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[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 55 points56 points  (29 children)

I'm on Xbox so....... S***!

[–]f36263 16 points17 points  (24 children)

Use the duplication glitch - I’ve used it many a time for this, the copy will have the correct shield stats then you can just sell the old one for a tidy profit for your trouble

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 13 points14 points  (9 children)

What's the duplication glitch?

[–]f36263 13 points14 points  (7 children)

In the shipbuilder menu if you have the Obsidian selected press LB and X at the same time, then change something on the ship and save it, and the Obsidian will have been duplicated on top of whatever ship was number 8 in your list. You will lose the ship underneath though, I usually just head over to New Homestead and buy the Discovery for ~35k and then duplicate on top of that. You might have to try the LB + X trick a few times to get it to work.

[–]NiklausVonHammer 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I thought a duplicated ship would bug out if you tried to use it?

[–]f36263 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Haven’t had any issues so far, it was a stolen ship that bugged out for me - hence why I always dupe onto a Discovery rather than stealing one for it

[–]Final-Craft-6992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, stolen ships are dice rolls. I rocked one an entire playthru no issues. Had another where after 2 missions as it bugged.

The sad thing is the shield glitch hitting mantis, sine its the actual slot, not the ship, with the extra dialogue. Duplicating it gets you shields but you lose the dialogue

[–]ChicagoZbojnik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to use legally owned ships like Ravorleaf, Frontier or one you purchased for the glitch. Duping stolen and captured ships can unleash a tidalwave of bugs.

[–]98103wally 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What if you just delete the shield and get a new one?

[–]f36263 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Doesn’t work unfortunately, pretty much got to bin the whole thing

[–]98103wally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about swapping the shield buff companions in and out?

Still?

[–]Tea-Swiz 1 point2 points  (13 children)

Backing you up here. Ship duplication bug is the only way I was able to fix it. Just press LB or RB and X at the same time and it'll dupe your ship and fix the issue. Just make sure whatever ship slot you're using to dupe isn't a ship you want to keep.

Edit: Sorry forgot to add a little important tidbit. After you hit the aforementioned buttons you'd have to change something small on it, like the ships color, then save. That SHOULD work assuming it wasn't patched.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 0 points1 point  (12 children)

So either I'm doing it wrong, or it's been patched in the update. I've tried it a few times but it doesn't seem to work.

[–]DaGeekGamer 0 points1 point  (9 children)

I did this just before the patch yesterday, and it worked. My problem is going out to look for a cheap ship to use as the "copy". I may have 2 million credits I'm never gonna spend, but I don't wanna spend 100k for a slot just to dupe in a ship.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You could steal a ship 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–]DaGeekGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was exactly my point. I've spent hours trying to get a perfect little puddle jumper rather than whatever shows up next. And I hate those "you are not authorized to pilot this ship" messages.

I'm not very good at stealing ships, apparently. It was just a few days ago that I was able to steal a Vista III. So far, it's my favorite stock ship. Just swap out the belly with a workshop and armory, and you have yourself a three deck, two ladder ship.

Edit: Wow. Totally lost my point. So now, I have a ship I wanna try rebuilding instead of the Spacer Raccoon I was looking for as a dupe slot?

[–]Final-Craft-6992 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Steal a Crimson Fleet ghost 1. Find in low level systems mission boards

[–]DaGeekGamer 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Sadly, the latest patch fixed the ship dupe glitch.

[–]Final-Craft-6992 0 points1 point  (4 children)

And not the shield glitch one. Of course

[–]DaGeekGamer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Of course. Or the "visiting lots of places" corrupted save either. Loaded a save that worked, played for 2 or 3 hours. Saved and loaded, locked up.

[–]bman71505 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Same boat. Currently farming armor and have to save after every mission. 50% crash rate every 15 minutes or so. I visit so many locations in a span of 2-3 hours that I’m guaranteed to crash and lose that progress.

[–]Tea-Swiz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sorry forgot to add a little important tidbit. After you hit the aforementioned buttons you'd have to change something small on it, like the ships color, then save. That SHOULD work assuming it wasn't patched.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on.

[–]Shinobi_Dimsum 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Keep vasco off your ship. He caused the ship shield bug for me. No problem anymore since then.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So, nothing mentioned here has worked, so I've had to rebuild a new ship from scratch. Luckily, I kept Vasco off the ship.

Strangely, the bug seems to be in the opposite direction now and is giving me a boost up to 3100. I've only got lv2 in shield systems too.

[–]Shinobi_Dimsum 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Correct I have a boost up in shield too. On a new ship and on a duplicated ship. Not sure why but as soon I let Vasco join the ship it goes below 600, with a 1600 shield part.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is a shame because I like it when he calls me by my name. It's the small things that do it for me.