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Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:20 am
by DasRav
I had this happen yesterday and I was like wtf ^^
Basically, if a drone passes thru the path of a gun while that gun fires, the gun (a laser in my case) will hit it and destroy the drone.
Anyone else have this happen and if so, with what gun(s)?
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:26 am
by Spazticus
It doesn't happen too often, but the enemy ships can also shoot down your drones in the same way. At least you can usually send out another immediately, and it's one less hit that you might have taken to your shields/hull.
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:42 am
by zarakon
I think any of your weapons except beams can do it
I've been able to do it intentionally several times
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:59 am
by DarkenDragon
fyi this also happens with missiles too, i've shot down a missile that passed right infront of my weapon before. and I can only guess it would work against boarding drones too but i've not had that situation happen yet
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:01 am
by Boyos
Yeah I've shot down drones, and seen my drones shot down. Check out this shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1zPzbR ... ata_player
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:02 pm
by Mr. Mister
Quoting myself:
Mr. Mister wrote:I can confirm that both asteroids and missing shots from enemy attack drones (and thus misses from any enemy weapon too) can take down your defense drones too. Hilarious.
It shouldn't be that hard to intentionally kill an enem defense drone with a beam (if beams can destroy drones): the defense drone floats following the shield perimeter.
Mr. Mister wrote:GROUNDBREAKING RESULTS:
I'd venture saying that any pair of non-beam (and non-ship) bodies can collide, anihilating one another.
Just saw a (heavy I) laser collide with a (not sure which version) ion ball.
Not sure why there isn't an achievement for two projectiles colliding.
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:21 pm
by zarakon
Mr. Mister wrote:
I'd venture saying that any pair of non-beam (and non-ship) bodies can collide, anihilating one another.
Thankfully, not entirely true. Your own laser shots can pass right through your defense drones without damaging them.
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:54 pm
by Mr. Mister
zarakon wrote:Mr. Mister wrote:
I'd venture saying that any pair of non-beam (and non-ship) bodies can collide, anihilating one another.
Thankfully, not entirely true. Your own laser shots can pass right through your defense drones without damaging them.
Bodies from different factions, that is. This makes for You, Them, and Asteroids (I doubt two asteroids would collide, in the probably impossible case that that happened).
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:14 pm
by jamotide
Thats awesome, especially with 1 hull left!
Re: Your guns shooting down a enemy drone
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:51 am
by Boyos
Yeah, wish I could get that luck. Haha.