I have noticed it hasn't worked right also. I remembered it working pretty nicely before, but I didn't think about it being the patch.

Confirmed:

Level 1 Animosity doesn't work right either.

I tried it a number of times, to watch if it took Pirate forces off of my Disciple Vessels.

Now, it did seem as though it *partially* worked. When I first used it, it quickly turned 2 ships to attack the Radiance. A pirate equivalent of a Cobalt and a Siege Frigate. They had been previously fighting the Disciple Vessels, even after being beat on by the Radiance for a short while - only when Animosity was used did they turn.

The next few battles were against larger groups of pirates, with the whole variety of craft (Volcanic Worlds).

The second time, Animosity seemed to affect only FOUR enemy vessels, the rest continued firing against the Disciples. Yes, all enemy ships were within the radius for Animosity. Again, FOUR vessels attacked the Radiance. Whether that is the result of target priorities, or the Animosity, I have no idea. The other ships, aside from the four, attacked and destroyed the Disciples without any interuptions.

One thing that makes me wonder if it had no effect at all, is that the four ships attacking the Radiance continued to attack the Radiance even after the effect should have worn off...

When fighting a similar group of pirates at another world, Animosity seemed to have no effect at all. The ships that initially attacked the Radiance stayed doing so, and the ones that were not, continued to kill the escorting Disciples.

So...

Level 1 and 2 of the Radiance Battleship's ability: Animosity, are not working properly.

Would some other people kindly test this out, too?

I'll go play another game soon, long enough to gain level 3 Animosity and give it a test. I'll post again, soon.

also noticed the animosty tech not working.... or just didnt notice 6 lil shippies attacking it between a fleet of 88 enforcers


about the Light frigate spam of A.I. i DID notice this in a multiplayer game
someone left at start and we decided 2 continue playing..... problem was that he unallied us and kept attacking us with fleets of 36 cobalts or more

in the end while we had fleets made up of 50 carriers 100 enfrocers... maybe some more.... he stil kept attacking with cobalts...... (they got les since we hit him hard) but stil... 25 cobalts and 1 capital....... aint normal right?

Animosity works fine. Be aware that ships actually have to be within a certain range for the taunt to work.

I tested this and it seems to work fine.

What I did is jump my Radiance into a neutral planet, got in range of a bunch of ships, then jumped a colony frigate in. All the ships started moving to the colony frig, I hit Animosity and they stop and turn around to attack the Radiance again.

I'll keep playing with it some more (started a new Advent game) but so far everything seems just fine.

Oh that'd be why. Planet bombing doesn't seem to use the same attacking state because bombardment is not counted as a weapon, and I know Animosity doesn't stop them from attacking a planet, I've figured that part out a while ago.

But in general combat, I haven't seen anything flaky about it. But, like I said, I'll keep using it in my fresh game and inspect the results

I'm using patch 1.03, and I've never had any mods installed. Radiance is usually the first ship I build, and I always have animosity going to keep enemy vessels off my frigates. I've never seen it not work. Even in larger fleet engagements my Radiance gets beat all to hell while most of my other ships sit pretty.

i tried it twice

the first time i tried this (level 1, 2 + 3) everything worked fine.. all ships (6, 12, ~~) moved away from my fleet and ran to the radiance.


new game:
same scenario, atacking enemy on its homeworld... nothing happens


......... didnt notice it b4 cuase i rarely pick the radiance