destroyed destroyers?

[>//The_FALCON]

i know when a destroyer fires an orbital, it's because an actual player ordered one. So what does it mean when a destroyer is destroyed? mission fail? refund?

[Oiski Poiski]

Where is the information that the destroyers around planets are actual players, and that strategems fired from those are because players ordered them?

I can't seem to find anything about that besides players stating it as if it was indeed a fact.
I haven't seen any devs elaborate on it.
Can you point me in the right direction?

[lostsoul9999]

Originally posted by Oiski Poiski:

Where is the information that the destroyers around planets are actual players, and that strategems fired from those are because players ordered them?

I can't seem to find anything about that besides players stating it as if it was indeed a fact.
I haven't seen any devs elaborate on it.
Can you point me in the right direction?

it apparently was in the first game so people are assuming it's in this one too

[ikstarven]

Originally posted by Oiski Poiski:

Where is the information that the destroyers around planets are actual players, and that strategems fired from those are because players ordered them?

I can't seem to find anything about that besides players stating it as if it was indeed a fact.
I haven't seen any devs elaborate on it.
Can you point me in the right direction?

it shouldn't be true, the only real ships you can see are your teammates ships that you can see their names on the side, the other ships just represent the playercount on the planet with their destruction/firing just being a decor

[ACEsino]

>i know when a destroyer fires an orbital, it's because an actual player ordered one

No its not

[>//The_FALCON]

literally none of you have answered my question yet

[Vespertellino]

Originally posted by >//The_FALCON:

literally none of you have answered my question yet

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

[>//The_FALCON]

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

Originally posted by >//The_FALCON:

literally none of you have answered my question yet

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

makes sense why i ever witnessed it on automaton planets

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

Why would that cause the destroyer to explode, though?

[Vespertellino]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

Why would that cause the destroyer to explode, though?

Just a way to visualize it, I guess, ask devs instead
It makes sense just enough for me

[Kalenath]

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

Originally posted by >//The_FALCON:

literally none of you have answered my question yet

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

^this

CEO has stated that every ship we see on screen is a player ship rendered in real time, but people cannot believe that because such would take insane amounts of processing power and insane attention to minor details.

Funny. I don't think I have ever seen the CEO of Arrowhead (or anyone there, tbh) claim to be sane.

I also think that random AA on automaton worlds has destroyed my ship on occasion, but I cannot prove it. I have seen enough red streaks fly up from the planet and miss WAY too close to think otherwise.

[Big frank]

Originally posted by >//The_FALCON:

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

makes sense why i ever witnessed it on automaton planets

It's just unique effects for cool ambiance. It's not tied to any kind of player activity. Same with everything else happening off map to my knowledge. It's just for looks.

[>//The_FALCON]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

It's a squad failing a mission, yes

Why would that cause the destroyer to explode, though?

because completing objectives is more valuable to the regime democracy than human lives. if you fail and live to see it, you'll be sent to a concentration freedom camp.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Big frank:

It's just unique effects for cool ambiance. It's not tied to any kind of player activity. Same with everything else happening off map to my knowledge. It's just for looks.

Yeah, this is much more likely imo. Even if the number of ships is vaguely scaled with the number of online players.

There was plenty of time when matchmaking didn't work and player counts always showed as 0, but this was the online feature that worked seamlessly?