The Ark : has anybody shot it?

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Have you - anybody - took on the Ark in Heretic ?

If so , did it blow itself to bits?

it happened to me.....but I forgot to ask if it was " just me " .
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In older versions, I killed the Ark the old-fashioned way - shoot it until it dies.
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It has happened to me once as well, just one shot too many and poof, no wreck to loot.....
After that I have become a bit more careful, use a big gun with WMD to almost kill the ark and finish it off with something less likely to blow up the wreck. Usually some ion weapon (without WMD) will do.
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If the Ark wreck has fuel, ammo, or other volatiles in its loot, then taking damage from explosions or WMD weapons has a chance to blow it up like a crate bomb.
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I thought volatile loots just add to the power of the death explosion. They also give a chance of instant destruction as well?
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sun1404 wrote:
Sun Mar 19, 2017 4:45 pm
I thought volatile loots just add to the power of the death explosion. They also give a chance of instant destruction as well?
----------somebody cooked the books.

The Ark SHOULD Always leave a wreck to loot ( kind of like Arco ) because it's a mission ship.
The Old Ark :

explosionType= "&vtThermoExplosion2;"
leavesWreck= "100"
Today's Ark :
explosionType= "&vtThermoExplosion4;"
Notice it does not Leave a Wreck...

To allow a mission ship to explode beyond the Player's ability to loot for a Relic ......that's just setting the Player up to fail the mission.

As much as I play ( usually unregistered or off line ) I NEVER got into the specs of weapons.
I just go with what works for me.
When I get to the Ark I want a Howitzer : usually a Tev9 can handle everything else..

I see stations that are harder to crack, but not ships built better ..kind of self defeating since I think most Players loot & deal with weapon / shield sales then anything and much of that is from shipwrecks.
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Ah !
Nice find !
Make a ticket for it :)
It should definitely leave a wreck 100% of the time.
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digdug wrote:
Mon Mar 20, 2017 12:00 pm
Ah !
Nice find !
Make a ticket for it :)
It should definitely leave a wreck 100% of the time.
I am one of those guys that can't seem to access the Ministry properly, I don't think pets are allowed there .. but I will give it a try ..right now...it worked! ..
guess the guards were still sleeping :)

* Actually when I would log in I would be at the User Panel & assumed I wasn't allowed to post w/out permission..This time I clicked around...
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