weapons issue

[Kingston@#]

hi CMDR's,
on occasion I have been interdicted. I slow to deal with aggressor. before interdiction I had scanned aggressors ship and was alerted hard points had been deployed. we drop out and I come under attack instantly. aggressors weapons were firing. if I deploy my weapons before I drop out, I get told they are deployed. when I drop out I have to re-deploy them and have to wait some time for my weapons to deploy, so I am unable to respond. I am using a python

this also happens when I instigate interdiction. weapon deploys in supercruise, but fails to be after drop out.
so either way I have to wait approx 5secs to be able to reply to anything I have to deal with.
usually its been AI ships this is happening with. never seen it happen with a CMDR until last night. he was instantly firing as we came out of supercruise.

should my weapons be deployed and be ready to be fired. if I deploy them in supercruise?

 

[babelfisch]

AFAIK you can't deploy weapons in SC (you even need to retract them if you want to enter SC). The other ship shows as hardpoints deployed because his FSD interdictor is up and ready.

Don't know why they are instantly deployed when you get interdicted though. Maybe network lag? It could be that he 'arrived' in normal space before you.

 

[Kingston@#]

AFAIK you can't deploy weapons in SC (you even need to retract them if you want to enter SC). The other ship shows as hardpoints deployed because his FSD interdictor is up and ready.

Don't know why they are instantly deployed when you get interdicted though. Maybe network lag? It could be that he 'arrived' in normal space before you.

thanks,

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

The other ship shows as hardpoints deployed because his FSD interdictor is up and ready.

Or discovery scanner, if you fire off a discovery scan it reports hardpoints deployed because it's been mapped to a trigger being fired even though the scanner isn't a hardpoint. A bug really but you're right weapons can't be deployed in SC for safety reasons.