Asteriod Storm

[nataryeahbuddy]

I was playing with the blueprints.xml file, and when I restarted FTL and landed in a beacon with an asteroid field, the asteroids shot really fast and destroyed my ship. Is there a way I can make the asteroids go back to the normal state?

[boa13]

A few players have reported encounters with very fast asteroids, with the unmodded game. So, it is possible that your deadly encounter had no relation to your blueprints.xml modifications. I suggest you play some more, and see if the problem occurs again.

[Matthew]

I can't help much with mods since we don't follow particularly closely what people are doing with them. But if you do encounter a problem repeatedly of abnormally fast asteroids, that could be an in-game bug. Videos would be the most helpful for debugging, but obviously that's a lot to ask for.

[thashepherd]

I can't help much with mods since we don't follow particularly closely what people are doing with them. But if you do encounter a problem repeatedly of abnormally fast asteroids, that could be an in-game bug. Videos would be the most helpful for debugging, but obviously that's a lot to ask for.

A few Infinite Space players reported this as well, but as far as I know no modder has figured out a way to affect asteroid speed/spawn frequency. Maybe if asteroid speed/spawn rate is handed the same way drone <speed> is, but divided by some random number....?

[irons77]

Hello,
I believe I have the same problem. Just like asteroid bombardment, or rain. It only happened once or twice for last week, and I considered it a weird glitch. But today it hitted me 5 times on 5 asteroid belts. Im uploading a few screenshots, with list of installed mods.
btw, Im playing on mac, dont know if it is of some importance, just fyi.

[boa13]

Can you try to reproduce the problem without mods?

[irons77]

Okay, Ill try to turn off mods one at a time to determine which one is causing this.

[Matthew]

Haha. It's the level 5 shields. Asteroid frequency is partially computed by shield level of the player and the enemy (it's the only thing in the game that is partially scaled to the player). And I guess the code doesn't appreciate player ships having level 5 shields since that shouldn't be possible I'll see if that can get fixed for a later patch.

[Matthew]

Does level 7 cloaking actually provide any benefit?

[irons77]

Nice Matthew, Im unloading advanced battle systems to make sure that one is causing it. And lvl 7 cloaking provide 40 sec. of cloak i believe - only way to let your ftl charge and get out of that asteroid storm.