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Hunter's Instinct

fallenkezef#4581 fallenkezef
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edited August 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I've attacked out of cloak several times now and I'm not getting kill credit for Hunter's instinct. Do I need an EBC for this?
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  • poddlipoddli Member Posts: 173 Arc User
    Good question, I've had the same issue. No EBC here though, just normal cloaking ambush.
  • alfred399alfred399 Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    Same for me also
  • fallenkezef#4581 fallenkezef
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    Release day bugs, gotta love 'em
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  • khelderukkhelderuk Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    Also having the same issue; after the first few attempts, I wondered if it was a bugged tooltip (i.e. you had to destroy the ship while under Ambush, not just Damage them under Ambush, and then destroy them), but even adjusting for that didn't work.
  • nychusnychus Member Posts: 22 Arc User
    Something does trigger it since I managed to net a kill credit in a patrol using a battle cloak to repeatedly cloak and decloak whilst killing, but yes it does not seem to be straight forward anyone tried with an ebc or scimitar to check if its set for the kill to need to happen whilst your under cloak?
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    tested under ambush from cloak, then battle cloak, then EBC and no credit, tried while in EBC nothing, tried hit from EBC then decloaking and killing while under ambush, not that.

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,468 Arc User
    I've had credit, and I think it's gotta be with-in the duration of 'Ambush', instead of 'damaged by Ambush'.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • fallenkezef#4581 fallenkezef
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    leemwatson wrote: »
    I've had credit, and I think it's gotta be with-in the duration of 'Ambush', instead of 'damaged by Ambush'.

    That's a bit TRIBBLE tbh
  • ghost2448ghost2448 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
    If you are experiencing the issue with this "glitch" can you use add your comments to https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1259622/hunters-instinct/p1?new=1 at the bug section rather than here?
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    leemwatson wrote: »
    I've had credit, and I think it's gotta be with-in the duration of 'Ambush', instead of 'damaged by Ambush'.

    no tested that, it's at least not just that. though knowing cryptic they probably did write it wrong and there is a bug making it not count for some reason.

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • alfred399alfred399 Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    > @ghost2448 said:
    > If you are experiencing the issue with this "glitch" can you use add your comments to https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1259622/hunters-instinct/p1?new=1 at the bug section rather than here?

    Can any of the mods merge this into the bug report?
  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,923 Arc User
    I got one kill, but I swapped the starter B'rel for the kor, and I killed a couple ships as a torp bomber and one I came out of cloak and smoked him. I think that's how you have to do it, and I think you have to get the kill in the first couple seconds..
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    someone suggested that you have to get within 1km before decloaking and shooting...which is going to be a royal pain, especially combined with the fact you need over TWO THOUSAND total ambush kills to finish every rank of that task​​
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    someone suggested that you have to get within 1km before decloaking and shooting...which is going to be a royal pain, especially combined with the fact you need over TWO THOUSAND total ambush kills to finish every rank of that task​​

    Yes, 1km is the workaround until they fix it. They're aware it's a bug and they're working on it.
  • zaravex62zaravex62 Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    just got the first one done you half to be up the the ships TRIBBLE when you de cloak like under 2km
  • ikonn#1068 ikonn
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    edited January 2021
    The target has to be 1km or less and that ship has to be destroyed during the Ambush timer... 5 seconds from decloak. Then you have the issue of getting out of range of their warp core breach.

    I seriously hope the range requirement is a bug.
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  • doctorstegidoctorstegi Member Posts: 1,221 Arc User
    Is it possible that you have to have Hunter's Instinct as Starship trait before it counts?
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  • zaravex62zaravex62 Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    doctorstegi wrote: »
    Is it possible that you have to have Hunter's Instinct as Starship trait before it counts?

    No if that was the case you wouldn't be able to get hunter's instinct. I just got the 50 one done just be with in 2km and blow the ship up
  • burstorionburstorion Member Posts: 1,750 Arc User
    edited January 2021
    You need to decloak at under 2 to 1km for it to count

    ...Yeah, how that was not noticed I do not know, same as the huge texture gap on one side of the door for the courthouse and the weirdness of Ketha lowlands (short walls you could jump over have invisible walls, you can walk off map near the bop next to the bomb and I found a farmer buried up to their neck in the soil...but that might have been a punishment method now Cryptics banned torture via painsticks :p)
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  • doctorstegidoctorstegi Member Posts: 1,221 Arc User
    zaravex62 wrote: »
    doctorstegi wrote: »
    Is it possible that you have to have Hunter's Instinct as Starship trait before it counts?

    No if that was the case you wouldn't be able to get hunter's instinct. I just got the 50 one done just be with in 2km and blow the ship up
    k thanks

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  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    ikonn#1068 wrote: »
    The target has to be 1km or less and that ship has to be destroyed during the Ambush timer... 5 seconds from decloak. Then you have the issue of getting out of range of their warp core breach.

    I seriously hope the range requirement is a bug.

    I hope "within 5 seconds" is, too. That's not a new player/"recruit" task, that's a veteran w/good build one. I've certainly never destroyed anything that fast.

    (the full text of the task just says something like "destroy ships that you've damaged from Ambush")
  • fallenkezef#4581 fallenkezef
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    Hoping the fix this asap
  • captainbrian11captainbrian11 Member Posts: 733 Arc User
    they need to make this easier to do, I mean... jesus thats daft
  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,156 Arc User
    It's a bug that's been found, fixed, has a work around, and is waiting for deployment LINK
    I've certainly never destroyed anything that fast.
    Using the 2255 recruit ship at about level 15 or so Emergency Power to Weapons + Cannons Scatter Volley seems to accomplish this in most missions on normal, sometimes for the entire enemy group.

    Adding Best Served Cold as an ensign ability seems to works well. Having room for Attack Pattern Beta and emergency power to weapons III once levelled to Commander rank 20 should make the process better yet.

    Getting the Tier 5 mastery trait Withering Barrage off the recruit ship after reaching level 50 will help keep CSV up without any gaps.

    If you want to get the job done, cannons & turrets are likely the way to go.
  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    frankly, the best way to get efficient ambush recruit credit seems to me to be get any ship that can equip at least a rank 1 grabbity well, stuff as much CtrlX (that includes also grabbing both CtrlX skills, which you can always remove once you reach T6 in any rep if it doesn't fit your final build since you can get a retrain token from any of them) as possible on it and drop it on every mob you come across - since it pulls everything in range toward the center, the chances of you getting them within 1km of the center is very good, and if the text on the task is to be believed, you only need DAMAGE the target within that radius before ambush runs out

    at 50 kills, you get to claim a klingon boff with superior infiltrator, which extends ambush duration by 10 seconds, so that will just make things easier - and for anyone who's splurged on the ship that has the improved grabbity well trait, it makes it even MORE easy, because with that all you need do is recloak every 20 seconds and deploy a fresh well...of course, you need to be 50 to use any starship trait, but you are likely not getting 2.5k ambush kills by 50, so that doesn't matter

    of course, all this only works assuming that damage dealt from entities while under ambush count, or if it specifically has to come from YOUR weapons​​
    Like special weapons from other Star Trek games? Wondering if they can be replicated in STO even a little bit? Check this out: https://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1262277/a-mostly-comprehensive-guide-to-star-trek-videogame-special-weapons-and-their-sto-equivalents

    #LegalizeAwoo

    A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
    An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
    A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
    A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"

    "It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
    "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
    Passion and Serenity are one.
    I gain power by understanding both.
    In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
    I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
    The Force is united within me.
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