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I have but one question about this update (very important!)

conundrumnsaconundrumnsa Member Posts: 705 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Will my beard finally stop beaming up first?
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  • mrtoken_1390846233mrtoken_1390846233 Member Posts: 58 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    conundrumnsa wrote: »
    Will my beard finally stop beaming up first?

    My god, you have no idea how transporters work, facial hair always gets beamed up first,
    :P
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    conundrumnsa wrote: »
    Will my beard finally stop beaming up first?

    Only if you shave.
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  • malakhglitchmalakhglitch Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I wish posts had a +1 button right about now. :D
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  • f9thaceshighf9thaceshigh Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I wish posts had a facepalm emote right about now.

    The disappearing facial hair is a graphical limitation, it has to do with the way the game handles transparencies, the transparency of the transporter beam is overriding the transparency of the beard map. If you look closely, the rank pips sometimes also disappear, because they are handled the same way. It would take some very serious overhauling of the game engine and/or the player models and textures to fix that.
  • conundrumnsaconundrumnsa Member Posts: 705 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    f9thaceshigh wrote: »
    I wish posts had a facepalm emote right about now.

    The disappearing facial hair is a graphical limitation, it has to do with the way the game handles transparencies, the transparency of the transporter beam is overriding the transparency of the beard map. If you look closely, the rank pips sometimes also disappear, because they are handled the same way. It would take some very serious overhauling of the game engine and/or the player models and textures to fix that.


    "Humor, it is a difficult concept" -Lt Saavik
  • kalvorax#3775 kalvorax
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         Member Posts: 1,663 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    thats a beard??? i thought that was a tribble in a smile form XD
  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    f9thaceshigh wrote: »
    I wish posts had a facepalm emote right about now.

    The disappearing facial hair is a graphical limitation, it has to do with the way the game handles transparencies, the transparency of the transporter beam is overriding the transparency of the beard map. If you look closely, the rank pips sometimes also disappear, because they are handled the same way. It would take some very serious overhauling of the game engine and/or the player models and textures to fix that.

    It cannot be worse than having my entire body beam up and the transporter forgetting my TAIL!
  • notapwefannotapwefan Member Posts: 1,138 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    you should be glad that your pubic hairs are not beaming up first..
    Things could have been a lot worst
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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Whenever my skirt beams down last, I execute a transporter officer for incompetence. High Command is now questioning my high volume of personnel requests.
  • conundrumnsaconundrumnsa Member Posts: 705 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    notapwefan wrote: »
    you should be glad that your pubic hairs are not beaming up first..
    Things could have been a lot worst

    How do we know they aren't?
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Will pets finally beam out with their owners instead of just standing there because no one has bothered to finish working on them?

    STOP HORTA ABANDOMNENT NOW

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  • thepopeofbeersthepopeofbeers Member Posts: 118 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    conundrumnsa wrote: »
    Will my beard finally stop beaming up first?

    Yup! But only because Romulans can't grow beards :( :P
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  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    conundrumnsa wrote: »
    Will my beard finally stop beaming up first?

    The Transporter is just trying to send your beard back to the Mirror Universe first ... anyone knows the beard is what makes people evil :P
    Patch Notes : Resolved an Issue, where people would accidently experience Fun.
  • scififan78scififan78 Member Posts: 1,383 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You all should know it is the bio-filters on the transporters that causes this. The Bio-filters beam up the hair first to maker certain there are no "unwanted guests" coming with you.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    hasukurobi wrote: »
    It cannot be worse than having my entire body beam up and the transporter forgetting my TAIL!

    Ooohhhh...

    That's what it means to "get a piece of tail" .....

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  • umaekoumaeko Member Posts: 748 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    f9thaceshigh wrote: »
    I wish posts had a facepalm emote right about now.

    The disappearing facial hair is a graphical limitation, it has to do with the way the game handles transparencies, the transparency of the transporter beam is overriding the transparency of the beard map. If you look closely, the rank pips sometimes also disappear, because they are handled the same way. It would take some very serious overhauling of the game engine and/or the player models and textures to fix that.

    Oh, that's an handy explanation. I was annoyed (and mildly irked) about my character's eyebrows vanishing during the transporter FX. I think I took it fairly in stride before, but now I feel better about it now that I actually know why that's happening.

    Thanks.
  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    Ooohhhh...

    That's what it means to "get a piece of tail" .....

    :cool:

    Nah it is a bit more like having the feeling you left something... Behind...
  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The beard is the most important part of any Starfleet first officer. It contains all the tactical and command expertise of a career of valiant and competent service. If the host body is lost in the transportation process, the beard, which arrived beforehand, can be recovered, and re-attached to a suitable candidate.
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