I used to smartbomb on gates a lot. I’d hit my smartbombs the second the enemy was landing within my range, and i’d nuke them. Often before they even finish coming out of warp.
Now it seems you are 100% invulnerable while in warp, and also 100% invulnerable for 5 seconds AFTER you exit warp.
Did CCP really remove gate smartbombing with zero notice or debate? When did this happen?
How are you supposed to smartbomb people on gates if they have 5 seconds of invulnerability to click the jump-gate button?
Now I have to test this as I haven’t smartbombed in a month or so. But one nerf that is present is the new gate rats in null. It seems like the gates are almost always occupied with rats making it much more difficult to sit there and smartbomb unless you have another toon clearing up the rats constantly. Heck, doing anything on the gates is annoying now (unless you want to be a ratter). We have lost several targets since the last update due to the rats.
If this happened, it happened very recently as I’m 100% sure smartbombing ships about to exit warp was still possible a few weeks ago during the grand prix event.
No, i tried it a few dozen times. I warped an interceptor to my smartbomb battleship. Verified on both screens they were within smartbomb range of eachother, and turned the smartbombs on. No damage
I would turn 1 smartbomb on at a time, 1 second a part, seeing how long before they begun applying damage.
it takes about 5 seconds before the smartbombs start doing damage.
Im afraid not. 2 days ago I lost a frig to a smartbomb mach coming out of warp. Its was goonswarm, glad to see their back in lowsec with the rest of us slums