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Shields droping during combat

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited January 2010 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
I start combat and my shields and sometime the ship I am attacking shields drop to zero on all four sides
for a secord or two then go back up. Have others had this happen and what can I do to correct this ?
Could it be my gpu driver ?

Laren
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    did you take hull damage when this happened? I had a couple episode yesterday where bop where tearing through my cruiser like toilet paper even though it appeared my shields were still up, my hull would drop to like 30% after taking a couple hits.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    what weapons do you use? what were you attacked by? Did you take lots of hull damage when this happened?

    First 2 are related to weapon abilities. There are target shields ability that can instnatly shut down shields, phasers have a chance to shut down all shields for a short period (can also hit weapons, aux and engines), and if you took hull damage it couldnt be a graphics issue as you would be taken damage as per shields being down
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Do not know if I took hull damage but I get the computer voice saying front and rear shield down then the
    shields go back up. I see the shield ring around my ship icon go blank. I believe it is a game bug but I have
    not seen others post about it.

    Laren
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    This is not a game bug. Your enemy is either using subsystem targeting on your shields, beam fire shields, or simply phasers (or similar weapons) that Enable_Offline_mode for shields. Basically, they are designed to take the enemy's systems offline periodically but only for very short bursts, like a second or two.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I have had that happen to my Klingons ship within the first few fights. repeatedly lost shields for a few seconds at a time.

    So this is some sort of ability? is it a triggered ability that you can get or is it a random side effect to a weapon?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    The patch yesterday, where they turned off god-mode, said that they were adding abilities to enemy ships. The previous poster I think is correct in stating that your subsytems (ie. shields) were successfully targeted. Kinda cool I think. Unless you lost crewmen which in case I mourn your loss...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    lol. in the two seconds my shields where off line, i went from 94% health to dead. the explosion was just a sec after the voice said your shields are depleted. Yeah. it sucked. so much so i decided to go back to my primary and forgo testing Klingon's. Tactical officer in the starter ship for the record. Just crapy luck on my part im sure but still discouraging
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