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Emergency Power to Shields effect.

colonelmarikcolonelmarik Member Posts: 2,220 Arc User
edited March 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
This ability is a core in most ships, I think, but now it's almost unusable because of that intrusive effect. Upon hitting the button to activate the power, the ship is surrounded in a brightly glowing globe that completely obscures the ship, while a loud pulsing noise plays. This lasts for around 30 seconds. It's HORRIBLE.

Can we go back to the original animation, please?
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  • novapolaris#2925 novapolaris
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    edited February 2023
    Or at least tone down the brightness and noise.
    I really like the visual effect, but it's too bright from certain angles. I'm guessing it was built out of the directional shield hit FX layered together?
  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,674 Arc User
    Yeah, that is hugely annoying. Please change it back, Cryptic. On top (or under, or inside) of the EPtS animation loop, any trait or passive that plays an animation continually plays that animation too.
  • shrimphead2015shrimphead2015 Member Posts: 536 Arc User
    If they could tone down the brightness , maybe add a grid pattern instead of this glowing orb it could work out well. At this point I can't make out my ship in that ball of bright light.
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,937 Arc User
    too close to the reverse shield polarity effect (think it's the same except silver vs gold) and yes, go back to the original FX.. are the devs even LISTENING to the players talking about the visual spam???
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,689 Arc User
    edited February 2023
    We can pay up to $250 for a ship, and possibly more on top for a vanity shield. We want to see that ship not have it covered up by spam for a power that's going to be in use most of the time.

    Something like Gravity Well doesn't hide our Space Barbie, spam like this does. Please either let us toggle it off, or make it much much more subtle, especially for the often-up basic powers like EPx, attack patterns, x Team, etc.
  • darraignthesanedarraignthesane Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    I'm now 100% of the time flying a glowing white egg that makes a droning noise which drowns out all other sound in the game. It has also broken the 23c EPTS effect that I both enjoyed and paid resources at the fleet K-13 holding to acquire.

    Please Cryptic fix the shield effect, I beg of you.
  • qultuqqultuq Member Posts: 989 Arc User
    edited February 2023
    It has been independently verified and is ok.
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  • misachii87misachii87 Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited February 2023
    (Flaming, trolling comments moderated out. - BMR)
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 11,011 Community Moderator
    Let's watch the accusations, please. Additionally, I've brought this to their attention.
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  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,674 Arc User
    Sweet, it seems it's been changed back this patch. Thanks to the dev(s) that changed it back!
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    tom61sto wrote: »
    Sweet, it seems it's been changed back this patch. Thanks to the dev(s) that changed it back!

    Agreed.
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  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,674 Arc User
    edited February 2023
    colonelmarik wrote: »
    So I logged in... and didn't see much difference. I've discovered the biggest issue was NOT the Emergency Power to Shields ability, but instead the Improved Going the Extra Mile trait, which generates a green grid effect around the ship and makes a loud pulsing noise for the whole duration of the Power buff.

    It wasn't like that before, perhaps it's been borked in the previous patch?

    I've added a video showing what I'm seeing. It wasn't like this before, if I remember correctly, that grid effect and the sound would only play ONCE, when the trait took effect. Now, it's playing constantly, and it's really irritating.

    https://youtu.be/yERF4aOsQBU

    That was indeed repeating in the patch that also caused the main Emergency Power to Shields (EPtS) effect to repeat over-and-over. I think I removed that trait from the characters I tried it on already prior to re-trying. Oddly, it looks like the main EPtS is still playing repeatedly for you, so it might be an interaction with that trait now (EPtS repeated even without the trait previously).
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