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Crystalline Refraction w/o Nukara Shield equipped

virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
edited January 2015 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
[Combat (Self)] Your Crystalline Refraction - Phaser gives 225 (406) to Kazon Cruiser's Shields.
[Combat (Self)] Your Crystalline Refraction - Phaser deals 550 (615) Phaser Damage to Kazon Cruiser.

Wheeee...er...but with MACO Shield.

Steps to reproduce

1) Equip the Nukara Shield on any of your other ships.
2) Make any change to the loadout of your readied ship (even pulling batteries and putting them back)

That's it. All you need to do.
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2015
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    mattjohnsonva wrote: »
    Old news, they were told months ago and IIRC Bort responded that it was under investigation, yeah right.

    I couldn't respond to either of the two threads I saw without it being a necro...
  • dorlos2dorlos2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    so instead necromancing you decided to kill another thread? :D

    but yes... I saw this in my logs too. funny thing :)
  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    This bug existed even before the loadout system was introduced. A while ago me and a fleetmate did a thorough investigation of all the various factors surrounding it and reported it to Bort. Months later with nothing changed, we witness the (in)competence of Cryptic QA.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    It's a bug report...not an attack thread. :(
  • iusassetiusasset Member Posts: 118 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    God stop breaking stuff Virus. :P
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    iusasset wrote: »
    God stop breaking stuff Virus. :P

    Lol, I'd forgotten about this one - had been running the Nukara shield for so long. Didn't realize that it hadn't been fixed. Was only in making a change recently because of some other stuff that it was...oh wait, it's still there.
    jarvisandalfred wrote: »
    It's nothing new; I think I had this before delta rising on my fed toon.

    See, I'm not breaking things! Yeah, it's a pretty old one. A forgotten one...sort of thing. There are a bunch of things out there that folks went on about in multiple threads for a period...then it would have been necro city, so they created more...the pattern repeating itself. Sometimes somethings just don't get fixed...
  • jarvisandalfredjarvisandalfred Member Posts: 1,549 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2015
    iusasset wrote: »
    God stop breaking stuff Virus. :P

    It's nothing new; I think I had this before delta rising on my fed toon.
    SCM - Crystal C. (S) - [00:12] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 8.63M(713.16K) - Fed Sci

    SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci

    Tacs are overrated.

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  • iusassetiusasset Member Posts: 118 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    jarvisandalfred wrote: »
    It's nothing new; I think I had this before delta rising on my fed toon.

    See, and I never even knew this was a thing since I only started using the Nukara shield after DR!

    Since there actually isn't really a comprehensive bug/known issues list anywhere, I think it's good to re-report ones that might've otherwise fallen by the wayside.
  • jarvisandalfredjarvisandalfred Member Posts: 1,549 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2015
    iusasset wrote: »
    See, and I never even knew this was a thing since I only started using the Nukara shield after DR!

    Since there actually isn't really a comprehensive bug/known issues list anywhere, I think it's good to re-report ones that might've otherwise fallen by the wayside.

    Just to mention, since it's maybe 30 dps a run, maybe, I've never bothered. The horrible refraction itself is worse than it going onto other shields, IMO.
    SCM - Crystal C. (S) - [00:12] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 8.63M(713.16K) - Fed Sci

    SCM - Hive (S) - [02:31] DMG(DPS) - @jarvisandalfred: 30.62M(204.66K) - Fed Sci

    Tacs are overrated.

    Game's best wiki

    Build questions? Look here!
  • iusassetiusasset Member Posts: 118 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    jarvisandalfred wrote: »
    Just to mention, since it's maybe 30 dps a run, maybe, I've never bothered. The horrible refraction itself is worse than it going onto other shields, IMO.

    Well, not everything can be a pitchfork-raising loadout bug. ;)

    It actually took me about a week and a half to realize Crystalline Refraction was even something that triggered from Nukara Shields; I would see it in my parses and just scratch my head as to where it was coming from.

    ...I'm really good at overlooking the obvious.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    jarvisandalfred wrote: »
    Just to mention, since it's maybe 30 dps a run, maybe, I've never bothered. The horrible refraction itself is worse than it going onto other shields, IMO.

    It's one of those, "If this, then what else?", sort of things for me. What other bugs may exist because this bug exists? So if they address this bug, what other bugs might they resolve in the process sort of thing...
  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    smokeybacon90 wrote: »
    This bug existed even before the loadout system was introduced. A while ago me and a fleetmate did a thorough investigation of all the various factors surrounding it and reported it to Bort. Months later with nothing changed, we witness the (in)competence of Cryptic QA.

    Maybe what I posted was too aggressive. But it is tiring and irritating when we do work to identify and analyse bugs, pass it on to devs and it just gets forgotten. You, having much knowledge on a lot of intricate mechanics and numbercrunching, should know of this feeling more than me!
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  • crypticfrostcrypticfrost Member Posts: 1,479 Cryptic Developer
    edited January 2015
    We are aware of this issue, but I have no E.T.A. for a fix, sorry. Thanks for the report.
    STO QA Team
  • hornet6hornet6 Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I use the Nukara deflector and Nukara shield with the Rom engine and haven't noticed any particular problem. Would upgrading/craft the shield have any effect on the problem?
    ANOTHER NERF !?!
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  • wast33wast33 Member Posts: 1,855 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    crypticfrost wrote: »
    We are aware of this issue, but I have no E.T.A. for a fix, sorry. Thanks for the report.

    thx for the heads up frost!
  • iusassetiusasset Member Posts: 118 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    hornet6 wrote: »
    I use the Nukara deflector and Nukara shield with the Rom engine and haven't noticed any particular problem. Would upgrading/craft the shield have any effect on the problem?

    The issue is that if you switch to another ship that doesn't have the nukara shield equipped, you'll receive the benefits of crystalline refraction as if you did.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    crypticfrost wrote: »
    We are aware of this issue, but I have no E.T.A. for a fix, sorry. Thanks for the report.

    Thanks, Frost. Didn't mean for it to be a "spam" report sort of thing or the like...and I probably should have just read through the others more completely rather than just skipping to the end to see that it would have been a necro.
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