dooms day machine bug

halfmoon10

twice this week i have played this old crappy episode and when you finish it and go to contact star fleet, it says
continue boarding party all over again., start all over again! NAAA just skip it

frtoaster

This bug has been around since 2010, the cause was identified by an unknown user (now "Archived Post") in 2011, and the bug was confirmed by crypticfrost in 2014 (before he left the company). The last time this bug was brought up was in July. See my comment below.

http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/comment/12988377/#Comment_12988377

frtoaster wrote: »

This may be relevant:

Archived Post wrote: »

This will happen if you don't kill the Targ's escort before you board the Targ. Even though it will let you board the Targ without killing the escort, destroying/disabling both ships is the initial objective. If you don't do that the mission is really stuck there although every next step is able to be completed.

Really sucks when you get to the end only to have to start over due to poor mission design, but after a couple times you learn to kill the escort first.

lowestlvl wrote: »

if you manage to beam aboard the iks targ without destroying its escort you will be able to advance the mission, but you will not receive credit for completing the mission upon its conclusion.

frtoaster wrote: »

The problem is that the mission allows you to advance even if you don't destroy the ship escorting the I.K.S. Targ, but you will not receive credit for completing the mission, because you still have an unfulfilled objective, namely, destroying the escort. When I encountered the bug, the escort was stuck in another object, and I was unable to target it.

This bug has been around since January 2010 and was confirmed by Crypticfrost in June 2014. See the links below.

Doomsday Machine Mission Broken
Doomsday Device Mission Not Completeable
Unable to complete "The Doomsday Machine", glitch at end.
Federation Mission: Doomsday Device
I did the Doomsday Device, and it made me do it again (Issue Confirmed)
Doomsday Device can't turn in to complete

(A forum search actually turns up many more bug reports, but I'm not going to list them all.)