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drkfrontiers
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The last two matches I played against a "not-to-be-named" premade the strangest thing happened.
All my weapons showed their CD's as if they were firing, but absolutely nothing was happening.
No visual FX and I saw no DPS against the target either.
What was strange as well, was I was firing into the flank of a cruiser??? So, what debuff could a cruiser cause? Even if it was capable of doing that, would it not have to be facing me?
And it happened against other ships too. When I asked members of my team, they said that they were also experiencing similar issues.
[ This was not TarWeaSub. I've seen that. This was something completely different. My weapons were perma-offline. ]
All my weapons showed their CD's as if they were firing, but absolutely nothing was happening.
No visual FX and I saw no DPS against the target either.
What was strange as well, was I was firing into the flank of a cruiser??? So, what debuff could a cruiser cause? Even if it was capable of doing that, would it not have to be facing me?
And it happened against other ships too. When I asked members of my team, they said that they were also experiencing similar issues.
[ This was not TarWeaSub. I've seen that. This was something completely different. My weapons were perma-offline. ]
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I've seen Scramble Ghost Out my abilities from time to time (where nothing could be activated, not even power level switches). I have not been able to replicate it personally as of yet. I'm hoping someone from a pvp fleet that amply uses Scramble will be so kind as to offer me a test session so we can try to chase it down.
As far as the weapons thing I don't know where to start on that either. This is the first I'd heard of this since PSW got fixed.
All weapons on the weapon bar indicated they were firing but nothing was happening. Thought I'd been transported to that holo ship at the end of Insurrection.
CommanderDonatra@Capt.Sisko: ahhh is it supposed to do that?
Norvo Tigan@dontdrunkimshoot: hell ya, maybe
LOL... Insurrection. I'd almost managed to forget that movie was ever made. Thanks for bringing it back to memory :P
..Could be from client side lag, server lag, data packet loss, etc....
Delta - Recluse
Omega - Scimitar
Alpha - MVAM
Beta - Wells
It appears to me to be nothing more than the Cryptic engine lagging out. I'm not sure exactly how STO handles CDs but TOR uses client to control CDs and the hero engine will not always pick up the keystrokes (altho the CD happens).
The engine seems to not be keeping up here lately. Dstahl did mention that he had more players in STO lately and this is probably the culprit. Not to mention that the added 20 man fleet groups are heavy now and the engine definatly has problems with those. Any1 remember launch when there was 700K+ playing?
A "season" just to get the Cryptic engine optimized might be a good thing to do now Before all the threads of "the engine is terrible" happen again and/or TOR's outcome.
LOL! I remember post beta. LMAO! Earth Space Dock was a no go for me. :P
and its not BP...... i have 4 tac teams for that.
but yeah, all the sudden.... a nice 8 second weapon cooldown and i just went through my alpha buff cycle.
i thought i was just drunk, which is usually the case....
Could this be related to the UI lock-out being reportedly caused by Confuse effects?
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
so if run my buffs outside 10k after picking my target, evasives and fire around 7k, with no one targeting me, or debuffs on my bar...there really should be no lockout.
i will do my best to reproduce the results, and report if i can.......which will be easy, because all i do is escort pvp. i'll get some footage if i can.
i have the same issues with torps. had to put them on a keybind on manual fire. Last I checked, mines also dont start autofiring until you manually fire the first one
Running one EPTX with another EPTX causes a drift of around 3 seconds or so.
They would sync properly just a month ago.
The trick of fitting an EPTX between two EPTS powers by only putting 6 points into the EPTX power no longer works without a 3 second drift.
Please fix this, Cryptic dudes.
That said, if it was only you I'd believe it might have been a hardware performance issue somewhere along the line, if it was happening to your teammates as well and you didn't notice the other team having similar issues that sounds like a bug being triggered.
Depending on what you experienced that may have been around since a month before season 6 launch if not longer. I had issues with torps refusing to fire at all on a torp heavy cruiser if there were more than 5 or 6 of them set to autofire. I remember having to disable autofire then start manually firing them at least one time.
For those that are curious, the basic concept was 2xturret,4xquantum,2xTricobolt and 3xTorp Doffs to maximize the Tricobolt DPS potential while sending quantum's everywhere. At one point I even had 8 torps on this ship.
The concept seemed sketchy on paper and failed in a spectacular manner when tried but I was hoping for something a little different for STF grinding. This was before the transphasic buff and at the time I was hoping the new/improved rapid reload transphasics would replace the quantums post season 6. Ended up being a total time waster that cost a handful of EC.
ooooohhh, this too.
This usually happens when I'm playing bops though but not anything else. The only other thing ppl experience close to this in just PvE is fighting tholians, fek'ihr, and klingon npcs though but usually science team removes those debuffs and to lesser extent hazard emitters.
Most annoying...
Here before PWE (and hopefully) here long after PWE is gone.
What this game needs is PvP, NOT PWE.
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