force field bracelet bug(?)

[Icedfate]

when i firnst found the force field bracelet, it worked just like force bubble, placed the walls around me that move when i move

but then, at some point, i'm not sure when. .it changed itself. now, whenever i activate it, the force bubble stays in place and doesn't move with me anymore. also, when i pass through one of the squares containing the forcefield, it causes the force field to disappear.

is this a bug or is it something i did?

[glass zebra]

Are you or the area affected by normality?

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by glass zebra:

Are you or the area affected by normality?

not sure. . could that be a hidden effect of some equipment?

[Icedfate]

so, for clarity, i went back in with that character.
when i activate the force field, I take 1 step and get a message "the forcefield (in the direction i went) disappears"

i know it wasn't doing this when i first got it. when i first got it, i was able to walk around with it, although, the drain was so high, it completely drained my solar cell in 4 steps.

now, i have a high capacity solar cell in it and it's doing this weird thing with the "forcefield disappeared" messages.


i'm looking at my equipment. .
i have
a hoverboard in the floating slot

2 pairs of hands, both wearing elastayne gloves

7 crysteel daggers wielded by various limbs

6 arm slots with bioscanner, structure scanner, precint bavigator, compass, wrist fan, and the aforementioned force field generator.

a chrome mantle in the back slot

plaslife sneakers on my feet

and an eigenrifle in the missile slot.

most of my item mods are slender and sharp on the weapons, wooly and refractive on the armors.

only thing i can think of is i modded several items with "refractive", could this be what's disrupting the field? I thought that just protects against "light" attacks

[Icedfate]

uodate, i don't think it's my equipment, because i unequipped everything except the braclet, my quills and my horns obviously can't take those off and still, every time i activate the force field, it just stays in place and when i move, it either says "you passed by the forcefield" or "the forcefield disappears"
sometimes , little bits of the forcefield stay there for a few rounds, like, small pieces occupying 1 square will stay while the others disappear. .

[glass zebra]

Nulling should be the thing that interacts with force fields, not refraction. Solar cells have very little max charge, which is why they get drained so quickly. They are nice for low energy consumption items or items you don't use very often (like recoilers), but not so much in sudden high energy drain items like the force bracelet.

Do you have any effects on your character? In which area are you? Sometimes there are normality fields around.

[Icedfate]

right now, i'm at the lair of a chitinous puma in the jungle, but this is happening everywhere.

btw : this is with that level 37 character i spoke of in the other thread. . it actually has 7AV/20DV , not 5/25 like i thought.

i think i'm gonna go back to my carapace guy. . i currently have 3 separate runs going. the third one is a level 17 esper with sunder mind, disintegrate, pyrokinesis and forcefield

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Icedfate:

right now, i'm at the lair of a chitinous puma in the jungle, but this is happening everywhere.

btw : this is with that level 37 character i spoke of in the other thread. . it actually has 7AV/20DV , not 5/25 like i thought.

You first said 3AV, so to 7AV that is a big difference. 7AV is totally fine for the Grit Gate tier content you were at.

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by glass zebra:

Originally posted by Icedfate:

right now, i'm at the lair of a chitinous puma in the jungle, but this is happening everywhere.

btw : this is with that level 37 character i spoke of in the other thread. . it actually has 7AV/20DV , not 5/25 like i thought.

You first said 3AV, so to 7AV that is a big difference. 7AV is totally fine for the Grit Gate tier content you were at.

i know what i said, and i said i was mistaken. i'm playing a different character now and i forgot.

[Kobold Anti-Gnome Alliance]

I'm actually experiencing this issue now, too. Force bracelet was working fine for quite a long time, and now suddenly isn't. Exact same result as what OP describes.

I can sometimes move 2-3 tiles before the shield wall disappears, but it stays where it generated, and I walk through it if I move. If I stay inside it, I can pass turns seemingly indefinitely without it disappearing.

It doesn't matter where I go, so it's definitely not a normality field. (It happens in Joppa, for instance.)

I tinkered a new force bracelet, and the new one works as it should, so it's something about that specific force bracelet that broke.

I've still got this save, if it would be helpful for diagnosing this. (It persists through closing the game and re-loading it.)

[Kya Frostpaw]

Originally posted by Kobold Anti-Gnome Alliance:

I'm actually experiencing this issue now, too. Force bracelet was working fine for quite a long time, and now suddenly isn't. Exact same result as what OP describes.

I can sometimes move 2-3 tiles before the shield wall disappears, but it stays where it generated, and I walk through it if I move. If I stay inside it, I can pass turns seemingly indefinitely without it disappearing.

It doesn't matter where I go, so it's definitely not a normality field. (It happens in Joppa, for instance.)

I tinkered a new force bracelet, and the new one works as it should, so it's something about that specific force bracelet that broke.

I've still got this save, if it would be helpful for diagnosing this. (It persists through closing the game and re-loading it.)

Thank you! I was having the same issue and hadn't thought to make a new one, but now that I have, it works properly. Seriously, thank you so much!

[Randombandit]

I had this issue when I had some phasing cyberware thing. when I turned it off, it stopped. Maybe you got phased out or something and it messed it up?

[Icedfate]

thenonly thing i could think of is i swapped out the solar battery and put in a high capacity metered hugh powered battery in there.

but i can't test it because i just deleted all my save files out of rage and disappointment from losing a 150 hours level 69 invulnerable character to a dumb mistake of not knowing , precognition doesn't work while you're piloting the golem. . .