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Had a system authority anaconda attack me while sitting at a Nav Beacon. No illegal cargo, one bounty for a faction far away. I deployed hard points and moved off but didn't return fire since he was clean. But then he broke off and went after another ship before waking out. I don't know is the Shamash signal madness may be spreading, but keep alert for randomly hostile ships just in case.
Murder madness spreading?
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Get confirming! https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/62073
Looks to me like this already Confirmed & Acknowledged issue report:
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Jeebus the isssue tracker search is bad 
Nice spot!
edit: Now do this one https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/enough-with-the-100k-bounties-for-ax-reactivation.620863/ (I can't believe only one person has raised this)
Nice spot!edit: Now do this one
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/enough-with-the-100k-bounties-for-ax-reactivation.620863/ (I can't believe only one person has raised this)
I saw reports of spontaneous attacks elsewhere suspecting a glitch, decided to investigate, and found that they were not quite so random after all! I do not believe it related to the Halloween event, but neither do I believe it in error.
I dropped at a few Resource Extraction Sites around Yam 11, one of the systems mentioned. Moments later, a Python dropped also and spoke this message which I have never encountered before:
The Python then started charging the FSD straight away, which also is abnormal behaviour. Meanwhile, the turret weapons on a nearby Cobra 3 started attacking me, the same hostile Cobra 3 in that picture. It was not fighting me, just flying around normally and scanning other vessels for cargo to steal, apparently oblivious regarding its turret weapons.
Eventually it exhausted its contacts to scan and left the area. No other strange messages occurred over ten separate drops, nor dropping elsewhere such as at my Fleet Carrier, and nothing else lost targeting control that way. The only time such did occur was after seeing that new message.
There was nothing murderous about it, which is why I think it has nothing to do with the event. Instead it looked much more like the Python hacked the Cobra 3 weapons targeting! That indicative message is why I think it is not a glitch, but perhaps something new in update 17.
Additional: It is not only Turret weapons; I have another Commander who saw a Rail gun shot fire away, but only one shot as if the trigger was held. That culprit also retained normal flight control and was not fighting actively, so the shot just went wherever the vessel happened to be pointing at the time.
I dropped at a few Resource Extraction Sites around Yam 11, one of the systems mentioned. Moments later, a Python dropped also and spoke this message which I have never encountered before:
The Python then started charging the FSD straight away, which also is abnormal behaviour. Meanwhile, the turret weapons on a nearby Cobra 3 started attacking me, the same hostile Cobra 3 in that picture. It was not fighting me, just flying around normally and scanning other vessels for cargo to steal, apparently oblivious regarding its turret weapons.
Eventually it exhausted its contacts to scan and left the area. No other strange messages occurred over ten separate drops, nor dropping elsewhere such as at my Fleet Carrier, and nothing else lost targeting control that way. The only time such did occur was after seeing that new message.
There was nothing murderous about it, which is why I think it has nothing to do with the event. Instead it looked much more like the Python hacked the Cobra 3 weapons targeting! That indicative message is why I think it is not a glitch, but perhaps something new in update 17.
Additional: It is not only Turret weapons; I have another Commander who saw a Rail gun shot fire away, but only one shot as if the trigger was held. That culprit also retained normal flight control and was not fighting actively, so the shot just went wherever the vessel happened to be pointing at the time.
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Kind of has been by me and a few others(such as, in the update notes thread), just not a thread about it.edit: Now do this one
… and speaking of, a ticket for the issue exists(if I remember correctly), so I should probably add a confirmation to it.
Remember to watch the culprit vessels very closely before judging what is the symptom! It is agreed that they attack, in the sense that they use their weapons, but watch their movements and decide whether they are actually fighting or flying as they would have done without the weaponry problems. I examined a few cases of this now, and thus far all were either obviously not fighting or inconclusive evidence either way.
Some notions surrounding this—but which are not properly founded—are that they "keep attacking if the first shot connects", or that they "aggro onto" Commanders. Perhaps, however thus far everything I have seen can be explained better by losing control of their weapons, where repeated strikes are due to having Turret weapons rather than actually entering a combat flight pattern.
Has anyone else ever seen the message "This will spice things up", or similar?
Some notions surrounding this—but which are not properly founded—are that they "keep attacking if the first shot connects", or that they "aggro onto" Commanders. Perhaps, however thus far everything I have seen can be explained better by losing control of their weapons, where repeated strikes are due to having Turret weapons rather than actually entering a combat flight pattern.
Has anyone else ever seen the message "This will spice things up", or similar?
I’ve seen some pirates coming after my cargo following an interdiction say something such as “Scanners are for the weak!” and just immediately open fire, but believe this is actual intended behavior, to occur some of the time.
Looking at the ships scanning you without being supposed to open fire immediately, however… I have observed it with system authority near planetary ports, where they occasionally hover above your ship instead of at the same level. Roughly at the same time as they deploy hardpoints to initiate that scan, one of their weapons will just fire seemingly at random, every time their hardpoints come out(but not after that).
And regarding that Cobra you mentioned - was it in a wing by any chance, for it to go hostile but continue to ignore you? (or hit by stray weapons fire) NPC turrets, it is worth noting, seem to be set to fire at will. Can notice it easily with Anaconda or Python NPCs in conflict zones, where their primary target can be a completely different one to, say, a turreted beam laser that targets you/another player at the same time.