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Starsector => Bug Reports & Support => Topic started by: WM46 on August 05, 2016, 05:42:58 PM

Title: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: WM46 on August 05, 2016, 05:42:58 PM
Wasn't able to record a video of it actually happening, but I can give the general situation.

There was a ship corpse to my side and my ally on the other side of me, all frigate sized ships. My ally phase skimmed towards me as I was moving towards the corpse, and just as I touched it he turned on his shield and rammed me into it. I died immediately, 100% armor 100% hull down to zero in an instant. I wasn't hit by a torpedo, the lone ship we were attacking was overloaded.

It just seems like a bug because normally collisions do somewhere between 10-200 damage

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Title: Re: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: Alex on August 05, 2016, 06:02:38 PM
Thanks for the report. Hmm - is this with mods, by chance? I'll keep an eye out in any case, but I *think* some mods have messed with ship collision damage, so it's possible that's a factor if they are indeed involved. Also, if a frigate's mass is set to a high value, they'll do more damage than usual.

How quickly is "immediately", btw? A single touch, or many small impacts, if you managed to catch that?
Title: Re: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: Midnight Kitsune on August 05, 2016, 06:14:01 PM
If you could list the ships that were involved (and their mods) that would be nice
Title: Re: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: WM46 on August 05, 2016, 06:35:07 PM
It was definitely a single hit, the ship that rammed me didn't even get overloaded. I was driving a Yari and the AI was in a Kaiken from the Bushi mod.

Edit: And the dead ship to my left was just a pirate Lasher.
Title: Re: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: Deshara on August 06, 2016, 03:44:29 AM
sounds like your vessel was sunk by the phase-cloaked kraken of the great void :P
Title: Re: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: Alex on August 06, 2016, 08:34:11 AM
Hmm. Looking through the code, it's hard to see how the damage could get out of hand like that unless one of the ships had an excessively high mass. So I strongly suspect some mod-related shenanigans here.
Title: Re: Instagibbed in certain situations (weird physics when crashing into object)
Post by: Deshara on August 06, 2016, 09:04:25 AM
Hmm. Looking through the code, it's hard to see how the damage could get out of hand like that unless one of the ships had an excessively high mass.

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