Newcomer / Intro What happened?

[John Fairfax]

Hi everyone,
This is my first post on the forums after a few weeks of playing, mostly doing trading and exploring. Now I wanted to get into the bounty hunter thingy and something happened that I don't really understand.
I just bought a frameshift interdictor and used it for the first time on a human-player Cobra (same ship as mine) that was "wanted". My Cobra is A-outfitted (power plant, capacitor, shield generator etc.). I managed to get his hull down to 70%, and I had still at least 2 shield rings intact (perhaps 3, everything happened pretty fast). Suddenly something goes boom, my shields are down and hull (which was 100%) is down to 6%! Can a Cobra fit a weapon that wreaks that kind of havoc? Did I run into a point-blank double railgun burst? Or a missile? Needless to say, my first interdiction ever ended in me rebuying, because while I was afterburning to get out of dodge, he pounded me to shreds. I'm not complaining (The risk of doing stuff like PvP interdictions combined with the "no saves" persistent universe is what I like about it), but I'm wondering what happened!
Btw my opponent was a "Novice".

 

[Feldspar]

When you target someone you can check the left hand panel for their loadout, or see it when cycling through the subsystem targeting (don't rely on chewing through a player's hull, go for their power plant). Not sure what you got hit by, but a players combat rating does not represent their actual skill or what they are packing.

 

[Dommarraa]

I don't see how the cobra could do that, short of a Mil spec ram and missile barage. A mate in a vulture is more likely

 

[the100thmonkey]

Could have been that one of the Cobra's weapons was a class 2 plasma accelerator. If they hit you with that, it might do that kind of damage, particularly if your shields were weakened.

Alternatively, they were flying in a wing and their friends dropped in to help. That information always shows below their combat rank - it will say "in wing 3/3" or something similar. There will be no information about wings if they aren't in one.

 

[Lupin]

Sounds like a ramming to me. Along with close range weapons fire.