I'm downing the Doomsday Device mission. When I get up to the Negh'var class battleship in the radial sweep part of mission if I'm unsuccessful in destroying the boarding parties and they get onboard they play havoc with my cooldown timers. Then if I die while this is going on my cooldown timers get stuck on a 10 minute or longer cooldown. With no weapons available it is impossible to keep playing the game.
It doesn't *seem* to be mission-dependent, just mob-dependent. Since the patch that's made boarding parties a primary staple of Negh'Vars, they do it to me every time in Fleet Ops and in missions where I go up against them. The boarding party shuttles lock down my weapons the instant they touch my ship, my shields drop and most of my spells' timers go haywire.
The only way to reset the cooldown is to switch out the affected weapons and switch them back in on respawn. It hasn't worked for my abilities yet. But it definitely makes fighting Negh'Vars a very unpleasant and game-breaking experience.
I pray this is something of a higher priority on the DEVs' game balance bugfix list. We two can't be the only ones experiencing this.
I pray this is something of a higher priority on the DEVs' game balance bugfix list. We two can't be the only ones experiencing this.
This is a game fail for me.. sitting idle for 12 minutes waiting for a weapon to come back up is lame. Can't leave the system without losing progress.. can't finish because i have nothing to shoot at boarding parties with...
I have the same problem with weapons, but not always with boarding parties. Sometimes my phasers just go offline for no reason and I can't do anything about it. Luckily the only thing that is affected is my phasers, my torps and the mines and/or disruptors are fine.
This is a game fail for me.. sitting idle for 12 minutes waiting for a weapon to come back up is lame. Can't leave the system without losing progress.. can't finish because i have nothing to shoot at boarding parties with...
The only way to reset the cooldown is to switch out the affected weapons and switch them back in on respawn. It hasn't worked for my abilities yet. But it definitely makes fighting Negh'Vars a very unpleasant and game-breaking experience.
I have the same problem with weapons, but not always with boarding parties. Sometimes my phasers just go offline for no reason and I can't do anything about it. Luckily the only thing that is affected is my phasers, my torps and the mines and/or disruptors are fine.
You know I had that happen, too. It was at a Fleet Op where a Negh'Var sent out a stream of shuttles for me, and I tried to target and fire on them. They had about seven to ten seconds' flight time unmolested, my ship refusing to fire on them and showing no countdown timer for a cooldown. The phaser rrays just....refused to fire until they were right on top of me. And then I was boarded, my whole crew compliment died, my shields dropped, my weapons locked, and that was the whole shebang.
Comments
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2331/borked.jpg
It doesn't *seem* to be mission-dependent, just mob-dependent. Since the patch that's made boarding parties a primary staple of Negh'Vars, they do it to me every time in Fleet Ops and in missions where I go up against them. The boarding party shuttles lock down my weapons the instant they touch my ship, my shields drop and most of my spells' timers go haywire.
The only way to reset the cooldown is to switch out the affected weapons and switch them back in on respawn. It hasn't worked for my abilities yet. But it definitely makes fighting Negh'Vars a very unpleasant and game-breaking experience.
I pray this is something of a higher priority on the DEVs' game balance bugfix list. We two can't be the only ones experiencing this.
This is a game fail for me.. sitting idle for 12 minutes waiting for a weapon to come back up is lame. Can't leave the system without losing progress.. can't finish because i have nothing to shoot at boarding parties with...
Psst! Solution here:
You know I had that happen, too. It was at a Fleet Op where a Negh'Var sent out a stream of shuttles for me, and I tried to target and fire on them. They had about seven to ten seconds' flight time unmolested, my ship refusing to fire on them and showing no countdown timer for a cooldown. The phaser rrays just....refused to fire until they were right on top of me. And then I was boarded, my whole crew compliment died, my shields dropped, my weapons locked, and that was the whole shebang.