[TI] Crab & Moth and Ship Warp

Hey guys,

I'm not sure if I'm using the right section since I'm trying to report these bugs, but these are overall technical issues so I think I'm mostly fine. If not please move it to the right section.

First of, almost everyone on my server, who knows the game at least halfway, also knows that there's something wrong when you're fighting against someone using the moth formation. So I decided to make a damage test with a friend. I was using crab and he was using moth and all he did was using one x4 salve( I checked the damage with nano-hull during that time).
I had exactly 219.506 hitpoints and after he did exactly 75.818 damage, my hp went down to 204343.
Afterwards I calculated the percentage damage simply by:

219506 - 204343 = 15163
15163 / 75818 = 0,19999 = 0,20~
0,20 * 100 = 20%

So I literally got 20% damage on my hp even though I was using crab. Is that how it's supposed to be ? Since, on normal condition, you get 8% damage on your hitpoints, wouldn't that mean that crab is being applied first which reduces it to 0%(It can't get lower than 0%, obviously) and THEN moth adds up to 20% ?

Afterwards I tested the same out with moth against *any* formation and it was 28% as it should be.

It's funny though. I always thought it was moth being broken but well well.

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One or two years ago, I realized that when you ship warp or just use the numbers on the backpage to change your ship, your lasers hit rate decreases for no reason. It is easy to fix by simply relogging, but until now, this bug still exists. I do believe it's effecting the pilot bio (electro-optics) or even other abilities which I can't approve at the moment.

The thing is, people use the ship warp option probably every day and then don't realize why they're suddenly missing like every 4th laser shot.

Is there anyone else who might have experienced this?

Greetings, Met

 

There have been several threads about the issues of missing damage and formations not working properly.

The second issue is a KNOWN and REPORTED issue that is scheduled to be looked into as soon as the DEVS and priority rating get up to it.

 

Hello,

Crab increases shield penetration by 20% and Moth increases it, so you are right that there is a problem there. But no one actually uses Crab in this meta of the game, so it doesn't matter much.

As for the other issue, I haven't come into any contact with that. Everytime I warp it works fine, I have had the missing bug, but I don't think it was ever due to a warp. I think there is actually a bugs section on the forum somewhere, or go into the DarkOrbit Discord server and tag a moderator and explain your concerns.

regards,

 

You seem to have understood why the crab-moth interaction works that way, and I do agree it probably should NOT be that way as crab is essentially only used as a counter to moth, but given these circumstances it's not really all that effective;

Regarding the second issue, as stated above, it's been reported numerous times for the last...3 years I believe? Anyway, the team should be well aware of it by now and I just keep wondering when they will fix that because it's honestly really annoying having to log out every single time I warp into another ship

 

Are you seriously surprised that something that annoys the community is low on the priority list to be fixed? B P profits, entire server affected, exploited bug/glitch, event issue, and finally playability, is the way issues are addressed. IF the issue only affects a few players that is not able to be traceable, and therefore is never fixed.

 

When you get attacked by an enemy using moth and you change to crab *after* that, you just get 8% dmg to your hitpoints ( with full bio).

When you are using crab and an enemy attacks you with moth, you get 20% dmg to your hitpoints ( with full bio).

 

That's completely not true, I've tried it numerous times and it does not matter - either way 20% damage goes directly to your hull