Ok, not sure if my observations were circumstantial or legitimate, but I just came from two Tier 3 games where it appeared a player was using a hacked version of the EM Torpedo.
Essentially one minute there is an interceptor in front of me, the next an EM Torp explodes on him without any kind of warning, killing him instantly. Each time I observed this odd behavior, the torpedo was a direct hit on an interceptor. Each time the torpedo explosion lacked a missile trail or a missile noise, alerting me to it’s strange nature.
Even stranger, the torpedoes were not aimed at objectives to create splash damage. They were all direct hits on an enemy.
Has anyone else observed anything like this?
EDIT: Also, in both games, my team (which the player was on) wiped the floor with the enemy team; it just seemed way too easy.
I don’t know if it’s related, but It seems to me that the ship explosion effect was changed in game in last patch. It now looks like an EM-torp explosion.
Maybe I’m wrong… Or maybe it explains what you saw…
unless a pilot is using it at point blank range i don’t see how an aimbot would help with em torps and even so, it is pretty hard to miss with them at point blank range
Yeah, the interceptors you’re seeing go “boom” are most likely recon holograms, unless you see specificly in the kill feed the player that went “boom” since the recon holograms explode dealing Em damage in a 500m radius (I think - need to test it).
That explains so much. It was always an interceptor.that exploded, and always out in open space where there was no way a normal EM Torp should have been able to snipe it.
