yep i've been having this problem too repeatedly... its sucks, half the time it catches me as i'm joining a combat screen so i'll fly in to a battle and suddenly my keybinds aren't working anymore... lo and behold all my officers and abilities have been removed... it's been happening to me almost 2-3 times daily lately.
yesterday and today, while doing my 14 toons' crystal event, I encountered the bug twice yesterday and thrice today.
What happened: All the stations were cleared, trays 6+7 empty (those are the ones I have all BOff abilities in). Loading the loadout did not put them back in place (it did once yesterday). When sending BOffs back to their stations, their skills were set to default - ie: the command engineer BOff that I use on my intel ship, could not use any abilities till I fixed that.
So by the time I moved in range of the crystal entity it was down to 60% health or so. Fortunately I did not get any afk penalty.
Getting 14 toons through (most) storyline missions, events and all reputations obviously means I play a lot - and have encountered most bugs that exist in this game. The loadout/powertray/BOff AWOL bug is the most annoying of them all (and that includes the mindscape one that at one point meant that you had to replay the whole mission if you died at a certain point)
18 characters
KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
TOS: 1 tac
all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
highest DPS: 60.982
I had a saved loadout and all the positions were still filled, but the power tray did not have any of my Boff abilities. I had to manually reinstall all of the abilities to the ship power tray... and hope the game does not TRIBBLE this up again.
I've found that when you switch to a loadout, and the power tray doesn't populate, it will if I switch to the stations tab. It's like the game suddenly realizes that the stations are populated, and then fills out the power tray.
that bug always was annoying. But in time I learnt to quickly put BOffs back to stations and adjust power tray.
Now however BOffs revert to some random skills they know. In case of Intel/comander boffs that means blacked out skills.
I did one cca today with 2x torp spread and 1x cannon rapid fire in a beam only ship. I only noticed half way through the mission (and couldn't change that then).
Adjusting skills isn't always easy, but that may be another (unrelated) bug.
:mad: :mad: :mad:
18 characters
KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
TOS: 1 tac
all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
highest DPS: 60.982
yeah its back and spreading last week only one toon had the problem now im upto 4 of them that have to reload the saves with map changes. and even then sometimes the save is all jumbled up.
i dont think they are ever going to figure this one out. and its not like i change gear boffs doffs or even ships. it just happens when it wants too.
Trophies for killing FEDS ahh those were the days.
I've noticed that if I add/discharge BOFFs or Ships the bug hits in full force. It takes me a while to get things back to normal (multiple saves with various hijinks).
After that it's back to normal, i.e. AWOL BOFFs now and then and I have to reload my loadout (which almost always, but not always fixes things for a while).
If Cryptic had a sense of humor, they'd add a Duty Mission: "Retrieve AWOL BOFFs" that would reward a random Bridge Officer. If they can't fix it, they should at least make fun of it.
If Cryptic had a sense of humor, they'd add a Duty Mission: "Retrieve AWOL BOFFs" that would reward a random Bridge Officer. If they can't fix it, they should at least make fun of it.
I could see this happening. When they fixed the transporter on Qo'nos they also replaced the transporter officer NPC. You can ask him what happened to the old one, who was killed for incompetence.
Of course I would like them to fix this issue before making jokes about it. Right now it would just be rubbing it in.
I had a perfectly good saved loadout; while on ESD, I made a change on the loadout and saved it only to find my Boffs cleared from my roster and my loadout was screwed up so it could not recover my saved Boff layout.
Another time I was using my ship in CC during the event and after that mission jumped into AZN only find that between those two missions (probably right when I jumped into AZN) my ship power tray was scrambled. I spent the first few minutes just reorganizing my abilities so I could use my tray without having to hunt down the abilities that were no longer in the space I saved them under my SAVED LOADOUT. :rolleyes:
The U/I maintenance is ruining the fun (along with other things)....
Loadouts are still not working. Was in pve queue for crystal advanced, accepted from K7 ground, zoned in to instance with messed up loadout. It's still F'ed up.
I've noticed that if I add/discharge BOFFs or Ships the bug hits in full force. It takes me a while to get things back to normal (multiple saves with various hijinks).
After that it's back to normal, i.e. AWOL BOFFs now and then and I have to reload my loadout (which almost always, but not always fixes things for a while).
If Cryptic had a sense of humor, they'd add a Duty Mission: "Retrieve AWOL BOFFs" that would reward a random Bridge Officer. If they can't fix it, they should at least make fun of it.
They do have a sense of humor. They keep saying it's fixed
Its not just the tray & BOFFs vanishing for me, had my captains personal traits disappear as well .. & because its not obvious they have gone when changing maps i now have to keep checking "traits" before going into battle or missions to make sure they are still there.
I thought this bug was fixed a while back but tonight it came back.
I joined PvE Queues from Delta Quadrant and had no issues. I returned to ESD to heal from Bug Hunt and joined Borg Disconnected PvE. Upon entering I noticed that all of my bridge officers had been removed. I played the event with the handicap and reset my bridge and use tray upon returning to ESD.
From ESD Sector space I joined Cured Space PvE and once again all my settings / bridge officers were reset and removed.
Meow, I got this on all my toons, again, as well. ^^ Just wanted to make sure that this thread gets as many posts and views as pussible, so the devs will take note of it.
"Everything about the Jham'Hadar is lethal!" - Eris
Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
This continues to be the #1 reason I end my STO play sessions. I hate this bug soo much. I feel like we have so many new powers and tools to explore different builds and ships and items and I want to try different combinations.. but this bug just says TRIBBLE YOURSELF if you ever change anything I'll dump your power tray. Sometimes I can't even drag new powers into the empty spaces until you drag invisible other powers out of them. It's so bizarre.
This latest round of attempted loadout resets I noticed that clicking my loadout actually DOES load all my powers correctly into the tray.. and then they disappear again. I made a brief video to demonstrate this behavior: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=y8mxFh8lPXQ
Prior to this, I'd just been sitting in the Sherman system slotting various Science powers and checking their stats on mouseover. I meant to save my current selections to a build and accidentally clicked on the build instead (side note, that happens a lot.. a little confirmation dialog would be wonderful there..), which switched to a non-viable build (I'd removed some boffs since then) and understandably cleared the tray. After my cooldown expired, I tried to switch back to my normal build.. and my powers just wouldn't go into the tray.
Seriously dev team, I love this game and all the new content we've gotten lately, but THIS BUG makes me want to just stop playing. This is not like "oh, some effect is working differently than planned." It's not a little graphical glitch or a bad power description. Whenever this happens, WHICH IS ALL THE TIME, you just straight up cannot play the game until you fix your tray manually. Very frustrating!
I've re-developed this issue on my main character across multiple ships. Loadout will briefly load properly, tray populates properly, then the tray scrambles the layout for the BOFF's powers.
I've fixed them multiple times only for it to happen all over again sometimes the same day, sometimes literally by the time I've finished going through my other ships and fixing them.
Edit: The fun part is that a fair bit of the time once I've fixed the tray layout the system will then recognize that my setup is in fact how the loadout should be and shows that loadout as equipped. Where as after it loads then scrambles it will have the sense to know it has not in fact loaded things properly, yet every attempt to load will always fail in the same way.
Edit the second: So after like an hour, hour and a half of ad-hoc bug testing, tinkering, and attempts to fix I finally noticed that my Hierarchy BOFF had glitched at some point and reset its Ensign space power from Hazard Emitters 1 to Jam Sensors 1. Now this BOFF is literally used on one secondary loadout for one ship out of the 9 or so I was cycling between trying to fix. Yet fixes wouldn't readily stick before fixing this borked power, but anything fixed AFTER fixing that did stick and so far seems to have fixed. Yay?
Comments
What happened: All the stations were cleared, trays 6+7 empty (those are the ones I have all BOff abilities in). Loading the loadout did not put them back in place (it did once yesterday). When sending BOffs back to their stations, their skills were set to default - ie: the command engineer BOff that I use on my intel ship, could not use any abilities till I fixed that.
So by the time I moved in range of the crystal entity it was down to 60% health or so. Fortunately I did not get any afk penalty.
Getting 14 toons through (most) storyline missions, events and all reputations obviously means I play a lot - and have encountered most bugs that exist in this game. The loadout/powertray/BOff AWOL bug is the most annoying of them all (and that includes the mindscape one that at one point meant that you had to replay the whole mission if you died at a certain point)
KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
TOS: 1 tac
all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
highest DPS: 60.982
I've found that when you switch to a loadout, and the power tray doesn't populate, it will if I switch to the stations tab. It's like the game suddenly realizes that the stations are populated, and then fills out the power tray.
Now however BOffs revert to some random skills they know. In case of Intel/comander boffs that means blacked out skills.
I did one cca today with 2x torp spread and 1x cannon rapid fire in a beam only ship. I only noticed half way through the mission (and couldn't change that then).
Adjusting skills isn't always easy, but that may be another (unrelated) bug.
:mad: :mad: :mad:
KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
TOS: 1 tac
all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
highest DPS: 60.982
i dont think they are ever going to figure this one out. and its not like i change gear boffs doffs or even ships. it just happens when it wants too.
Have an ensign who has multiple Ensign skills.
The correct skill shows up in stations but not the window to drag skills to the tray,
Have to click the skill again and make it default and then it appears an option and can be added to tray.
I've noticed that if I add/discharge BOFFs or Ships the bug hits in full force. It takes me a while to get things back to normal (multiple saves with various hijinks).
After that it's back to normal, i.e. AWOL BOFFs now and then and I have to reload my loadout (which almost always, but not always fixes things for a while).
If Cryptic had a sense of humor, they'd add a Duty Mission: "Retrieve AWOL BOFFs" that would reward a random Bridge Officer. If they can't fix it, they should at least make fun of it.
I could see this happening. When they fixed the transporter on Qo'nos they also replaced the transporter officer NPC. You can ask him what happened to the old one, who was killed for incompetence.
Of course I would like them to fix this issue before making jokes about it. Right now it would just be rubbing it in.
Another time I was using my ship in CC during the event and after that mission jumped into AZN only find that between those two missions (probably right when I jumped into AZN) my ship power tray was scrambled. I spent the first few minutes just reorganizing my abilities so I could use my tray without having to hunt down the abilities that were no longer in the space I saved them under my SAVED LOADOUT. :rolleyes:
The U/I maintenance is ruining the fun (along with other things)....
They do have a sense of humor. They keep saying it's fixed
1. Open your character window and select your ship.
2. Click the button for your desired loadout (can't remember which tab it is on).
3. Immediately click on the stations tab. Your desired Boffs will repopulate.
Your tray powers should be back.
Hope this helps.
PS. As of late, I only enter space queues while in space, seems to eliminate tray clearing/boff-awol.
It never left
Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
This latest round of attempted loadout resets I noticed that clicking my loadout actually DOES load all my powers correctly into the tray.. and then they disappear again. I made a brief video to demonstrate this behavior:
https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=y8mxFh8lPXQ
Prior to this, I'd just been sitting in the Sherman system slotting various Science powers and checking their stats on mouseover. I meant to save my current selections to a build and accidentally clicked on the build instead (side note, that happens a lot.. a little confirmation dialog would be wonderful there..), which switched to a non-viable build (I'd removed some boffs since then) and understandably cleared the tray. After my cooldown expired, I tried to switch back to my normal build.. and my powers just wouldn't go into the tray.
Seriously dev team, I love this game and all the new content we've gotten lately, but THIS BUG makes me want to just stop playing. This is not like "oh, some effect is working differently than planned." It's not a little graphical glitch or a bad power description. Whenever this happens, WHICH IS ALL THE TIME, you just straight up cannot play the game until you fix your tray manually. Very frustrating!
Not only that, I have a couple of toons that normally had a blank slot and that was filled in with a random skill from one of the BOs
I've fixed them multiple times only for it to happen all over again sometimes the same day, sometimes literally by the time I've finished going through my other ships and fixing them.
Edit: The fun part is that a fair bit of the time once I've fixed the tray layout the system will then recognize that my setup is in fact how the loadout should be and shows that loadout as equipped. Where as after it loads then scrambles it will have the sense to know it has not in fact loaded things properly, yet every attempt to load will always fail in the same way.
Edit the second: So after like an hour, hour and a half of ad-hoc bug testing, tinkering, and attempts to fix I finally noticed that my Hierarchy BOFF had glitched at some point and reset its Ensign space power from Hazard Emitters 1 to Jam Sensors 1. Now this BOFF is literally used on one secondary loadout for one ship out of the 9 or so I was cycling between trying to fix. Yet fixes wouldn't readily stick before fixing this borked power, but anything fixed AFTER fixing that did stick and so far seems to have fixed. Yay?
Everyone is well aware of all the various fixes and work arounds and old wives tales. The bug persists regardless
yup. I especially like the new feature where when switching characters then que for stf and get in stf...your boff stations go blank. fun times.