Starburst Inconsistency

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Rhadamant
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Starburst Inconsistency

Post by Rhadamant » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 02:01

I find that the Starburst Shockwave Cannon is very inconsistent. About 75% of the time it snipes the target with dead accuracy and doesn't miss. 25% of the time it misses constantly and never hits a thing. Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?

(I experience this as a Springblossom against M5's M4's and M3's.

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Post by delray » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 02:19

Everyone. It's called "FAA bug". Keep reloading your game and flying to different sectors until it disappears.

It happens when you save during a battle in which you are using FLAKs so don't do that to avoid the bug triggering.

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Post by Rhadamant » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 02:21

Oh I find the bug hilarious. I give up using the SSC and just ram the little buggers, I was only wondering if it was me or the game, thanks for clearing it up =].

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Post by NCODB » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 02:48

Actually, i think i've found a way around it. What i did was remove my Fight Command software from my ship, and re-installed it. Worked fine after. No idea why.

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Post by Rhadamant » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 03:01

NCODB wrote:Actually, i think i've found a way around it. What i did was remove my Fight Command software from my ship, and re-installed it. Worked fine after. No idea why.
It probably reset the turret's commands and settings.

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Post by Nanook » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 03:03

Which can also be done by simply setting all turret commands to none.
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Post by MutantDwarf » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 03:10

There's also the slight problem that the SSC's range isn't quite as long as my ship thinks it is - the computer thinks it's in firing range at about 3k range, but it doesn't have a chance to actually hit anything until about 2k.

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Post by Kor'ah » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 06:01

Obivously you people never took notice of this when dogfighting a pack of M5s in a springblossem. You'll get alot of way off target misses. It's not a bug, but it proves FLAK weapons can be dodged in a fighter.
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