opinion on "super Asp Shields" ?

[Vladimar Rubicon]

First off, let me state that I'm not whining that this is a Hack... just that it seems suspicious, and if it isn't a hack, I want to know how it is done.

I have a Fed drop Ship and it's solid-with A Class 6 shields and everything else top rated. I was interdicted by a Player ASP and figured what the heck, I'll pop that Asp in a minute like always. I have an Asp and know they are good, but no match for my hull strength etc... This pilot hits me up close with missles and I'm having a hard time locking on to him- My turning capabilities aren't a match for his, so I see an opportunity to ram him and bam- My shields gone, but his still at 100%.

I ram him again with BOOST and his shields still at 100%. Ram again under BOOST and his shields are still at 100%. Meanwhile I'm down to 40 or so % hull. My Class 3 and two Class 2 beams make no impact. Multi Cannons have no impact. I think we rammed 5 times without any loss of shields on his Asp.

I got down to nothing, and had to FSD away with 1 % Hull left.

this can't be right.

 

[X-Terminator]

I think in reasonal suspicion you should be "Reporting Players" and save some Video as evidence to act on as most cards do this without causing any lag.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

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[Quineloe]

Some Players are repeatedly posting their "Look at me! I'm a combat hero!"-Videos of them defeating multiple heavy enemy Players using tiny Ships... An noone at FDev even takes note.

Shield-, Thruster- and Weapon-Multiplicator Cheats sure do what they are advertised to do...

Do you have one of these videos at hand?

 

[lonewarrior]

First off, let me state that I'm not whining that this is a Hack... just that it seems suspicious, and if it isn't a hack, I want to know how it is done.

I have a Fed drop Ship and it's solid-with A Class 6 shields and everything else top rated. I was interdicted by a Player ASP and figured what the heck, I'll pop that Asp in a minute like always. I have an Asp and know they are good, but no match for my hull strength etc... This pilot hits me up close with missles and I'm having a hard time locking on to him- My turning capabilities aren't a match for his, so I see an opportunity to ram him and bam- My shields gone, but his still at 100%.

I ram him again with BOOST and his shields still at 100%. Ram again under BOOST and his shields are still at 100%. Meanwhile I'm down to 40 or so % hull. My Class 3 and two Class 2 beams make no impact. Multi Cannons have no impact. I think we rammed 5 times without any loss of shields on his Asp.

I got down to nothing, and had to FSD away with 1 % Hull left.

this can't be right.

He could have been spamming shield cells, did you see the shield cell animation on his shields?
If he had 4 pips to shields and spammed shield cells it's possible it was legit but it is a bit suspicious still

 

[Deleted member 38366]

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[Quineloe]

If you prefer I'd take a PM. I'd just really like to see for myself.

 

[Vladimar Rubicon]

I didn't start the recorder- don't have auto record- so no video. Honestly, I thought it would just be a quickie kill and then on my way so wasn't even paying attention to his name, or anything. I was sort of in shock after that first hit when his shields never budged. I mean, that should have knocked him down to almost nothing.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

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[X-Terminator]

One thing the ASP does have is a very ample Power Module and lots of slots for SHEILD BOOSTERS. If he was using the SCB then surely you'd see his Shields go to minimum before he required needing the Cell Bank. In this case he surely was using maximum number of Shield Boosters. The weapons on the Asp are very powerful e.g. 2 medium gambled beams + 4 small multi-canons. It's a killer in disguise.
Unless you can post the link to the cheats which does not infringe rules here...you should do as that is to be reported.
To accuse ED it can be cheated would surely show up on there servers where all data is kept on the CMDR. They surely would pickup on it.
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FD, if there's any truth in this then do sort it out now.
http://hackerbot.net/mmo/plus/229-elite-dangerous-ed

 

[Vladimar Rubicon]

These cheats have been talked about on here since I remember back in the fall prior to game release. ED can't solve the issue because of the P2P system from what I've read- I'm ignorant on how that works, but there ya go. His shields never dropped at all- and knowing the Asp well (thats what I made all my cash flying) Hits from a bigger ship under boost would have destroyed his shields- I have three Shield Boosters myself and it took mine down to nothing. The only thing that saved me was all my hull modules. Even with Class 6 Shields, an Asp is still subject to the same Mass effects from getting rammed.

 

[Aio]

I have the latest weeks nuked quite a lot of cmdrs, well above 100, to get a feeling of how many cheaters there are. The by far most common thing is to combat log, my guess is 10-20%. I have also come across a couple of cmds who are cheating with 3rd party software. I have looked through the most common 3rd party software source code to know what to look for, thus making it a lot easier to spot. Usually the software is configured such as it is not as evident as you describe above but the result is more or less the same. It is impossibe to win against these guys. I guess reporting is the only thing to do and lets hope FD will do something.

 

[Derath]

Its a cheater, you can't make an asp have super shields, its probably got the worst shields for its profile in the game