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[Shrafe]

Using Ilya Muromets, I have spontaneously exploded with a dead center torso with near perfect armor condition twice now. Perhaps there have been hidden changes to ammo explosion chances or something? Is there any way to explain this with the new patch notes?

Ilya loadout is 3 UAC/5 with 3 medium lasers. The first time, I was on the Forest Colony map, at about 88% heat, the game registered this as a suicide. The second time I was destroyed, I was at about 30% heat, on the Frozen City map. I was shooting full blast and suddenly just exploded. The game credited the enemy with the kill.

I will be attempting to screenshot this behavior when it happens again, and will add screenshots to this post.

Edited by Niko Snow, 25 January 2013 - 09:48 AM.

[Taizan]

Moved this topic to patch feedback. Please try to reproduce / document this.

[Zenehre]

I actually had this happen to me once in a CAT-K2 where my CT just exploded and i still had armor on front and back showing yellow strength. Haven't been able to reproduce it though. Another possibly related incident, also in a CAT but i cant recall which variant i was in at the time, i was in a fight, died, and when i glanced down to see what my armor looked like it showed me still having armor and a red CT. No section was killed, yet i was dead. (no XL engine, and my head was still attached). Each of these occurrences happened only once, and neither myself nor the couple people i play with have had it happen again.

[FCMatt]

You take internal damage from overheating now guys. Double check that this isn't the problem first.

[sycocys]

Might be a lingering deal with last patch's not properly registering heat levels sometimes? Haven't had it happen yet, but definitely need more aware testing.

[Asmosis]

critical hits on legs will go up to RT/LT if theres nothing left to crit in the legs (same for arms). That might account for it too.

(it does look a lot like you overheated though) maybe heat threshold for damage is set too low?

Edited by Asmosis, 23 January 2013 - 11:35 PM.

[VXJaeger]

Cataphract is notorius by it's armor behaviour. Some days it's almost godlike, somedays even single blast from large lazer can explode CT. Just came back from a match, where my Ilya lost his fully untouched 50 armored shoulder by single dual-PPC hit.

Works as intented, nothing to see here.

Edited by VXJaeger, 24 January 2013 - 01:51 AM.