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Author Topic: Piranha Bombers ignoring shields and PD  (Read 633 times)

Yubbin

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Piranha Bombers ignoring shields and PD
« on: December 29, 2021, 01:59:54 PM »

Sometimes when I'm piloting a capita, and there are Piranhas coming towards me, for some reason or another they fly above my ship (in the sprite) and can drop bomb which I have no way of avoiding.I can understand the problem is I don't have enough PD, but I think it doesn't make sense that Piranhas can sometimes do unavoidable damage.
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Re: Piranha Bombers ignoring shields and PD
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2021, 10:11:59 AM »

Well pretty much that's a capital ship's weakness and why they are escorted by cruisers?

I mean just from what you've described all that comes to mind is "yep sounds about right."

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Re: Piranha Bombers ignoring shields and PD
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2021, 10:23:48 AM »

They don't ignore them, but bomber AI makes them fly over your ship and there's nothing stopping them from dropping their bombs when inside your ship. Pretty frustrating, I agree, though it happens more often with shielded bombers, that then hang out in close proximity and then suddenly stop being overloaded and shoot point-blank.

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Re: Piranha Bombers ignoring shields and PD
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2021, 11:10:30 AM »

Note that your shield can catch the bombs all the way to its center, if you can manage to cover that arc of your ship.
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