Did Cobras get weak?

glunark

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I was interdicted by one yesterday and as soon as I targeted it and started firing it exploded, probably no more than a second, I was just pressing the keyboard to put all power to the weapons and then it was gone.

I am in an Asp with two beams and four multi cannons, prior to 1.1 it used to take a lot longer to kill a cobra.
 

fisty1967

fisty1967
I haven't noticed any weakening in my Cobra. I have been flying it pre and post 1.1 and the only difference I have seen is in the power department - I had to downgrade a couple of bits as the shield cell used up more power in the 1.1 update. Blasted a few nps Asp's last night whilst bounty hunting. It would defo take longer than a second to waste me if we met ;-)
 

Watcher

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glunark said:
I was interdicted by one yesterday and as soon as I targeted it and started firing it exploded, probably no more than a second, I was just pressing the keyboard to put all power to the weapons and then it was gone.

I am in an Asp with two beams and four multi cannons, prior to 1.1 it used to take a lot longer to kill a cobra.
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I wouldn't have said so. I've been mostly fighting Cobra's in Resource Extract Sites and they seem to be about as tough as before.
Perhaps you got lucky? For example, I'm pretty certain I've seen some unexpectedly large damage jumps when I've seemingly hit an NPC cockpit before.
 

Doctor Axel

Doctor Axel
I went shields-down a couple times last night and I didn't feel like the damage racked up very fast - though NPC mileage may vary of course.

If he was unshielded, you might have landed a supremely lucky shot to his power plant or distributor.
 

ChubbyBunneh

ChubbyBunneh
The Cobra's power plant seems to be right behind the cockpit from the front.

I've blown up NPC Cobras with 1 double rail gun salvo before. I'm betting OP got a lucky shot that hit there.
 

glunark

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Fairly sure there was no shields, as soon as my beams touched him there was a very yellow fireball as if I was cutting straight into him, I don't think my multis even fired.

Did look like I hit him dead centre of the ship.

On the comms it went straight from "hand over your cargo" to "this can't be happening!"
 
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