Rage and Active Defense bug


Chunky_Style

 

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Okay this is really strange so bear with me.

Over the last few days I've been experiencing a strange bug that's terminating Rage and Active Defense long before their duration has expired. As an example, I'm at a mission door and Rage has just activated, it's on auto so I manually activate Active Defense and enter the mission. After zoning(my average zone time is about ten seconds)I check to make sure both are running. I move to the first spawn, and at some point, usually never more than 30 seconds into the mission both Rage and Active Defense are down.

Coupled with this the icon for both powers go into deep recharge, meaning that both power icons are barely visible and they both take far longer to recharge than they should. My attempts to time this haven't been exact as this bug also seems to drop my defense by about 20% across the board. Currently I have melee at 46% and ranged at 43% so this drop causes some serious problems. Trying to stay alive and time events has been interesting since even using purples does not seem to do anything for survivability.

So with that in mind, here are the numbers as I've been able to record them. Out of ten missions the average time before Rage and Active Defense drop is 27 seconds. From that point the recharge time for Rage is 2 minutes 34 seconds and 2 minutes 10 seconds for Active Defense. Now I currently have enough global recharge and each power slotted that the in game numbers show the recharge time for Rage to be 1 minute 57 seconds and Active Defense to be 1 minute 41 seconds. Activating the powers after zoning in didn't make a difference.

After this cycle ends and both powers have recharged the problem does not return. It's only at the start of the mission and it happens every time in RWZ missions, a bit in normal missions and not at all in the AE. I first noticed this happening after six slotting Mako's Bite into Air Sup. Just yesterday I slotted Gloom fully with the Entropic Chaos set and this problem is now intermittent instead of occurring each instance.

I was able to get a Kin Corrupter to help with some more testing. We tried giving me Speed Boost before entering the mission with both powers activated prior to entering the mission and had the same results. Entering the mission with both powers activated and then getting Speed Boost did make a difference, the bug went away. So it seems as if this is some kind of recharge bug causing the powers to terminate earlier than they should.

I did bug this in the game but I'd thought I'd post here to see if anyone has experienced this as well or if anyone has any suggestions for more testing. So, any thoughts?


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