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[Sabazial]

The last few days i've had some matches in my CTF 3D where i've had a seemingly unexplainable death. I'll be fine one second, the next i'm face down after being 1 shot in my CT.

The dilemma for me is that i get hit by according to my log: LRMS, SRMS, Gauss and medium lasers all at the exact same second despite half the time me seeing no animations for any of the above.

The other strange thing is everytime it happens it claims i was killed by an ammo explosion, when i'm running a PPC build? what gives? (i'm not running AMS btw so it's not that ammo exploding)

[HighlandCoo]

No Idea, screenshots? Whats your Ping? Im in scotland and get 100-130ms.

[Sabazial]

I average 100-110 ping, but i've been playing since closed beta and never had this happen before, it's only started in the last few days. If it happens again i'll grab a screenshot.

[HighlandCoo]

Re: Ammo explosion, did you leave some ammo in your legs or head? I almost never look in those slots so its easy to forget if I stuck something random in there one day..

[Mounty]

I've seen this from both sides, my Catphract fell over dead with no centre torso, it'd had yellow armor and no internal damage until then, there was no animation or sound effect to show I'd been hit. The person listed as having killed me was piloting a Stalker with 4 PPC's. Sadly I didn't think to ask what had happened from his point of view until after exiting the match.

On another occassion I fired twin gauss at an Awesome (I hit it), it stepped out of my line of sight for a few seconds before reappearing, I aimed and was about to fire when it exploded, the message said I'd killed it. I don't know what he was armed with but if it was an ammo explosion it took a long time to cook off.

[Ihasa]

This game needs a real combat log. Not just the last 5 shots to hit you before death.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

Mounty, on 25 February 2013 - 08:40 PM, said:

On another occassion I fired twin gauss at an Awesome (I hit it), it stepped out of my line of sight for a few seconds before reappearing, I aimed and was about to fire when it exploded, the message said I'd killed it. I don't know what he was armed with but if it was an ammo explosion it took a long time to cook off.

It has been my experience that ammo explosions tend to take 1-3 seconds to cook off. I assume that it takes longer the more locations the damage has to travel through before it is spent (meaning more ammo takes longer, and ammo in the limbs takes longer), but I don't now that for sure.

[SuomiWarder]

I would guess that something the server decided happened did not get rendered on your client, and perhaps a time delay before updating because of local connection issues for other random deaths described.

If memory serves we saw a time of death by ammo explosion messages regardless of the actual cause in the closed beta. Perhaps the message was in error against whatever the server actually decided happened to you. You didn't over cook and explode with your PPCs did you?

[Davers]

Gauss rifle explosions show as ammo explosions. Got Gauss?

[Nauht]

There was a bug in CB that was doing exactly what you're describing - I reported on it once myself. Hurts when a section suddenly goes and you're running an XL.
They resolved that, apparently, cos it didn't happen again. Maybe what they've changed it's worked its way back in again.

Just pay attention and report it if you're 100% sure it wasn't an ammo explosion or you weren't even close to having a section blown off.

[Colin Thrase]

Mounty, on 25 February 2013 - 08:40 PM, said:

I've seen this from both sides, my Cataphract fell over dead with no centre torso, it'd had yellow armor and no internal damage until then, there was no animation or sound effect to show I'd been hit. The person listed as having killed me was piloting a Stalker with 4 PPC's. Sadly I didn't think to ask what had happened from his point of view until after exiting the match.

Not sure, but it may have been me. I've been piloting 4x PPC Stalkers almost exclusively for over a month. Was this on Saturday evening in Frozen City, and were you using jump jets to alpha-strike one of my team members after you crested the roof of a building, then dropping back to ground level so as not to get hit by his return fire? If so, I had circled around and shot your Cataphract in the back when you hit the ground from a range of about 200m or so. I was surprised to make the kill in just one shot, so I assumed you had forgotten to allocate any armor to your rear center torso.

I have 4 Stalkers but they all have the same build. I just hit Master for the Stalker Chassis during the tournament. One is green, the other black, and the third has the Phranken paint scheme.

(edit for spelling)

Edited by Colin Thrase, 26 February 2013 - 08:32 PM.

[Elizander]

I've one shot a K2 before. I hit the side torso from the rear with an alpha from my hunchback. The torso blew off and it walked forward two steps, turned around to look at me, then keeled over dead.

It was at full health too cause there wasn't any fighting yet and I managed to sneak up behind the enemy team.

Edited by Elizander, 26 February 2013 - 09:42 PM.