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Early yesterday I was able to feign death with no problem, being a Master Smuggler I have a +70 to FD. I went to Dantooine,then I took some Neutron Pixie. The secondary stat bug happened where my stats would not return to normal, but the worst part is I am unable to feign death anymore. It says "preparing to feign death" and I take hits, but it never happens. I waited till today when my stats were corrected, and tried again... I still cannot feign death.

Has this happened to anyone, and if so, what did you do to resolve it? BTW, I have already submitted a CSR ticket regarding this issue.

Thanks Kav! I submitted a ticket to them already, but when I get home today I will /bug it and test it tomorrow before I do something foolish like aggro an entire lair. Not that I ever do that... only once every half hour.

I have noticed a longer delay standing up from FD since last patch.

Normally I would FD, then time my stand up when meleenpc's or animals walked away. Pop a quick heal, and continue the fight...worked nice. Now when I try to stand, meleenpc's or animals will be hitting me before I get off the ground. And ranged attackers will nail me while I am still on my back, and they hurt the most. Many times I am incapped before I can get a heal off or even back on my feet.

Could be lag, could be a number of things...but I never had a problem with standing before the patch.

Good Hunting

I've noticed some delay in standing as well. But I can still fire off a couple more bleeds while in the process of standing up so it may be more lag related.

Just today (Tuesday, October 14) after work I noticed they put in a patch today. So I'm out hunting with my cousin and I notice that when I tried to feign death, nothing happened, and I just stood there unable to attack for several seconds until I incapped.

So later I went out solo against some creatures. 3 times I tried to feign death, 3 times I took several hits after the "you prepare to take a hit..." message, and 3 times I did not drop and play dead. Instead, twice I suffered a real incapacitation, and the third time the feign death timed out after several seconds and I had to warning shot the beastie to keep him from finishing me off.

Is anybody else having trouble with Feign Death? it is my most used move in my entire bag of tricks...

Boost'r Mu'Oil, Master Smuggler, Tempest

i ahve the same problem i get the message that im preparing but i guess its a long process because it never actually works . whats funny is after i get incapped i cant get up after the timer because im feigning death . its broken

I think we should really be able to drop dead immediately. That preparation time is utter crap, especially with server lag. And we should be able to feign death no matter what, even when not in combat. This would grant us som very good roleplay.

I recently aquired Feign Death and noticed this very same thing. I heard that it did not take very long to feign, so wwhiel I was doing a mission involving taking out about 15 rebel, weach of at least 8k HAM, I used flmae cone 2, got them all on fire, then Feign Deathed. the p;roblem was I just stood there and since there was so many on me I never actually feigned. While I was really incapped I recieved a message stating "You cannot Feign while Incapped." Bleh.. I think it should be an instant thing. I mean how long does it take for someone to fall on the ground. To me it doesnt take 5-10 seconds.

Usually, you drop the instant something hits you. But last night I did a test against Bagerasets (fairly weak monsters that haven't killed me in a long long time). I attacked the lair so they came at me, then hit feign death. They hit me 5 or 6 times, then my character started shooting again, so I hit feign death a second time. Again they hit me 5 or 6 times, and feign death timed out the second time, so I tried it a third time. Still no luck. Finally I just shot them all to death and gave up trying.

Hmmm... I was feigning death left and right last night. Didn't have any issues.

same for me, no real issue

I posted a thread about this very same problem yesterday, and logged it with CSR too. Kav explained that this happens to someone at least once a week, but no one is sure what the cause is. He suggested that the only known fix is to wait for the morning server reboot. This did not help me though. What did help was having one of my friends DB me, then FD started working again with no issues. Perhaps the database thought I was still incapped or feigned, so it would not allow me to feign. Weird though since it should give a message "you cannot feign death while incapped..."

Just my experiences, but I think there is more to this than meets the eye and SOE needs to take notice and correct it. FD is probably the most unique and valued skills as a Smuggler, then to say we cannot do it is like telling a Combat Medic they cannot poison or heal.

good to hear you got clear of it Marra.

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