Multiple Bug Reports

[Raszul]

General

• guns can hit the ship they are on.
  
• guns sometimes aim at the cursor in 2d rather than the object the cursor is pointing at. (might be related to the cursor being over an UI element... at least sometimes ... not sure)
  
• transports with bots on board that die leave the bots in space (visible on internal view)
  
• bots that fight an infestation worm in a tight corner (eg in a corner of a wall and a crate) end up standing on top of it and unable to fire
  
• ships/gun turrets do not check lines of fire and friendly fire regularly
  
• one can undock with hostile bots onboard, taking them off the station (dock, do not unload your bot or bots, wait for the enemy bots to get onboard, undock) this can allow a small number of bots to take away tons of defenders from a station
• sometimes troop transports get stuck during the docking procedure. moving them a bit and re-ordering them to dock tends to work most of the time
  
• carrier & battleship fighters cannot be rebuild (afaik ... maybe they can/could be 'repaired'?)
  
• carrier & battleship fighters can not be equipped with specific weapons
  

AI

• the AI does not scout (except the system it want's to put an outpost into or attack right then) which leads to it focusing on a single system even vs overwhelming odds as it does not see a better/alternative one to focus on
• the AI does not expand sometimes (possibly related to there being a battle it is engaged in with capital ships in the systems that are the 'gatekeepers' to all possible expansion points)
  
• the AI does not use shields on it's ships
  
• the AI does not scale its boarding parties to the number of defenders on the target station nor use multiple transports (eg to split the defenders or bait them with the first ship then bypass them with the troops from the second)
• the AI does not unlock tech for it's executors even though it can clearly use tech itself (I was AI executor to observe a brutal AI match and while the AI was building plasma firing cruisers the console still only showed default weapons and corvettes - no other sizes or weapons available)
  
• the AI is barely able to handle infestations (having it put 10 bots in the hangar bay at all times would fix that for the most part; having it prioritize infestation detection tech would also help)
  
• AI carriers & battleships do not recall their fighters before leaving a system (or do not wait for them to dock - regardless AI fighters often end up stranded on their own)
  
  

If there are questions feel free to ask or contact me directly.
I love the game and want to see it become even more fun than it is already! ^.^

[Raszul]

• when one station blows up all stations (or at least my station in SP and single-human-CEO MP) also shows the blowing up animation/effects (still happens to the station core as of 2nd Nov 2018)
• when one station is severely damaged all stations (or at least my station in SP and single-human-CEO MP) also show the damage animation/effects in similar locations (not sure if that gets adjusted for whichever structure is in the corresponding location)
• when using multiple monitors and in turret control the mouse can leave the screen, screwing up turret controls if one tries to fire since that will end up resulting in one clicking on something on the other screen ...

[Raszul]

• double clicking to select multiple identical units counts the one unit twice (presumably the double clicked one) for the number of units selected and total number of fighters available

[Raszul]

• some station structures are too high and end up blocking shots from turrets on other structures, leading to the station hurting itself
• Red Alert/Green Alert buttons do not seem to be doing anything (maybe automatically activate all combat systems on red; deactivate them and return to powering factories & research on green?)
• the dust motes/glowy dots in space turn the wrong way when one rotates a ship (when I turn right they also turn right; they should be drifting to my left instead ...)

[piratep2r]

"the AI does not use shields on it's ships"

This at least is incorrect. The AI waits a while, but will eventually shield its ships, even on second to lowest difficulty.

Source: 2 games vs AI.

(not to take away from any of your other experiences of bugs)

[Rob]

Hi, Thanks for the list but can you submit future bugs within the game please as I get the log and a screenshot of whats going on thanks.

[Raszul]

As soon as I find that bug report option in the game I will. I have not so far, and I looked for it several times... maybe I'm blind? ... I'll look for it again ...



also: in the games I played the AI eventually had the rare single ship with shields. But even in the Brutal AI game I executron-observed none of the AIs used shields on all their combat craft even after 2 hours of gameplay.

[ghoulhound83]

Hit F8 in game brings up the bug report.