Can't seem to break enemy stuff.

[articulategrunt]

I've boarded a pirate station and taken the room with the jammer. I cannot seem to be able to break anything. I can't even target the jammer so I went for the advanced power supply. 8 crew (2 with lasers, 3 with plasma rifles and 3 with assault rifles) are not able to scratch anything. What the heck. My plan was to knock out the jammer and bombard the place. Do I really need to fight through the whole place?

[tebow baggins]

wasnt destroying obstacles removed several updates ago, idk or do the new weapons destroy stuff?

[Phade]

Its a feature that should be bought back, but was removed. its pointless to invade an enemy ship because you can only keep the crew.

Imo the devs are making some really bad design choices with this game, i'm not liking where its going.

[UFO]

Dunno, maybe the developers are having sort if internal tantrum. I guess the shift is going from survival and induced requirements thereof to The Sims in Space where the player just socials their way out of everything.

[tebow baggins]

Its not as big of a deal as you 2 are dooming it out to be.. I still destroy furniture just not walls. it takes more than destroying the jammer, you have to rush the bridge and operators. Still the same result just with more effort. I was never able to destroy heavy equipment even when walls were destructible.

[UFO]

Eh, I have faith, but time will tell.

[articulategrunt]

Was just more annoying than anything. I sent in reinforcements, 8 more crew (I have a huge ship at this point with a crew of 35) and just walked through with basic squad tactics and 16 personnel. More than anything it was annoying that I couldn't break equipment that actually meant anything.

[EurakaLi]

Originally posted by SCARE:

Its not as big of a deal as you 2 are dooming it out to be.. I still destroy furniture just not walls. it takes more than destroying the jammer, you have to rush the bridge and operators. Still the same result just with more effort. I was never able to destroy heavy equipment even when walls were destructible.

You used to be able to break some power supply and wall objects to "debuff" enemy inside,force them to come out of the bunker....or creating shortcut for tactics/transport.
The current most effective way is destroy the ship and wait them out of O2 if you want the crew or jump-out-in.
Lost much the fun boarding with new weapon.....

Another sad thing is the way of how ship getting destroy seem "fixed",you would not have some lucky ship more easily to invade,all within a set margin.

[tebow baggins]

Originally posted by EurakaLi:

Originally posted by SCARE:

Its not as big of a deal as you 2 are dooming it out to be.. I still destroy furniture just not walls. it takes more than destroying the jammer, you have to rush the bridge and operators. Still the same result just with more effort. I was never able to destroy heavy equipment even when walls were destructible.

You used to be able to break some power supply and wall objects to "debuff" enemy inside,force them to come out of the bunker....or creating shortcut for tactics/transport.
The current most effective way is destroy the ship and wait them out of O2 if you want the crew or jump-out-in.
Lost much the fun boarding with new weapon.....

Another sad thing is the way of how ship getting destroy seem "fixed",you would not have some lucky ship more easily to invade,all within a set margin.

what did the new weapon do, im in the early part of this save, came back for the update.. i dont have the means to destroy ships yet so i just rush with shuttle the smaller ones, the bigger ones i manage to evade mostly. my past saves i got by with mostly raiding other ships which allowed me to forfeit most industry and botany, depended on raiding supplies which ended up rich from. i welcome whatever change because a year ago i just won by spamming hull stabs and 2 shuttles of smg and a few months ago winning at boarding was still a routine for me.

[articulategrunt]

With the body armors the early game weapons become highly ineffective and once you get the new laser and plasma rifles you just obliterate any enemy who does not have body armor. I had my best "Marine" in the heavy body armor with a plasma rifle tank a 3 pirate boarding group solo. Took maybe 30% health damage/injuries and killed 2 of the 3 with the 3rd surrendering. Solo, no support, no back up.