Svs - taking random damage?

[ruisen2000]

I notice often when you dodge incoming things like incoming fire, ramming speed etc that even if you dodge it, you still take the damage anyway. A ramming speed missed my by around 10 metres, but I still took the damage. I dodged several fury rounds, they missed by 20 m, and I randomly sank....
I respawn, went instantly to my cannon, fired at an enemy war frigate ( I did not sail my ship, it was the same place I spawned) then it fired a boardside, and I took a TON of damage. What happened to the hint that said "you are temperary invincible when spawned in svs" did my spawn shield malfunction? lol
Anyone having this happen too?

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Not sure about invincibility when you spawn, but when it looks like a broadside misses, you do take damage due to the fact that what your opponent sees is not synchronized with what you see. On their screen, their broadside hit, therefore you do take damage. Has to do with server lag or something, I don't know the mechanics.

[SEAKING23]

That happens to me with NPCs

[leo]

Well the dogging thing you are correct and wrong LoL... Sometimes it may seem as you dodged the ramming speed or shots however that it not whats appearing in your opponents screen. This could be due to lag or delays... So the other person did not miss, it's just probably showing it wrong on you monitor(not sure but this might have to do with your video or graphics card). This has not happened to me recently where lag has been low and it might also have to do with the other ships size because if other ship is big, there is a good chance of it getting yuo. This has happened a lot of times to me and it's really aggravating but in the end i'm victorious most of the time. It's not something you have to worry to much about because really if you have a great crew and have the skill, you will most likely be successful.

And every time you re-spawn, you have a shield where no damage is take lasting a couple minutes. Maybe you moved or something because that never happened to me.

[Stephen O'Malley]

Probably lag or a glitch if you ask me.

[seafox]

i have spawned without shields....doesn't happen often but is bad when there are many enemy ships right where you spawn...

[ruisen2000]

Originally Posted by seafox

i have spawned without shields....doesn't happen often but is bad when there are many enemy ships right where you spawn...

lol, I think that may be what happened. Apparently I joined French at the wrong time and there was like 6 spanish ships camping at french island

[Captain Jason]

That's really annoying with SvS. It makes it almost impossible to avoid shots. It's easier with NPCs because they don't lag. It's odd, and it happens to me, even when I'm not lagging.