sudden shield loss and other battle issues

firetrekkie

I have found this bug to be quite annoying while playing the rom character. while in space battle my shields will suddenly drop and disappear then I will get down to about 20% hull integrity and they will come back on BUT only at half power which a second later I will die. The other issue I have noticed is that when I fie on an enemy I wont do any damage NONE WHAT SO EVER but Ive noticed that my damage is doubled. other issues is ship not moving at all even when engines are engaged causing one side of ship to be exposed then all of a sudden I will appear on the other side of the system about 20 km away from the enemy and by the time I get back to him he has full health again. there is another thread I will put on here that just happened today called "completed missions still there and unable to drop"

firetrekkie

oh and one more thing I have noticed that when I go into battle I have to be sure my bridge positions are there cause they seem to be empty every time I am heading into battle however when I put them in they are there after the battle but gone the next time I go into a battle

hyouki

firetrekkie wrote: »

The other issue I have noticed is that when I fie on an enemy I wont do any damage NONE WHAT SO EVER but Ive noticed that my damage is doubled. other issues is ship not moving at all even when engines are engaged causing one side of ship to be exposed then all of a sudden I will appear on the other side of the system about 20 km away from the enemy and by the time I get back to him he has full health again.

You, my friend, are under attack from the invisible, but deadly lag-monster. As someone with a crappy ISP, I have to put up with this a lot in the evenings. Basically, when your damage stops, or when you stop, your connection is undergoing a hiccup, and is waiting for the server to say "okay, so you fired your weapons and kept moving at this speed, here's what happened to the enemy, here's where you are now". Normally this process is happening all the time and so quickly you don't see the gap, but when your connection hangs (or there's a hiccup somewhere between your location and Cryptic's servers, or when Cryptic's servers or bandwidth is overloaded), you're stuck waiting around until your game client starts hearing from the server again to find out what happened in the meanwhile, and that meanwhile is usually the server continues doing whatever you had set up to do automatically in the meanwhile (i.e. continue on your current course, any weapons set to autofire continue to autofire, etc.).

For the disappearing shields...did you perhaps pick the Klingon side? If you notice this happening when fighting Feds or other enemies using phasers, you're probably seeing the phaser proc that takes a random subsystem down for a short amount of time, usually most visible when it's the shields. If you're not facing phasers when it happens, try to note what you're fighting at the time and report it, it's possible some enemies are incorrectly using phaser procs instead of their proper energy type.

firetrekkie

the lag could very well be due to the ISP I have Suddenlink which I typically call SuddenStink and we are supposed to have 50 meg internet how ever we are lucky if we get 30 and with my brother being on the PS3 all the time (which has a tenancy to hog the speed) it is a miracle that it doesn't happen all the time. but as far as the Side whether it be kling or fed I am fed and it would happen when there is no lag and I would see anything being fired at me again could be cause of lag

messahla

Make sure your opponent isnt using phasers because NPC phasers are very effective in knocking your shields out and taking your aux power offline.

If this isnt the case then you need to make a ticket on this issue

hyouki

I agree with messahla, you probably should file a ticket with as much detail as possible as soon after it happens as feasible. When you're playing as a Fed, there's not many enemies that use phasers, so your shields generally would only disappear if you were hit with Target Shield Subsystem of high enough strength (I don't know of any enemies that use that off the top of my head) or when you're cloaking. If lag was the issue, generally you'd find the facings that enemies are hitting will be gone when your connection catches up (because the game has been ignoring any commands to distribute shield power to whatever facing), but your other shields should still be there.

Unless, of course, you're fighting the Borg, in which case being without shields is par for the course.

randolf2

firetrekkie wrote: »

oh and one more thing I have noticed that when I go into battle I have to be sure my bridge positions are there cause they seem to be empty every time I am heading into battle however when I put them in they are there after the battle but gone the next time I go into a battle

They disappear when you change maps whether its ground or space map! This bug was introduced when they patched Tribble a couple of days ago its also when the mission where you get your first ship upgrade restarts even though you already did that one and already have a t2 ship. Looks like Cryptiic made their job harder by add more bugs when they were trying to fix other bugs. Like taking two steps forward and one step back!

Every time you get ready to go into battle go into your stations and toggle one or two back and forth that should reset your BO powers until next time. If you forget, just use cloak and wait for the red alert to stop.