Is the ATAT's Orbital Strike glitched/bugged on Endor.

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug I notice on Endor when I play as the rebels and use the AT-AT that is high-jacked, I can't call in Orbital Strikes. I click and click and hold but no matter what I do it doesn't do anything. I mean it would make sense if the Imperial star Destroyers are obviously not going to take orders from an ATAT but could the announcer say that in game and the ability turned of if thats the case so we know because it I am clicking and nothing is happening for that ability. I think DICE didn't mean for this ability to be used but if so it's not being made clear to the player. Have the announcer say "Orbital Strikes with ATAT can't be used" or have that say that in big text or something when the player gets in because otherwise I can't tell if this is a bug or intentional.
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Sgt Fergus
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? 11/13/2017
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM) 9:00PM
In what game mode did the bug occur? Galactic Assault
What is your time zone? PST - GMT - 8:00
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play Endor as rebels and play in the ATAT when you get to phase 2 and get into the ATAT.
What happens when the bug occurs? You can't use Orbital Strike (right ability of the 3 abilities, other abilities are Heavy Laser Cannon to the left and Refresher in the middle)
What do you expect to see? To be able to use the ability or at least let the player know it's not accessible.
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I notice on Endor when I play as the rebels and use the AT-AT that is high-jacked, I can't call in Orbital Strikes. I click and click and hold but no matter what I do it doesn't do anything. I mean it would make sense if the Imperial star Destroyers are obviously not going to take orders from an ATAT but could the announcer say that in game and the ability turned of if thats the case so we know because it I am clicking and nothing is happening for that ability. I think DICE didn't mean for this ability to be used but if so it's not being made clear to the player. Have the announcer say "Orbital Strikes with ATAT can't be used" or have that say that in big text or something when the player gets in because otherwise I can't tell if this is a bug or intentional.

21 Replies

Anonymous
8 years ago
Mind answering this, EA? I'm wondering the same thing and I can't find an answer anywhere. It's frustrating.
Anonymous
8 years ago
I just chatted with an EA employee. He said that they're aware of the issue and working on fixing it.
Anonymous
8 years ago
I thought this was just part of the game....
I mean, the rebels hijack at AT-AT so blasters/cockpit controls work, but the orbital strike i figured the rebels couldn't use on endor because it's an empire asset/capability
DunkNaggets
8 years ago
That would make sense, but it would be nice to have a symbol or some indicator over the Orbital Strike icon to indicate it doesn't work. Perhaps a red icon with some distortion, even an "X" would communicate it's offline. I waste too much time trying to use the strike as the 60 sec counts down haha
Anonymous
8 years ago
I'm having the same problem on hoth, it works maybe a quarter of the time
Anonymous
8 years ago
Thanks for posting this. I figured I was just aiming at the wrong locations, or like in BF1 it had to turn a certain color before you could use it.
marcatzeri
8 years ago
Two weeks into January and this is still an issue
Alliecat7803
8 years ago
Yeah, I just assumed that it was because no ship in orbit would take orders to bomb their own side with an orbital strike...but then the controls allowing you to try should be disabled. The ATAT on Endor is not as fun as the ATAT on Hoth because of this.
Anonymous
8 years ago
The rebels steal an AT-AT, why would that give them the ability to order an orbital strike from a Star Destroyer?

The only thing they need to fix is making visible that you can't actually use the ability.
aDarkKnight84
8 years ago
If the Rebels can steal an AT-ST and trick the Imperials to open the backdoor to the shield generator in Return of The Jedi, then they can trick a nearby Imperial starship to fire an orbital strike on a "friendly" group of Imperial troops.