Bugs, problems and workaround

[Rodo1jub]

I searched a little but did not find any rant thread about bugs, problems and possible workarounds.

So here is the list of unperfections that bothers me in current patch: 3.15.1

1. Missing bounty target on location.
Sometimes, somedays, someservers there is no bounty target on marked location!
My workaround for now is to just wait for couple minutes then just abandon mission and i leave bounty for that day of playing.
Any better workaround?

2. Bounty mission does not complete when target is killed!
My workaround: I just leave the area, looking for new missions. Sometimes mission complete in this minute of leaving...sometimes it does not...


3. 809i rescue mision ship does not spawn!
My workaround: Close the distance really carefully and not to get to close. I wait for ships to spawn. The wait a little more to see which ships are pirates before boarding.

4. 1/10 bug for bunker clearing mission seems to be fixed now.

5. Missile!
How do you guys use missiles? For me they are extremly useless....i see no point of using...if i use them, they have 5% hit rate when fully locked..
Any suggestions?

6. FPS shooting can not reload anymore!
When FPS shooting action, sometimes i can not reload anymore. Action is triggered and animated, but no reload happened. Belt is full of full magazines.
My workaround: i just flee and pick up dead enemy rifle then go be shooting and repeat when i fire through 1 magazin which comes loaded with picked up rifle

7. Trading!
How trading is done? Is it broken or so many people doing it that all selling points are almost empty and all buying points almost full.
I can not buy and sell andromeda cargo at single point. Do not even want to think of cargo trading with C2.
I know about web tools and resourses per server ticks.
Am i doing something wrong or is this the stat of trading right now?

 

[vahadar]

1. Missing bounty target on location.

Wait longer ! Sometimes it takes many minutes for the target to spawn, and even more minutes for the mission marker to be on the target. It is recommended to kill the target once the marker is on it, otherwise you might make the mission stuck and not possible to complete.

2. Bounty mission does not complete when target is killed!

see 1

5. Missile!
How do you guys use missiles? For me they are extremly useless....i see no point of using...if i use them, they have 5% hit rate when fully locked..

Best chance is to NOT shoot a target from behind (since they can use countermeasure more efficiently), attack from front or side.

 

[Rodo1jub]

1. Missing bounty target on location.

Wait longer ! Sometimes it takes many minutes for the target to spawn, and even more minutes for the mission marker to be on the target. It is recommended to kill the target once the marker is on it, otherwise you might make the mission stuck and not possible to complete.

I am at HRT bounties. I takes me a lot less time to just abandon the mission and start new one then to wait for target to appear and then even that marked is on target.

But mostly other mission also does not work, if the first one doesn't.
Will try to wait a bit more.

 

[Vavrik]

7. Trading!
How trading is done? Is it broken or so many people doing it that all selling points are almost empty and all buying points almost full.
I can not buy and sell andromeda cargo at single point. Do not even want to think of cargo trading with C2.
I know about web tools and resourses per server ticks.
Am i doing something wrong or is this the stat of trading right now?

Right now you're probably better off doing box delivery missions. Trading itself seems to have a refresh problem. They have indicated they're aware of the problem but don't seem to have fixed it. What I do when I need a lot of money, but not quickly, is mining.

 

[White Lando]

5. Missiles!

I've been predominantly flying an Ares so I've been using S3 missiles

The stock load out of Arrrstor IIIs and Viper IIIs were really hit and miss. Sometimes they wouldn't even attempt to target even though I was in the proper range.

I switched them to Thunderbolt IIIs and they've been a lot better. Try to launch at 3k or so. Gives opponents less time to CM.

Not sure what S2 missiles are working well right now. Maybe Strikeforce or Rattlers?

 

[vahadar]

I am at HRT bounties. I takes me a lot less time to just abandon the mission and start new one then to wait for target to appear and then even that marked is on target.

You do loose rep when you abandon a mission.
Doing this I never have problem with stuck mission anymore (doing ERT here, recently I finally managed to farm when I had no time for that before, 1h a day since last week-end for 700-800k/hour in an Ares Ion). Server population will influence the delay for mission marker to be on target a lot. So the less players on server, the better.

 

[Rodo1jub]

You do loose rep when you abandon a mission.
Doing this I never have problem with stuck mission anymore (doing ERT here, recently I finally managed to farm when I had no time for that before, 1h a day since last week-end for 700-800k/hour in an Ares Ion). Server population will influence the delay for mission marker to be on target a lot. So the less players on server, the better.

Oh interesting. Didnt know that you lose rep when adandoning mission. Good thing to know! Now the waiting for spawn is resonable. Thank you for info.

 

[Rodo1jub]

Right now you're probably better off doing box delivery missions. Trading itself seems to have a refresh problem. They have indicated they're aware of the problem but don't seem to have fixed it. What I do when I need a lot of money, but not quickly, is mining.

That tells a lot. Knowing that also box deliverly missioms are quite bugged (as i heard)

 

[marcsand2]

1. Missing bounty target on location.
Sometimes, somedays, someservers there is no bounty target on marked location!
My workaround for now is to just wait for couple minutes then just abandon mission and i leave bounty for that day of playing.
Any better workaround?

2. Bounty mission does not complete when target is killed!
My workaround: I just leave the area, looking for new missions. Sometimes mission complete in this minute of leaving...sometimes it does not...

It is caused by laggy servers. My approach almost works always:
- Queue the bounties, at least 2 in a row. the 1st may take a while to spawn, the 2nd will spawn faster. If the 1st is completed, queue another one before you start the 2nd.
- Approach the mission marker until you are at 15km, then stop
- Wait for the mission marker to jump on target. The target marker never is at the mission marker.
The target has to spawn and the escorts must spawn before the target marker is updated. If you kill the target before, the mission is broken.

Sometimes it happens that the marker doesn't move, but the target is too close to you, so it will engage you. Just jump to the next target in your queue. When that is done, jump back and complete the 1st mission.

You do loose rep when you abandon a mission.

 

[Radegast74]

omg, even the box delivery missions have been bugged for me (2 days ago was the last I tried).

Regarding 1. Target locations, I was doing the Medium Group Warrants last night...in an extreme case, it took 20 minutes for the third & last target to show up, and he showed up at a second location. I would not have noticed it, except when I was going back (again....I spent about 15 min flying in all different directions) to the target location marker (which should have been about 20km away), all of a sudden it was superimposed on a different OM point, over 500km away...wtf?

In a weird way, it seems the servers are even worse now than during IAE, I guess the most recent patch was for something else?

 

[Rodo1jub]

6. FPS shooting can not reload anymore!
When FPS shooting action, sometimes i can not reload anymore. Action is triggered and animated, but no reload happened. Belt is full of full magazines.
My workaround: i just flee and pick up dead enemy rifle then go be shooting and repeat when i fire through 1 magazin which comes loaded with picked up rifle

I found out a good workaround for this bug.
When reload does not happen you need to get to safe place.
Then open inventory and highlight magazine loaded in gun with mouse pointer and then drag it to inventory.
Reload is now working!

Hope it will help someone :)

 

[Dirtbag_Leader]

PSA for this thread, buy some extra Mobiglasses (at New Babbage) and keep them in you local inventor(ies)! I fell victim to the not-uncommon bug of losing mine (either while looting bodies or sometimes when you get out of prison). With Mobi usage being so critical to almost everything in the PU this is pretty disastrous, however it's easy enough to equip a new one to avoid a character reset. . . as long as you have one in your inventory to equip that is!!!

 

[Rodo1jub]

Quantum drive does not engage (fully spooled and calibrated)
Workaround: Turn QD off, look in the direction there there is no jump points, turn QD back on, aiming at the empty space wait until QD is fully spooled, then aim at jump point and wait for calibration is 100%, engage QD

 

[White Lando]

PSA for this thread, buy some extra Mobiglasses (at New Babbage) and keep them in you local inventor(ies)! I fell victim to the not-uncommon bug of losing mine (either while looting bodies or sometimes when you get out of prison). With Mobi usage being so critical to almost everything in the PU this is pretty disastrous, however it's easy enough to equip a new one to avoid a character reset. . . as long as you have one in your inventory to equip that is!!!

I'll try to remember to pick up a few next time I'm over that way but can we talk about your body looting and prison visits?

Could there be a better way, my friend?

 

[Dirtbag_Leader]

can we talk about your body looting and prison visits?

Sure! Prison wasn't the issue for me *this time,* but apparently it's a known-trigger for losing your Mobi, so I mentioned it. I'm pretty sure what I DID do was try to loot the Mobi off of a corpse. Apparently in the 'Verse it's OK to relieve the dead of all their clothing and equipment (insofar as when the feds scan me, they don't say boo about the six disrobed bodies in the hold), but you need to have the decency to leave a dead man's timepiece alone!

 

[Rodo1jub]

Bug thingy:
Anyone else having problem aiming for next QT jump when on group bounty mission?
This is only happening when two QT marks are on the same spot...mostly on atmospheric bounty mission when mining facility xy is in the same place as next bounty target. Then when you move mouse to it focus for QT jumps from one to other.

Anyone have any workaround which do not include "set taget" on star map?

P.S. why they still did not fix that weapon aim and QT aim are not the same!!

 

[Vavrik]

Bug thingy:
Anyone else having problem aiming for next QT jump when on group bounty mission?
This is only happening when two QT marks are on the same spot...mostly on atmospheric bounty mission when mining facility xy is in the same place as next bounty target. Then when you move mouse to it focus for QT jumps from one to other.

Anyone have any workaround which do not include "set taget" on star map?

P.S. why they still did not fix that weapon aim and QT aim are not the same!!

You don't need to be doing just bounties, it happens often. What I usually have to do is zoom into the clusterfuck of stacked targets to find the one that is relevant to me. It's incredibly annoying.
Note: I deleted a few other more colorful comments, especially the ones about how useless the issue council has become.

 

[GPcustoms]

Okay...I may be the exemption but I have no problems running Fluorine, agricultural sups as well as distilled spirits and processed foods in my C2. Once I set up my route it just prints money and I get to plunder the bases along the way. I just string 3 or 4 spots together that refresh enough to spit out 20 to 30k each and every stop
My biggest problem is not offending players with my nerf pistol that I always pull out and pew pew pew
I know there are tons of bugs but the more vodka I insert the better things seem to become

 

[marcsand2]

Bug thingy:
Anyone else having problem aiming for next QT jump when on group bounty mission?
This is only happening when two QT marks are on the same spot...mostly on atmospheric bounty mission when mining facility xy is in the same place as next bounty target. Then when you move mouse to it focus for QT jumps from one to other.

Anyone have any workaround which do not include "set taget" on star map?

P.S. why they still did not fix that weapon aim and QT aim are not the same!!

For Crusader space I have 4 buttons:
- Set Quantum route to Cellin
- Set Quantum route to Daymar
- Set Quantum route to Yela
- Clear Quantum route

You should try to jump to a location in a party when other party members are already at location. When you tried that a few times, then quantum jump to bounty missions is easy ;)