PvP Interdictions losing tether

Ory'Hara

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For some reason I've had a few interdictions against players where about halfway through the interdiction (whether I'm winning or losing) the interdiction will just suddenly stop, but not in a way it's supposed to. The game acts like nothing happened, and the player is still flying in front of me in SuperCruise, so I'm able to start a new interdiction almost immediately. In one case, this happened 3 or 4 times, going through cycles of starting over until eventually I won the interdiction before it disconnected, but the other CMDR thought I was cheating somehow and combat logged, then messaged me to accuse me of cheating (or maybe he just saw it as a convenient rationalization for combat logging).

Anyway, anybody else seen this? Any idea as to the cause? I'd assume something network/lag related. Haven't submitted a bug report yet, probably should. Unless it's already a known thing, but I never saw it until recently.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
One legitimate way this can happen - which I've done as the defender once, accidentally - is if the attacker is approaching a gravity well which the defender has passed, the attacker interdicts at close to max range for their interdictor, then gets slowed down by hitting the gravity well faster than the interdiction slows the defender down, and passes outside of max range.

Similarly if the defender dips into an orbital cruise zone it'll break the interdiction even if they're going slow enough not to emergency drop.

But if it's happening frequently - especially if it lets you re-establish immediately and repeatedly - that definitely sounds like a bug.
 

[VR] M4st0d0n

[VR] M4st0d0n
Ohmagodohmagod. Dont tell me you can now actually win the thing while defending. This could potentially change the whole submit/highwake meta.

Must test that with another human still playing the game, ask the old pals to install the thing back.
 

Ory'Hara

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I don't think that really counts as winning. It just like....delays it a little.

And by the way, I've definitely lost interdictions from the attacking side for no apparent reason. Flying perfectly centered but for whatever reason the red bar fills up instead of the blue. Seems like if both people fly equally well, the game doesn't know what do with it and just picks a side at random.
 

Krash

Krash
M4st0d0n said:
Ohmagodohmagod. Dont tell me you can now actually win the thing while defending. This could potentially change the whole submit/highwake meta.

Must test that with another human still playing the game, ask the old pals to install the thing back.
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Winning the mini-game is a thing now. Adjust your SC speed all over the place. The "puller" has to match your speed for optimal results.
 
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