How exactly is UV mode meant to work?

[weavah9]

Like, i flip the switch when the monster warning flashes on my screen, and the lights turn blue and my fuel consumption goes up.

But Mister Grabby keeps mauling the same lamp and concrete extractor every time. And hits them more than once, too, even with the lights set to purple mode.

I'm going to build another lamp beside the first if this jerk like smashing it so much, and see if the light from that hurts it enough that it stops breaking my stuff. With reliable Engineer cloning at my fingertips, I've got loads of power, so I can afford it.

[weavah9]

the additional lamp did not help and there's nothing on the tech tree that says it adds torpedoes. :/

[weavah9]

And it's attacking the other lamp now too. Is this UV setting merely mood lightning? Or is this a bug?

[Cryten]

Does the attack end or keep on occuring? as in every minute or two it swipes the same items? If so you have the attack not ending bug and I am afraid to say the items it is attacking are now permanently dead. On the plus side, because of this bug it will never attacking anything else, the anomaly is effectively dead for you.

[Hydra]

I think the logic is that if you turn on the UV fast enough, the monster will be spooked off, but if you don't it'll attack anyway; but even if that is or isn't the case it is still a mechanic that isn't explained very well. And the monster's attacks aren't even that bad. You can easily ignored them and just repair the damage if you're doing well enough.

[Aieonae]

Normally, there would be a low "growl" before the anomaly strike.
The red alert notification will trigger about 3 secs later.
If no response from player, the anomaly will strike.
And it's not unusual the anomaly strike more than once. Oddly, on of the way to get rid of "forever poking" was to turn the UV lights on and off a number of times to make sure the arms and be free from the stuck scripted.

Do note this DO NOT apply in between deployment of advanced Fauna traps and getting 3 samples. The anomaly will just keep poking once it's already poking until the end of the 3 sample collection.

[Jeffus Maximus]

I had a lamp that the creature was obsessed with, even when that lamp was in UV mode, so I deleted it, built on two spots over, and now it doesn't touch it. The coding seems to have a bug where the creature just gets stuck on a certain building and won't go elsewhere.

[slpc04]

How I use it is when you hear the monster 'growl' you switch on the UV and LEAVE it ON till you get the message 'the attack is over, for now' Make sure you set one of your sub miners to coal or whichever fuel you use to avoid that fuel depleting too much. Then wait it out! The monster never touched any of my buildings this way. Although if you don't have patience or think you waited too long and switch off the UV mode, if the monster is still there, it will attack one of your buildings. You can switch UV mode again and it will eventually leave. This tactic worked for me anyway ;}

[weavah9]

All I really needed to know was that this was a bug and that I had not completely misunderstood something. Thank you all.

[markbiggsster]

Same for me plus i have an anomaly that is permanently stuck on another light and has been for over a 100 years(game time)...lol

[GADefence]

Originally posted by markbiggsster:

Same for me plus i have an anomaly that is permanently stuck on another light and has been for over a 100 years(game time)...lol

Yeah the thing seems to declare some of your buildings rivals. The UV mode seems to work like a electric bug zapper - makes the thing attack it instead of potentially dramatically more expensive equipment.

Also, I do believe without UV mode attacks either last far longer or don't stop. I didn't have UV for an attack and it went after 6 buildings - got UV and it stopped the next one. Every other attack was only 2 buildings.

[Vern]

Turn the light on when the icon for it lights up a full 1-3 mins before the message even comes up then you get the message and instead it just passes by and the lights go back to normal