[Scotty]

Get smacked by it any?

[Commander Zane]

Someone needs to make a video of these superbats.

[Leeko]

Get smacked by it any?

Yes, quite a lot...
* Leeko makes good use of ~I

Someone needs to make a video of these superbats.

I might sooner or later.

[ElMattador]

Not bad elmattador but what about flying that mission, getting badly chewed up and then not managing to destroy the cargo container and flying into it promptly blowing up yourself

sadly, I've done that to... I know... for SHAME. 

[Marcov]

Well there was that mission in FoW:Ch1 where the Argo tends to push the GTD Legion into subspace with it (causing a RETARDEDLY MASSIVE subspace vortex as the Orion is being pushed it with its length basically being the radius) due to a bug, but being whacked by a setup like that is pretty funny.

All the more reason to LOCK ORDERS.

That's one way to create a subspace hole roughly as large as a Death Star I.

Do the same thing to a Gargant 

[Commander Zane]

When Shivans encounter an allied capital ship within its beam path and decide to shoot the other direction to hit you instead of said allied capital ship.

[Firartix]

Avoid the beam and you won't get hit, pilot.

[Commander Zane]

Shivan beams don't slash, that kind of tells you that I was deliberately targeted.
Kind of hard to avoid a beam that immediately kills you when it strikes you dead center.

[Droid803]

It kills you instantly even if it just grazes you.
Especially the MvPs beams which are actually fatter than the retail ones (and have transparent, damage-dealing regions along the sides.)

[Commander Zane]

I know that damage isn't reduced along the edges of the beam, and that there's times where you just pop even though you're visually not touching the beam, but it was an SRed Vs. my Ares and it took about a half second to take me down but you can't react and escape that in time.

[Droid803]

Yeah, there is no way to "avoid" a beam specifically. You don't know if its targeting you and if it is it's already too late.

[BengalTiger]

Actually i tried ramming some bombs but it never detonated.
The ship just fly through it..

I tried doing this in a Blueplanet mission where you get an invincible unarmed ship and there is another ship that HAS to die from a bomb explosion... I tried to ram the bombs several times but that never worked.

Didn't your ship have some no-collide flag in that mission?

[Aardwolf]

Yeah, there is no way to "avoid" a beam specifically. You don't know if its targeting you and if it is it's already too late.

You can't avoid a firing beam within its firing cone, but you can avoid its firing cone.

In fact, I've sometimes used this to survive against the Sobek that attacks you in the NTF loop... it'll charge its AAA up to fire at me, and I'll fly in close and get out of its FoF.

[Commander Zane]

You can't avoid a firing beam within its firing cone, but you can avoid its firing cone.
...charge its AAA up to fire at me, and I'll fly in close and get out of its FoF.

Simple enough when you know for a fact that AAA beams will target you at any opportune time, Spearhead beams and Slashing beams on the other hand really shouldn't be deliberately putting a higher priority on fighters over a Corvette or a Destroyer, so it's not expected and thus avoidance is never practiced for those types of beams, only avoidance for beams that currently cross the line of fire of a nearby capital ship.

[Firartix]

There is a simple way to avoid the AAA beams !
Just circle around the faulty ship.
Well.... the only problem is that you get high chances to crash, and it's not really easy to hit it that way.
Plus, it won't work with ships over Corvette size <.<'

[Commander Zane]

And with my type of luck doing that will just result in getting hit by a capital ship-level beam instead.

[Eltrotraw]

Someone needs to make a video of these superbats.

I lol'd when I first read about this and tried it out myself.

I could try to record my attempt at one, since mine was more of manipulating the Argo to target different enemies surrounding the Colossus superbat.

I also noticed that the Argo tries to "follow" the target differently(if only slightly) depending on if you set it to Attack or Dock with whatever target.


As for my contributions to this thread, uh, I really don't think I have anything new to say that hasn't been mentioned...
- Zapped by AAA beams
- Collateral damage from anti-cap beams
- Didn't dive dive dive
- Shot up normally
- Got hit by the spinning shivan comm node

I did notice a few of the collision deaths aren't as lethal as I remember them in retail - either I've been smoking something strange or the Sathanas in Lion's Den didn't kill me upon warping out as I was trying to demonstrate what happens if you don't dive to a friend.

Of course, it's a little different than the Colossus superbat, but still.

Speaking of the Colossus superbat, I do remember I FRED'd something purely for a test(I lost the file though, long time ago) where I had a Colossus engage another warship or something. What I do remember was the other warship had deployed fighters to attack the Colossus, and for some reason it started turning really rapidly - I know this is mentioned in the Veteran's Comments of the Colossus, just that I found it somewhat relevant.

[Tarvis]

I was but a young lad who decided to mess with FRED.


So, I made a Colossus and some other warships against a Shivan fleet, with lots of fighters and bombers.
I saw "SpaceHunk"s in the ship list and noticed they looked like Sathanas shrapnel.

So I spread about 5 or 6 of those in the middle of the playing field.

Also, I forgot that they are tagged as "Hostile" by default.

There were about 20 bombers on the player's side.


No matter how far I flew away at the start of the mission, I could never survive...

[Klaustrophobia]

what is a spacehunk?  i gather it makes a rather large boom.

about the only death i can remember that i'd classify as noteworthy is when i decided to see if i could reach the incoming sathanases (sathani?) in the second SOC loop. 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

This is the SpaceHunk.