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Battle of the Binary Stars issue/red flag warning. do not use Jellyfish!
tasshena
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Is this mission supposed to disable ship abilities totally? Once it's 'started', our regular ships are supposed to work as regular ships again. It works for carriers that way. But apparently not the Jellyfish? It locked out jellyfish mode for the whole length of the TFO, despite the console being there.
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Hear. hear. That's one of the worst visual spams in the game.
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That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
(Not aimed at the OP specifically - just to make clear that the workings of the AFK-console are pretty ridiculous.)
So far I haven't encountered anything else. Besides the dumb holo-overlay of course, which disables the very thing that keeps this game afloat: the ability to fly (
I'm not sure whether this is what you hoped for though, because it's no longer such an annoyance for me. Since I usually just warp out because of that mechanic.
No, while the pink bubble is slightly annoying visually mainly due to the electrical discharges (though it is useful in groups for its heal) it is still transparent enough to not disrupt play too much. The worst VFX-spam offenders in the game are the opaque ones like the (by far the worst) old badlands version of the plasma storm (the Risa version, like the squid bubble, is mildly annoying in comparison) that all the DPS chasers seem to like to have up as much as possible.
Runners up for the most disruptive are the gravity-well-like red-and-black anomalies that are likewise too opaque, but at least they are limited in their view-blocking angle unless there are a lot of them out there.
As for the OP's observation, I suspect that something about the scenario setup forcing a skin change might prevent/disrupt mode switches that have a visual component. It has me curious so sometime during the event I might actually try it with a mode-switching destroyer despite the fact that T'kuvma's prattling on makes the drag of the timers far worse, so I usually avoid that TFO. I don't have one of the silly DSC-future Transformer ships or I would try that too since it would be more likely to trigger the bug.
If you mean something like the Chimera/Manticore, I recall using it just fine the last time BatBS was included in an event. I'll give it a go again, though, since it's my main ship.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
No, the worst offender by far is Beacon of Kahless. It white-outs the entire screen for several seconds. Can't see anything at all in that time.
True, for a few seconds the Beacon is worse from a visibility standpoint since it is total whiteout and the glare itself can be very bad in a darkened room, but it lasts a far, far shorter period of time so I personally consider the opaque version of the plasma storm (I forget offhand the name) to be worse overall since it is opaque to the point where it is often the same level of obscuring as the Beacon depending on where you are in it.