Before i report a player. tell me if this is possible or cheating

lonewarrior

lonewarrior
I intridiced a player and when we fell out of frame shift drive he was flying a sidewinder

I have the 160,000 class A shield on my cobra and I saw he was wanted so I opened fire with class 2 multi cannons

He turned and did a fly by and took out my shields and put my hull down to 37% in 3 shots, he was using the pulse lasers

He then turned for another run but I managed to escape with frame shift and lived to fight another day

He didn't collide with me and there wasn't any lag, but ive never known a sidewinder to have so much fire power

Is it possible for this to happen? Or was this some sort of cheat?

Just wanted to know before I report the player
 

Kolato

Kolato
There isnt any cheating in Elite.
He probably had very high ranked weapons or/and it was just a glitch.
 

lonewarrior

lonewarrior
Kola2 said:
There isnt any cheating in Elite.
He probably had very high ranked weapons or/and it was just a glitch.
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No game is unhackable

I just wanted to know if there was any weapons that can do that to such a high level shield, on a sidewinder I don't think there is...
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Doesn't sound like normal gameplay mechanics to me. Possibly a bug?

But if that's working as intended then is goes against everything Michael talked about in regards to ships being tough to kill... (although the game has been incredibly dumbed down since the DDF days, so I wouldn't be surprised anymore at this kind of thing).
 

beelbeebub

beelbeebub
Report it, mentioning you are not sure but surprised at the SW. If you have time, and other CMDR name, they should be able to track things down to see if there's anything fishy. If it is a hack/cheat they can close the hole. If not nothing lost.
 

Amaze

Amaze
160,000 class A shield?
What number A was it?

I am thinking maybe its not the right shield size for that cobra, maybe.
 

Bigcheese

B
Kola2 said:
There isnt any cheating in Elite.
He probably had very high ranked weapons or/and it was just a glitch.
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I don't think any class 1 laser could even come close to what the OP describes. Even without a shield it would take many shots to damage the hull that much. Either the OP missed something (no offense intended) or it was a glitch/exploit/whatever.
 

dogdog

dogdog
Three hits does sound... unlikely to take down even standard cobra shields with pulse lasers. I would attribute it to something bugging out before chalking it up to a hack though.

Any chance he had a plasma accelerator? Those things are nasty, but I'm not sure a sidey can fit one.
 

Kolato

Kolato
There are ridicilously overpowered class 1 weapons for enourmous high prices which with the assist of a little lag and/or glitching could possibly do that.
 

QuantumTron

Q
As Amaze points out, what /size/ shield was it - think of Class as being "Size" - it should be renamed to Size anyway IMO.

Your Classes are 4 is larger than 3 >2 >1.

So a Class (size) 4 A shield generator will be vastly more powerful/stronger than a Class 1 A shield generator.
 

Hexen

Hexen
Sounds fishy. Railgun combo might do that. Small pulse lasers on a small sidey? Nah. I'd recorded and reported if I were you.
 

lonewarrior

lonewarrior
Ok yeah ill report it

The shield usually does fine in most situations and takes a beating a lot of the time but im not really familiar with which shield is best for it
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
QuantumTron said:
As Amaze points out, what /size/ shield was it - think of Class as being "Size" - it should be renamed to Size anyway IMO.

Your Classes are 4 is larger than 3 >2 >1.

So a Class (size) 4 A shield generator will be vastly more powerful/stronger than a Class 1 A shield generator.
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It's an 2A shield, which has a max mass rating of 108t. You'd want a class 4 shield in a Cobra.
 
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