It's pretty obvious why... with a pug, the queue creates a room and fills it with players. When you get the countdown timer at the end, the room terminates. However, if it doesn't terminate the queues will keep re-filling empty slots to keep the pug at full capacity.
The bug is that the game doesn't begin the "you must leave the room in 150 seconds" timer upon optional failure. It isn't the only STF that acts that way. It's because they are optionals at heart still. When you join this bugged CCA, it is one that somebody started once, some time ago, and failed. Then the game kept re-filling the seats as people left the room. It never killed the room off. You're not in a bugged room. You're in a failed room that never closed.
When you load a private game, and invite people to it, that game creates a new room for you. When the last people exit that room, regardless of completion level, it kills that room instance. Therefore, no failed instances for you to join, no bug, no glitch. It's secondary to the issue at hand but because of causailty it bypasses the problem.
^^ This makes a great deal of sense! I used to stumble into already-failed CSA inastances too that way, when I stil PUG-ed.
This happens when one of the optionals "dont loose more than 30% ships in blast" fails. The mission is a fail and you get only 10 marks. The timer is not a fail condition btw. it can run out and you still get a success. But loose to many ships in the blast and its an insta fail.
This is happening without any Optionals failing. Its only happened once so far for me but I can confirm that there are no Optionals failing that would act as a trigger to this.
You pop into the instance. Move up to engage the Tholians but they arent there. You and the group move on to the Entity. But none of the sidebar Optionals appear on the screen. At all. Mission ends with you destroying the CE but nothing. Not even the 1st/2nd place rewards.
Well I'm never doing CCA again, the odds of completing it without 3 derps dying to the shockwave is impossible.
I haven't seen a CCA pug where less than 3 people died to the shockwave because they think they can tank it or don't know where their evasive maneuvers is.
Well I'm never doing CCA again, the odds of completing it without 3 derps dying to the shockwave is impossible.
I haven't seen a CCA pug where less than 3 people died to the shockwave because they think they can tank it or don't know where their evasive maneuvers is.
I've been hit by two shockwaves back to back and survived... at 3 km, 5 km and 8 km, so... not sure what you're whin--complaining about
Nerfed? More like weren't thinking about consequences when they dusted off the archived code for the CE event. The major shockwave buff was after the last event. The code they dusted off never had that buff, so it has the original code. I wonder if that means the buffer zone is still in place (i.e. avoid the blast if you get close enough)?
It looks like CE STF doesnt end when it fails, and instead keeps putting people into the failed, and empty stf. The CE does respawn after a while but no reward can be gained (since it failed the first time).
Lets see how long it takes the thread to pick up on this.
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An orb weaver...with 539,000 HP...pays out around 40 XP.
40 XP.
Seriously. That is entirely unacceptable. No wonder why people were doing the patrols; a much easier enemy was paying 5x that amount!!!! On Easy!!!
^^ This makes a great deal of sense! I used to stumble into already-failed CSA inastances too that way, when I stil PUG-ed.
What's interesting is that the people who claim to want challenge have generally gone to every measure to eliminate it for themselves.
I would hope they fix it before there event starts. (won't be shocked when they don't of course)
This is happening without any Optionals failing. Its only happened once so far for me but I can confirm that there are no Optionals failing that would act as a trigger to this.
You pop into the instance. Move up to engage the Tholians but they arent there. You and the group move on to the Entity. But none of the sidebar Optionals appear on the screen. At all. Mission ends with you destroying the CE but nothing. Not even the 1st/2nd place rewards.
I haven't seen a CCA pug where less than 3 people died to the shockwave because they think they can tank it or don't know where their evasive maneuvers is.
I've been hit by two shockwaves back to back and survived... at 3 km, 5 km and 8 km, so... not sure what you're whin--complaining about
So apparently they re-nerfed it, that shockwave was popping ships left and right a week ago.
Still, I don't see this often.
No No, there have been NUMEROUS similar issues in the past. The maps are the issue since they don't despawn and players get funneled back into them.