Bugs in V 1.08

FrankyVas · #1 October 22nd, 2003, 11:44 PM

Here's a few bugs I've seen in Version 1.08.

- Point defense cannons don't fire at fighters if: the fighter was friendly but you fired at it, now its not friendly. The cannons will fire at it once its dead???
- The rear left shield spot on the Amonkrie (?) battleship is wrong.
- The game kept crashing if: I was chasing a carrier in a system, and I went to x8 speed. It must have crashed 6 times in a row.
- Maybe bug? I was playing Last night and had to kill a pirate freighter. The problem was that the freighter would only take 1 or 2 points of damage per hit regardless of the weapon.

- Request for next patch:
How about putting a circle around the ship in the minimap and system map that shows the sensor range.

Frank V.

*IX*Angela Deth · #2 October 23rd, 2003, 05:11 AM

I second the request for the sensor range circle.

Wydraz · #3 October 23rd, 2003, 09:29 PM

I third that!

BoBo · #4 October 23rd, 2003, 10:42 PM

I have a Terran Carrier mark III and the right side armors and the rear ones are mixed up to. (or something similar but something is definitely not in the right place). The ship and game is working though if one pays attention when configuring these components.

BoBo · #5 October 23rd, 2003, 11:01 PM

It is not a bug but sometimes annoying that it seems my fighters are quite stupid.
First of all, I have 7 figthers..

- If I give them the instruction to attack my target and that target is trying to get away, sooner or later a few of my fighters will be between my ship and the enemy ship so when I fire my 4 torpedoes I usually hitting my fighters instead of the enemy ship.

- My own fighters used to collide with each other during combat.

- Even after I killed all enemy ships and just try to load them back into my ship they sometimes collide with each other.

- If I have 7 fighters and lets say No.3 is damaged so that it cannot move, the fighters after No.3 are just waiting indefinitely for their turn to return my ship instead of just leaving the damaged one behind and dock. I always have to manually "overrun" my damaged fighter - therefore docking it - for the others to start coming in.

Artscrafter · #6 October 24th, 2003, 03:13 AM

One more bug, not one that people are very likely to come across but a bug nonetheless:

"Invalid floating point operation" if you exit out of a planet's menu while your ship has no components.

Edit: This isn't a new bug, it was there in 1.00 also.

Edit 2: Another bug. If upgrading a component that has an "only one per ship" restriction, you can't place the new component directly over the old one the way you can with anything else. You have to put the new one in cargo and/or get rid of the old one first.

Incidentally:

Quote:

- Maybe bug? I was playing Last night and had to kill a pirate freighter. The problem was that the freighter would only take 1 or 2 points of damage per hit regardless of the weapon.

The same thing happened to me (only mine was an Abbidon freighter.) I kept firing but it would only take a couple of damage points - until I started hitting its starboard (right) side armor. When that was damaged, the ship's hull took more damage even when I continued to hit it from behind. I didn't have the scanners to check, but my conclusion was that the thing must have had one heck of a strong Emissive Armor component on that side.

[ October 24, 2003, 02:48: Message edited by: Artscrafter ]

Neadlak · #7 October 24th, 2003, 05:47 AM

I'm going to chime in that my PDCs are also NOT firing on all fighters that attack me. Let's say in campaign 2 I take a pirate merc mission against a terran frigate; after attacking the frigate, all nearby terran fighters turn their guns on me, but my PDC will not return fire. Irritating!

The freighter taking minimal hull damage is due to very high damage resistances, yes. There is a bug (and, sadly, it's a *hardcoded* bug it seems) in shield piercing resistance; it is applied to *all* damage types. Freighters carry scattering armor x8 (2 in each facing) and all the combined resistances make for some really tough freighters. To overcome this, take out all the armor facings to reduce the resist% to null.

I checked in the components file and scattering armor only provides shield piercing resist, which is why I say it appears to be a hard-coded error in damage resistances. Try equipping some scattering and note all your resists go up.

Also in the news, emissive doesn't seem to add any resistance (check the 'N' button menu) Whoops!

[ October 24, 2003, 04:49: Message edited by: Neadlak ]

Suicide Junkie · #8 October 24th, 2003, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Artscrafter:
One more bug, not one that people are very likely to come across but a bug nonetheless:

"Invalid floating point operation" if you exit out of a planet's menu while your ship has no components.

Edit: This isn't a new bug, it was there in 1.00 also.

Probably a division by zero since you have no hitpoints on your ship.

BoBo · #9 October 24th, 2003, 06:45 PM

I think there should be some difference between a lvl 1 Fighter Bay and a lvl 28 other than the level.

Currently it does not make sense to buy the higher ones.

There can be other components with this (mine layer, etc.) issue too.

Suicide Junkie · #10 October 24th, 2003, 07:15 PM

Bridge, crew quarters and lifesupport, are similar.

Check out my "P&N - Homefront" mod for some really cool ability distributions on those components