteroids for a while and hitting the rocks, but nope... happens outside the asteroid field as long as you have limpets out

i mean the damage isnt too bad although i expect wafer thin mining shields and a mining speced hull may be worse effected, but when it happens one after the other its quite annoying even if you have decent shields etc.

UPDATE

The bug only happens on certain ships too it would seem, my Dolphin is immune

the easy way to tell (without damaging your ship) is watch your shield rings as the limpets drop off the fragments, IF there is a little fleck of blue when the limpets dock, even if the damage is low, then YES your ship is infected with the bug exists for your particular ship, if there is no blue fleck then your OK!

here is the blue fleck i mean

SHIP	BUG STATUS
Adder
Alliance Challenger
Alliance Cheiftain
Alliance Crusader
Anaconda	infected
Asp X
Asp scout
Beluga
Cobra 4
Cobra 5
DBX
DBS
Dolphin	Not infected
Eagle
FAS
Corvette
FDS
FGS
FDL
Hauler
Clipper
Courier
Cutter
Imp Eagle
Kellback
Krait
Krait phantom
Mamba
Orca	Infected higher than a back alley cat
Python
Sidewinder
T10
T9
T7
T6
Viper
Viper 4
Vulture

 

[Deleted member 182079]

Thankfully I won't ever get my T10 to fly even remotely as fast, even downhill

 

[Valorin]

Sometimes when circling around an exploded asteroid limpets seem to crush my shields and about 10% of my hull. That's when I am just maneuvering around and not speeding up much. With a T10...
Yeah, some limpets are bound to crash and break, but doing SO much damage?!? I wonder we don't use them as weapons since they are so super effective.

 

[CMDR John Luke Paperbone]

Never happened to me, but I tend to stand still or manouvering at slow speed when using limpets.

 

[Deleted member 182079]

I noticed for some time that at certain speeds with cargo scoop deployed (around 50-70m/s) prospector limpets just break shortly after deploying them, more so when flying at max speed with cargo scoop retracted. This is flying in a straight line with no vertical maneuvers. I got used to it but it's definitely a bit of a pain if you fly in a small ship with only a few limpets at your disposal.

 

[Furnace]

Lol. Why is this still happening? This is just stupid.

 

[Kenneth McGrew]

Sometimes when circling around an exploded asteroid limpets seem to crush my shields and about 10% of my hull. That's when I am just maneuvering around and not speeding up much. With a T10...
Yeah, some limpets are bound to crash and break, but doing SO much damage?!? I wonder we don't use them as weapons since they are so super effective.

i did a test the other day, just not uploaded the video yet;

heres the test....

- 4 pips to SYS and using the lateral thrusters crash into a limpet at approx 100m/s no more and i lose all shields from full rings and about 10% hull

- 4 pips to SYS and face plant an asteroid at 600m/s and i bounce off with one ring of shields left..... hmmmmmmmmm

 

[Kenneth McGrew]

Never happened to me, but I tend to stand still or manouvering at slow speed when using limpets.

yes but when you travel from one asteroid to the next its not like you can tell your limpets to clear off, they tend to stick around like an uninvited guest with those annoying flashing lights flashing away...

 

[Charles Erika von Hackbeil]

Haha. Limpets kill ships at 500m/s, but usually die instantly when released from a ship going with over 40 m/s. What's the right speed then? I wonder if the math to solve this has been invented yet.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Yet hatch breakers pass through without damage at all.

 

[MDHansen]

Thankfully I won't ever get my T10 to fly even remotely as fast, even downhill

But space, up, down, and all that!

 

[Hedy]

It is mind boggling how they do any damage at all as they seem to be made out of politicians willpower and prefer crashing into rocks after they get bored.

 

[d8veh]

I noticed for some time that at certain speeds with cargo scoop deployed (around 50-70m/s) prospector limpets just break shortly after deploying them, more so when flying at max speed with cargo scoop retracted. This is flying in a straight line with no vertical maneuvers. I got used to it but it's definitely a bit of a pain if you fly in a small ship with only a few limpets at your disposal.

That's normal. you're crashing in to the limpets. they're very delicate. You can deploy them while flying fast, but you mustn't accelerate after deploying them. It raises the question of why you didn't suffer the same damage as OP.

 

[d8veh]

i did a test the other day, just not uploaded the video yet;

heres the test....

- 4 pips to SYS and using the lateral thrusters crash into a limpet at approx 100m/s no more and i lose all shields from full rings and about 10% hull

- 4 pips to SYS and face plant an asteroid at 600m/s and i bounce off with one ring of shields left..... hmmmmmmmmm

That's weird. I sometimes get a prospector limpet stuck in the chute, normally when I've been synthesising them with low cargo space. Sometimes I can free it by launching a new collector limpet, but I can't do that when they're all already deployed, so last night in that situation, I needed to destroy a collect limpet. To do that, I smashed my ship's belly onto a rock to squish the limpets. I knocked out all 6, but didn't suffer any damage.

 

[Deleted member 182079]

That's normal. you're crashing in to the limpets. they're very delicate. You can deploy them while flying fast, but you mustn't accelerate after deploying them. It raises the question of why you didn't suffer the same damage as OP.

It's an issue that got introduced a while back, possibly with 3.3. Used to be fine before. Also I'm not accelerating while deploying them, it's quite random. I sometimes slow down (in order to not crash into the rock I'm firing the prospector at) but I'm extra careful not using lateral thrusters at all. It's pretty random but happens more often when in the blue thruster area, rather than outside.

Never seen the kind of damage/issue in the OP though to be fair but as I said none of my mining ships can fly that fast.

 

[Kenneth McGrew]

That's weird. I sometimes get a prospector limpet stuck in the chute, normally when I've been synthesising them with low cargo space. Sometimes I can free it by launching a new collector limpet, but I can't do that when they're all already deployed, so last night in that situation, I needed to destroy a collect limpet. To do that, I smashed my ship's belly onto a rock to squish the limpets. I knocked out all 6, but didn't suffer any damage.

if your below 500m/s or the limpet is stationary "the bug" wont happen.

here is me flying away from a limpet yet it does damage to the ship!

ironically you can plough into prospectors as much as you like with zero damage

 

[Aashenfox]

Sometimes when circling around an exploded asteroid limpets seem to crush my shields and about 10% of my hull. That's when I am just maneuvering around and not speeding up much. With a T10...
Yeah, some limpets are bound to crash and break, but doing SO much damage?!? I wonder we don't use them as weapons since they are so super effective.

These are fragments that you have freed. They are indeed very dangerous.

 

[d8veh]

Can we use limpets instead of mines in PvP? They seem to be a bit more powerful. Most of those ganker's FDLs come after you faster than 500m/s.

 

[IceFire122]

Are we sure, the bug does not happen below 500 m/s? My Python lost all shields and 72% of its hull during mining yesterday. I was flying quite slow and it did not feel like an asteroid hit. Usually, I only lose some shields during asteroid bumps.

 

[Morbad]

You're all lazy. Real pilots scoop manually.

But yeah, this should still be fixed.