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gooddaytodie39
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This is a continuing bug that is game breaking for me and has not been fixed since I originally reported it almost a year ago.
When on a space map, usually an PvP map, and at high speed using any combination of : Evasive maneuvers, Attack Pattern Omega, or Emergency Power to Engines, the "Chase" camera setting will break. It has happened though under pretty much every space combat scenario both PvP and PvE including STFs.
Once the chase mode breaks, the camera swivels back and forth rapidly on its axis. Its awful. This has happened to me continuously now, over two separate accounts in a wide variety of ships from a BoP to a Kumari.
The only way I can stop the camera swiveling back and forth rapidly after it breaks is to hold my mouse button down in the center of the map/screen and drag it back into focus or place.
Can anything be done about this? I've talked to others who have this problem too.
When on a space map, usually an PvP map, and at high speed using any combination of : Evasive maneuvers, Attack Pattern Omega, or Emergency Power to Engines, the "Chase" camera setting will break. It has happened though under pretty much every space combat scenario both PvP and PvE including STFs.
Once the chase mode breaks, the camera swivels back and forth rapidly on its axis. Its awful. This has happened to me continuously now, over two separate accounts in a wide variety of ships from a BoP to a Kumari.
The only way I can stop the camera swiveling back and forth rapidly after it breaks is to hold my mouse button down in the center of the map/screen and drag it back into focus or place.
Can anything be done about this? I've talked to others who have this problem too.
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i have the same bug at random times, i also found that (x)[/camToggleSTOTargetLock] works for me, i hit it 2 times, and my camera is back to normal
Can a QA person please take a look at this? This is a known issue and has been going on for a year.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=178390
A simple way to reproduce it:
1. Jump in the Hunter Heavy Escort,
2. set your camera to "chasecam"
3. go full speed while turning
4. use the Enhanced Inertial Damper Field Universal Console.
While doing the 180 turn , the camera will go wild.
But this is not happening only in this specific case. My camera loses her setup in dogfight, while fast ships pass by me; or while i'm simply turning way too fast. Pressing twice X helps but that's shouldn't be the solution.
I really hope you can solve this; best of luck.
I'm still trying to reproduce the issue.
In terms of video evidence, an upcoming video in my Romulan 'Let's Play' series has this happen to me, shortly after my mouse battery had died! Fortunately I was able to fix it pretty quickly (I think I hit Esc to deselect the target which cleared it). Unfortunately, that video isn't due until the end of July, and I am no longer in a position to be able to extract that part of the footage, but hopefully this will be an easier way to create a reproducible issue, as you can just pile up ships in front of you and make them subspace jump while you're flying around with weapons fire everywhere.
Like most bugs, it seems to be more common the more stuff is happening in the map.
As others have mentioned, manually dragging the camera around (temporarily breaking the 'follow target' thing) seems to clear it nicely. It kinda looks to me like the camera was not designed to follow a target capable of moving fast enough to require such a large and sudden rotation.
I like freecam, I never set my camera to anything else, but often during an STF or a bit of PVP STO will randomly decide to switch my camera mode to chase.
I doubt this is related but as it only seems to happen when I'm in combat, and this new bug with their camera going wonky also only seems to happen in combat maybe there is a conection?
Usually happens when using evasive maneuvres and actually fly curves during the duration of the ability.
Pressing "x" only provides help for me if a taget is selected.
But I'm still a mere human."
Vice Admiral Chris Curtiss, Temporal Ambassador
any update on this issue would be nice ty
This is going on 3 years with no official confirmation or fix in sight.... spam X (default keybind), or stop using chase cam, unfortunately. Hope you don't have a seizure.
It still appears....how to reproduce? There are different options:
- you need a fast ship (sth. 35+x) and mid to high turn rate
- if you have some connection issues, it appears
- if you have some team members using kemocite, it appears
- if you have a crowded PvE area (e.g. Mirror Invasion, Badlands BZ,... )
The bug appears almost everytime, if you match 2 or more of those conditions.
Its not a "big deal" if you use a crusier like vessel with beams, but if you decide to use cannons on an escort / raider, it can be game breaking.