X3AP; OOS instant win

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X3AP; OOS instant win

Post by gezgin2k » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 07:14

My weed & fuel complex in hatikvahs faith was under attack by one split tiger and three vipers. I was thinking how can i save it quickly(its shields were already gone when i heard "one of your factories are under attack").

I sent my skirnir and ordered missile barrage commands from ~30km away and
each target almost immediately was destroyed.

Then i realized boarding might be as simple & quick as that. i sent my bomber gave command of missile barrage enough to take down shields then order it to board: boarding party instantly on the hulls without casualty.

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Post by kurush » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 07:37

Did they actually board the thing? Insta-death because of barrage was known since TC but I don't think anybody tried OOS boarding. How did you measure the damage so that shields go to 0 but ship didn't get destroyed?

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Post by DukeFlame » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 07:43

OOS Boarding ? Never knew that was possible :) Think ill give it a try

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Post by gezgin2k » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 07:55

I didn't know barrage worked before. I just found out.

Yes, they successfully boarded the ship.

The ship took some hull damage due to extra missile but that's fine for me.
I used m8s for taking down the shields because it's more under your control.

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Post by Gazz » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 07:58

That's clever. Didn't expect that to be possible. =P

Out of curiosity - does the boarding pod always hit?
There used to be a chance of missiles missing OOS.
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Post by DukeFlame » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 08:11

Just tried .... my pods all hit, will re-try maybe i got lucky. Took a few re-loads to get the shield right with hammers/flails.

*edit* The chance for the missiles to miss is still there, certainly for 'normal' missiles. OOS seems to calculate the hit/miss for the whole barrage, in one reload i fired off 4 or 5 barrages that all missed !
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Post by gezgin2k » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 08:11

I'm not sure. I just tryed it a few times and there was not a missing pod.
You don't hear the voice of boarding operation but you can check its status from "Property Owned" -> "People".

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Post by DukeFlame » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 08:24

Nice find Gezgin :D I like this 'feature'. Dont think it will be a regularly used feature in my games as I like managing the boarding ops but I love being able to choose.

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Post by Jumee » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 13:17

ha cant believe I never tried an OOS boarding :D :o

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Post by gezgin2k » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 17:40

i just saw something odd. occasionally, a significant part of marines are not fired/ stayed on the ship :s.
i had to give "board" command repeatedly.

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Post by Raize » Sat, 28. Jan 12, 17:56

I just tried this and instapopped the M6 I was trying to capture with flails... then tried against a M7 and it instapopped my Cobra...
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