Jump To Lightspeed Archive
Thread: hitting my target-no damage
Page 1 of 1
mindshot
Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:43 pm
#1
just went into space for first time doing the patrols. 3 privateers spawn. i target first one and start blasting away. see shield flash and hull hits. the enemy sheilds stay at 100%. tried targeting reactor and engine , same result , i get hits on enemy but no damage shows. what exactly am i doing wrong here? this is the newbie mission that the trainer gives you. it should be a cake walk.
willismaximus
Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:47 pm
#2
yup . . . 1st bug I saw in beta . . . biggest bug in the game . . . and it has yet to be fixed. You have to lead your targets more than it looks and make them fly into your shot to do damage. It sucks, but get used to it.
Shady431
Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:48 pm
#3
Are you sure it was your mission? Becuase if it's not you can hit them and it does no damage.
HeyHolo
Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:51 pm
#4
It's a bug that's been around since beta started, you need to shoot the ship either on the nose or in the rear, top and bottom are invulnerable to harm, they seem to be incapable of fixingthatbug apparently b/c it's been in since before I even got in beta.
graphicagent
Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:46 pm
#5
Same thing happens to me. I can even have my friends disable the ship so the target is a sitting duck and then lay into him and nothing happens..I do no damage whatsoever. So it is impossible to level up or do anything.
I read that theres a top/bottom invulnerability and tried many different times hitting from various angles, distances, using various speeds and targetting specific parts. Nothing helped. I tried aiming around the targetting reticle as opposed to lining up the dots...cause that wasnt working and that didnt help. I also tried every looted and manufactured component available and that did not help. I sent in a ticket and had a friend also send in a ticket and have gotten no response yet.
_Smoke_
Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:50 pm
#6
There's actually two different invulnerability bugs and one "feature" that combine to make ships un-killable.
The first is the top/bottom invuln bug. Most people know about that one.
The "feature" is that once you disable a target, no other player can hit it for damage. I assume this was put in place to stop a person from griefing missions by killing disabled targets that people are trying to dock with.
The second bug is that after a ship is disabled, even the pilot who disabled it in the first place cannot damage the ship for 5 to 10 seconds. Essentially, disabled ships are temporarily invulnerable from all angles, even to the pilot who caused the ship to be disabled.
These two bugs and one feature make killing certain craft extremely challenging in JTL. SOE has acknowledged the existence of the first bug, but not the second. Hopefully they'll both get squashed soon.
~S
The first is the top/bottom invuln bug. Most people know about that one.
The "feature" is that once you disable a target, no other player can hit it for damage. I assume this was put in place to stop a person from griefing missions by killing disabled targets that people are trying to dock with.
The second bug is that after a ship is disabled, even the pilot who disabled it in the first place cannot damage the ship for 5 to 10 seconds. Essentially, disabled ships are temporarily invulnerable from all angles, even to the pilot who caused the ship to be disabled.
These two bugs and one feature make killing certain craft extremely challenging in JTL. SOE has acknowledged the existence of the first bug, but not the second. Hopefully they'll both get squashed soon.
~S
Wokka
Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:28 pm
#8
I think there's also "friendly code" in there that makes them invulnerable. I had 3 RSF fighters that were just idling in various loop-de-loops. I targetted them using X and tried to fire a lot and all over them. I made sure I hit them from every angle. No damage and no aggro. They just kept doing their loops. This is the same as the aggro targets that are invulnerable to damage. They simply don't care that you are shooting at them and they don't shoot back. Imagine if they DID shoot back. Well, a good thing is, if they aggro and shoot, they become vulnerable to attack finally and you can damage them. Still not sure what triggers this to happen, but I'm working on it.
Wokka-wokka
Page 1 of 1