Horizons Cockpit Canopy being targeted...

TexasP78 · Jul 27, 2016

...And it would be nice to return the favour! For some reason today AI have started targeting my canopy, ran away with 21% intact the first time, but had a blowout the second, and ended up with drive shot out as well so had to self-destruct.

If it's a module and can be destroyed, why not on NPC/AI ships?

I can't be 100% sure, but it also seemed the canopy was being hit from unlikely angles, when the pirate/scumbag was behind me hitting my drive...

Anyone else experiencing similar?

Nerwan · Jul 27, 2016

TexasP78 said:
...And it would be nice to return the favour! For some reason today AI have started targeting my canopy, ran away with 21% intact the first time, but had a blowout the second, and ended up with drive shot out as well so had to self-destruct.

If it's a module and can be destroyed, why not on NPC/AI ships?

I can't be 100% sure, but it also seemed the canopy was being hit from unlikely angles, when the pirate/scumbag was behind me hitting my drive...

Anyone else experiencing similar?

I suspect you can return the favour.. You can certainly take out the canopy on other commanders ships. You can't get a reticle but you can manually hit it (although I suspect there's an RNG roll about whether it hits like there is with most module hits)

IndigoWyrd · Jul 27, 2016

A real D-move I enjoy while bounty hunting is to scan from afar, fly casual, drift past my target inverted, let my reticle come to rest on their canopy, and then suddenly unload with everything I've got.
I've blown out more than a few this way, and if I'm really feeling grumpy, take out their FSD next and see how long their life-support lasts.

Mike Reacher · Jul 28, 2016

IndigoWyrd said:
A real D-move I enjoy while bounty hunting is to scan from afar, fly casual, drift past my target inverted, let my reticle come to rest on their canopy, and then suddenly unload with everything I've got.
I've blown out more than a few this way, and if I'm really feeling grumpy, take out their FSD next and see how long their life-support lasts.

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Does that work with both cmdr's a NPC's or only one of them?

foebits · Jul 28, 2016

I alsways lovit because my bridge only ever gets blown out from behind. Like ?

Chris Simon · Jul 28, 2016

foebits said:
I alsways lovit because my bridge only ever gets blown out from behind. Like ?

Armor piercing. Be glad that your character doesn't have a hitbox, yet.

cephalos81 · Jul 28, 2016

dont feel so bad

TexasP78 said:
...And it would be nice to return the favour! For some reason today AI have started targeting my canopy, ran away with 21% intact the first time, but had a blowout the second, and ended up with drive shot out as well so had to self-destruct.

If it's a module and can be destroyed, why not on NPC/AI ships?

I can't be 100% sure, but it also seemed the canopy was being hit from unlikely angles, when the pirate/scumbag was behind me hitting my drive...

Anyone else experiencing similar?

Dont feel so bad man...i was in a conflict zone engaging an eagle with my vulture...the thing was right in front of me facing my canopy shooting missiles that were damaging my thrusters...needless to say my thrusters were shut of by 3 shots from an eagle that was facing me( tiny ship destroys with 3 shots from the front a module that is on the back of my ship). Smart missiles? where do i get those? and also ive been shot once by a python that destroyed my shields and powecore and cracked my canopy to 50% on a single shot A SINGLE SHOT to an A-fitted vulture with 4 A-type shield boosters...I however have discovered a trick...see if you are in combat and you start dying like that to cheating A.I if you try to log off it will give you a 15 second timer to do a "safe log off" which by then you are already dead...my trick is simple...forget the timer...straight up control+alt+del open tsk manager and shut the client proccess off. (this takes about 3 seconds instead of 15) when you relog youll be busted but at least you dont have to selfdestruct and pay for things the A.I should be impossible to pull off you even have enough time to run a repair sequence and head to a station for repairs before you gain any agression...works evn better in conflict zones since they wont attack until you pick a side. MY POINT IS...IF THE A.I IS GONNA CHEAT ME LIKE THAT YOU CAN BET YOUR BEHIND IM GONNA CHEAT IT IN WHICHEVER WAY I CAN BACK....BACK ATCHA EVIL A.i. I have saved many a ship, and many more credits doing the cntrl+alt+del thing thanyou can imagine...works for pvptoo

...bottom line if its cheating, cheat back.

cephalos81 · Jul 28, 2016

when bounty hunting the quickest way to kill pythons anacondas imperial clippers and all the bigger ships is to take out the power core...i have killed anacondas that still had more than 50%hull but no powercore ...you shoot it a bit more and it just explodes before the hull even reaches 0...it also works on every other ship but the smaller ones you dont really need to do that.