Horizons interdiction rage!

[sneakygloworm]

Hi all,

I'm finding interdicting other ships to be a highly frustrating mini game. I notice the red pips climb much faster than the blue ones. I've tried maybe 20 interdicts and had 100% failure. I simply cannot raise the blue pips anywhere near as fast as the red ones regardless of whether the ship is in the reticules or not.

I start the interdict and within 15 seconds im thrown out. It's highly frustrating!! Can anyone please give me some advice on pulling ship out of super cruise. It's feels almost impossible at the moment. Many thanks

 

[Toxic_Waster]

But what about the playstation release?

 

[sneakygloworm]

Eh...what about it?

 

[Asmodeus]

Ye I have had the same problem I got so frustrated that I have put it in store, and put something useful in the ship slot instead.

 

[Toxic_Waster]

Eh...what about it?

it's FD primary focus now

 

[sneakygloworm]

Yeah, I think I'll put the item into storage for a while. It's a shame because I was really looking forward to bounty hunting for a while. But I fall at the first hurdle. In the whole elite experience, this is the one which has annoyed me the most. I've tried interdicting npc pilots from harmless all the way to dangerous. All with exactly the same result.

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it's FD primary focus now

I heard they have a core group working on the port. Not the entire dev team.

 

[goemon]

there is an engineer modification - for increased interdiction rage, uhm range. or for expended capture angle, for decreased rage.

 

[sneakygloworm]

there is an engineer modification - for increased interdiction rage, uhm range. or for expended capture angle, for decreased rage.

Haha! I'll try the engineers for a while and see what's what. Apart from interdiction, everything is quite awesome.

 

[Mike Reacher]

A comment from the other side ...........
From the interdictee ........
4 interdictions in a row, not one second between ....
Fiona whatzaname, I escaped her interdiction and instantaniously she interdicted me again. Rage works both ways.
Getting interdicted from outa sight interdicters is also a rage inducing bit of agro.
Gotta live with the game!

 

[sneakygloworm]

I seem to evade more interdictions than I can create which feels unbalanced to me. I agree that interdictions are important to both the aggressor and the victim as its an important mechanic. they can be awfully annoying though.

 

[rrobes]

I don't bother with interdictions, half the time when I am successful pulling someone in, I get the spin cycle plus hull damage.

It is not worth the aggravation. The whole interdiction game phase is poor, has been poor and shows all signs of continuing to be poor.

As far as evading, I don't bother either, submit, throttle to zero at the first sign of the event, pips to 402, arm weapons, kill NPC and move on.

 

[Marcus Machiavelli]

As far as evading, I don't bother either, submit, throttle to zero at the first sign of the event, pips to 402, arm weapons, kill NPC and move on.

haha rrobes! that must be a nasty shock for the NPCs if you are flying in your Corvette!

 

[rrobes]

haha rrobes! that must be a nasty shock for the NPCs if you are flying in your Corvette!

Right, the NPC's are shocked, I have no issue killing them all. But there is a disparity in the experience.

For those not combat oriented, newer players and those in unmod ships, it's tougher. Players call for hardening the NPC's and softening them, FD is at a loss no matter what they do.

Meantime, kill them all, let their gods sort them out.

 

[_Iceman_]

As far as evading, I don't bother either, submit, throttle to zero at the first sign of the event, pips to 402, arm weapons, kill NPC and move on.

[yesnod] yes !!!! mine is a little different

throttle to zero at the first sign of the event, pips to 402, scanner on his face then swith to weapons, kill NPC and move on to wait the next one


the more common after being informed by interdictor msg :

left the supercruise before being interdicted , full rear , fighter out , pips to 402, scanner on his face then swith to weapons, kill NPC and move on to wait the next one

 

[Cpt Shadow Wolfe]

FDev changed something in one of the recent updates, before the change I was fairly successful at interdicting, didn't win every time but won more then lost. After the update I couldn't win a single one, and I tried it with big ships and small ones. After bout 20 failures in a row I got rid of the damn interdictor. Ain't no point if you can never win, can't fight when I get interdicted anymore, no matter what I do, so I just submit anymore, again ain't no point playing a mini game you can't win.

 

[Asmodeus]

Interdicted, Kill NPC, Continue journey, Collect Reword.

 

[_Iceman_]

LoL, today I got a nice surprise ! a lethal conda interdictor then after submiting a second one spot in the party few seconds after interdiction and they dropped their fighters ... a crazy trap !

 

[Lemonhoko]

Why isnt FD fixing this....Interdicting has been broken for weeks.
I posted a bug report on it after failing over 12 times in a row.
Assassination missions and wetworks missions are not available to complete until this gets fixed.

Interdictions is one of the biggest part of the core game....this needs to be fixed asap!!

 

[sneakygloworm]

Yeah, I got an invite from an engineer the other day who wants a hundred grand in bounty vouchers. Assuming the best way to find bounties is to hunt them, my engineering days are over before they start.

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LoL, today I got a nice surprise ! a lethal conda interdictor then after submiting a second one spot in the party few seconds after interdiction and they dropped their fighters ... a crazy trap !

That is very cool!

 

[CMDR Eos ALexander]

Is there any comment from FD? It's really boring, if i'm in a comunity goal and not able to FSD interdict even the most harmless ones. I came over from EVE as they started changing the game mechanic to bother the players. I hope, this is a broken game item and not the begin of patronise the players.

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