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[Aceramic]

Location: Happened to be on Forest Colony, near the "trailer park", but I doubt that had anything to do with it. Unless it's a magic trailer park. (New idea: Map-location-specific quirks!)
Steps to reproduce: I got shot. I try not to let it happen too often. If necessary, I can attempt to reproduce it by getting shot in the side torso more often. That seems to be difficult to do in a Crab, though.
Reproduction rate: I don't know, it unfortunately hasn't happened again. I wish it would happen every match, though. (Please?)
Description: Lost a side torso on my Crab. Lost the lasers in said side torso. However, I apparently have a backup torso, as my arm remained attached and functional, along with the LB10-X and AC/5 in said arm, until the arm got destroyed later on. Screenshot located in the link below.

http://steamcommunit...383094162126301

[Ironwithin]

Yeah that happens from time to time, not specific to the king crab though. Still have a year-old screenshot of a battlemaster doing it.

[Appogee]

Phantom limbs .. not just a human phenomenon

[Tim East]

Old bug is old. Surprised to see it still around though.

[oldradagast]

This has happened to me once or twice, and not in King Crabs.

I also once had an arm destroyed twice in a Hunchback. It blew off, saw the explosion, heard the message regarding lost equipment... and yet it kept working. I took some more damage there, and it eventually blew up again, this time for real.

[M0rpHeu5]

i think that the wep on the phantom arm cannot damage enemy players.

[Event Horizon]

I had this happen for the first time since I started playing in beta.

Never had it happen before until a couple days ago in my AS7-S. Lost my right torso but my right arm was still active.

[Darth Futuza]

I wish this would happen with legs.

[Ironwithin]

M0rpHeu5, on 13 December 2014 - 02:38 PM, said:

i think that the wep on the phantom arm cannot damage enemy players.

They can, killed a jenner once with a gauss rifle in a "ghost limb". The weapons work perfectly fine, usually the arm is cherry red though and if someone looks at you funny it finally falls off.

[M0rpHeu5]

Ironwithin, on 13 December 2014 - 03:48 PM, said:

They can, killed a jenner once with a gauss rifle in a "ghost limb". The weapons work perfectly fine, usually the arm is cherry red though and if someone looks at you funny it finally falls off.

I see, i wasn't sure. This was something someone told me when i got to have the ghost limb and i didn't get to test it.

[pjfontillas]

Whenever I see this I assume that since the back armor is still in place your torso is - for the most part - structurally sound so your arm is still functional.

[Ironwithin]

M0rpHeu5, on 14 December 2014 - 12:00 AM, said:

I see, i wasn't sure. This was something someone told me when i got to have the ghost limb and i didn't get to test it.

The confusion might have come from the first implementation of the re-join function. When you rejoined a match after having lost arms they'd be back on your 'mech with all their weapons but the weapons wouldn't do any damage.

Edited by Ironwithin, 14 December 2014 - 02:51 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

lost cockpit visuals hud and just looking at a blank screen and a crab arm waving around is very off putting, its happend before but its every match in CW and never in ordinary match play.

[Troutmonkey]

Like so?

Bug has been around for ages, and like most bugs in this game, will continue to hang forever

Ironwithin, on 14 December 2014 - 02:50 AM, said:

The confusion might have come from the first implementation of the re-join function. When you rejoined a match after having lost arms they'd be back on your 'mech with all their weapons but the weapons wouldn't do any damage.

That was slightly different, in that the weapons were there but the arms / armour were not

[Tsabrock]

I had this happen for the first time a couple days ago - ADA-A lost both left & right Torso early in the match, but I still had my Ultra AC on the one ghost arm for a slight bit longer and helped get a kill with it before loosing it permanently, leaving me with just the Adder's flamer.