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roguepaladin
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A few things I'm noticing are seeming buggy on the pS4. First off, the view distance toggle; When I first began playing today, I went to go with the close over-the-shoulder view; but after playing for a couple hours, the view distance started randomly switching to further away. This was annoying, but I could just go back and shift the view again to what I wanted. Then after a third hour, suddenly the close-up over-the-shoulder view stopped working properly - as in it changed into being close up and way over my character's head, not over the shoulder. I tried closing the game entirely and re-starting it, and then that closest view angle changed to having my character's head in the center of the reticle. WTF?
Next, there's no first person view. That has to be some kind of oversite.
I am also disappointed that there's no way to keep your character still while panning the camera around them; all I get to see of my character is the back of his head.
Fourth, I don't know why we can't have a close view of our starships in sector space; the shortest view distance makes my ship small and hard to distinguish, and the other views just pull away further.
And lastly (for the moment), where's the options for removing the HUD to let us get some stunning screenshots, like we can on the PC version? Tons of other games give the option to remove the HUD and take screenshots; it should be a standard default option in STO.
P.S.: Where the hell is the console forums, let alone the console support forums? Cryptic, are you guys even trying here? This is shaping up to be almost as slapped together as the original PC launch, which is sad considering I had assumed that you guys had learned from your own company history.
EDIT: Oh, and there's no option to hide our holstered weapons. This needs to be fixed too.
Next, there's no first person view. That has to be some kind of oversite.
I am also disappointed that there's no way to keep your character still while panning the camera around them; all I get to see of my character is the back of his head.
Fourth, I don't know why we can't have a close view of our starships in sector space; the shortest view distance makes my ship small and hard to distinguish, and the other views just pull away further.
And lastly (for the moment), where's the options for removing the HUD to let us get some stunning screenshots, like we can on the PC version? Tons of other games give the option to remove the HUD and take screenshots; it should be a standard default option in STO.
P.S.: Where the hell is the console forums, let alone the console support forums? Cryptic, are you guys even trying here? This is shaping up to be almost as slapped together as the original PC launch, which is sad considering I had assumed that you guys had learned from your own company history.
EDIT: Oh, and there's no option to hide our holstered weapons. This needs to be fixed too.
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Was going to make a thread about this, really annoying. My ship is like a speck of dust in the background. I can barely make it out. I have tried the change change but it's smallest view is just not enough.
This game still needs a lot of work!
1. Taking equipment/items off of my BoFFS - I get a message stating my inventory is full and I have nothing in my inventory for it to be full.
2. Patrol missions not showing up. - ( I played on PC and have the list of available Patrol missions. When I go to that system to try and do one, nothing pops up for me to start it. Out of my list I have only found 5 that worked correctly!)
3. Right stick on controller randomly stops working during Tailor changes. (Several times I have gone to the tailor to change my BoFFs and the right stick will work for one character so I can rotate the view and then on the next character it stops working. I have to logout and log back in to get it to work again. I have tried 3 different controllers to make sure it wasn't that and it happens on all.)
4. Ship targeting will randomly stay locked on to a defeated enemy and can not change my target off of it to the current enemy attacking.
5. Inside of patrol missions, when you investigate an object as part of the mission, your BoFF will comment on what was found. The background behind them is blank and sometimes it shows another character who is not with you on the mission.
6. Unable to pan camera around your character to take screenshots.
7. View of your ship in sector space is awful! Ship is so tiny that its hard to see and blends in way to much with the backgrounds. (I thought we had an option on PC to have a better view of our ship in sector space, but I could be wrong since its been awhile since I played on PC)
I will add more as I encounter them!
Also a decidated fourms for ps4 / Xbox would be nice.
I seam to have an issue with the chat system (ps4) the only way I can type is to use the system keyboard. The game won't recognize any external keyboard I try.
Can't untaget an enemy to target another till the current is dead... makes it impossible to take out mines and torpedos.
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Also just want to add I still think we should be able to link to pc accounts. I would like to be able to use some of the items I have spent over $700 in the past 5 years collecting. I could care less about transferring items just give my account unlock items.
One problem I have is I've done the tutorial and I am level 5 but for some reason it still says that I am a cadet. So therefore I can't do the deep space battles, pvp and pve and can't do the patrol missions. Anyway I can fix this or did I miss something, or should I start again. Please help...... thanks Daniel
The game was fine last night up until 4am this morning.
Yes, this is a very good point, I'm not seeing them either; I've not been sure if they were even in this version of the game yet...
I started having this issue this morning in one particular mission; it seems to happen where you need to disable the enemy but not completely destroy them.
I've already got this one in my original post :P lol
I already mentioned this one, too lol
And I also want to add that texture loading is slow - stupidly slow. It's the freakin' PS4; it should be screaming fast at loading textures compared to my junk laptop, yet my laptop loads them faster. Plus the server lag is ridiculous; I haven't seen such bad whiplashing on STO in a long time. And finally, where's the anomalies? Did they completely remove crafting/gathering from the game? Why on earth would they do that?
This is feeling like they launched an incomplete game yet again; I had thought they would have learned not to do that by now. I don't know who in charge over there insisted on pushing out the game in such a buggy, incomplete mess; Cryptic's EP, or some hotshot at PWI. My money's on PWI; this fits their track record.
Yes, this is yet another gripe I have as well; there's no way to zoom the minimap manually, it seems to adjust it on it's own whims and most of the time is so tiny that it's useless. The only hint of how to find the next objective has been using the tricorder scan.
thanx for the info. i did not know that. i just figured it would be the latest game version that is on pc. lol
thanx again. guess i will just have to wait. got plenty i can do till then.
The heck is going on, they need to get their thing together!
This is complete sh*t.
-When running a ground mission with a team of other players, whether it's one other person, or a full team of 5, we have NEVER been able to beam back to the ship as one full team. I have always had to wait for the game to decide to teleport everyone else back to their ships, THEN I can choose "Beam back to ship".
-Sometimes when my team and I go into a new section, whether we are in our ships or on the ground, one of us will get removed from the current mission, and thrown back into our ship, back into sector space outside the mission. We are given the option to "Continue (insert mission title)", and when that is hit, we are put into a completely different instance from the rest of the team.
-More than once, myself and other fleet members have docks at Earth Spacedock, and teleported inside. When loading into the teleporter room, we have loaded in UNDER the transporter room, inside the model of the station. One person was able to walk under the ground to a bench, the 'sit on the park bench' to pull themselves out of the floor. Another tried that, didn't work. Then tried the "I am stuck" option, which just loaded him under the Transporter room floor again. He even tried going to his ships bridge, then coming back. He ultimately had to shut the game off and come back, before it fixed the issue.
-Sometimes when a dialogue box pops up, especially if we have just teleported from our ship to our captain, the background will flash wildly as the game tries to load in all the models.
-Along the same lines as the above, whenever I go to Earth Spacedock, full server or empty, all players will load in, standing in blank space. Then the interior models will load in. Then the textures will load in. Then the NPCs will load in. This is how Earth Spacedock loads in for me, every single time. I've learned to give this one a few seconds to finish, before trying to move around.
-More than once, myself and many of my fleet members have gone into a mission where we attack other ships, and for no explainable reason, we can not fire our weapons. This has happened on my Starfleet and Romulan characters(I do not have a Kilngon character, so am not sure if it happens there, but suspect it does). I have been in the middle of battle, destroy the ship I'm targeting, then try to attack the next one that is firing on me, and nothing happens. No phasers. No torpedoes. Nothing. Once, I was able to fly far enough away from the battle that it 're-engaged' when I came back in range, and the bug fixed itself.
Those are currently all the bugs I can think of that I've hit on the PS4. If I run into more, I'll edit this post and add them in. I do have to say, even with the above listed glitches, this game is GREAT!
EDIT:
The mission "The Undying" from the Wasteland is glitched. When being sent into the arena, I defeat the first wave, and nothing happens. The game will not update, no matter what I do. Tried it four times. Had to give up and skip it for now.
As for the rest of my gripes, yes I do consider them bugs; not design decisions, because these are no-brainer things that there is no excuse for having them missing at all; especially as a lot of these things are already in Neverwinter, which uses the same core engine.
> I can't for the life of me figure out how to warp to Vega
I do believe if you wanna warp to Vega, you would need to transwarp there and that requires 20,000 energy credits, or you can buy a transwarp drive part for your starship and it'll allow you to transwarp anywhere without requiring energy credits.
In the Treasure Trading Station mission, once you disable the first cargo ship, it leaves you stuck in Red Alert, so you can't Impulse. If you find another ship, it won't let you attack it because it has you locked to the first ship, which is disabled, so you can't protect yourself. Only way out of this I have found is to log out and back in after defeating the first ship.
Also trying to change the costume on one of my bridge officers, and when I select her, it changes her pants automatically. I don't know if this is some bizarre texture breakdown, but before I can even select anything she goes through a costume change on her own.
In the Fed tutorial, there is one point where you have to break through a door. What's funny is the door just opened for me so I went in and defeated the Klingons, but then had to go and do the action to break through the already open door before the mission would continue.
One more thing or so. Anytime I try to sit in a chair the character goes into spasms before finally giving up and deciding to remain standing. The auto-target is missing from the options to go to the next target firing at you. Not trying to criticize but it seems like this console port was rushed. Otherwise I am enjoying it.null
I've tried it out a few times and it works. It's a bit annoying that there was never any tutorial on this, but at least it mostly works.