Fun fact, I was doing a bit of pirating, and was incredibly confused when targets kept instantly jumping away. Surely the massive Imperial Clipper could mass lock these tiny ships? Then I tried to jump, and I had a times 6 multiplier on my jump... since I was nearby an Eagle. Fun fact, you can only be mass locked by ships your close to your weight or heavier, which is why sidewinders can't mass-lock type 9's, so imagine my surprise when the Imperial Clipper had a lower weight than an Eagle!
Apparently the Imperial Clipper is lighter than an Eagle.
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I hope they fix this up soon, it's annoying to have the fastest large ship in the game without being able to mass lock your target.
Yeah this has been a problem for a while and ticketed. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.
Maybe that's how they've fudged the ship to make it more maneuverable than it should be.
Sure seems like theres a lot of problems ticketed and in the 'hope it gets resolved soon' status for this game.
If that's so then the Clipper's not the only one with a problem, as I'm able to masslock Federal Dropships with my Cobra.
Willing to bet anything that no tickets put in during the holidays get touched. They will do an update then autoreply every ticket like they always do. I have over 25 real bugs listed in tickets sent in and still don't know why I still send them in. they always 99% of the time auto complete them and assume there new patch fixed everyones problem. Then all the bugs are still there. Nooooo wasn't released to soon at all.
I'm assuming you mean cmdr dropships, because afaik masslocking npcs doesn't work.
True. Very annoying when a Viper or smaller ship successfully uses its FSD without any hindrance.
Nope, this was on the rank progression mission where you have to kill a dropship. After he jumped out a million times on me (and no, following him and killing him somewhere else doesn't work - tried that) I waited till he tried to jump out (frameshift charge detected) then sat on his exhause vents and targetted his drives. He just flew along in a straight line for about five minutes while I ate his drives out with 2 class 1 beam lasers (I was all out of multicannon ammo by then) then he exploded. The only thing I could figure from that was I was masslocking him.
Hell, they aren't even mass locked by stations. I've seen a fair share of them jump only a couple inches out of the letterbox.
Did he keep deploying his hardpoints, thereby cancelling his jump? That's what NPCs always seem to do when I tail them closely.
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vonvonbraun
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Yes is a bug
Yeah, it seems lighter alright, check this older thread of mine and look at its Shadow https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85602
No idea, all I could see were his tail pipes. Could be.
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