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Boarding Party Shuttles Follow Cloaked Ships

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So, I never saw this ability used in combat before a few days ago. And I've only seen it used once so far. But something seems a little odd about it. The person who used it opened fire on me, and I promptly bugged out like any good coward. I got well away from him quick enough, and was "out of combat" long enough to cloak. Then I notice three or four little red arrows sloooowly trailing me around the map. I look back, and there are four "Boarding Party Shuttle," dutifully training along behind me while I'm fully cloaked and well more than 10 km ahead of them. Seems a little odd to me that a shuttle would have the hardware to track a cloaked ship, when the ship they were launched from certainly could not target or follow me any more. It made me wonder if the person using them might have deployed them just to take advantage of this "feature."
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Carrier pets do the same thing. Definitely it needs to be fixed.

    I'm surprised anyone still uses boarding parties though. With tactical team's buff and how it lasts 10s, I find it damn worthless to even try boarding parties.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Foxrocks wrote:
    I'm surprised anyone still uses boarding parties though. With tactical team's buff and how it lasts 10s, I find it damn worthless to even try boarding parties.
    Yep. I'm assuming the entire (only) reason for using it is so it will bird-dog an enemy you know has cloak ability, so you can follow right along with them.
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