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A little bit of borg cheating
shadowwraith77
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Hmmm so today while combatting a borg gateway i was doing the usual bit when i needed to disengage to do a lil repair work to myself when i reached a safe enough distance of 15km the next thing i noticed was 2 hits out of nowhere causing 24kdmg per hit instantly destroying my escort.
Now the first thing i did was look in combat log to see what hit me and it showed plasma array dealing this dmg to me, now the big kicker in this situation is i was well outsd of normal weapons range and on top of that no weapons fire was even seen hitting my ship only the dmg #'s and boom, also this occured thru 85-95% shield str without even affecting the shields. Cheat 1 for the borg
Ok respawned and reengaged the gate this time using beam attack to knockout weapon power only for it to take the gates weapons offline gate turned orange and showed big offline even, also confirmed with status effects on gate only for the gate to continue firing plasma array shots at me but not doing any dmg as this was also confirmed in combat log. Cheat #2 for the borg
I will work on getting better proof of this scenario next time i'm on by pics of combat logs is best i can do as i have no video devices to do full recordings, but it makes me wonder if any other's seem to experience such stuff other than the normal instakills i've hear so much about.
Now the first thing i did was look in combat log to see what hit me and it showed plasma array dealing this dmg to me, now the big kicker in this situation is i was well outsd of normal weapons range and on top of that no weapons fire was even seen hitting my ship only the dmg #'s and boom, also this occured thru 85-95% shield str without even affecting the shields. Cheat 1 for the borg
Ok respawned and reengaged the gate this time using beam attack to knockout weapon power only for it to take the gates weapons offline gate turned orange and showed big offline even, also confirmed with status effects on gate only for the gate to continue firing plasma array shots at me but not doing any dmg as this was also confirmed in combat log. Cheat #2 for the borg
I will work on getting better proof of this scenario next time i'm on by pics of combat logs is best i can do as i have no video devices to do full recordings, but it makes me wonder if any other's seem to experience such stuff other than the normal instakills i've hear so much about.
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just yesterday a gate shoot me dead while i was CLOAKED just flying by - 10.4 km away from it, and there was NO BEAM and NO TORPEDO
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just like your trico torps the torp changes target, at this time it can go twice the distance..
it happens all the time to me.
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In fact, this is the quickest way to solo the cubes in KASE... fly up, nose into the cube, keep your shields up and DONT kill the high yield torp it shoots. Let it hit you and then then try to get a bit of distance so the warp core breach doesn't kill you.
it's just a game-design flaw
you may notice when the gate explodes the whole exploding debree stuff is like half the size of the gate further UP (like it is jumping 5k up), you may also notice that many weapons preferably, hit it on the top or that npc-fighters move to the top.
that is because for the game the top is the *center* of the object.
but for the targeting UI it is not...
soooo if YOU fly low and stay just inside 9-10K range, it will not be able to target you! but if you fly high then you might be outside your firing range, but it's firing range up there might be large enough to still hit you, with such a big object the sphere / distance begins to matter.
It seems to be three torpedoes firing. I usually take one hit that takes my shield down, one that takes my hull down to like 25% (this is where I usually hightail out of range) and then bang out of nowhere I explode a few seconds later. Just today I had the bad luck of blowing up after the gate was killed (and no, the cube was still far out of range).
It's not a high yield torpedo because then it would have target brackets and also die if its parent is destroyed.
I've had the exact same thing happen to me. I thought I was just newbish and didn't know how to counter this mysterious force. Good to know no one seems to be able to counter it.
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Oh, really, two separate problems then!
Another thing is with cubes and gates. When im nearly dead but im healing while getting away as soon as i do evasive manouvers its like im causing suiside because 9 times out of 10 something has one shot me. Oh and when its gates i can be at 50% shield and hull and still get insta killed when using evasive manouvers to get away. I would really like to know why using that power near gates seems to attract insta deaths when going away regardless of health.
And if gates and spheres are using torps and maybe cubes as well tho the only torps i know cubes and tac cubes do is hy and are targetable. But with gates and spheres i never see them but i get plasma damage somehow and massive damage from them. If i cant see them how am i to know when to evade. I wish cryptic would fix these invisiable torps (cryptic its not the high yields as i can see them, its whatever else is being fired causing plasma torp high damage attacks that are not HY like the cube ones.)
I guess that's a good way of putting it 8), for borg cubes and spheres i can spot there normal plasma torps they launch...Yes they are at times hard to see do too backround coloring mixing in with the small lightly green colored ones, and everyone pretty much can see the high yield as they are big and slow, but for the graphics not keeping up or just bad programming on cryptics part for the invisible kills is really a poor exscuse for fun gameplay.
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