Mines - Am I missing something?

Latch

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Having a rather intense dog fight with the AI in a conflict zone, I was in an eagle they were in a cobra. after I got his hull down to around 30% he started to drop what I think were mines, I can't really tell as I didn't have the time to target them, it was hard enough to keep him in my sites.

Anyway he deploys one and I think I may have shot it as it detonated instantly, his hull and shields took no damage, so I continued the chase blasting away, he then deployed another, it blew up and took my shields down to 1 ring and left me with 65% hull, "Computer all power to sys.." Never mind, he deployed another mine and I was dead.

In the space of 5 seconds I went from 100% hull and shields to 0!

Now, I know there is a recent spate of nerf threads, and I don't mean to start another or turn this into one, but what exactly happened? Do mines really do that much damage? I wasn't exactly on top of the mine when it blew up either.
 

Derath

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I fight ships with mine launchers all the time and I have the hardest time working out what they do, I think point defences might just clear them all up really easily which might be why I don't see any effects, did you have any point defences?
 

Belsameth

Belsameth
Mines can be nasty, yes. This is not helped by the fact that the hull of an Eagle is made out of wet toilet paper.
 

Latch

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Nope no point defenses, I'm still learning the best weapons and load outs to use to suit me and am concentrating on aggressive weapons at the moment, had a railgun and the 2 standard lasers. I thought the rail gun would do a lot more damage than it did too so I will stay away from that money sink with my next loadout.
 

Lockhearts

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I was flying around a conflict zone the other day with TONS of mines everywhere, literally they were everywhere, I was only in a Viper but I do always fly with some point defense installed, and I don't know if it was the point defense or not, but I was flying around without any problems, I was getting proximity warnings from the mines yet nothing was happening, so not sure how good or bad they really are.
I was thinking of fitting a pair to my Conda in the class 1 slots, since those slots aren't really that useful, but I don't really know if they'd be any good (and if my own point defense would shoot them or not) and how often is your target directly behind you anyways ? unless you're running away they're not much use, and since the Conda is rather slow even trying to run you're target often wont be behind you, he'll probably be to the side or somewhere since he's almost certainly going to be faster.
 

Latch

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Ghostickles said:
Missing the mines is the point.?
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I did miss them, well a radius I assumed was safe but turns out wasn't, yet the penetrated my hull via the shields and wiped me out in 2 hits! I don't mind the death, it's just a case of "The more you know" in these situations but who really expects a deterrent/defense weapon to do that much damage so quickly, not me that's for sure :p
 

Belsameth

Belsameth
The only times they really bothered me is in an Eagle when flying, basically, *in* the tail of someone. I still see em on occasion, but never have them even take off one shield ring anymore (Viper now)
 
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