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[OmegaWraith]

A few of my Atlas-piloting friends noticed their AC/20's exploading like Gauss Rifles. They noticed their side torso's suddenly going from orange armor to cherry red internals when hit. To test the claim I dropped with one of them while they piloted a Dual AC/20 Jagermech and proceded to take off his arms.

First arm I took off all the armor then hit it with machine guns. The instant I touched it the internals when from healthy to cherry red and the AC/20 was destroyed.

Second arm I took the armor down half way, then went at it with machine guns. Before the armor went down the AC/20 gun exploaded, taking the remaining armor with it and turning the internals red.

[Shadow X]

No ammo stored with me, happened a few times. Was in the arms of a Yager and with the Boars Head. Didnt explode exactly like Gauss, but did massive internal damage to the part with the ac20, no surrounding damage.

[Lunatic_Asylum]

I have noticed that Gauss ammunition explodes and causes death. Is that a normal behavior?

[Hammer Hands]

Destined, on 01 October 2013 - 06:22 PM, said:

Hello OmegaWraith,

Is it possible that your friends are storing ammo in those locations?

Jagermech cannot fit anything but AC20's in it arm so no chance of having ammo there anyways. It only has crit slot room for the AC20 and it's two arm actuators.

[Scratx]

Gauss ammo should not explode when destroyed. That's funny, I wonder if all autocannons explode like gauss rifles and all autocannon ammo behaves like gauss ammo? That would be hilarious.

"Oops, we accidentally flipped the ammo explosion logic. Sorries..."

[Asmosis]

guass rifle explosions are listed as ammo explosions, so thats normal. Try loading a mech with nothing but gauss ammo, and see if it still explodes (no rifles).

OmegaWraith, on 01 October 2013 - 05:44 PM, said:

Second arm I took the armor down half way, then went at it with machine guns. Before the armor went down the AC/20 gun exploaded, taking the remaining armor with it and turning the internals red.

even if ac20's exploded, this shouldnt be possible as you can't crit them until all the armor is gone. are you sure something else isnt happening here?

[Mech of War]

OmegaWraith, on 01 October 2013 - 05:44 PM, said:

First arm I took off all the armor then hit it with machine guns. The instant I touched it the internals when from healthy to cherry red and the AC/20 was destroyed.

Nothing strange here! "Machine guns are perfect for component destruction after armor is down by a heavier weapon," - seems like a quote from Battletech
And Gauss Ammo DOES NOT EXPLODE, technically it's just a slug...

[OmegaWraith]

Asmosis, on 01 October 2013 - 07:17 PM, said:

guass rifle explosions are listed as ammo explosions, so thats normal. Try loading a mech with nothing but gauss ammo, and see if it still explodes (no rifles).


even if ac20's exploded, this shouldnt be possible as you can't crit them until all the armor is gone. are you sure something else isnt happening here?

Only thing I can think of is that machine guns eat through armor like nothing else. :/

[jubbly]

any more word from Devs on this?

[Konner Duko]

even if the gun is not firing there is a round/s in the chamber ready to fire is it possible that this round is going off and not the gun