[From Reddit]: Alternative firing mode bug - Anyone seen this on EU and/or NA?

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

[From Reddit]: Alternative firing mode bug - Anyone seen this on EU and/or NA?

 

"Alternative firing mode is broken in the current version"

https://new.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/1egh327/alternative_firing_mode_is_broken_in_the_current/

 

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Some players in the Chinese forum NGA have discovered a significant bug with the alt fire found on ships like Conde, Zorkiy, Edgar, etc. These ships have alt fire modes that, in addition to firing multiple salvos rapidly, also modify their shell characteristics, giving them more penetration or damage, for example.

Ostensibly, this is supposed to make the burst-fired salvos more powerful. However, it turns out that in the current version of the game, switching to the alt mode retroactively applies the damage and penetration buffs to all shells you have in the air. This means that you can fire a regular salvo, press F just before your shells hit your target, and benefit from the buffs without actually firing in the alt mode.

Exhibition A:

Normally, Zorkiy cannot pen Yamato's bow using HE without using burst-fire.

However, by switching to burst mode after firing normally, we can now apply the penetration buff to our shells in the air. Notice how we are now penning 32mm without incurring the 40s reload from burst fire.

Exhibition B:

Edgar shouldn't be penning Des Moines' belt at this range and angle...

And yet she can by abusing the bug.

Exhibition C

Similarly, by pressing F with shells in the air, Conde can pen Nakhimov's 50mm deck armor.

You get the point. This could make ships like Edgar really broken since theoretically, you could get the +50% damage and +100% pen all the time. Of course, it works the other way too. If you use burst fire and then switch back to regular mode, your shells in the air will lose any buffs from the alt mode. Who knows how long this has been in the game? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Once again, I do not take credit for discovering this bug. Sorry for the pictures being blurry and in Chinese; I nicked them from the original post because I'm too lazy to load up the training room myself.

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

Oh boy... it is genuine... 😞

 

I just looked at official WG Discord under "Known Bugs":

Combat Instruction Shell Parameter Bug
Team is aware

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[Frostbow]

Just to be clear about this, the bug also affect cruisers of the Spain tech tree line such as Castilla?

[YouSatInGum]

6 hours ago, Frostbow said:

Just to be clear about this, the bug also affect cruisers of the Spain tech tree line such as Castilla?

Do the funny button ballistics change for those?

 

BTW - I verified in training room with Edgar.  This is a thing.

[MBT808]

52 minutes ago, YouSatInGum said:

Do the funny button ballistics change for those?

 

BTW - I verified in training room with Edgar.  This is a thing.

No, its just a fire rate increase. However, Alvaro is getting a -10% dispersion in the coming patch, so she will benefit from this if its not fixed.

[tfcas119]

9 hours ago, Frostbow said:

Just to be clear about this, the bug also affect cruisers of the Spain tech tree line such as Castilla?

Only if the funny button affects anything about the shell parameters (HE pen on Conde, Zorkiy, AP on Edgar, I'd presume fire chance on Humphreys, but RNG may make this impossible to test) Does it affect dispersion like Oquendo or soon to be Bazan? Well if someone has Oquendo could you find out for us if it wouldn't break any NDA you may have?

[Ensign Cthulhu]

12 hours ago, tfcas119 said:

Well if someone has Oquendo

Only testers would have her right now. No doubt if it's broken for one it's broken for all, but I'm tagging @Lord_Zath since he's in the Supertest program; and even if he can't tell us, he can at least have it looked at  within his secret circle whether the Oquendo's affected too. 

[Wolfswetpaws]

23 hours ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

Hi all,

[From Reddit]: Alternative firing mode bug - Anyone seen this on EU and/or NA?

 

"Alternative firing mode is broken in the current version"

https://new.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/1egh327/alternative_firing_mode_is_broken_in_the_current/

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[SunkCostFallacy]

I imagine that this is intensely frustrating to the players on the receiving end of it ... but I find this hysterically funny.

I readily admit that when it comes to writing code, it's not my strong suit by any stretch of the imagination but I can't help but roll my eyes at what must be going on in the code to make this bug is even possible.