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There used to be a little bit of time to clear away from an enemy ship that was about to blow. Now there isn't. The moment a Borg Cube or Command Vessel or Elachi Walker hits 0% Hull Points, bang!, immense amounts of damage to anyone too close. Which is usually everyone. Oh, but nearby enemy ships don't take damage until the actual "explode!" animation cycles.
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Yeah, that is how it's supposed to happen. It's also still happening that way in most places, but for some reason some of the bosses seem to have gotten messed up.
For days I have noticed that I blow up simultaneously with mobs. And on a couple of occasions slightly before
The thing is though that in many cases, IMO, I am too far away to get the major blast
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Incidentally, the Crystalline Entity now suffers a warp core breach when killed. It actually says so in the combat damage log and does the warp core breach animation, which is hilarious.
It doesn't happen on all content, but the stuff it does happen on seems pretty consistent. At least for me that is.
Though if it is down to lag, that wouldn't surprise me. Last weeks patch brought with it a TRIBBLE load of lag and this weeks only seems to have spread the problem around.
Just putting it out there, for those who are not aware of this range amount.
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The problem is, and I've been hit with it. Sometimes you destroy lets say a Borg Cube in ISA at point blank range and get hit with warp core breach damage the second the thing explodes. Very unlikely it's due to lag from where I'm playing.
Maybe someone playing from Boston with a pretty high speed connection that has experienced this problem could chime in.
The entity has always had a warp core breach.
That's what I was saying. I've only ever seen it happen with the Borg Command Ships and Elachi Walkers.
I do believe this is the issue, for which they are experiencing.
All ships (even PC's) that I know of from experience, when they are initially destroyed.
They create a small explosive blast aoe dmg effect, before actually emitting a final warp core explosion upon complete death.
This is usually why you will sometimes notice, that a shield facing or, hull will suffer some dmg when first destroying an enemy vessel.
Than when they complete their death display, a final warp core explosion will result.
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Well if that is what's happening then it's doing a lot more damage than normal. I was at more than half health and had full shields up yet got killed at the exact same time I got the Voth Citadel to 0% hull and the damage report said I'd been hit for 38K damage from warp core breach. Seems excessive for a minor 'preview' explosion. I also witnessed the actual explosion a few seconds after I'd died.
At that particular time and location, I was experiencing no noticeable lag and had a pretty High FPS (for the Dyson sphere areas) of around 50.
I've been playing for five years and it was just last Thursday or Friday that I noticed this happen for the first time and it's happened a few times since, so to me that doesn't seem like something I would have just missed this whole time.
Don't know what to tell you on this, as I myself do not ever experience this issue and, when I notice people being obliterated by core breeches, it's because they do not bother to maneuver out of the vicinity of it 99.9% of the time.
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Tell me exactly how you expect repeatedly stating "I'm not having the same issue as you" is meant to help me -solve- that issue?
1) It doesn't feel like lag. I have gotten blown up by lag before and it doesn't feel the the same
2) Many times I have been outside the "radius"
3) There seems to be some kind of quantum entanglement. Like I am getting their damage applied to me. Most times I have noticed this its like I said earlier... We blow at AT THE SAME TIME. Its not like I was caught in a blast. And even then I had enough shields/hull that I should have survived most likely
Oh, and thank all you uber players letting us dumb noobs know not to be close when ships blow up
Alternatively, if you're using plasma torps, those could be your own hitting you.
The same can be said, that I cannot reproduce the problem, than of course I cannot offer any advise now can I?
If I cannot see the issue as well, than I cannot actually comment on possible solutions neither!!!
People also need understand, that just because your screen may show something, doesn't always mean it is what the server side is saying!
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So why clutter a thread with comments on not being able to comment on a solution?
Ok, here's a solution that people should already know!
When you see that an enemy vessel is on the verge of dying [as in down to its last 2-3% of hull], make haste to get outside of that 3km area!
Simple.
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[10:38] [Combat (Self)] Your Photon Torpedo gives 107 (693) to I.K.S. Baj's Shields.
[10:38] [Combat (Self)] Your Photon Torpedo deals 2377 (2149) Kinetic Damage to I.K.S. Baj.
[10:38] [Combat (Self)] I.K.S. Baj deals 5160 (5675) Kinetic Damage to you with Warp Core Breach.
The last two happened at the same time. Ship blew up and I was immediately hit back by a warp core breach, no couple of seconds to run away, just insta hit by a warp core breach. Easier to spot when it's just one NPC instead of the craziness of the PvE queues.
So the insta Warp core blasts and distance issue doesn't seem to matter to the game. If it is intentional that the first instant blast occurs than it should have a different name given to it instead of Warp Core blast. IE hull rupture blast or something. And that should only have a 3km item on it.
When I run ISA I intentionally get hit by one blast to trigger GDF. Then as I move on from the cube to the spheres or generators I note a sphere doing a WCB which was 6KM and sometimes, further from me, go off and I die.
If the first blast is intended than change the name. However if it is only a warp core breach going off than we should have a few seconds to steer clear, not go our instant deaths.
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