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limax1's avatar
6 years ago

BB-9E Charge Up ability is not reducing ability recharge time

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? In-Game Store & Crates
Summarize your bug BB-9E Charge Up ability description says it reduces ability recharge time for nearby allies but it does not.
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? limax1
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? 02/04/2020
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)
In what game mode did the bug occur? Heroes vs. Villains
What is your time zone? ECT - GMT + 1:00
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play BB-9E + another hero, have other hero use abilities and BB-9E then use Charge Up, note how charge up does not improve abiltty recharge time.
What happens when the bug occurs? Charge Up ability does not do what it says it does.
What do you expect to see? For charge up ability to do what it says it does, increase ability recharge times.
Please select your region Europe
AMD or Nvidia Model Number

PLS fix, the ability is quite bad without it since most villains dont care about weapon cooling.

9 Replies

  • limax1's avatar
    limax1
    6 years ago

    The weapon cooling works obvously but the ability recharge? Have you timed it? I could notice no difference and you don't get the 'faster recharge' animation you get from big deal or recharge command.

  • Just to make things clear. BB-9E's charge-up description says that it gives teammates unlimited blaster fire for a short while (like when you hit that yellow bar when cooling your weapon) and shorter ability recharge times.

    In reality it only gives teammates the improved cooling because the ability is bugged. This makes the ability very weak because it doesn't help saber heroes at all and that improved cooling is not that big of a buff.

  • I have also noticed this bug. And was very disappointed, clearly says it should reduce ability cooldowns for allies, i also think it should reduce bb9e's own cooldowns as well as his passive cooldowns while charge up is active. Especially considering 2 or 3 of his starcards actually increase the cool down of some of his abilities.

  • Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this bug. BB9E would be more useful if the ability 'recharge' stated in the description actually worked. With the star card that increases the radius of charge up, I can see this being more useful. In the mean time, the only thing that works is the cooling it does for blaster weapons. Hopefully the devs or the community manager here sees this and let's the team know about it.

  • Spoonyteaspoon's avatar
    Spoonyteaspoon
    6 years ago

    No... It doesn't. Do you have a clip to show it? I also tested it out on GA, played him all day yesterday and even tested it out on offline arcade with a secondary controller and there was no CD indicator showing when I was playing as BB9E being next to the second player. @Starwarsnerd9000 

  • Spoonyteaspoon's avatar
    Spoonyteaspoon
    6 years ago
    @Starwarsnerd9000 Just want to clarify this is BB9E we're talking about not BB8. BB8 being next to team mates reduces their CD with his passive with the arrow indicator but obviously not for BB9E when using charge up ability.

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