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Respawned ship locks onto enemy and I loose controll

amlrossamlross Member Posts: 19 Arc User
edited December 2012 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
When playing stfs (elite)

And the Borg kill me, after I respawn, my ships (any and all) will "lock on" to an enemy and I can not controll my ship other than to power the engines.

My ship will go straight for that enemy it has locked onto and I cannot steer in any direction.

And until said enemy has been destroyed I cannot move.

I can fire and controll engine power, but I can't turn in any direction.

This usually resultst in my ship being immediately destroyed again due to not being able to controll it.

All I can really do is wait till it has been destroyed by other players. But if its a gate and the nodes are still active I'm **** out of luck.

Plz fix it!
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  • bridgernbridgern Member Posts: 709 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    When you have this bug press ESC that gives you the control back.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    bridgern wrote: »
    When you have this bug press ESC that gives you the control back.

    Heh, must try that, first time I had this problem was last night so maybe the last patch did something weird. Also never been one-shotted by gates in infected before last night either. New 'features' ?
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    i got this bug once.... deselecting the target gave me control back.
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I've heard of this bug before but nevr have encountered it. The closest I've come is when I've respawn or warp into a system my ship will on rare occasions take control of itself and fly in circles, eitehr direction and up or down. I'll try pressing esc if it happens again.
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  • adjournonadjournon Member Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I've had this happen to me once on my Klingon Engineer in his Qin. I was able to recover but I have no idea exactly how I did it as I was activating everything I could. I'll try the ESC button trick if it happens again, but now that I think back on it, I suspect it was deselecting the target that freed me from that glitch.
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  • amlrossamlross Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Esc works great! It still happens to me a lot but at least I can recover quickly.

    Thanks!
  • corbinwolf#9797 corbinwolf
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         Member Posts: 565 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I tried the re-targeting and it works occasionally. Will try the ESC next time. This is a constant issue for me. I notice too that sometimes I am damn near indestructible whilst other times one shot will take me out. This is in a ship with 49, 250 hull strength and Borg Equipment. Makes no sense. I also find too that sometimes my mouse just wont work properly in game. I chalk it up to patch issues.

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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    With default keyboard setup, esc will clear your current target, so its exactly the same as doing it with the mouse. I also have this bug regularly and deselecting target always fixed it.
  • argent007argent007 Member Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    get this bug regularly, have to break target lock and reestablish
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