[UPDATE] A word from Frontier about NPC's, AI and Bi-Weave Shields

[Otherwhere]

I don't understand why they want to force combat on everyone. If you want to trade, or mine, or do exploration, you still need to deal with combat on a regular basis. And yet there are plenty of opportunities to do combat IF YOU WANT TO. Combat Zones, Hazres sites, Arena, Power Play, pirating, bounty hunting.

I'm only 3 weeks in. My (small) comfort is: veterans are complaining and getting destroyed on a regular basis, so it isn't just us noobs! Just my luck to start the game right when they are revamping it to be harder.

I have no issue with the AI being "smarter" in combat. I have an issue with the unreasonable aggressiveness of the AI who will attack and destroy you for little or no reason. And the god-like omniscience of the NPCs to interdict you when there would be dozens of other targets in the area, several of whom would likely have better loot than I do.

So, I haven't been playing. I'm waiting for news that the situation has improved.

 

[Dragonfiend]

Combat has become a chore. I got some CZ missions, so I headed in and tried to clear a few out.

In my FDL, I've had every single fight continually be a head-on joust-off, where they always seem to whip around faster than I can. I just spent 5 minutes trying to take on an AspX who, with each pass, was dropping SCBs and going back to full shields, and chaff when we would make a run at each other. And the instant my shields went down, my canopy blew out and my power capacity was exceeded.

So, combat. No. Maybe in Res sites where I can try to disable a target ship before it gets itself to facing me (which they always can, even a Conda) but CZs leave me nothing but annoyed. I drop in and out of the 8 ships engaging one target, they will always charge head-on at me.

This doesn't even touch on the mysterious problems I had last night, where my modules were rapid-fire malfunctioning while my shields were still fully up.

These clippers im being interdicted by are flying like vultures, even the one anaconda outmaneuvered my python by a large margin. Not to mention their chaff every 25 seconds it seems. My internals are A rated with the exception of my B rated power plant.

 

[carnage581]

Actually had one crush my canopy after it tore my shields off not fun knowing that on it's initial run a small ship tore my python to scrap and sent me fling in space. 2.8mil cr is nothing for an elite kamikazee smart missle from cyberdyne systems.

I'm in a freewinder now with a loan to pay off. I'm gonna go play something warm and cuddly like dark souls 3.

 

[PHANTOMCYPHER]

Actually had one crush my canopy after it tore my shields off not fun knowing that on it's initial run a small ship tore my python to scrap and sent me fling in space. 2.8mil cr is nothing for an elite kamikazee smart missle from cyberdyne systems.

I'm in a freewinder now with a loan to pay off. I'm gonna go play something warm and cuddly like dark souls 3.

darksouls is easer than a elite vulture..

 

[nathanc213]

The only issues ive had are a deadly anaconda out turning my FDL, spamming me with rail guns and spamming SCB but not taking module damage even though he didnt have any heatsinks.

And a vulture with a pulse and a multi taking out my vultures shields quicker than my beam and multi and then breaching my canopy with the pulse within seconds (as soon as my shields dropped he stopped firing his multi).

But when I was in a hazRES in my vette for 2h I had no issues and didn't take hull damage.