strike fighter bug Psi

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In the game i just played whenever a vasari ship entered my gravity well a large cloud would start animating anywhere i had a fighter or bomber.  Without a ship or fighter in the area i lost 42 fighters/bombers in under 6 seconds.  This occurred again later as i entered a vasari gravity well and again when a single vasari colonizer capital ship entered my gravity well by itself and destroyed an entire 14 squadrons on the star-base instantly.

 

Does anyone know what is going on here?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Any mods in play?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Had those fighters gone anywhere near a gas giant?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

No mods were in play but I was either in or 1 removed from a gas giant.  The one next to the gas giant was a space ship grave yard

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Zemsta, reply 3

No mods were in play but I was either in or 1 removed from a gas giant.  The one next to the gas giant was a space ship grave yard
End of Zemsta's quote

Gas Giants have an ability called unstable gases or something that damages all nearby ships and strikecraft whenever one of them explodes. There is currently a bug where Strikecraft will not lose this effect properly when they leave the Gas Giant gravity well. Thus if you sent a unit with strikecraft through a gas giant, then at another planet one of the fighters dies, they will deal splash damage to all of its squad mates and the chain reaction can easily kill them all.

If you were actually in a gas giant then this is expected behavior, it is just strikecraft are hit hardest by the splash damage since they have low health. Even corvettes and LRFs need to be careful not to be too close to exploding units in gas giant gravity wells.

This is stated to be fixed in the next update, and in fact may already be corrected in the 1.82 beta patch. 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Ahh, ok many thanks that explains what I was seeing then.  many thanks for the explanation and I guess I will need to be less reliant on strike craft until they fix it.  

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Zemsta, reply 5

Ahh, ok many thanks that explains what I was seeing then.  many thanks for the explanation and I guess I will need to be less reliant on strike craft until they fix it.  
End of Zemsta's quote

Or take the long way around the gas giant. There is a limit to the effect.