Risa Superior Floater Animations Broken

astrorobla

Not exactly a gameplay killer, this bug does make playing with floaters less fun.

When in Shooter mode, the floaters all used to have awesome animations as you maneuvered in different directions. Now, this is broken for the top-tier superior floaters, which mostly show all jets firing all the time.

The animations are still in the code somewhere as the enhanced floaters still work beautifully.

It would be nice to see this blemish fixed before the summer is over (and forgotten)!

I've reproduced the problem on 3 superior floaters on different characters in different factions.

gilion

Technically this should be in the Graphical bugs section, but I'm also having this problem, and the problem isnt limited to shooter mode. It's weird though, I watched a stream earlier of someone on Risa, and it looked as though the animations were working just fine for him.

frtoaster

astrorobla wrote: »

When in Shooter mode, the floaters all used to have awesome animations as you maneuvered in different directions. Now, this is broken for the top-tier superior floaters, which mostly show all jets firing all the time.

I'm not sure what you're seeing, but I'm not seeing "all jets firing all the time", and I've been keeping track of the problems with floaters for a long time. There are three problems with the thruster animations on floaters, two of which I noted in this list of Risa bugs that I sent to SalamiInferno two months before the 2017 summer event began.

1. On male superior floaters specifically, the thrusters do not rotate at all. Neither the wing-thrusters nor the side-thrusters rotate; they stay stuck in the same position.

2. On other floaters, the thrusters do rotate, but the rotations are not symmetric. More precisely, the angles of the left and right thrusters are not reflections of each other across the sagittal plane when you fly in opposite directions (left and right).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_plane

This problem affects both the side-thrusters and the wing-thrusters on superior female floaters and the side-thrusters on male and female standard floaters. I did not test enhanced floaters.

3. Sometimes, when you fly left or right, both side-thrusters fire instead of only one. When you fly right, only the left-side thruster should fire; when you fly left, only the right-side thruster should fire; but sometimes, they both fire. This problem happens sporadically, and I'm not sure what causes it. I think it might be related to the direction I'm facing or the direction relative to the one I was facing when I first activated the floater.

These floater animation bugs have been around since the last summer event. We got them when "Agents of Yesterday" launched a year ago.

http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/comment/13000929#Comment_13000929

There are also bugs with the size and angle of the central thruster. Those bugs are at least two years old.

Holodeck ticket 4,436,798: Icons of some superior floaters have wrong thruster size
Holodeck ticket 4,436,801: Incorrect central thruster on superior floaters

gilion wrote: »

Technically this should be in the Graphical bugs section, but I'm also having this problem, and the problem isnt limited to shooter mode.

Actually, I fairly certain these are animation bugs, not graphics bugs.

gilion wrote: »

It's weird though, I watched a stream earlier of someone on Risa, and it looked as though the animations were working just fine for him.

Was this a male in a superior floater? I have not seen thruster rotations work at all on superior male floaters since the last summer event.