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Klingon Recruit ambush and melee kills bug STILL not fixed

jono11#2973 jono11
jono11#2973
 Member Posts: 17 Arc User
in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
10 months after I made my Klingon recruit, encountered the bug, and reported it--and coming up on three years since the Klingon Recruitment Event first went live and the issue was first reported--this bug still hasn't been fixed.

Character: Jono24@Jono11#2973
Issue: Ambush kills and melee kills don't count towards Klingon Recruitment goals. Every once in a long while they'll start counting again for a little while, and then they stop again. This toon is max level with 86 specialization points and has only used a melee weapon since basically the beginning of the game, yet only has been credited with 372 melee kills. This has been a known issue since the event was first rolled out in January of 2021. Borticus even insisted it had been fixed back then! It hadn't been!

Doesn't feel great, guys!

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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,461 Arc User
    jono11#2973 wrote: »
    10 months after I made my Klingon recruit, encountered the bug, and reported it--and coming up on three years since the Klingon Recruitment Event first went live and the issue was first reported--this bug still hasn't been fixed.

    Character: Jono24@Jono11#2973
    Issue: Ambush kills and melee kills don't count towards Klingon Recruitment goals. Every once in a long while they'll start counting again for a little while, and then they stop again. This toon is max level with 86 specialization points and has only used a melee weapon since basically the beginning of the game, yet only has been credited with 372 melee kills. This has been a known issue since the event was first rolled out in January of 2021. Borticus even insisted it had been fixed back then! It hadn't been!

    Doesn't feel great, guys!

    I thought the same, but I found equipping the Boffs with melee weapons ensured kills were being counted because they were otherwise wasting the enemy before a melee hit, and you need to hit the enemy for a minimum % of melee damage for it to count.
    "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.
  • scorpwanna#3529 scorpwanna
    scorpwanna#3529
         Member Posts: 227 Arc User
    I have never had a problem getting my Melee kills or Ambush kills. Just recently I finally decided to start back up getting the Ambush ones and racked up kill counts toward unlocking the reward in less than a few days. I only needed 755 more to get the full 2500. So, In a TFO space battle, I cloak and uncloak and start whaling on enemies, cloak, uncloak etc... After which, I then check my Ambush count after the TFO to check if it increases the amount of enemies I defeated. It always has... Dunno why your's wouldn't be.
  • jono11#2973 jono11
    jono11#2973
         Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    All my boffs are equipped with melee weapons. I know how to cloak and uncloak. I have the Infiltrator boff slotted. I know how these objectives are supposed to work. I don't need them explained to me. The reason this is happening is that there is a bug. It's a known bug, it has been affecting some players and not others since the very first Klingon Recruitment event.
  • baucoinbaucoin Member Posts: 818 Arc User
    Is your Klingon recruit Tactical? If they are I'd recommend equipping lunge and sweeping strikes, going to Nembus, and fighing in the stronghold area with your Boff's set to passive. The Orion group there spawn quickly and are easy to kill. If your count doesn't go up there with your Boffs just watching, you are bugged. I've never run into this one but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

    For Ambush I'd recommend getting a ship with battle cloak, going to the Sphere Contested zone, go to the industrial zone where the swarmer and Iconian orbs are hounding the Fed Sci ships, slot the best Fire At Will you have, and blast the heck out of them. They are easy kills and if you don't take the mission there will respawn as much as needed. Again if your count isn't going up with these easy kills then you're bugged.
  • jono11#2973 jono11
    jono11#2973
         Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    The toon is Eng, and he flies a ship with battle cloak. I'll try the Sphere Contested Zone, but I don't expect any luck. The reason I'm so confident this is a bug is that I have gotten kills in both objectives. I'll get a couple hundred of them to register, and then they stop registering. I never get one in a blue moon. They either count every time or they count never. That feels like a bug.
  • jono11#2973 jono11
    jono11#2973
         Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    Tried the Contested Zone. Still didn't work. It's bugged.
  • baucoinbaucoin Member Posts: 818 Arc User
    Sorry to hear that.
  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
    phoenixc#0738
         Member Posts: 5,828 Arc User
    There was a bug back when the first KDF recruitment started, it turned out that only kills on normal difficultly were counting and they supposedly fixed it. That does not mean the bug couldn't have come back however, so you might want to make sure you are on normal difficulty when working on those two transponder tracks and see if it makes a difference.
  • mariqa#4594 mariqa
    mariqa#4594
         Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    Alas niggly, hard to track bugs that get fixed then unfixed and don't massively break - or improve - gameplay don't seem to be super high on the list of things to do.
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