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Critical Bug - Negh'Var Boarding Parties

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited January 2010 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
After todays patch these ships are (as intended) launching boarding parties at me. Each time i get "boarded" my whole crew gets neutralised (crew is listed as 0 and my weapon abilites show 30+ minute cooldowns to use. This is making the game unplayable right now as well, i'm Lt. C 6 and all my missions are against Klingons meaning i am likely to bump into lots of this.

To test, fight a negh'var. let it's shuttles board you.

Your weapon abilities on your action bar will get set to 30+ minutes and each time you get boarded subsequently the cooldown increases.

According to another poster, death doesn't reset your cooldowns.

Also, travelling to Sector Space (Abort Mission) did not resolve the issue nor did a re-log.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    After todays patch these ships are (as intended) launching boarding parties at me. Each time i get "boarded" my whole crew gets neutralised (crew is listed as 0 and my weapon abilites show 30+ minute cooldowns to use. This is making the game unplayable right now as well, i'm Lt. C 6 and all my missions are against Klingons meaning i am likely to bump into lots of this.

    To test, fight a negh'var. let it's shuttles board you.

    Your weapon abilities on your action bar will get set to 30+ minutes and each time you get boarded subsequently the cooldown increases.

    According to another poster, death doesn't reset your cooldowns.


    Get yourself a security team :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Same issue at LC 6 with these things.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    So i should waste my only tactica BO's slot on my T2 science vessel on Security Team? Great they may as well just spend my skill points for me and buy my ship as well whenever i am entitled to new ones. Clearly it's a bug and i was merely trying to help by providing the info as requested to help it get fixed. I don't post here to make smart comments.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    incognitox wrote: »
    Get yourself a security team :)

    So you think everyone in the game MUST have a security team to avoid a 30 min debuff of all weapons and skills meening u carnt do a single thing? hmmmm dont think you thought that comment through ;) its a bug, aand quite a bad one at that (guess thats why it was posted in the "bug" section of the forums) LOL :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    So i should waste my only tactica BO's slot on my T2 science vessel on Security Team? Great they may as well just spend my skill points for me and buy my ship as well whenever i am entitled to new ones. Clearly it's a bug and i was merely trying to help by providing the info as requested to help it get fixed. I don't post here to make smart comments.

    then use /bug in game and report it there. Not the forums.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    incognitox wrote: »
    then use /bug in game and report it there. Not the forums.

    Has been done, but since my last bug report is 3 days old with no reply im not sure that works, but this section of the forum is where u posted bug reports, thats why its called "Gameplay Bugs"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Arctic000 wrote:
    Has been done, but since my last bug report is 3 days old with no reply im not sure that works, but this section of the forum is where u posted bug reports, thats why its called "Gameplay Bugs"

    you are correct
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Same here, reported the bug. The wait time is outrages and it does not let you defend yourself at all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Would like just point out, that security team I. DOESNT HELP atm (bug). My all weapons/shields/crew were disabled there in matter of seconds. And Engineering team I. doesnt repair damaged subsystems it seems (bug) so im stuck 20mins while my photons are being repaired.

    Im playing cruiser with all teams available...nothing helps there...

    Oh and death respawn doesnt remove it....i guess some people using boarding parties in pvp in battlegrounds will have much fun :-)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Just got out of a Fleet Action mission where EVERYONE was running into this problem - people were reporting 5, 10, 15 minute cooldowns on all of their weapons. I myself was unable to use my phasers or torpedos for 5 minutes, and could only deal "damage" by using Sensor Scramble to get the enemy ships to shoot each other. :rolleyes:

    Boarding Parties are fine, but they need a cap on how long their effects last.

    EDIT: It looked to me, and I could be wrong about this, like the issue was from multiple boarding parties stacking way too much.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    this bug is making the game virtually unplayable... not only that they bypass shields..... i could swear in all the times i have watched star trek boarding parties couldn't get passed shields
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    This bug really takes the fun out of the game since even the skill that should repair damaged weapon subsystems doesn't work.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    After todays patch these ships are (as intended) launching boarding parties at me. Each time i get "boarded" my whole crew gets neutralised (crew is listed as 0 and my weapon abilites show 30+ minute cooldowns to use. This is making the game unplayable right now as well, i'm Lt. C 6 and all my missions are against Klingons meaning i am likely to bump into lots of this.

    To test, fight a negh'var. let it's shuttles board you.

    Your weapon abilities on your action bar will get set to 30+ minutes and each time you get boarded subsequently the cooldown increases.

    According to another poster, death doesn't reset your cooldowns.

    Also, travelling to Sector Space (Abort Mission) did not resolve the issue nor did a re-log.

    I agree totally, add to that no real messages about what is going on when it happens and this is pretty steep
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I just ran into this issue. I tried relogging, reequiping the weapons as well as rezoning, and the cooldown was still there. All I could do in the end was go do something else for the remainder of the ~35min cooldown my weapons.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Rhean wrote: »
    I just ran into this issue. I tried relogging, reequiping the weapons as well as rezoning, and the cooldown was still there. All I could do in the end was go do something else for the remainder of the ~35min cooldown my weapons.

    In the same spot myself, have like 30 min cool down on torpedoes but occasionally timers will count down from 5 seconds then go back to 25 minutes. Does anyone know if countdowns still decrease if logged out or you have to sit in sector space for hours?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    incognitox wrote: »
    then use /bug in game and report it there. Not the forums.

    Please go play mod in some other forum, not one that is being used as intended,.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    you need to stay logged in onboard your ship else the timer does ot tick down ... you cant even go check the auctions :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Lonewolf69 wrote:
    you need to stay logged in onboard your ship else the timer does ot tick down ... you cant even go check the auctions :(

    That's what I was afraid of. I tried unequipping weapons and then reequipping them. This fixed the weapon icon image but as soon as I went into combat the timers popped back up. Well hopefully they figure this out soon. I thought cryptic said they learned their lesson about adjusting difficulty right before launch. Guess not.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Hopefully this gets fixed in a patch today. I was really wanting to make Commander before the end of beta, but if i can't do my missions because of this i wont be able to.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    i thought they might of but guess not. i finally got my timers cooldown off and later ended up in a battle with another neghvar. I guess they just spam boarding party now and there's no limit to the stacking. I play zoomed out so I can see what's going on and the little boarding shuttles are impossible to see. The only way I know somethings going on is when my weapons stop working. If they want to add boarding party to neghvars fine but it shouldn't stack without limit. I think most other games Ive played, if you get hit with the same effect it generally resets the timer of the effect overwriting it. Here it just adds to the duration, in a battle you get hit a few times and your weapons are down for 3-4 minutes or even longer.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    and you can't even park your ship and go make a coffee while the clock ticks, cos after 15 mins idle now the game kicks you out, so you come back and still have 15 mins cooldown waiting...nice!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Ran into the same problem. Had 9 minutes of cooldown before server went down this afternoon, about halfway through a mission. When the server came back up all the mission progress had been lost, but still had 9 minutes of cooldown on weapons. Sigh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    well that certainly explains what happened to my weapons I think, tried to blast the buggers as they left the ship but I guess they boarded me and then it was game over for that ship. Tried a log out and back in, didn't help. Switched ships for a day, guess it only counts down while you are online. I was down to cannons as the rest of my weapons were frozen till I grabbed the escort for a non combat tour and the photons started to countdown from 4 mins then it all came back online again. Kind of glad the last time I saw that i let those shuttles eat cannons and photons before they got close.
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