So there I was, flying my shiny tie avenger. Admiral harkov had his heart to heart chat with lord Vader and we were cleaning up what remained of his traitorous companions. The interdictor in the system had managed to grab hold of the VSD protector, and I was tasked with cleaning up the cargo containers and fighters surrounding the beast. It was going smoothly until I attempted to tractor beam a pesky rebel tie fighter and I ended tractor beaming the protector!! Time froze. Sound stopped. All that made noise was the silent whirl of fans as my CPU tried to understand how a tie avenger could move a VSD with its tractor beam. Then everything went black....

so yeah, this happened. Never seen that happen before, honestly. It was mission 7 battle 2 I think. Also my tie fighter refuses to reopen at all, I'm going to have to run steams repair utility on it and see what error it threw. A word of caution, be careful what you target lock out there....

4 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

So there I was, flying my shiny tie avenger. Admiral harkov had his heart to heart chat with lord Vader and we were cleaning up what remained of his traitorous companions. The interdictor in the system had managed to grab hold of the VSD protector, and I was tasked with cleaning up the cargo containers and fighters surrounding the beast. It was going smoothly until I attempted to tractor beam a pesky rebel tie fighter and I ended tractor beaming the protector!! Time froze. Sound stopped. All that made noise was the silent whirl of fans as my CPU tried to understand how a tie avenger could move a VSD with its tractor beam. Then everything went black....

so yeah, this happened. Never seen that happen before, honestly. It was mission 7 battle 2 I think. Also my tie fighter refuses to reopen at all, I'm going to have to run steams repair utility on it and see what error it threw. A word of caution, be careful what you target lock out there....

Did the tractor beam actually move ships in that game? I thought it just slowed them down a little and locked them into their trajectory.

Also, it's always fun when you engage the peskier fighters near capital ships, so you can just tractor them into the ship (especially if it's an opposing ship, so you don't even have to feel bad about the damage you're doing to it)!

6 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

Did the tractor beam actually move ships in that game? I thought it just slowed them down a little and locked them into their trajectory.

Also, it's always fun when you engage the peskier fighters near capital ships, so you can just tractor them into the ship (especially if it's an opposing ship, so you don't even have to feel bad about the damage you're doing to it)!

I think it just slows them and locks into their trajectory, which still doesn't make sense why the game would freeze at me tractor beaming a stationary VSD. 0 still equals 0.

6 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

I think it just slows them and locks into their trajectory, which still doesn't make sense why the game would freeze at me tractor beaming a stationary VSD. 0 still equals 0.

Just imagine how badly your computer would have melted down if you'd tried to tractor an Imperial -class!