Shield Technician Space Trait doesn't work, also breaks other powers

artificial86

I know the the fact that the Shield Technician trait doesn't seem to properly add shield strength has been mentioned before, however that's not the end of it. The trait also bugs out the Shield Indicator in the HUD. Whenever your shields are dropped for any reason, the HUD will erroneously report your shields as full instead of zero. In theory, this should be nothing more than a small annoyance, but that's not where the effects of the bug stop.

Now, here's where it goes from annoying to potentially game-breaking. The fact that the HUD indicator is giving you false shield readings when your shields are at zero means that any skill or proc that relies on your shields dropping will not work.

The skill I was able to test repeatedly was the Hide Weakness skill from the Intelligence Specialization tree. Hide Weakness, and all of its upgrades, auto-procs when your shields are at zero. BUT, when I have the Shield Technician trait on my shields on my HUD never drop to zero, as a result Hide Weakness will never proc.

I tested this with another person looking at my ship whilst I tried several combinations of having my shields and Shield Technician on and off. He reported that he saw my shields were up even after I took off my shields whilst I had Shield Technician on, so this is not just a visual bug. Part of the game actually thinks I have my shields up when they're really at zero, and this means that anything that relies on zero shields to proc like Hide Weakness will not work.

TL;DR Shield Technician Space Trait is broken and will break other skills like Hide Weakness. Do not use until its fixed.

[Deleted User]

I don't use that trait, and have never used that trait, and still have the broken display, so I don't think you've found the cause.