[1.25] Trojan Drone is invulnerable

[ezra-r]

Scenario: Trying to capture a Taranis.

Reproduce: Stick behind the taranis engines, destroy them and the turrets defending the engines part, remain with your ship there then...

Launch a hacker drone (Trojan ROV) and hack the ship, Tarani's turrets hit the drone constantly but it receives no damage, so you can just hack the ship and then capture it easily.

I believe this is a non-intended game issue.

[RedEclipse]

"+1". Easy to reproduce I think.

[spankahontis]

Yeah, all the time I've been playing, I've never lost a Trojan to enemy fire.

[Scoob]

Yep, seems it's been that way forever.

I've tried piloting my single Trojan Drone (all you ever need!) against many ships to hack them and it's never even been scratched.

It'd be fair enough if it was truely stealthy and not detected - I assume that was the devs intent - but it gets shot at same as anything else.

People have argued in other threads that it's never actually hit, but the sound affects I hear CONSTANTLY when being fired at suggest otherwise. Also, others say only certain weapons damage it. Well, mine's been hit by HIT/MA, Plasma, Beams and missiles & not a scratch each time. Not tried it vs. a Xenon though.

I now avoid using Trojans as they feel very much like a cheat as I can disable, then capture, ANY ship with ease using one.

Scoob.

[belthorne]

Yeah, my thought was that your trojan drone should be "neutral" to the target ship, to represent stealth. And if you mess up one or two of those "click at the right time minigames" then suddenly you're hostile (detected) and get blown out of the sky if you can't make it back to the skunk.

[temporis]

There's small pealty using Trojan though. Hull damage to 75% and cargo loss (probably containers are still collectible somethere around) .

[swatti]

When they "fix" it being immortal, expect there to be mod to un-do that.

There needs to be whole "stealth minigame" of sorts to this drone to make it do its thing but right now, its best to leave it as it imo.

[Fenhris]

Think Belthornes post make sense, would stay in line with the general purpose of the trojan and not make it look like an invaulnarable object.