r/sto HE'S NOT THE CANARY! 10h ago

Loadouts broken on every ship on every character after today's patch Bug Report

on PC after today's new ESD patch it's broken every single loadout on every ship on every character and new loadouts won't save............awesome

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u/BentusFr 10h ago edited 5h ago

We have a little surprise for all of you PC Captains they said.

Unfortunately, that kind of stuff is not rare when there's a major code branch update.

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u/MontjoyOnew 10h ago

Checked multiple characters across several accounts. Just logging in bugs them.

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u/Kindly-Ad-8573 6h ago

A message came back from the great beyond 27 toons and no traits on, 27 toons and no traits on

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u/Coridimus 5h ago

An unexpected Springsteen, but a welcome one to be sure.

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u/Klaitu Whoopsie Doodle! 8h ago

The real question here is how was this not a total dealbreaker when releasing this patch?

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u/Cola_Convoy HE'S NOT THE CANARY! 8h ago edited 8h ago

some bugs only appear on the live server and don't happen internally with dev accounts

last year there was a bug with Sphere of Influence where you couldn't complete a puzzle and the devs couldn't figure out what we were talking about it because it was working perfectly on their end but then Jesse loaded up his player account on the live server and was able to figure out what was wrong

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u/NerdyNThick 7h ago

As a dev, that seems to be a rather major issue to me.

How can I put out good code if I can't properly test it?

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u/Fluffy_Somewhere4305 PS5 platform:sloth::partyparrot: 6h ago

How can I put out good code if I can't properly test it?

try r/programmerhumor for the answers.

Basically testing on a live server is impossible until something is live, for any application.

"Our Stage Env is exactly the same as prod" is a meme at any company doing software releases, for internal or external projects.

It's become even more of a meme now with so many 3rd party cloud services as the default back-end for internal apps and integrated systems.

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u/sea_of_sorrows Cleaning up the Galaxy one War Crime at a time. 6h ago

Yeah, if only we had a test server so that these things could be tested before going live..

Oh wait.. we do have a test server.. and yes, it's broken over there as well.

They just don't test.. anything.

Ever.

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u/0_________o 10h ago

Was wondering why my DPS was so low. Now I know why.

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u/Cecil_Montague 9h ago

Well, that's one way to deal with power creep I guess.

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u/Drsamquantum 10h ago

great, so now i have to go through every ship and fix my traits, what fun.

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u/Aisha_Vi_Sato Your friendly neighbor from the Mirror Universe 10h ago

I'd wait until they hot patch this or you might have to do it again after.

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u/Pumawithapc 8h ago

So is the implication that if I just wait and don't log in until after they fix it, i won't have to deal with reslotting everything on my 30+ toons? Or am I screwed regardless so I might as well log in to go look at the new ESD?

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u/fereldenvstamriel 7h ago

Correct me if wrong, but every time they fixed them, you still had to reslot traits

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u/MontjoyOnew 7h ago

Correct. What is mostly in question is if we will have to repeatedly fix them if we do it before a fix.

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u/MontjoyOnew 8h ago

Honestly there is no way of knowing whether the toons you haven't logged onto will be borked or not after a fix, provided we get one in the first place. You may not have to fix them. You may need to redo every toon anyway. /shrug

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u/jc1350 5h ago

It's a shame the saved loadouts doesn't restore them.

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u/person_8958 Carrier Captain 4h ago edited 4h ago

EDIT - DOES NOT WORK

Workaround:

Repopulate and save one of your loadouts. After you do this, your other loadouts will come up correctly.

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u/CharlieDmouse 4h ago

1 we are experiencing problems with loadouts

2 profanity filter, filtering more words.

For I second I read that as, they were saying that because of #1, players broke the profanity filter by overloading it.

😁😁😁😁

Scotty voice: “It’s na good Captain, the profanity filters jus canna keep up with the sheer volume!”

Spock: Attempting to drown out all sounds with Klingon Death Metal. No effect Captain!

*Uhura pulls out her comm earpiece and it is smoking and a few small sparks begin to fly from it”

McCoy: “Dammit Jim!”

Kirk: Glares at McCoy That is NOT Helping Bones!

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u/MetalBawx 3h ago

Let me guess didn't bother to test shit again...

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u/deridex120 8h ago

Fk sakes. How about just leaving ESD alone?

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u/Codename_Jelly 10h ago

Not just loadouts, I don't use them on my characters, never clicked save button but traits have gone poof.

so glad I only come on for events.

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u/g0del 5h ago

Years and years ago, Cryptic was making a bunch of changes/updates/fixes to the loadout system, and one of the changes they made was giving every character an implicit loadout. So whether or not you've ever touched the loadout button, you do use loadouts on your characters because since that change, every character starts with a loadout.

This was a rather unpopular change, but I doubt they're going to change back anytime.

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u/Codename_Jelly 5h ago

I know im just saying ive not actively made/saved any so it doesn't matter if you have any saved or not nothing gonna save you.

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u/Randy191919 7h ago

Good to know. I hope if you just don’t log in until they fix it you’ll skip the issue

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u/CalamitousIntentions 7h ago

Joke’s on you. My Romulan already forgets her traits every time I switch ships!

u/roninwolf1981 The traitor, the pariah; the lowest of the low... 46m ago

This is one of the reasons why I wish Phoenix Prize Ships, Lobi Ships, and Infinity Lockbox Ships, should all be reclaimable; when bugs like this happen and you have to discharge a ship and reclaim it to start over with a blank slate with no saved loadouts (since we don't have the option to delete loadouts).

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u/tarravagghn 10h ago

I'd like to see confirmation of this bug from STO in their feeds and can someone repost here that STO has acknowledged it and is working on it. I normally wouldn't mention it but I have no idea who runs this game anymore nor what country does so there's an element of "trust but verify" now in force as far as I am concerned.

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u/dese1ect 9h ago

I mean you could just go check their feeds… but it’s already in the patch notes:

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11573304

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u/wutherspoon 8h ago

Wow, that's already a lot more informative than Cryptic was when it came to acknowledging a major issue like that.

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u/tarravagghn 5h ago

I see no change. Cryptic always eventually acknowledged. There is also nothing wrong. I'm fine with it. It's just nice to see they are aware and working on it.

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u/wutherspoon 4h ago

Not always, there were several game breaking bugs over the years that went unmentioned by Cryptic. Case in point the 'skills invalid' bug that popped up numerous times over several patches, which was only officially acknowledged in an offhanded way on a stream after they found the problem and patched it. It was nice to get the info about how it happened, but would have been nicer if Cryptic sent out some communication about it when it was happening. There wasn't even a single tweet about it.

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u/tarravagghn 5h ago

At the time of my post, there was nothing. Now, there's acknowledgment in their news feed and even social media. My comment was prior to all that.

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u/Existing-Today-410 9h ago

I guess we'll still have to fix them and the traits after they patch it. I'm teetering on using it as an opportunity to tidy things up and never logging in again. ESD looks wrong. It doesn't look like something from any Star Trek universe.

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u/Cola_Convoy HE'S NOT THE CANARY! 8h ago

It doesn't look like something from any Star Trek universe.

I mean it's an almost exact replicate of the old ESD just with additional arms and docks, Starbases with the same basic layout have been in Trek ever since The Motion Picture

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u/MrPNGuin Scientist 8h ago

It is literally the ESD from Picard season 3.

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u/Nacktherr 7h ago

So I've been playing since before Legacy of Romulus. With an update this big, this was about the second safest bet to make. The safest bet to make was that the servers were going to crash since the server hamster would die of a heart attack after the update.

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