Turrets not affected by chaff?

[lonewarrior]

Just a quick thing, I thought chaff affected turrets?
I just just came up against someone and chaff had no effect at all yet the wiki says It affects turrets

 

[Raf von Thorn]

Nope, turrets are not chaff affected.

 

[Poy]

Just a quick thing, I thought chaff affected turrets?
I just just came up against someone and chaff had no effect at all yet the wiki says It affects turrets

Nope, turrets don't care, very useful on a Clipper

 

[Stigbob]

The wiki is unofficial external and inaccurate.

However I use chaff against turrets, it makes me feel better.

 

[Kelen Savitch]

They aren't, IMHO they should be. Gimballed weapons track the target and are confused by chaff, so why shouldn't turrets also be affected?

 

[Bortas]

why shouldn't turrets also be affected?

Turrets are pretty weak as they are... if they were affected by chaff, they would be completely and utterly useless and big ships would be basically defenseless.

It was a nice fight, btw, lonewarrior, had a lot of fun

 

[DidierDrbois]

I pop chaff all the time regardless. Glitters make me feel fabulous.

 

[Midian Cabal]

According to the manual and this thread chaff should disable all auto aiming weapons and not just gimballed, but it doesn't.

Ships fitted with chaff launchers can temporarily completely defeat auto aiming weapons.While a ship is under the effects of a chaff cloud, all auto aim weapons will suffer extremewandering if the ship is locked into the targeting computer.

 

[DidierDrbois]

According to the manual and this thread chaff should disable all auto aiming weapons and not just gimballed, but it doesn't.

I did have an itchy feeling here, well spotted, thanks!

 

[CMDR Ashylnn D'Elyse]

They probably changed it after launch to make the turrets at least somewhat useful as others have pointed out and never bothered to update the manual.

 

[Mercy Killing]

They probably changed it after launch to make the turrets at least somewhat useful as others have pointed out and never bothered to update the manual.

Sure would be nice to have some kind of official word, though.

 

[Fyrd Judge]

They probably changed it after launch to make the turrets at least somewhat useful as others have pointed out and never bothered to update the manual.

May be a bug and simply no one has reported it and so people now have convinced themselves it is actually normal. Seen one classic example of this where people thought stations with the same name occurring 4 or 5 times was normal, Until it was reported last week and FD said they were fixing it.

 

[LKx]

In-game description of chaff's keybinding talks about both gimballed and turrets.
Wouldn't make much sense otherwise.

 

[Morbad]

Just a quick thing, I thought chaff affected turrets?

Chaff has pretty much never affected turrets.

 

[Vyvian]

I did some rudimentary tests on this once with another player.

It seemed that chaff did effect turrets, but instead of the huge difference it makes to gimballed, it only makes their aim swing around an extra couple of degrees.

So within 1km it made very little difference but out at 2-3km range that couple of degrees made a fair difference.

Might have to test this this properly with a number of repeated tests to confirm or deny.