7.5.2 features feedback Ship UI - Ship Battles Speed Up and animation skip
Shan
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As per usual please be concise and precise - thank you!
As per usual please be concise and precise - thank you!
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It has some great options, but when it comes to owned schematics is not working like i expected. I expected for the owned schematics to be shows as whatever level that ships is no matter the completion, here i only see owned schematics only for ships that i have up to max level, anything max level doesn't show how many i own.
for example, on the bounty i have placed rura penthe kirk in a slot before other crew that also activate at 6 seconds so his ability will go first, right after cloaking in order to use that 500% nuke. with the auto play on i have seen the ships ability of hull repair (which becomes clickable at 4 seconds) trigger right after cloaking instead, which starts at 6 seconds, which then breaks cloak and nullifies kirks damage. why does the AI wait to activate the 4 second ability? this doesnt always happen but ive seen it a few times today.
captain pikes ability becomes clickable at 4 seconds but the AI does not activate it until much, MUCH later. ive burned though 20 matches today to watch what the AI does. laborer spock activates on time at 4 seconds, the ships damage reflect ability activates on time and so does cloak but other crew abilities take far longer to trigger. in capt pikes case i counted about 10 seconds elapsing before the AI activated him. thus far, it has never utilized him on time ( 4 seconds). it always waits quite a while.
We are rushing headlong into the abyss...................but we will have a blast whilst doing it,
Are you playing the same account on all platforms?
i find it peculiar that sometimes the AI will hold back on triggering an ability as a way to break cloak so a crew that relies on cloak for its bonus will be unable to get an advantage from it. however that could just be a timing bug. i should note that when i have a crew member that has a cloak trigger i am choosing other crew that either dont have the same activate timer or if they do then i move them to seats so the cloak triggered crew goes first.
edit: further playing and i think i see what the AI is doing. it is waiting to use the ships hull repair ability until later in the match where it might be useful instead of activating it right at 4 seconds, thereby wasting it. it doesnt seem to do this based on a timer . i think its waiting until the hull is at or below a certain %. this is a good thing, imo
I'm loving the new ship menu. It is something the game has needed for a long time, and this is a big improvement. I particularly like the ability to show ships by star rating, and then sort and search them.
The ships owned, unowned shows all ships, I'm not sure if this is right.
Ship level should sort by level, and then sort each level by schematics owned (most to least) so that the ones which are easiest to upgrade are first.
Similarly the schematics own sorting seems a but haywire. Finished ships either should not appear here, or should be at the bottom. Instead I have "The Artifact" and "Assimilated Voyager" both at level 1/10 with 0/175 schematics appearing at the bottom of the list.
Also the sort by schematics owned, does not take into account the ship level, and schematics needed to upgrade the ship. My Cardassian Keldon at 6/10 and 710/775 sits below Captain Proton's ship at 7/10 and 780/1050. In my opinion it would be better if there was an option "Schematics needed to upgrade."
These comments aside, this in an excellent improvement and 10/10
I don't think autoplay is meant to be competitive. It is more for when you just want to hit the button, put the phone down hope for the best. It is good if you have an over-powered crew for skirmishes.
Autoplay cannot work with all players strategies that they have developed, knowing the order they press buttons, when to go for the kill, or wait for the cloak to come down.
I'm not convinced we need autoplay, but this is a good implementation of it.
I do like the animation skipping, and 2x speed.
I play primary on iPhone, but the above behavior (skip button there, auto / speed up not there) also occurs on Steam and on my android tablet. I am using the same account on all three platforms.
The intro/outdo is GREAT.
The auto-fight is less than ideal and I will not be using it. It does not Auto fire when available. It queues the abilities and fires them every quarter second or so. WAY to slow to be effective, and if you are running the Krayton, with Ardra in the far-right position, it completely castrates Ardra and ruins the point of the build entirely.
on certain ships, specifically the 5* cardassian ship, the AI actually waits to activate rura penthe kirk until the ship is cloaked. here is what happens nearly every time: at the 6 second mark all abilities that can activate at 6 seconds do EXCEPT kirk. then at the 8 second mark the cloak ability becomes available and the AI activates it, then rura penthe kirk activates. the AI actually waits until cloak is turned on before it uses kirk even though his ability is clickable at 6 seconds. i think this is cool becos the ai recognizes that he needs cloaking as a trigger.
Yes indeed, in fact when I got up I played it on my android phone and it is still the same..the auto is visible, but the speed up is not visible at all, I hope this helps?
We are rushing headlong into the abyss...................but we will have a blast whilst doing it,
We are rushing headlong into the abyss...................but we will have a blast whilst doing it,
It does help and no it should not matter that your game originated on steam
Regarding the AUTO function in Ship Battles, it is no meant to be used competitively. It is not a substitute for your usual gameplay.
If you want more control on how/when specific abilities are triggered, you will need to toggle AUTO OFF.
If I were designing that button, I’d have both “on” and “off” displayed at the same time, with the one that corresponds to the current state be highlighted with a box or a brighter color and the other one have a darker tone or something else to de-emphasize it. Tapping anywhere on any of the three words would still toggle between states.
@MaestroDaVinci Although it is a little more roundabout than looking in the Build & Change Ships screen, you can always see the quantity for any schematics in the Inventory screen. Go to the menu button at the top right, then Inventory, then filter by Ship Schematics.
FWIW, since the change I have won two battles that put me at #1 in Admiral division using Auto, just to see if I could. It may not be intended to be 100% competitive, but it definitely can work.
i still cant figure out why it wont use capt pike on the bounty until much later.
We fixed the issue where some of you were not seeing the new AUTO/SPEED buttons and the older DISMISS button
Thank you Shan and WRG!
Still having an issue,even tried uninstalling the game. Logged a support ticket 🙂