Talk:World 5/@comment-37971548-20190214214835

Is there anyway to prevent the abyssals from hitting you with cut-in attacks beyond just hoping for the best? I got a ship with starshells, a night recon and the option to use a spotlight, yet not even once have this seemingly prevented the enemy ship from striking out with a cut-in and sending whatever they hit right into the red.

Very rarely do they do mere scratch damage, and sometimes they only do ~50% damage, but most of the time, it's game over at the first night-battle node no matter the ships or loadout.

... and of course, when they *do* get to the boss node, they very seldom finish the boss. Out of ten encounters, I've only managed to sink the boss once. Even with nightbattle equipment, nothing seems to do any real damage to the boss. Each attack do ~50 points of damage far more often than not, followed by ~5 points of damage as soon as the boss's hp hits red.

I might be seeing patterns where there are none, but it sure is frustrating to say the least!