"Best Defense: Rhi Atmosphere" Bug

clannmac

OK, during the first wave of Elachi shuttles/fighters, all seems to go alright, but as soon as the Romulan squadrons announce the walkers, I suddenly can't target and can't move, though I can order the Squadrons to attack, open and close my inventory, etc. - all else seems to be in order.

I've aborted, come back, aborted, come back several times now, and it is acting exactly the same way - I am just stuck. I can move backward for a bit; get stuck. Move forward for a bit; get stuck...and so on. Frustrating!

Maybe my pilot was absent the day they taught piloting for "Wave 2"s at the Academy...

Anyone else having this issue, or did I miss a memo?

tobiasosir

Just got to this mission and am finding the same thing. I did a wuick search but came up empty--anyone??

andyslash

did the stf version of the mission earlier, and couldnt auto attack enemies. having auto fire on did not fire at them, taking auto fire off and mashing spacebar did nothing either.

sharksinspace

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one.

sevtorian

I hate to necro old threads but... almost a year later, and guess what... yup, still he same issue.
I got the mission, butchered the first wave, and then... blammo, stuck, I can still target and all but suddenly no more supporting fighters, get stuck when manouvering, and the enemy just takes turns sticking it up my pooper.

If the goal of the mission is to get destroyed multiple times then I've just nailed it - just got blasted out of the sky for the fourth time.



Edit:
After submitting an in-game ticket, I figured I'd go do something ewlse like asteroid mining.
That was still on cooldown, though, so I gave Best Defense a second try - and made it into wave 2 nicely.
Took out two walkers, and then... whammo, server not responding, game disconnects.
Oh, the joy.... the joy....
Anyhow, it looks to me like the getting stuck may have to do with poor map design; fly above a certain height or a certain distance from something in the map, and you get stuck.
The squadron commands vanishing, that's something else I haven't figured out yet.

standupwookie

You have reached the top of the zone border, so you are running right into an invisible wall. Like when you hit the edge of the map in sector space, you can turn a little but barely move. Just go down a bit and you should be all right.

Also, that mission is probably the worst mission in the game. Shuttle, pathetic AI, swarms of enemies, giant walkers.....and awful rewards. Everything that is bad about this game can be found in this mission.