Targeting sub-modules ... what's the point ?
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What I found targeting the power plant yes it explodes but if you wait around the ship powers up and start flying around shooting at you, personally if the power plant is on 0% then it should be dead in the water, I thought FD fixed this I remember shooting the FSD to 0% just out of beta and then the ship would still FSD out kind of disappointing really.
Yeah, I entirely agree with this, it makes taking out weapons pretty silly.
I also noticed ships can re-power themselves up after a while, I figured they had eventually re-booted and repaired, was pretty cool.
You need powerplant to power the fsd. Thrusters to make you ship move fast enough to enter hyperspace which also need power from the powerplant. Jumping out is not an option unless he repairs and reboots them. Even then they may malfunction. Time would not have blown a human pilot up but an npc may blow up.
The self destruct device is linked to life support.
As of 1.4 this no longer works. Take a PP down to 0% and the power output is reduced to 50%. This applies to your ship as well. Only taking a ship to 0% results in an explosion or a really lucky shot.
NPC Condas love to run away at 60-50% depending on how the combat goes, especially when a lot of police arrives. Blowing the FSD is an easy way to stop that without having to chew through the armor to get to the Powerplant. Especially if you are hunting in smaller ships.
If you shoot powerplant continiously after it is already at 0% ship will explode sooner or later.
Conda's powerplants are still very vulnerable and if you have a wing of conda + something against you, it is a good idea to disable conda, kill it's wingmen, and then finish conda.
Also it seems that poking 0% powerplant with beam laser (even small one) will result in explosion very fast. Beam need to be fixed, because gimbals wobble too much.
Conda's powerplants are still very vulnerable and if you have a wing of conda + something against you, it is a good idea to disable conda, kill it's wingmen, and then finish conda.
Also it seems that poking 0% powerplant with beam laser (even small one) will result in explosion very fast. Beam need to be fixed, because gimbals wobble too much.
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There is point:
- Power Plant: Shooting PP to 0% will make any ship stop firing and stop in space, unable to fly or shoot. After ship gets paralyzed, you can finish it off comfortably. If you keep shooting PP after it is 0%, it will blow up anyway.
- Drive: Ship loses flight control and can't FSD outta here. Drives are usually easier to hit than FSD.
- Power Plant: Shooting PP to 0% will make any ship stop firing and stop in space, unable to fly or shoot. After ship gets paralyzed, you can finish it off comfortably. If you keep shooting PP after it is 0%, it will blow up anyway.
- Drive: Ship loses flight control and can't FSD outta here. Drives are usually easier to hit than FSD.
Right. It doesn´t make much sense to go for the PP of a Viper, Cobra and other smaller Ships but i still go for it on the bigger Ships. Very likely that i bring down an Anaconda with 10-30% Hull, while shooting its PP.
Not quite true. I took down an Anaconda at 42% hull last night. FD themselves said (and apologies, I can't get the link, limited bandwidth tonight #australianlyf), taking down the PP to 0% rather than guaranteeing death, would provide a very small chance of an instant kill. Wailing on the PP even at 0% just gives you more chances.
The real problem is that prior to fixing the penetration of weapons and the damage caused to subsystems, there was no real reason to target anything besides the powerplant. Now they've reduced the impact of targeting the powerplant explicitly, and also made it harder to do damage to subsystems. As a result, there's even less reason to try targetting anything but the PP (because if you dont luck out on the insta-kill, it'll make it ballet-dance on the spot constantly coz it doesn't have full power to run systems)
I've made an npc scout pop by taking out thrusters and life support and waiting 5 minutes. Of course it can take up to 25 minutes.
And an npc with no life support will generally try to flee. Most module malfunctions are pretty subtle if you aren't inside the affected ship.
And an npc with no life support will generally try to flee. Most module malfunctions are pretty subtle if you aren't inside the affected ship.
Of course not. You will just get a frozen canopy.
That's true if you manage to hit them, but they are generally the smaller target and every missed shot will instead penetrate the hull and damage internal modules.
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So how long does life support keep you alive if the Life Support module is turned off ?
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5-25 min, depending on grade - that's not so much life support (heating etc) than simple oxygen reservoir.
