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No R&D crafted equipment except beams and cannons get the new mods
lucho80
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adjudicatorhawk wrote:Modifiers
Finally, there are some unique item modifiers, or “mods”, that can only be found on items created by the R&D system.
These item modifiers have a chance to appear on any crafted item of Blue quality or higher.
Here are some example mods for various types of item – as with the traits, all of these are subject to change pending testing on Tribble:
Beams:
[Over] – This mod gives all of its weapons’ attacks a small chance to trigger a free Beam Overload for the next beam weapon that fires.
Cannons:
[Rapid] – This mod gives all of its weapons’ attacks a small chance to trigger a 4 second duration Cannon Rapid Fire buff.
Torpedo:
[Pen] – This mod causes all of its weapons attacks to ignore 10 points of Damage Resistance Rating on their target.
Shield:
[Amp] – This mod increases the strength of all heals used on the equipped starship by 10%.
Engines:
[Damp] – This mod increases the owner’s resistance to all crowd control effects.
Deflector:
[CdrS] – This mod grants Cooldown Reduction on all non-damaging Science powers.
Ground Weapons:
[Run] – This mod increases the run speed of the owner by 20%.
So, there you have it!
The Research and Development system is currently available to test on the Tribble test server, and is part of our Season 9.5 Update.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this sneak peak at the details of the system, and I encourage anyone who’s interested to log in to Tribble and post feedback on the system to the forums.
Thanks, and see you around the galaxy!
Jeff “AdjudicatorHawk” Hamilton
System Designer
Star Trek Online
The above was posted on July 1st, and I've complained repeatedly about this one since I started crafting on the science track and checking the Exchange. The ONLY crafted items (non-UR) that are getting the new mods listed above (and there are probably way more, but we never got a full list of mods) are ship weapons (not projectiles).
How am I so sure it's a bug?
You can find mk II Rare Antiproton beams with the [over] mod in the Exchange, but you can't find a single shield, deflector, engines, ground weapon, or torpedoes with any of the mods listed above. Furthermore, I've crafted about 150 VR deflectors overall while slowly speeding the science track each day. At this point, I should have gotten lucky at least once and gotten that [CdrS] mod listed above.
I hope this gets fixed and at the least gets sorted out and patched with the expansion release since I have low hopes of this getting patched before that.
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On the other hand, that level 15 sci trait....
It feels like the number increased greatly since the last patch, before that i had 3or 4 in a month (wow, so long and no bugfix?), now i had 4 in the last 4 days (or i am just horrible unlucky).
And that only one (beams) of seven Crafting R&D Trees work as advertised in the blogs leaves a bit of a bad taste...
I mean they are introduced as a sort of "premium R&D item", and are planned in a way that you need 2x Money/Zen (R&D Doff -> Lockbox; Catalyst -> R&D Pack) to craft at an acceptable success rate. yet.. they don't work!
(and still no information about a "trade in" for the bugged consoles... or can we throw them away as just very expensive junk?)
Oh well, another part of the game to pretty much ignore. (I'm not in a Fleet and I don't PvP)
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Well, if you can get their attention, be my guest. I'd love for Mr. Jeff Hamilton aka adjudicatorhawk to comment on why this hasn't gotten a fix since he owned the blog post.
The whole premise of the R&D system was that we would be able to craft Rare and VR items with new unique mods. The worst part are those UR consoles getting no mods whatsoever, but that's a whole other ignored bug.
Did i miss something?
Only items from 2 schools out of 7 working correctly (mostly, that [Arc] mod also fails to sometimes appear on the beams and the missing Eng/Sci UR console mods suck) is a shame.
The only thing worth fast tracking right now is Science for the trait.
this is why i just focused on the xp, not trying to craft or rush it,
just want the bugs to be worked out.
Yeah, Ultra Rares, at least the sci/eng ones that are supposed to get mods, also don't get mods sometimes. Overall, the R&D system is pretty bug infected.
What concerns me a bit is how quickly the "new and shiny things" are abandoned, from the release of 9.5 on (July 17? it's a bit since) we had:
- component crafting a nightmare -> fixed a few days later
- catalysts not working correctly - > fixed via stealth patch
then we had:
- RCS Consoles getting Sci Mods -> "fixed", but bugged Engineering AND Science MK XII Consoles into getting UR's without Mod, the Bug is known for ~40 Days, since then: no informations about what will happen with the bugged consoles (or when to expect a fix ...).
- Except for Cannons/Beams (at least partially) no R&D-Tree actually got the promised new Stats for crafted items: known since ~ July 17.
- Ground Weapons... i miss the Melee part...
And a minor issue:
- Is there a Reason for the Shield Crafting Xindi Doff and the Shield R&D-Tree? Currently both seem to be pretty useless (It only offers AEGIS shields at Lvl 15 and for that you need a AEGIS DOFF, so Xindi Shield DOFF => "Congratualtions, Captain Dunsel").
It got abandoned thanks to Cryptic shifting all resources over to the new expansion. They "fixed" frozen doff assignments by adding a horrible delay which no none likes, but the devs don't really care since it seems adding a delay was the quick easy way to fix it. They released this whole R&D system, fixed a couple of bugs and then left it abandoned thanks to DR, and on top of the fact that is bugged, they are adding more potentially bugged stuff into it with DR.
The boatswain whistle seems to be the one and only good thing they added with S9.5.
So he looks at all the flaws, tries to come up with something better and fails to fix all the bugs (UR consoles w/o mods, VR and Rare items w/o new mods, and horrible 5 sec delay) introduced with it because he has had to cut corners (bug repairs) in order to push out a new version (Delta Rising).
That was the moment I did a double facepalm.
At least the old R&D system didn't have all these bugs with the crafted items and didn't force a 5 second delay on assignment completion that can force up to a 2 minutes and a half wait for assignments to complete once you log on.
1) All schools apart from beams and cannons missing the new mods promised in the dev blog
2) UR eng/sci consoles not getting mods
3) The [Arc] mod is sometimes tied to the UR weapons that should have it and sometimes not
4) Not related directly to crafting, but that [Stl] mod on deflectors has been pointing to shields systems for 3 years now when it should point to starship stealth.
Those are the more glaring ones I can remember. The "clicking the missing mat/component" thing made my game randomly crash today. Too bad the error box also went down, otherwise I would have reported it.
Seems this might have gotten stealth patched. Projectiles seem to be getting new mods. Can someone confirm they can craft the new mods?
I can confirm that I have crafted projectiles with the [spr] modifier, it gives a version of torpedo spread, though I have not tested to see if it works.
No luck crafting a [run] mod yet on ground weapons, though my weapon weapon proc "mods" seem to have gone away which is nice.
Not sure about other crafting mods.
I'd love to hear from the science and RCS console crafting folk, see if the missing mod issue got squashed also.