It does illustrate that there's no point putting a bug in the issue tracker. (I did that myself for this one over a year ago). You have to think of a way it's going to cause reputational damage to get it looked at.
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Pre-emptive "Research Limpets are Bugged" Thread
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I want to disagree with that...
You mean like..... testing?
Unsurprising, as this is exactly the path they went down five years ago, and exactly the MO of a company scared of fixing it's own product... kinda further evidenced if they genuinely did cancel an enitre CG affecting thousands, on account of one unconfirmed (according to the tracker) bug report. Though situations like this are hardly without precedent.
But let's not pretend this isn't with significant impact on the game. If FD once again don't fix this now, we'll be left with bland relog-fests at surface sites, or basic A->B cargo runs to supplant this sort of activity... completely uninspired activity for the game's core "plotline", which FD have at least demonstrated a wont to change for more dynamic activities.
Or alternately, they could just fix it. I dunno, seems dumb, better plan another Thargoid tissue sampling CG for later on down the track and cancel it again.
...... and this problem still exists...
I have been trying to get a sample from the new Orthrus type Thargoid and out of over 15 attempts.... nothing.
Tried everything I can think of, from only using a single limpet at a time to multiple, sitting stationary when they return, moving fast when they return to me... and all for nothing, I have no got a single sample back from a Orthrus.
The voice over tells me extraction was successful, but when the limpet returns to my ship, it disappears and the dialog box in the top right says "Research Limpet Failed".
Frustrating to say the least, specially since taking a sample from the docking point on the Caustic Generators was without problems.
I have been trying to get a sample from the new Orthrus type Thargoid and out of over 15 attempts.... nothing.
Tried everything I can think of, from only using a single limpet at a time to multiple, sitting stationary when they return, moving fast when they return to me... and all for nothing, I have no got a single sample back from a Orthrus.
The voice over tells me extraction was successful, but when the limpet returns to my ship, it disappears and the dialog box in the top right says "Research Limpet Failed".
Frustrating to say the least, specially since taking a sample from the docking point on the Caustic Generators was without problems.
Yup. I've been seeing multiple reports of people finding an Orthrus, and just never getting a sample successfully come out.
Unfortunately, I've just completely given up on this as an activity these days. If FD can decide to cancel two entire CGs because of this bug, and then do nothing about said bug, well, they only shoot themselves in the foot. I'm sick to death of collating info about this only for it to go into useless bugreports.
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I think this is one of those times that pinging @sallymorganmoore to bring it to CM's attention is OK. Sally The Saviour! To summarise, Research Limpets are bugged since a long time - not all of them are bringing tissue samples. The issue was marked as fixed: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/49387 - but it would seem it is not. Can we bring this to the team's attention? Or confirm if it's intentional (hopefully not!)
Thank you Sally o7T
Thank you, was not nice wasting 8-10 hours of game time finding the Orthrus's in the first place, only for this to happen.I think this is one of those times that pinging @sallymorganmoore to bring it to CM's attention is OK. Sally The Saviour! To summarise, Research Limpets are bugged since a long time - not all of them are bringing tissue samples. The issue was marked as fixed: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/49387 - but it would seem it is not. Can we bring this to the team's attention? Or confirm if it's intentional (hopefully not!)
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I really want to emphasise this bit.https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/49387 - but it would seem it is not. Can we bring this to the team's attention? Or confirm if it's intentional (hopefully not!)
The initial implementation had a 100% success rate. Then in the first cancelled CG that stopped.
Since then a common argument has a been "well, maybe they aren't meant to be 100%" simply because it's been like it so long and it's a minor game activity.
But they were 100%, then they weren't, and the radio silence on the issue has meant its just festered.
But two cancelled CGs? That sounds like a bug.
Yeah, so near as I can tell... the bug could be related to network latency or somesuch... my tin-can internet sees me generally getting as low as 20% research limpets actually succeeding. Some people report as high as 80-90%, some more around 50%. Key point being it's inconsistent when almost certainly, it's not meant to be.
I was using a xeno multi limpet controller. Only 1 out of 4 limpets made it back with the tissue sample.
The same for me - I just catched one Orthrus sample, xeno limpet, 1 sample from 4 limpets.
And that's the issue.
It used to be 100% success (and still is with non- thargoid biopsies)... now it isn't.
Of course, it could be intentional to be not 100%, but that's a stretch considering two CGs got cancelled because of this... neither is it documented anywhere that it's only a chance of success.
Well....
6 gaming sessions later and I give up lol... not a single research limpet returned a sample. Also, since the server tick, almost all of the Thargoid Threat systems are uninhabited, so finding NHSS Threat 4 just got a lot more tedious (no nav beacon to scan). I'm not wasting that amount of time, using the FSS to find Threat 4's, only to have all my limpets fail again.
I do hope this got attention again though. Thanks. Seems wiping all anti-ax progress has caused bigger problems anyway.... uughh, off to another game for a while....
6 gaming sessions later and I give up lol... not a single research limpet returned a sample. Also, since the server tick, almost all of the Thargoid Threat systems are uninhabited, so finding NHSS Threat 4 just got a lot more tedious (no nav beacon to scan). I'm not wasting that amount of time, using the FSS to find Threat 4's, only to have all my limpets fail again.
I do hope this got attention again though. Thanks. Seems wiping all anti-ax progress has caused bigger problems anyway.... uughh, off to another game for a while....