Missiles question - What actually EMP missiles do?

[letwolf]

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[Requiemfang]

EMP I can see two things, 1 it's a shield buster. 2. can be used against stations to cause mass data leaks which you can then scan. The spacesuit EMP bomb does the exact same thing which causes data leaks on modules.

[letwolf]

Ye I watched out the video about EMP spacesuit bomb,aboot data leaks and such, but EMP missle seems do no damage to shields and I curious about its purpose

[Requiemfang]

hmmm could be a bug.

[foxxbl]

subj

Good question.. I tried them and them even don't get down ship subsystem shields.. so waste of inventory space currently..

[Spacecop42]

Stops the ship from boosting and using travel drive for 30s

[letwolf]

interesting...
then it must be super long range and super fast to catch them flying at boost speeds...

[tSpecR]

Stops the ship from boosting and using travel drive for 30s

Really, thats actually pretty cool for piracy. Kind of like a blocker in Eve

[tSpecR]

interesting...
then it must be super long range and super fast to catch them flying at boost speeds...

Not if you use it before they boost. Ive had some ships start boosting away when Im approaching to scan.

[Invasion]

With the current AI and strength of conventional missiles, there is pretty much no reason to use EMP
They cant boost anyway, when they instantly lose all their shields from a single missile/torpedo
They will never use travel drive, because they will fight to the death
And on L and larger ships they are too slow to evade even plasma fire

[foxxbl]

Stops the ship from boosting and using travel drive for 30s

Thanks a lot! They are actually then like a constrictor missiles from X:R

[mr.WHO]

Isn't any kind of attack suppose to stop travel drive? I think this is not a special feature of EMP missile.

[Spacecop42]

Isn't any kind of attack suppose to stop travel drive? I think this is not a special feature of EMP missile.

It stops it just for like 5s. Missile is 30s