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heavy plasma torpedoes??

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited July 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
are they supposed to follow your ship and slam repeatedly into your hull and not blow up?
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    CaptainThraxx wrote:
    are they supposed to follow your ship and slam repeatedly into your hull and not blow up?

    Hmm, what else would they do? most torpedos track ya....
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    Hmm, what else would they do? most torpedos track ya....

    Congratulations on missing the word's repeatedly and NOT blow up
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    Hmm, what else would they do? most torpedos track ya....

    LOL failread. i said follow me and slam into my hull repeatedly. Same torpedo. until i target the damn thing and shoot it off my TRIBBLE
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Exodion wrote: »
    Congratulations on missing the word's repeatedly and NOT blow up

    I have no idea what you are talking about.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Even in SFB the torpedoes explode on impact. That really sounds like a bug.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    I have no idea what you are talking about.

    becuase you cant read. now stop trolling my post.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Xaintrix wrote:
    Even in SFB the torpedoes explode on impact. That really sounds like a bug.

    im thinking so it happens all the time sometimes i dont notice it until it has eaten my aft sheild to nothing and im nearly dead.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    While we are on the topic of plasma weaponry, perhaps someone can give me a definitive answer on the "Plasma Fire" DoT debuff.

    Does it:

    A: Have the ability to stack

    OR

    B: Simply re-apply itself

    OR

    C: No stacking or re-applications

    I am 99% sure it's B, but I'm hoping it's A.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    CaptainThraxx wrote:
    LOL failread. i said follow me and slam into my hull repeatedly. Same torpedo. until i target the damn thing and shoot it off my TRIBBLE

    Yes failread... because your OP was filled with such eleqounce that no room for error was possible. Last time I try and understand what somone is talking about, in hopes of helping them.

    Seems most people on this forum just want to jump on someone and troll at the first opertunity.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I haven't notice them doing a whole lot of damage.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Well I know what you're talking about Thraxx. It happened to me pretty consistently during beta testing when I would fight Romulans. I reported as a bug a couple days before the end of open beta. I don't see it being designed that way just because it's rather large amounts of damage each time it hits you. It's like taking a photon hit every 5 seconds or so.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    CaptainThraxx wrote:
    becuase you cant read. now stop trolling my post.

    Actually I was attempting to understand what you meant, in order to help. But dont worry, I shall not bother responding to another one of your posts :) welcome to the wonderfull world of ignore..

    And all because you have the manners of a goat.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    Yes failread... because your OP was filled with such eleqounce that no room for error was possible. Last time I try and understand what somone is talking about, in hopes of helping them.

    Seems most people on this forum just want to jump on someone and troll at the first opertunity.

    i can find about half a dozen topics where ive asked question and you come in being a smartass. your comment was meant to be rude and pointless.



    to everyone else if this is a bug i will report it next time it happens thank you
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    KBPCarl wrote:
    Well I know what you're talking about Thraxx. It happened to me pretty consistently during beta testing when I would fight Romulans. I reported as a bug a couple days before the end of open beta. I don't see it being designed that way just because it's rather large amounts of damage each time it hits you. It's like taking a photon hit every 5 seconds or so.

    yeah it was mostly romulans who do it to me too.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Are you saying they are rubberbanding?

    Probably lag if that is the case.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    Yes failread... because your OP was filled with such eleqounce that no room for error was possible. Last time I try and understand what somone is talking about, in hopes of helping them.

    Seems most people on this forum just want to jump on someone and troll at the first opertunity.

    In the OPs defense, you DID miss the reference to them NOT blowing up. Which, after all, is what he was complaining about. Although saying you were trolling may have been out of line, had you just laughed off your mistake and moved on no one would have thought anything of it.

    I'm preeeeety sure that's a bug. Although personally I'd love it if the torps DIDN"T blow up my ship every time they hit <LOL>. Just report it in game.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    CaptainThraxx wrote:
    are they supposed to follow your ship and slam repeatedly into your hull and not blow up?

    thats the way they were working in beta - if it is intended no clue.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    It looks like they mistakenly follow the same logic as the Power Syphon weapon, I'm sure they are supposed to detonate on impact.

    Don't moan too much, this is a good thing, until they patch it, at least you get the chance to shoot them off as they orbit you.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    Yes failread... because your OP was filled with such eleqounce that no room for error was possible. Last time I try and understand what somone is talking about, in hopes of helping them.

    Seems most people on this forum just want to jump on someone and troll at the first opertunity.

    Ohhh... it's the double reverse troll with a twist. This has a high starting score, lets see if he can nail the landing!

    *grabs popcorn*
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    well if they are rubberbanding thats one of the most badass rubberbands in the game. simply ebcuase everytime it slammed into my sheidls it did damage like a torpedo not to mention if it hit my hull repeatedly. while amuzing i did not like dying.

    anyways thanks for all the posts. i got the info i needed seems like a bug.
    i will happily tell the Gms the romulans are cheating.


    good day all
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    kamui wrote: »
    I'm preeeeety sure that's a bug. Although personally I'd love it if the torps DIDN"T blow up my ship every time they hit <LOL>. Just report it in game.

    I think now you misunderstand lol

    They do normal damage, they just don't resolve. They just hang around following you and hitting you for damage like a DoT.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    It's a bug. It had been fixed and they worked great- I was using em in PVP, but they are borked again now.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    toddd240 wrote: »
    I haven't notice them doing a whole lot of damage.

    Just a guess, but you've maybe only gone against the Undine Dreadnaught? I think that's a weakened version of them, just a guess though. I'd suspect Romulan ones are slightly more deadly... But I noticed them following me and not exploding :/.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I think it likes you.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    volpone wrote: »
    It looks like they mistakenly follow the same logic as the Power Syphon weapon, I'm sure they are supposed to detonate on impact..

    I think this is what is happening also. hasn't happened to me since headstart, but I haven't fought the Rom's yet either.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    D-Animal wrote:
    I think this is what is happening also. hasn't happened to me since headstart, but I haven't fought the Rom's yet either.

    It happened to me fighting the Dreadnaught on the mission where you take the embassador to the Vulcan Temple (I forget the name), just yesterday.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    YES, THEY ARE. (supposed to keep bouncing off your shields, bouncing back, and doing shield and hull damage each time)


    I first encountered them during the Minefield missions in OB. It was new with the patch. Kicked my TRIBBLE till I figured out

    --- YOU CAN TARGET THEM WITH PHASERS!!! ---


    Unless of course you fight a Warbird, it's shoots the purple "I win" torpedo which shuts down everything on your ship... and THEN it fires the "Great Ball of (Romulan) Fire." Then you explode and respawn and try it all over again.


    :D


    ps. IIRC, one of the old SFC games had a plasma torp that did almost the exact same thing, or at least it was supposed to, but it might've been bugged
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    They're a little overpowered if they are... I remember them doing 7k damage a time easily... Phaser's can't always react quick enough if you're fighting a few ships at close range...
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    B1g_Dav3 wrote: »
    They're a little overpowered if they are... I remember them doing 7k damage a time easily... Phaser's can't always react quick enough if you're fighting a few ships at close range...

    Key phrase being "close range."

    Sucks for us Escort types that like to latch onto the back of a ship and beat down a single shield and pummel it's hull from a range of "2" away. Gives almost no time to react to the Plasma Torp.

    The one mission I'm thinking of (can't remember now, it was late in OB, was Cmdr lvl at the time), the Warbird not only fired it's Purple "I win" Torp followed by Heavy Plasma, it used a lot of tractor beams too. Forced me to stay away... which made seeing the Plasma Torp easier (assuming my systems weren't shut down or my ship tractored)

    That was one of the tougher fights I had in OB. The Plasma Torps aren't bad once you figure out how to quickly target them (and are thusly waiting for them).

    It's that damn purple thing the Warbird shoots that's killer.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Are you talking about undine ones?

    They bounce a lot =/ but you can target them and shoot them before they hit.
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