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Question - When All Skills Go Dark

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited May 2010 in PvP Gameplay
In PvP matches last night, I kept finding that all of my skills would go blank during combat. It felt a lot like the old SNB - where you can't use any skills for a few seconds - sometimes several seconds. There was no power drain, and there was no visible evidence I had been hit with a debuff on the UI. It happened during combat, so clearly I was being hit by something...

I guess my question is whether anyone else has seen this? Is this the new Viral Matrix - and simply the UI symbol for VM is currently not working?

I didn't die to it, but I play a cruiser. Engineer Team was not available just like every other skill was blacked out, so if this is Viral Matrix it does not appear you can currently cure yourself from it with an Engineer Team. In fact, you can't do anything but fly - it does not visibly impact power.

A friend of mine in the same match was flying a Raptor and died several times to this new feature. Neither of us were able to conclude what skill was causing this to our ship, and even telling each other in Vent when it happened to us I was unable to see any apparent debuff that was giving this effect to him. When it happened there was also never any indication the little purple torpedo hit us (although admittedly, there was a lot of Polaron in use so it may have been difficult to tell).

If this is not the new Viral Matrix, then what is this new 'former SNB' like skill? I played Tribble quite a bit before the Season 1.1 update, and do not remember this being the impact of Viral Matrix. Is this a bug?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    You were hit by tricobalt mine or torpedo. Photonic shockwave does it also i think.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    As I have said in previous posts VM does work. the effects work as such;
    when the VM hits your "weapon systems" it blacks out tactical skills
    when it hits yoru AUX system it hits sensors and emmiter skills, I do not think deflector skills as when I tested it sci team and SNB were still available to use.
    when it hits your engine system it affects your impulse bar.
    VM does not do ANYTHING to the subsystem power settings.
    as for all your skills going black 2 things could have happened, tricobalt mine / torp, or Photonic shockwave which stuns last then a tricobalt.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Gotta watch out for tricobalt torps. They can be targeted and destroyed, just gotta be quick and sometimes lucky with the tab key.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Rev - thx. That is how I understood it worked, but was unsure if it was working properly as there was a time it wasn't working.

    All - appreciate the feedback. We must have simply run into someone very effective at deploying tricobolt weapons. I didn't notice it in the combat log nor did I observe the severe damage associated with a hit, but those logs can be horrible.

    One follow up question. Does that proc still happen even if the tricobolt weapon only hits shields - and no hull (except potentially bleedthrough)?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Yes it does.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I see this more from photonic shockwave than anything.
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