Tactical team no longer clearing Assimilate ship?

risian4

I know this power (tactical team) was changed to reduce its impact on the server, but it no longer seems to clear Assimilate ship at all. Even right after hitting it, my other powers will still start a short cooldown and I'm seeing the red bars almost continously on my screen while fighting borg.

If this an intended change, I may have missed that bit of information, otherwise it seems it's not working as intended.

welcome2earf

YEah..I have been noticing wonky perfomance of tac team in terms of wiping assimilate ship. Glad I'm not alone.

lindaleff

I just ran a Borg Red Alert. And indeed, Tactical Team is NOT clearing the Assimilate.

bobsled624

Hey @risian4 ,

Can you give an idea of when this issue started?

Also, can you clarify if the issue is effecting just Tactical Team I, or all three levels of the power?

Have you noticed it not affecting other tactical debuffs such as Boarding parties?

Do you notice it causing issues with the other aspects of the power, like a drop in the effectiveness of the weapons training or the distribution of shields?

risian4

I'm not entirely sure when the issue started, 'very recently' is the best I can give you I'm afraid. I've only used tactical team 1, haven't encountered any boarding parties yet.

I didn't notice any issues with the other effects of tactical team 1, shields are still automatically distributed.

Edit: weapons are still enhanced as well, so that part of the power is still working too. I just tried using Tactical team 2, same problem: the timers of abilities that aren't touched go on a 3-4 second cooldown and I keep seeing the red bars. The icon that indicates that the borg are using 'assimilate ship' has disappeared too btw...





Edit edit: Boarding parties, at least those from Klingon Negh'vars, are still cleared when using tactical team 1 and 2. Tactical team is working here.

bobsled624

Right....

Curiouser and curiouser... So it would seem to have only cropped up since the last patch and would appear to be affecting all the Tactical teams.

I haven't had a chance to try it myself, but does the Assimilated Ship state clear within 10 seconds of using the power?

I only ask as the tooltip states that is "clears tactical debuffs over 10 secs."

Is it not clearing them at all, or is it just taking longer than it did previously?

borticuscryptic

There are other aspects of this rebuilt ability which aren't quite working as intended. We'll be patching it again in the near future.

bobsled624

Thanks for the reply @borticuscryptic , hope the extra info helped.

vecternal

Having the same issue and tried using the ability 'transfer shield strength' with a transporter duty officer, as a replacement, but that doesn't work either. I know that the ability is chance based, but after several borg encounters It didn't trigger even once.

monkeybone13

I thought I was imagining things. Yesterday I was doing a Delta Rising episode that had you do some patrol missions. I did that Borg battleground or whatever it's called (it's on the right edge of the map in the far north of the quadrant).

I thought tactical team 1 wasn't clearing assimilate ship. Glad to see I'm not alone and the issue is confirmed.

As to when this happened: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9501383-star-trek-online:-release-notes:-august-13th,-2015 August 13 patch notes:

Systems: Borg Space Enemies: Instead of the "Assimilate Ship" debuff lingering after the Borg that cast it is killed, it will now end shortly after the caster is destroyed.

The functionality of assimilate ship was changed a bit so it's not surprising there was an unforeseen issue that popped up.

tfciv

risian4 wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure when the issue started, 'very recently' is the best I can give you I'm afraid. I've only used tactical team 1, haven't encountered any boarding parties yet.

I didn't notice any issues with the other effects of tactical team 1, shields are still automatically distributed.

Edit: weapons are still enhanced as well, so that part of the power is still working too. I just tried using Tactical team 2, same problem: the timers of abilities that aren't touched go on a 3-4 second cooldown and I keep seeing the red bars. The icon that indicates that the borg are using 'assimilate ship' has disappeared too btw...





Edit edit: Boarding parties, at least those from Klingon Negh'vars, are still cleared when using tactical team 1 and 2. Tactical team is working here.

Yeah I noticed this on Borg Disconnected. Tactical Team couldn't clear the Assimilate Ship debuff because there was no debuff icon present for it to clear. I figured it was just an added difficulty to the Borg Disconnected stf where you had to do part of the stf while Borg boarding parties are on your ship.

saurializard

Good to know I'm not imagining things. I was almost starting to think playing Butterfly caused the Borg to be able to ignore some of your counters as a result of messing with the timeline.

Also, while we're at the performance rebuild working about as well as the incursion in Butterfly, the failsafe scrambler trait still causes a considerable drop of FPS.

captainpugwash1

As off today 27/8/ my Tac Team is only giving weapons boosts.