Self Destructing
- Thread starter Celeste
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Robert Maynard
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lol, all get's destroyed, it's same as blowing your ship into station's walls or by other ships, you just get a screen (if lucky) with option to buy old loadout
cargo is lost forever.
If all cargo is destroyed then does that mean it is an extreme solution to a pirate encounter where the pirate demands all of the trader's cargo?
lol, all get's destroyed, it's same as blowing your ship into station's walls or by other ships, you just get a screen (if lucky) with option to buy old loadout
cargo is lost forever.
Not quite true.
If you are blown up for whatever reason, any cargo you have is mostly destroyed. But some can survive and be collected by anyone in the vicinity.
I hope so, although it probably won't allow you to put a bounty on the pirate's head.
Currently, if you blow someone up all their cargo disappears as well. This wasn't the case in the premium beta (not sure about alpha) and it's not the way it is planned to be based on the DDF archive.
Well, it makes sense considering you can just destroy the cargo bay door with a couple of shots and get all the cargo.
It's much more difficult than that, mostly because it's very hard to hit the cargo hatch. It's hard to line yourself up on an evasive target to even see the cargo hatch, the roll rate makes it especially easy for your target to simply turn the other side of their ship to you. Secondly, most of the ships show the cargo hatch in the wrong position when targeted and the auto aim of weapons forces you to fire in that wrong position exacerbates this problem.
Also, mass disruption seems to have been turned off for some reason, meaning you cannot slow ships from entering supercruise the way you did before. Lastly, this is all moot if your target is trying to fight you.
Piracy in this state of the game has become much more a matter of shooting someone until they drop cargo or they die.