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[l33tworks]

I got insta killed by some srms etc. And for about 50ms my paper doll flashed and I had the mad cat missile bay ears. Like some remnants from old programming remained and reared its head for a split second during the destruction.

[Athom83]

Likely something flashed on the field that lined up perfectly with your paper doll (like someone TAGing you in the cockpit for example).

[l33tworks]

Athom83, on 13 November 2017 - 05:32 AM, said:

Likely something flashed on the field that lined up perfectly with your paper doll (like someone TAGing you in the cockpit for example).

wtf no. The paper doll had mad cat style missile launchers on its paper doll aka ears. I'm sure of it.

[Dirt Bag Don]

If you ever play an incursion game and your team has no mechs left and your camera is on your base you can click the spectate arrow ">" and the screen will flicker. Look at the paper doll in the bottom left when it does flicker. Click that spectate arrow repeatedly and you will see that each time the screen flickers the paper doll lights up for a moment and that paper doll indeed has the "ears" you speak of. I will try to post a screen shot of it after I get home tonight, assuming nobody else has.

Yes the missile ear paper doll does exist but not used in game for anything that I am aware of. You did see it.

[Alex Morgaine]

Just a pre beta artifact. They may have had plans ala mw4 where extremely stuck out equipment would have it's own life so side torsos won't be insta gibbed by the part betting hit even thought the damage point is no way connected to the torso itself

[Scout Derek]

Can confirm what you say is indeed Mad Cat ears.

In the making of The Timberwolf, it was decided that it's ears were not to be separate hitboxes, as they were experimenting with how they would be able to implement new types of hitboxes. examples of such were the archer and the catapults missile covers.

While they weren't implemented into the game, they were apart of the mech doll status, as it was done first, but then left be and removed from the game, but not from the shutdown flash.

Many people have seen this, and it is not removed simply because it's rarely seen during a overheated shutdown. Think of it as an easter egg if you'd like.

[Mcgral18]

Yeah, they've been there for 5 years, since the vvvvvvvvvv bug days

Never used, however

[Navid A1]

That particular UI design is very old. It shows that at some point in time (before closed beta), it was being considered.
It remained like this either because PGI was not going to bother altering the UI, or... they couldn't figure out the original UI code after some time!

[Alex Morgaine]

Actually looks a little like a warhammer with a pod on each shoulder too...

[Tier5 Kerensky]

In some considions you can see pretty much everything on the hud lit up. Every different element and marker it can have. I've seen it few times.

That's because the hud is not drawn by main game client but separate code called by it. I think it's maybe something like if you reconnect to live mech, it will draw everything as it doesn't yet have received data about which element should be drawn lit and what not. I can't remember when I've seen it but it's rare.

It's funny how similiar it is to many devises with liquid crystal screens, when turned on will have all lit up. You know those old kind of screens with fixed form crystals instead of generic pixels. On computer screen it looks more like made up gimmic but it's clearly unintentional side effect of some conditions.


Oh, just as I was writing this, Navid A1 posted a screenshot of exactly what I referred.

And has anyone seem the monster on viridian bog? It's kinda eastern egg too.

Edited by Teer Kerensky, 13 November 2017 - 01:31 PM.

[Nema Nabojiv]

l33tworks, on 13 November 2017 - 04:11 AM, said:

I got insta killed by some srms etc. And for about 50ms my paper doll flashed and I had the mad cat missile bay ears. Like some remnants from old programming remained and reared its head for a split second during the destruction.

Probably the veil between the worlds got thin and you saw a ghost image from parallel dimension where PGI did proper missile pods as separate locations, didn't do ghost heat and 12v12. And MWO there has about 500 thousand active players.

[l33tworks]

Navid A1, on 13 November 2017 - 12:19 PM, said:

That particular UI design is very old. It shows that at some point in time (before closed beta), it was being considered.
It remained like this either because PGI was not going to bother altering the UI, or... they couldn't figure out the original UI code after some time!

Haha yea thanks for posting. I managed to catch that in real time cos I was looking at my paper doll as I was being shot.

Now here is another thing I have seen i wonder if anyone could find.

Sometimes in place of the crosshair a Skull and crossbones has appeared. Like A synmbol like this but ive only seen it for a frame or two. I think it happened when you overheat.

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