it just gets better

So.....in the Fenghuang Raid and I have the adm down to about 15 million, another player comes rushing up and I instinctively lock on him as a defensive move...which, with the new platform, causes my ship to stop hitting the adm. The other player does not attack me, so I lock on the adm again and my ship refuses to begin firing..I click, click, click and nothing! I try to shoot another ship...I can lock on, but my ship will not fire...all this while I watch the adm rep itself back to its full hp....Nice!
And......I just had a little parade of BOTS run by me in the commonwealth area...I sunk them all wondering what the heck happened to the de-buff that BP was so proud of rolling out! I have seen ONE ship with the flag of shame since the roll-out...wondering about other players. Have you seen the debuff?

 

I noticed and reported the attack stopping when focus moves off problem last week:
Attack Stops When the Focus Changes


I am able to attack again when I lock back on... or at least I can so far.

I saw one ship with the debuff flag since the announcement. It was a ship I don't remember seeing before. It certainly wasn't one of the many many regular Bots I see all the time. They still sail around unaffected.

 

Letters: I saw a few right after the announcement. But my understanding was that the "punishment" would be for only 3 days. --->https://prnt.sc/1qh16pe So maybe that's why since then, I have seen a grand total of *one* ship with the debuff "flag of shame" <--(nice! I like the way you phrased that). Between the bots and the absolute chaos I have experienced *trying to play this game under Unity*, I'm giving up except for when I'm super-bored. (I wish I had never started playing back in July 2009).

 

You have to cancel your bugged "attacking state" in order to b able to attack again, for example I'm using "spacebar" for attack and "x" to cancel. So if i want to attack again when i forgot this bug i have to double tap "x" then change focus to another object nearby, then click the opponent i deeply desire to kill, then smash spacebar like a savage just to make sure... And sadly this doesn't always effective so i do restart the (perfectly optimized!) client about every 15 minutes. At this point it's simply impossible for me to believe that they are working on any solution to fix those crucial bugs that made this game excruciating pile of mess pushed down my throat because I'm addicted and I just don't know why.

 

Oh i just forgot to say that i never saw that punishment thingy on any bot users explicitly overusing it like literally 24/7 and you have to see it to believe it. They are botting so hard i doubt any of those players played by hand in past couple months.

 

Hello,

the "attack lock" issue have been already forwarded onto the developers.

Please keep an eye on the patchday notes, as soon as fix will be implemented we will inform you there.

If you will encounter " parade of bots " please collect their ID and send them straight to support for further investigation.

Gotcha! debuff is still being applied onto these players accounts that have been detected by our system.

Since there is nothing else that can be added regarding the issue you encountered or the de-buff, this thread shall now be closed.

Rymar

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