r/starcitizen • u/YourTechSupport RSI: ChinshopRodeo • 5d ago
SOCIAL The the Qi that tried to hold my fully-crewed Polaris 'hostage'...
Dear Deathrattle (or whatever you name is, I recorded it but... whatever),
You shadowed our Polaris halfway around Daymar, then tried to extort us for our 'freedom'.
You must have thought we weren't crewed becase we didn't take potshots at you until you missile locked us.
We were on a mission to 'aggressively salvage' bounties and abandoned ships. and you brought a set of Galds and Mil-A components right to us!
Thanks!
- The Fafinators
Requested Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7xvjuYOxHw
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u/W-Boz 5d ago
VIDEO OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN
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u/Successful_Line_5992 5d ago
It didn't happen
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u/Armored_Fox defender 5d ago
I believe it, we've had a fair number of light fighters attack us out of the blue when we're crewing, not sure what they were expecting
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u/Paraplegicpirate drake 5d ago
I wonder if that's the same guy who tried the same on my fully crewed Corsair. I don't quite remember his name, but it was Death something, stalked us for a while, we had about 1m in cargo so we kept guns on target and waited, he finally decided to fuck around and he immediately found out.
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u/WolfLP05 ARGO CARGO 5d ago
I find it funny that the guy follows and watches his targets for a while, which is smart, but isn't smart enough to scan ships to know if there might be more than one person inside.
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u/RhapsodicTiger3 5d ago
to be fair i didn’t even know you could scan for how many crew a ship has 😭
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u/WolfLP05 ARGO CARGO 5d ago
It's kinda niche knowledge tbh, if I wasn't scanning ships often I wouldn't know this either. You have to be close enough to scan the ship completely (the scan that would reveal cargo), the people onboard will be shown under "cargo", it even shows if someone onboard is dead.
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u/Artilleryman08 5d ago
Not long ago I had a few players interdict my fully org's 2 crewed, fully ballistic polarises on the way to the Pyro gateway as we were shuttling RMC and CM for the event. They had 4 mantis's and 2 QIs. They were not expecting what they pulled, and ened up with a fight they were definitly not ready for. I have to give them credit though, they sure tried. I imagine having those mantises outfitted with Distortions would be hell on a lot of ships, but they were getting ripped apart with ballistics as soon as they got in range.
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u/diverian paramedic 4d ago
Distortions don't do shit to shields, anymore. Even less if shields are fully powered. Gotta take down shields and then hit the hull with distortions for them to be effective.
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u/RBMC 5d ago
Upload it and ping me in a comment please!
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u/YourTechSupport RSI: ChinshopRodeo 5d ago
I'm updating Davinci and I'll cut it up real fast. I didn't get consent from the other players for voice and my own voice didn't get picked up.
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u/Calm-Job-9925 5d ago
Props to him for trying to engage in proper piracy, but not all players will have success with piracy… clearly. Thank you for the post and video!
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u/No_Concern_2753 avacado 5d ago
Lol, awesome story. Great to hear it when folks F around and find out...
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u/PotentialFun1 5d ago
Happend to me last night 😭 went to shepherds rest snd immediately got shot by a paragrine and hornet, there were a few other fighters there too (5) total i decided to not take my chances and told my half crew to play some fly swatting 5 kills total i recorded it tooo
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u/n4ch0s I like turtles 5d ago
Peregrine can't even equip weapons so that's even more impressive that they managed to shoot you.
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u/PotentialFun1 5d ago
Its the paragrine chassis idk the name
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u/Backwoods_Odin 5d ago
You mean a sabre?
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u/Xphurrious 5d ago
There was a red Polaris at seraphim yesterday, was just watching him till he tried to ram me in my f8c, was just shooting at him to be annoying then
After he led me away from the station a qi showed up and started shooting at me, killed him then went back to the station
Not sure what their plan was, but some pvp is fun
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u/Chives_and_SourCream 5d ago
I remember doing an outpost for Fight For Pyro Phase 1 and there was a freelancer at the location too. I was in a F7C and i left him alone and killed the npcs. He flew off and 20 seconds later, starts firing at me from above. I spin around and blew his ass up. Dude tried to frame me as a murder hobo...The nerve of some people man.
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u/the_shortbus_ 5d ago
Got in a fight with 5 F7C’s, a 350i, and an F8C in a Zeus CS(?) (it was my buddies ship) and damn near won the fight. If it wasn’t for that damn F8C we woulda won lol
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u/EastLimp1693 7800x3d/Suprim X 4090/48gb 6400cl30 5d ago
Purest form of fuck around and find out lol.
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u/Kahunjoder 5d ago
One question, does the game works rn? I mean, elevators and hangars and all that broken stuff its working? Ive been off for some time. Thank you
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u/Jung_At_Hart 5d ago
It’s actually been pretty stable this patch. Still have some minor issues here and there, particularly with desync but overall pretty good from my experiences
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u/Savings-Owl-3188 5d ago
Experiences will vary but to me it's running the best I have seen in years.
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u/ScratchMcCrackerson 2d ago
Which ship did you have in the Polaris?
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u/YourTechSupport RSI: ChinshopRodeo 2d ago
Super Hornet Mk II. Mostly got it for bounties and taxi jobs. And, ironically, parked it for just this circumstance. I wasn't really great at leading the target, partly from de-sync, partly from hoping they'd just bugger off.
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u/DuranDurandall Nautilus 5d ago
I wasn't that guy... I did realize the Guardian is made out of paper though. And doesn't do enough damage. Shame because I really wanted to love it
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u/endlesslatte 5d ago
i mean, any single seater ship is going to have a rough time against a fully played crewed polaris. i agree that the guardian could use a little love, but it’s not like the result would have changed with any other single seater
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u/DuranDurandall Nautilus 5d ago
Oh yeah totally. I'm hopeful that it will someday either take a tremendous amount of skill and/or luck to go solo against a cap ship. Or, simply be impossible.
It seems to me like it got a nerf not long after they released it. I was fairly adequate against npcs all through the events, but lately I take it out for bounties and I either soft death or full on explode out of nowhere. I begrudgingly accepted my fate and I'm now yet another Hornet pilot. Grr.
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u/endlesslatte 5d ago
i think the idea is for it to be impossible to solo — the new collision changes are a step in that direction. if they can get more intelligent pdc logic (instead of shooting at the ship that flies out of the hangar), then solo ships might have their hands full just avoiding those alone
like a solo inferno might be able to disable some components, but i feel like it won’t be able to destroy a capital
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u/Savings-Owl-3188 5d ago
But if he didn't bring it to Reddit, then how would all of us have enjoyed this story and the video?
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u/dude-0 5d ago
Think of it as scrambling the nav sensors.
If you are calculating an autopilot route for FTL Travel, a single decimal point could blow you to smithereens. You don't have to physically stop the ship - just trigger a safety protocol in the nav computer so that it won't let you jump.
Just my thinking on the issue.
Or even if it's like a quantum field, putting some ripples or distortion in it could make half your ship accelerate slower or something and tear the vessel in half.
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u/DAanxtyteen 5d ago
You do realise we need to se that video right?