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[whitelightshadow]

During the last CW match the following surprising thing happened.

I hit the override without a heat warning in preparation of the attack. Locked on. Hit the fire button and boom. Was not even close to overheat, did not take any fire, had no components showing damage. Just boom and went down. Never saw a single component take fire, change colour or destroyed as said in the report. Just for the record I was trying to chain fire a set of LRM 15s, no way of blowing up from them like this.



The only reason I can figure out is that it blew because there was ammo in the head, not because of heat or taking fire. I think the mere presence of the ammo made it go boom.

Sad so sad...

Edited by whitelightshadow, 05 February 2016 - 02:31 PM.

[adamts01]

You're a filthy LRM boat, that's why. ,Lghtning struck you down just as you deserved.

[Thunderbird Anthares]

wow, can you sound even more salty adam? im guessing you dont know how to duck

yeah, never seen this before, would fill it out as a bug report if i was you

[Paigan]

What I had once was:
Override on.
100.1% heat.
Crit to the head, cockpit, dead.
Maximum bad luck possible.

Below 100%, no idea...

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

whitelightshadow, on 05 February 2016 - 02:18 PM, said:

During the last CW match the following surprising thing happened.

I hit the override without a heat warning in preparation of the attack. Locked on. Hit the fire button and boom. Was not even close to overheat, did not take any fire, had no components showing damage. Just boom and went down. Never saw a single component take fire, change colour or destroyed as said in the report. Just for the record I was trying to chain fire a set of LRM 15s, no way of blowing up from them like this.



Sad so sad...

Screenshot says you were damaged by heat and your cockpit was destroyed. The ever glorious RNGesus decided to strike you down in the cockpit with his first bit of retribution.

Maybe just try to not run override in an LRM boat until you get into a situation where you really really need it, and even then use it only when you know you are going to die anyway since it might just get you one extra shot off, but usually its a death sentence from cockpit kills like this.

RNGesus, only one in the game with the Guillotine title.

Edit:
Would be nice if we could have gotten the expanded picture and were able to see where your heat was at.

Edited by Dakota1000, 05 February 2016 - 02:32 PM.

[adamts01]

Thunderbird Anthares, on 05 February 2016 - 02:29 PM, said:

wow, can you sound even more salty adam? im guessing you dont know how to duck

Just joking around. I LRM on occasion.

OP: That does suck. Super random. But **** happens. It's nothing to lose one's head over.

[Tyler Valentine]

Whoa. Weird.

[Mcgral18]

You touched over 100% with Override on.

RNGeesus decided you had to die for that. 20 damage randomly applied to your face, in this case, and 20>18.
RNGeesus plz


You only need to touch above 100% (even 100.1%) for the damage roll to be possible, and you lucked out.



This is Working as Intended™

[Tyler Valentine]

Mcgral18, on 05 February 2016 - 03:03 PM, said:

You touched over 100% with Override on.

RNGeesus decided you had to die for that. 20 damage randomly applied to your face, in this case, and 20>18.
RNGeesus plz


You only need to touch above 100% (even 100.1%) for the damage roll to be possible, and you lucked out.



This is Working as Intended™

He did "say" that he wasn't close to overheating but the screenshot and Mcgralogic say otherwise.

[Argann]

Essentially, you play stupid games - Win stupid prizes.

[Jack Booted Thug]

adamts01, on 05 February 2016 - 02:26 PM, said:

You're a filthy LRM boat, that's why. ,Lghtning struck you down just as you deserved.

LOL, you got that right!! Strike down the filth, the lazy, the sloven, right where they cower!!!

[RoboPatton]

Imagine how that must have been for the pilot!

Cooking like a steamed lobster.

[LT. HARDCASE]

Overriding with ammo in your head is.... not a wise decision. RNGesus preys on those margins.

[InspectorG]

"See, i never just did things to do them. Just jump up and LRM boat with ammo in my head. Now why would anyone overheat with LRM ammo in their head? Like its something to do? C'Mon i got a little more sense than that.
Yeah, i remember overheating with LRM ammo in my head."

[DAYLEET]

Shouldn't the overheat be where the weapons are?

[Cyborne Elemental]

Happens to me all the time in Clan mechs, Im already running hot and override to chainfire, maybe 80%-90% heat, torso gets blown out and heatcap drops sharply and BOOM heat hits 100% even for an instant. and its insta death.

There is always this weird delay too, I see my heat drop back down to like 98% or 96% and I still go boom, 9/10 is cockpit insta death.

F-Clan Mechs.. seriously.

Never seen or experience anything like what OP is showing here though.

Edited by Mister D, 05 February 2016 - 06:54 PM.

[Escef]

My guess is the OP was running one of those ludicrously over-the-top LRM builds (like the LRM100, 5xLRM20)and ghost heated himself, because even with 13 doubles an LRM50 (2xLRM10, 2xLRM15) won't insta-overheat you.

[Moldur]

That is a hilarious case of bad luck OP.

I once had a match where I was in a hellbringer raining absolute death. 80 something %, I peek over the dropship wreckage in frozen city and I get pegged straight in the head, death by headshot, guy didn't even hit me anywhere else. I get to the scoreboard and I still scored 700 something damage. It rained on my parade but I couldn't even be mad at such an amazing shot.

Your luck is still worse.

[Mcgral18]

DAYLEET, on 05 February 2016 - 06:46 PM, said:

Shouldn't the overheat be where the weapons are?

SHOULD, but this is RNGeesus.

[Navid A1]

So it is real.

4 days ago I had a friend in a match who died just like this... without even firing a weapon. looool.
I laughed at him and told him he may have overheated just a bit over 100%. He kept saying he was on 0% heat and I did not believe him.

He was in a dire wolf, he was in front of us, and we were moving to position and he just poped. He said it happened a few moments after he activated override.


This is some major bug.

Edited by Navid A1, 05 February 2016 - 07:26 PM.