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Boffs no longer using set abilities

no09dysonsphereno09dysonsphere Member Posts: 410 Arc User
edited May 2014 in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Anyone else notice ever since the new season boffs won't use set abilities anymore? I have a boff with the full omega force set, and during season 8 I've seen him use the distortion field ability in the voth battlezone. I'm doing the new Assimilation episode now and he won't use the built in frequency remodulator (my other boffs with the device will use it normally) and I've never seen him use distortion field since the patch either. :confused:
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited May 2014
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  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    BOFF AI seems totally borked of late. They seem to rarely use their abilities and no longer revive their fallen friends very often.
  • pweistheworstpweistheworst Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Yes, the BOff AI is totally messed up at the moment.

    Yesterday I gave one of my BOffs a stack of five hyposprays to use before I beamed down to a planet for a mission. We beamed down (all BOffs had 100% health) and I watched as the BOff used all FIVE hypos within a few seconds immediately after we beamed down ... a total waste.
    In the immortal words of Captain Sisko: "It may not be what you believe, but that doesn't make it wrong."

    Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
  • emperordeslokemperordeslok Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    pweistheworst wrote: »
    Yes, the BOff AI is totally messed up at the moment.

    Yesterday I gave one of my BOffs a stack of five hyposprays to use before I beamed down to a planet for a mission. We beamed down (all BOffs had 100% health) and I watched as the BOff used all FIVE hypos within a few seconds immediately after we beamed down ... a total waste.

    NR has been the worst for this in my experience, I've seen my jem'hadar use as much white as I gave him before ever firing a shot
  • no09dysonsphereno09dysonsphere Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    skollulfr wrote: »
    they do use them, its just that the ai is borderline broken.

    the maco shield boost and omega cloak are the most noticeable. unless slaughtering borg, where you will see them remodulate.

    takes them 10 seconds to find the trigger after each shot:rolleyes:

    No I'm 100% sure they don't. I pull packs of borg and let my boffs go at them, the boffs with the devices remodulate eventually but the one with the set never do.
    hasukurobi wrote: »
    BOFF AI seems totally borked of late. They seem to rarely use their abilities and no longer revive their fallen friends very often.

    Oh good so it's not just me.
  • gerwalk0769gerwalk0769 Member Posts: 1,095 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    no09dysonsphere wrote: »
    Anyone else notice ever since the new season boffs won't use set abilities anymore? I have a boff with the full omega force set, and during season 8 I've seen him use the distortion field ability in the voth battlezone. I'm doing the new Assimilation episode now and he won't use the built in frequency remodulator (my other boffs with the device will use it normally) and I've never seen him use distortion field since the patch either. :confused:

    Exactly! I was going to write about this and the Assimilation episode, which I rerun daily, but thank you.

    My BOFF's no longer remodulate their MACO and Omega sets w/o an actual remodualtor. And they do not use any of the armor set abilities (Voth, MACO, Omega, though my Jem Hader does cloak often) in Assimilated. I brought in my Borg Officer along today by accident and he remodulates every 15-20 seconds.
    Joined STO in September 2010.
  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    no09dysonsphere wrote: »
    No I'm 100% sure they don't. I pull packs of borg and let my boffs go at them, the boffs with the devices remodulate eventually but the one with the set never do.



    Oh good so it's not just me.

    Indeed it is VERY much not just you. The BOFFs act like they all were replaced by Undine who want you to fail or got shot with a Stupid Ray or something.
  • no09dysonsphereno09dysonsphere Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    hasukurobi wrote: »
    Indeed it is VERY much not just you. The BOFFs act like they all were replaced by Undine who want you to fail or got shot with a Stupid Ray or something.

    Hmm. I wonder how long it'll take to fix this, but melee is still completely stupid so I'm not optimistic.
  • merescintillamerescintilla Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    im experiencing this problem too
  • no09dysonsphereno09dysonsphere Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    So I'm guessing this won't be getting fixed...
  • makburemakbure Member Posts: 422 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Tactical Boffs are ok, but I'm noticing it's really bad with science Boffs. They won't use healing abilities. Haven't tested engineering Boffs.

    I just said the hell with it and went with a all tac away team... and I'm tactical.
    -Makbure
  • lordsteve1lordsteve1 Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    To be honest the boff AI in this game is appalling at the best of times. I basically assume my boffs are not going to use most of their abilities so I have them on my own power tray to activate them myself.
    Bizarrely the boffs will happily use all of the hypos you give them in one go though, then promptly get killed once they run out!

    What drives me up the walk though is their lack of situational awareness and evasive actions when in danger. I mean in the Voth BZ I've lost track of how often I have to res my boffs when they fail to move out if the way of an incoming mortar attack and get blown to pieces. :rolleyes:
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  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lordsteve1 wrote: »
    To be honest the boff AI in this game is appalling at the best of times. I basically assume my boffs are not going to use most of their abilities so I have them on my own power tray to activate them myself.
    Bizarrely the boffs will happily use all of the hypos you give them in one go though, then promptly get killed once they run out!

    What drives me up the walk though is their lack of situational awareness and evasive actions when in danger. I mean in the Voth BZ I've lost track of how often I have to res my boffs when they fail to move out if the way of an incoming mortar attack and get blown to pieces. :rolleyes:

    Everything you say is true BUT they always did used to use their abilities... Not always well but medics for instance would cast their heals. (Annoyingly they would do it to healthy people sometimes and hated to heal themselves) Right now BOFFs will hardly use anything especially medics.
  • weirgreifweirgreif Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lordsteve1 wrote: »
    What drives me up the walk though is their lack of situational awareness and evasive actions when in danger. I mean in the Voth BZ I've lost track of how often I have to res my boffs when they fail to move out if the way of an incoming mortar attack and get blown to pieces. :rolleyes:

    Hm. I remember noticing that my boffs have been getting out of the battlezone mortar markers this season. They'll stand around the edge of the circle even if there's something to shoot on the far side.
  • no09dysonsphereno09dysonsphere Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lordsteve1 wrote: »
    To be honest the boff AI in this game is appalling at the best of times. I basically assume my boffs are not going to use most of their abilities so I have them on my own power tray to activate them myself.
    Bizarrely the boffs will happily use all of the hypos you give them in one go though, then promptly get killed once they run out!

    What drives me up the walk though is their lack of situational awareness and evasive actions when in danger. I mean in the Voth BZ I've lost track of how often I have to res my boffs when they fail to move out if the way of an incoming mortar attack and get blown to pieces. :rolleyes:

    Yeah but how do you put set abilities on the power tray? I'd like to have my boffs use the integrated remodulator instead of just standing around for the team ambush field boost to everyone else and only an AI revert/fix is going to do anything there.
  • shailatshailat Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    no09dysonsphere wrote: »
    Hmm. I wonder how long it'll take to fix this, but melee is still completely stupid so I'm not optimistic.

    I dout they will get fixed, as this has been a issue for a long time, and its also silly how slow they shoot, i mean i gave them the same gun as me and they shoot it very slow....

    (ME : Shoot....Shoot....Shoot....Shoot....Shoot....Shoot)
    (BOFF: Shoot..................Shoot..................Shoot..................Shoot..................)
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