Problem with Pirate attacks

[Syphiralae]

So this is about freighter attacks on entry into systems. Specifically one problem I have is that I destroy a bunch of pirates and get to the last one or two, and suddenly I cannot even ding their shields. The pirate's shield bar does not move at all. I've looked up things about this and gotten the shield breaking weapon of the cycle-can't remember the name of this and a few s class upgrades. It still does nothing, suggestions? What am I doing wrong here?

This is getting real irritating as I spent the last ten minutes hoping against hope that the shield just takes an excessively long time to go down.

[Pagafyr]

It says on my screen that I have to fly under the shields of those big ships. That means fly into the shield so you are inside and attack the Frieghter while your ship is inside their shields I found a passage with a bunch ball shaped items. I flew along in the passage knocking out those then it took another shape I shot to pieces too. I even destroyed their tail engines one at a time. Until I get quicker at it they just win the battle defeating the Civilian ships.

[wkitty42]

do you mean the pirate freighter attacking a civilian freighter or the other one that is only pirate star ships attacking a civilian freighter?

[Syphiralae]

Pirate star ships attacking a civilian freighter. Apologies for the misleading explanation Pagafyr

[MostlyPanda]

Originally posted by Syphiralae:

Pirate star ships attacking a civilian freighter. Apologies for the misleading explanation Pagafyr

you need to fly inside the pirate freighters shield, and destroy its shield generators. 2 rows of golden colored line of orbs.

1-1 long line on each side of the ship.

[笛野めのん]

Is this occurring within Exp.11?
Similar events are sometimes observed, so we started Exp.11 again to verify this.
Three pirate dreadnought battles and two appearances of normal pirate ships only occurred, but as far as I could tell, none of them caused any problems and could be completed.
I thought I saw a note in the patch 4.44 notes stating that the pop-in timing had been adjusted, so perhaps this may have had an effect.
I would recommend doing a file integrity check just to be sure. (For Steam, go to the gear icon -> Properties -> Installed files -> Check game file consistency).

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[Indominus Blix]

I assigned a mouse button to cycle thru all the weapons modes and just hold down the fire button... I press the mode button quickly and hit em with everything I brought.