Bug-Monsosh Class Elachi BB

nathrael

In Crossroads at Crateras during the escape, I must say this ship is unbelievably buggy. Heavy plasma and plasma shockwave into it's nose, cloaked "U-boat" attack to rear, standard weapons fire backed up by the Reman Warbirds, even staying at point blank and blowing up.

It's shields take no damage.

I was watching the icon for it. No change in shields, in addition the shields never went from blue on the ship itself.

So basically there is no way to kill it.

nathrael

Adendum:

After trying this mission multiple times, I found out that the ship can be destroyed if you first destroy all the Tal'Shiar ships in the optional condition. However, the ship is still buggy in that the shields never seem to drop, and only leakage eventually brings it down.

suaveks

I managed to destroy the ship, but yes, for a low level fight it was disturbingly difficult.

Its shields did take damage, but overall the fight took me about 5 minutes, flying around at 33% HP with little to no chances to heal. The ship eventually did went down but even with two NPCs it was hard. Its stats may need to be tweaked.

silverfaustx

why is a challenge a bug..wish everything in this game was made harder to kil

suaveks

silverfaustx wrote: »

why is a challenge a bug..wish everything in this game was made harder to kil

I don't disagree, on the contrary. Pont is, this particular ship at this level of the game was especially difficult. I imagine new or casual players may feel discouraged if they encounter something like this so early.

As for the overall challenge like this at the endgame level - oh yes please make it so.

szerontzur

I think its shields need to be toned down a bit(less regeneration/less frequent rerouting). I was able to dent them with weapon power at maximum, but the game doesn't really instruct novice players on how to do that.

Shields aside, I felt it was fairly comparable to the Undine Dreadnought in the Federation starting missions in terms of danger. The idea of "Donatra with training wheels" popped into my head during the fight when I saw the charge up attack as well.

gavinruneblade

silverfaustx wrote: »

why is a challenge a bug..wish everything in this game was made harder to kil

The fact that it is hard is not a bug. The fact that is shields are nearly invulnerable is a bug. The fact that you have to kill all the other ships (flagged as optional) before you can kill it, is a bug.

markhawkman

suaveks wrote: »

I managed to destroy the ship, but yes, for a low level fight it was disturbingly difficult.

Its shields did take damage, but overall the fight took me about 5 minutes, flying around at 33% HP with little to no chances to heal. The ship eventually did went down but even with two NPCs it was hard. Its stats may need to be tweaked.

this fight remembed me of that low level Fed fight where you have to destroy an Undine dreadnaught in orbit of P'Jem. In comparison, this was very easy.

chokopop1

I found it rather easy to kill. If new/casual players would be annoyed by this, they definitely shouldn't play the 2nd FED mission (The one with the Vulcan/Undine guy). The Undine Dreadnought is A LOT harder to kill. I quite enjoyed this mission as it *finally* was a decent challenge.