When Arby unlocks either Conduit of Rage or level 3 Power Surge (unsure which), it subsequently blocks the use of Plasma Bolts or Stasis from ever being used again-- That’s 5 leader points wasted and 2 good leader abilities being made unusable.
I’m not sure yet if it affects other leader powers, but those two become grayed out with a “charging” circle that doesn’t fill anymore.
Edit: Further testing shows it prevents ANY active leader power from being used again.
Edit #2: Okay so xXPostCarnageXx figured it out (thank you, and I’m an idiot btw). So when I tested it a second time I had removed the skulls, but forgot about the 50% leader power thing. I guess that combined with level 3 power surge caused it to break.
Gamertag: DemonzBlade238
Leader: Arbiter
Mode: Skirmish/Deathmatch
System: Xbox One
Ske7ch
Does it work with level 2. I.e. it’s only level 3 that triggers bug?
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> Does it work with level 2. I.e. it’s only level 3 that triggers bug?
Unsure. I’ll have to start a new match. I haven’t played in weeks so I was a bit overwhelmed vs 3 heroic AI. Gonna start a new game on easy just to test which leader power causes it and what level. Will post back in a little (starting it now).
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> Does it work with level 2. I.e. it’s only level 3 that triggers bug?
So it’s power surge level 3 that causes it.
Edit: It’s not that damaging if people know not to use it. It’s a shame though, because with the Power Surge level 2 some of the powers recharge almost instantly. With level 3 you’d have a close to constant Mass Cloak and ability to drop 3 Plasma Bolts (if you have the resources, which neither cost much with it either). Then with a level 3 Rage Conduit you can essentially have constant rage on all your troops, which… makes Arby kinda OP I would think.
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> > Does it work with level 2. I.e. it’s only level 3 that triggers bug?
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> So it’s power surge level 3 that causes it.
Sounds kind of like the issue that the Shipmaster used to have with the cloak-enhancing passive. Rank 1 worked as intended, but rank 2 would basically disable all base cloaking generators.
All right, so if I play, don’t go beyond power surge level 2. Got it. Thanks for this tip. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon.
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> Sounds kind of like the issue that the Shipmaster used to have with the cloak-enhancing passive. Rank 1 worked as intended, but rank 2 would basically disable all base cloaking generators.
Essentially. Like I edited above, it’s not that big of a deal if players know not to use it. Honestly with how much level 2 already does, it’s scary to think of what level 3 was intended for (like I said, constant rage, constant cloak, constant ability to drop plasma bolts).
I’ve found that level 3 power surge triggers it and it has affected plasma bolts and mass cloacking for me at the time of writing, teleport doesn’t break (it comes back almost instantly and it feels so good to hear arby say it’s ready when it was just used) I haven’t used any other active leader powers and I’m a little scared of using mass stasis because of what you said, if any of this helps for what’s affected, I have not used the Elite drop yet of the time of writing