Build: 1.5 Mode: all modes Mode: all modes Reproducibility: In all game modes at any time you encounter drones in space or planetside Severity: From Minor-Major depending how you take it, but very nasty overall. Type: AIVessels Summary: Drones are overpowered with weird hitbox results Description: It seems that drones whether in space or planetside are overpowered, they are able to shoot through the cockpit and kill the player in a very short time after you spot them. The player will be dead but the cockpit and ship is intact or only slightly damaged. This desciption is based on a thread with multiple feedbacks, it doesn't matter if the cockpit is a simple one or an armored cockpit. Please read this thread for the feedbacks to this problem: https://steamcommunity.com/app/383120/discussions/0/4164121860554349995/ I don't think this drone behavior is intended, drones were surely not designed to be so powerful, and even if so these shooting results are weird. Steps to Reproduce: Anytime, anywhere when you encounter drones while in your ship, make sure you keep them in front of you to see the description results fast.
Is it the old problem that everybody had ? => The way damage is dealt with explosion range => Explosion damage pass through the cockpit, even if it is not destroyed. This is why some players build SV with internal cockpit (open seats) protected inside hull. I agree, I've been killed this way in my last play (and others), because I failed on firing very fast on one drone, and my body felt to the ground whilme my SV keep hovering at 100m above....
Can you show a video of this with ideally just 1 drone ? Can it happen with any cockpit or only certain cockpits ? I cannot trigger anything going of what has been described.
Unfortunately not, I'm not familiar in making videos. Also with armored cockpits Try with drones in space, that's where it happened to me with a small mining ship and armored cockpit.
I have been sat here for some time today in space & on planets & haven't seen the health bar drop when letting a bunch of drones of different types shoot at me (the shield percentage is higher due to console command used for testing) Recently I found a way to trigger this but only in MP https://empyriononline.com/threads/...rs-inside-sv-cockpits-7993.97950/#post-437445 I ideally need a way to trigger what you describe to be able to say if they are the same issue or something slightly different.
More information about how I got shoot 'through' the cockpit: I have JRandall's Wayfarer MKII CV upgraded with all weapons but still no combat armor; inside the CV these ships are docked: - SV Skaar Glaive T4 (Worshop JRandall) - SV Merc MX11 (Workshop JRandall) - SV Auger MK-S (Workshop, no changes and it has an armored cockpit) - HV_Prefab_Tier6 (stock HV changed by me to be T3) With the Auger MK-S I departed from the CV to mine an asteroid when 2-3 drones appeared near the asteroid and I had to deal with them; I didn't have the time to make any maneuvers to get out of their fireline, I died very quickly (a few seconds after spotting them). I recall they were in range for my weapons in front of me. I for sure didn't notice any missile impact whatsoever, I just died - pooofff.... Note: I must add this: This drone behavior is only occasional, usually I can shoot down drones rather easily if I maneuver my ship and use my weapons correctly, overall it happened to me 2 times but I had no chance to make a post-evaluation of the reasons, and it happened that I responded to a thread where other players have reported this (see link in my main post description above), so I've made a bug report here. I play in Survival, and Single Player exclusively, no Coop, no MP, no server play; no modded game files.
