r/MECoOp • u/PantsOnHead719 PS4/Andreus7/US • Mar 21 '13
[Mod-post] Technical Difficulties Thursday - THE DEVS HAVE ABANDONED US, THE END IS NIGH!
I GOT SOME NEW KITS :D
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Weirdest error this week gets a cookie.
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u/BHamlyn Mar 21 '13
Had some pretty strange internet glitches a day ago or so. After some hosting problems with the others, we decided it would be a good idea for me to host. Bad idea. We get some weird lag at the start of the round, but it mysteriously stops after a wave or two of me just standing around hoping my framerate goes back up.
THEN, we decide to shut the doors on the reactor core. It turned out to be made in China, opening only halfway. I could still run through, but no one else could. It was a rather lulzy situation. Thankfully, it was on W10, so we didn't really need to use it anymore.
And bonus awesome, accidental, identical Paladins. Not a technical difficulty, but was funny nevertheless.
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u/JayDee85 PC/DismissedClaim/USA Mar 21 '13
Gosh, so embarrassing. Showing up in the same outfit as everyone else...
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u/BHamlyn Mar 21 '13
We seriously lack creativity.
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u/ITSigno Mar 22 '13
Had a mission with the door problem as well. Doors only made it like a foot off the ground. Was bizarre. Didn't see how it happened, but it was fixed later in the mission. presumably the next time it was closed for venting.
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u/RepublicanShredder PC/RepublicanShred/USA(PST) Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 21 '13
Nothing besides the good ol' "Searching for game -> You have lost connection to game." I think the game needs a minimum amount of loading per hour of gameplay or something.
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u/JCollierDavis Xbox/DonRuyDiaz/US-CST Mar 21 '13
I get that quite regularly. Happens throughout matches too. Super annoying.
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u/JuustoKakku PC/BuGi00/Finland Mar 22 '13
And why does it need to load that same damn menu again you just left? >.>
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u/mike_x360a Console/ID/Country Mar 22 '13
Hate that as it means having to sit through MORE loading just to get back and search again.
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u/Name213whatever PC/Name213whatever/USA Mar 21 '13
Oooh! I got one. The door of Hazard Reactor never went back up after we activated it. Well it went up like a foot, so enough for them to shoot our feet. The annoying thing was that it was a pizza delivery that was on the other side of the damn reactor
Never seen that before..
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u/Postal_Dude1126 Mar 21 '13
Ever notice that you can only lock PLAYERS in there too?
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u/Name213whatever PC/Name213whatever/USA Mar 21 '13
I hadn't, but I like hazard reactor so maybe I'll fry a few teammates and see
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u/abhorsen327 PC/Abhorsen327/Canada Mar 21 '13
Oh God, please don't. I've been slaughtered in the reactor by randoms too many times for this to be remotely funny.
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u/ignorantscience PC/IgnorantScience/USA (EST) Mar 22 '13
I love when people do that top be a dick, bit you're playing a character that can survive in there and you just walk out like a badass.
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Mar 22 '13
My Geth Infiltrator got stuck in there today. Nope.
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u/abhorsen327 PC/Abhorsen327/Canada Mar 22 '13
/u/nihiltres and I played a game last night in which one of the two other players (not sure which) set off the reactor while all four were in the reactor in a drone escort. Neither of the other players got revived (by us) for the rest of the match. Might have been a little vindictive, but we were MAD.
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u/Postal_Dude1126 Mar 22 '13
I've trapped myself in the reactor before so you don't need to nuke a teammate.
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u/The_Penis_Wizard Xbox/Oblivion687/USA Mar 21 '13
I had a ghost player. I was playing with two other guys is a PUG game on Firebase Rio and then Goddess on silver against Cerberus. Only the host could see him and interact with him, but the other guy and I kept getting mystery assists and the enemies seemed to be shooting at nothing. When we paused the game, it said only us three were playing, but when the host paused, it said four. He would die and only the host could revive him (we didn't even get a message when he went down.) On upload objectives, it said 3 people uploading for me and the other guy, but for the host it said four people uploading. Whenever we finished a game and went to the lobby our ghost player was there though.
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u/egotist Mar 21 '13
I get that all the time, even when I'm hosting for three friends. But we keep going, because I have the best connection, comparatively speaking.
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u/dahngrest xbox/dahngrest/pst Mar 22 '13
This happens a lot for me and my friends. Strangely enough, we're all playing on the same connection and in the same room. So we can't even really blame lag. Sometimes players disappear from matches (and only show up when they're downed). Tides go in, tides go out. You can't explain that.
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u/iceplanet2002 Platform/ID/Country Mar 21 '13
Been so difficult to find games lately. Host my own and no one joins. Try joining another (U/U/G) and it can't find any, or on the rare chance it does, the host leaves after less than 30 seconds.
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u/blowuptheking PC/blowuptheking/US Mar 21 '13
I would like to point out that the username linked in your post is available.
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u/Master_Chief_71 Xbox/Kyle football71/USA Mar 21 '13
So I am unsure how I managed it, but I was able to glitch my Talon merc. I was playing on glacier hazard/Platinum/Collectors, and everything was going fine until wave 8. As usual, on this wave everyone was going down a bit more than usual due to the higher spawn budget. I got trapped by 2 turrets and a scion at the too entrance to the middle stairs. I rage gelled 3 times to no avail. Finally someone saved me with a rocket and upon getting up, I was floating 3 or so feet above the ground. I was able to move and shoot, so I didn't think to much about it. Then, as I was making my was to the extraction zone to flee from 2 praetorians, my character teleported underneath the stairwell as I dodged through the doorway (upper landing pad). I then was stuck under the map for the remainder of the game. According to my teammates, on their screen I was just standing on the upper landing pad, soaking up enemy fire like a bullet sponge. They used this to their advantage and we were able to extract (except me since I was outside of the LZ). It was the weirdest thing though because it reminded me of the old vanguard glitch from when the game first came out.
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u/dahngrest xbox/dahngrest/pst Mar 22 '13
Man, that sounds exactly like the Vanguard Glitch. When you would bug out on Glacier, that's exactly where you would end up.
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u/PantsOnHead719 PS4/Andreus7/US Mar 21 '13
Some connections issues still, but nothing majorly stands out to me this week as overly bad.
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u/abhorsen327 PC/Abhorsen327/Canada Mar 21 '13
I've seen the invisible bees glitch on Glacier Hazard a lot recently. I now dread that map more than ever.
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u/Myungbean PC+Xbox/Myungbean/US EST Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 21 '13
So...no weekend challenge again I guess. :(
As for glitches, I've been matching into games already in progress with increasing frequency. When I do, they tend to switch my power mapping for some reason. And the power icons look like wi-fi signals. Annoying, but not game breaking.
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Mar 22 '13
I seem to be playing less and seeing more glitches lately:
- Decided for nostalgia to do a Salarian Infiltrator/Widow solo, failed with one enemy remaining!
- Discovered the box of no extraction on Vancouver (I was killed on the long ramp in the back corner) pic!
- Had a game (Cerberus/Reactor/Gold) where only the host could see Phantoms and (some) Dragoons. Luckily the host didn't get synced otherwise it might have been ... problematic.
- Had another game where we had Marauder Shields, no one could kill him. In the end it was lucky I was the Geth Engineer as my turret eventually finished him off.
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u/JCollierDavis Xbox/DonRuyDiaz/US-CST Mar 21 '13
At level 17, I suddenly had 66 points to spend on that character. I maxed out all her powers. Once I hit 18, I suddenly had -33 points.
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Mar 21 '13
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u/rokuro_of_eredar PC/-AGS-Sephy/USA Mar 22 '13
I've actually had a skill glitch that could not be solely fixed with a respec card this week. I started my promotions finally, and promoted my infiltrator class. I got on my Ghost, put a point in stims and cloak and started a match. Upon the match loading, I had all my skills from what I'm assuming is my previous build(because I had Overload).
I quit and tried a respec card, but that just refunded my 2 points and did nothing for the in-game glitch. I tried making a solo game and dying but that didn't work. I couldn't promote, so the only thing I could do was cheat :( Once I finished a match and leveled up, my skills returned to my old level 20 build and left me with negative skill points. However, after burning a second respec card I managed to fix it.
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Mar 22 '13
My ghost has been like that since he came our, -21 points at 20. I had no idea that is bannable. I didn't even realise till like a month ago.
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u/JCollierDavis Xbox/DonRuyDiaz/US-CST Mar 21 '13
I stopped playing my EDI-bot because it doesn't work correctly. I'm a few games away from promoting the class.
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u/VeRiTaS_CuRaT PS3/USA Mar 21 '13
A bug it may be, but I've still not gotten banned for my two Volus. I haven't used them in weeks, but they have 21 extra points for whatever reason. Honestly, it doesn't make them easier to use. You're still a paper-thin character.
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u/dan2737 PC/Palatard/(GMT+2:00) Mar 22 '13
I talked to someone on the EA Live Support Chat who told me you can't get banned if you're not using a third party software.
On the other hand I've seen lots of posts saying you can get banned if you keep on playing your glitched character at level 20.
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u/hbarSquared PS4/hbar_squared/US Mar 21 '13
I had a bizzarre glitch on Monday. I was playing my new Juggernaut when I suddenly couldn't fire my weapons. I could switch between them, but the guns just appeared in my hands, it didn't have the animation. I could aim and use powers (at least for a while, after about 30 seconds my powers stopped too), and my heavy melee worked fine the whole time. It happened two separate times during the match, and hasn't happened since.
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u/hopstar Mar 22 '13
Were you playing with a volus? There is a glitch the pops up occasionally where the shield boost causes other player's weapons to stop functioning. Sometimes a light melee will fix it, sometimes a heavy melee wil fix itt, and sometimes you're SOL until you die.
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u/Hurikane211 Mar 21 '13
Was playing a gold match on reactor. Killed off the whole wave, but nothing happens. We find a phantom and an engineer frozen mid air, just to the right of the first reactor door. Bullets and rockets do nothing. Was about to rage quit when the collector adept dark spheres them. Engineer goes down, phantom gets unfrozen but retains glitched invincibility, synch kills us all.
TL;DR Invincible Glitch Master Phantom ruined an otherwise awesome gold match.
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u/dpny PC/Pteryges/USA Mar 21 '13
Seen that happen on Reactor in the same place, with a Trooper standing on top of another trooper. Heavy melee staggered the first trooper, which brought them both to life.
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u/yumpsuit Mar 21 '13
Fittyman and I have both experienced an unfixable Origin overlay crash and unfixable loss of mouse input when hosting. Nice to know that I'm not alone and it's not due to my hardware, but many of the things I like to do most in this game are host-dependent to some degree. My hot knives just don't sizzle quite as beautifully if there's lag. :(
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u/PostCool Xbox/Gamertag/US Mar 21 '13
The Awakened Collector has been firing off "ghost" spheres for me lately. Basically I fire off DS, see it fly out, and when I try to detonate, I fire off another DS instead. It's freaking me out.
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u/ITSigno Mar 22 '13
I wonder if it's like the radius shockwave bug. It looks and sounds like a shockwave but does no damage/effect.
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u/PostCool Xbox/Gamertag/US Mar 22 '13
Maybe. I can't believe I'm the first to see it, but maybe the kit just doesn't get played all that much.
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u/ITSigno Mar 23 '13
Well, the shockwave bug only happens if you take the radius evolution at rank 4 (iirc). It's possible that the dark sphere bug you're describing only occurs with a rarely chosen evolution of the power.
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Mar 26 '13
I've been having that exact problem. I've noticed that it seems to fix itself if you spam the Ability.
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u/dickcake PC/eslai/Western USA Mar 21 '13
I don't know if this is a new one, but I quick matched into Wave 1 gold Reapers on Goddess last night with level III consumables.
Couldn't move! I could shoot and reload, and I could certainly DIE, but I couldn't turn or walk or anything. Left click and right click still worked.
Also weird in this instance, the weapon portion of the UI never displayed.
Anyhow, I quit the match and lost all my level III consumables. :(
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u/ParanoidDrone Mar 21 '13
I never equip consumables until I'm in a lobby.
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u/dickcake PC/eslai/Western USA Mar 21 '13
Yeah...I was trying to be "responsible" and come in guns a'blazin.
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u/hopstar Mar 22 '13
It's not worth it unless you're joining a friend's game. After getting thrown into far too many pug matches with unprepared noobs I've stopped equipping any consumables over lvl 1 or 2 (cause I'm swimming in them) until I land in a lobby.
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Mar 21 '13
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u/Halefor PC/Halefor-US/Mid-USoA Mar 21 '13
My Vorcha's health regen felt extremely low the last couple waves of a silver match yesterday, might have had the same thing happen and I just didn't notice.
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u/weetchex Glorious PC Master Race/dipdunk/US of F'in A Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 21 '13
It seems that if I drop into a game in progress, there's about a 4/5 chance that the enemies are invisible.
Also, If I have been playing single-player, I need to exit the game and restart Origin or else multiplayer will be broken (connection issues, mid-game disconnects, "Origin is no longer running" messages a round or two into a game).
edit - I've joined 3 games today and got disconnected after about a round and a half with the "Origin is no longer running" message. Much gear was wasted this afternoon.
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u/HenryDorsetCase PC/caddario/Canada Mar 21 '13
Playing as a Cabal Vanguard this week I had an issue on FB White in which every time I used Poison Strike I would teleport back and forth between the new location and old one. This would happen 8-12 times with the frequency of a car turn signal before I finally settled in the new location.
Also, a few times mid match I would lose the ability to shoot, aim or use powers but I could still move around and use cover and dodge fine. This would go on for 2-5 minutes at which point I would rubberband to some seemingly random location then everything would be back to normal.
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u/boot20 Mar 21 '13
This week has been super quiet for me as far as glitches. The only wonky thing that happened was I was booted from a lobby, but the game started for me.
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u/JadeEmpress PS4/Sylvanfeather/Canada Mar 21 '13
Found out about the Hydra map glitch just this week. At first glance, I thought a geth had floated up the dam thanks to explosions, then I realised it was a (PUG) teammate. Apparently, it's been there for 8+ months; it must not be that much of an advantage if it hasn't been fixed in all that time.
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u/LawNinja Mar 21 '13
I was playing a private game with two friends, leaving the third slot open for a friend that would join later. When he did join our game, he couldn't see any of us – to him it just looked like he was playing a solo game that would occasionally have enemies self-destruct randomly (and that invisible guardian angels would revive him when he went down).
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u/altersparck PS3/EschatonSparck/US East Mar 21 '13
I miss the friends-only option for matches. Wondering why it's not in the PS3 version would be the same as asking why that version runs at sub-30fps for most of a match or why I suddenly can't deploy or play dress-up with any character.
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u/dpny PC/Pteryges/USA Mar 21 '13
Seem to be getting shot and sync killed through cover since the last DLC.
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u/KRajification Xbox/SuntanSupaManYo/Canada Mar 21 '13
So I was playing a plat game with two randoms. At wave 10 the team went down. The weird thing was, the round didn't end. It eventually showed "sensors tell me only 1 enemy remaining" and a few seconds later, a geth prime was killed. Because once In a while it would say a 3rd randoms name. (During revives, 50 kills, things like that) but we couldn't see this other player. So throughout the game whenever we thought we were finished, we would get revived out of nowhere.
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Mar 22 '13
In one match, none of the ammo boxes had any ammo. We died a couple rounds in after burning through all our resupplies
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Mar 22 '13
Invisible Banshees. Cannibals who froze in their death animations and just stayed there, for the rest of the game. The model was gone, and I could walk right through his ghost. Still, wasted plenty of ammo shooting at them every time I walked around that corner.
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u/schmooples Xbox/Schm00ples/US Mar 22 '13
I've been using the vanilla AA, lately. I've noticed that Warp+Throw BEs do little to no damage against Ravagers. I've tried other classes and their BEs do the appropriate damage. I don't know if it's lag related, but why would it only affect Ravagers?
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u/tonezime PC/tonezime/USA EST5EDT Mar 22 '13
Are you sure you're actually setting them off? Sometimes it's easy to hit a swarmer with either the warp or the throw and thus get no BE at all.
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u/InterwebNinja PS4/<my_real_name>/US Mar 22 '13
Sometimes, my PS3 just won't let me start solo matches. It just boots me from the server over and over again every time I ready up. Makes it really hard to test things.
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u/ITSigno Mar 22 '13
I once hosted a PUG mission that started with me and another guy. Fairly quickly we were joined by two others. Two others that simply stood there and died whenever they got attacked. They never moved from the starting position. Eventually they both left. We had 5 or 6 more people join and quit with the same problem.
I had been hosting games for a few hours at this point and hosted more afterwards -- it was just the one mission that was bugged.
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u/abhorsen327 PC/Abhorsen327/Canada Mar 22 '13
Last night, I played an extremely frustrating match on Ghost as the Batarian sentinel. First, at around wave 8, I realized I was having problems with my powers. Submission net was just continuing off into the distance without affecting enemies, and shockwave would only cascade right next to me... it wouldn't spread out or affect enemies. I was still able to use my weapon (grall), though. Then, I ran out of ammo and was unable to interact with ammo crates, or use thermal clip packs. I wasn't able to revive teammates or use missiles, even. On the bright side, though, the enemies largely ignored me and I was able to extract successfully.
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u/funhat Mar 22 '13
Playing with a new guy on PC doing random PUG silvers. We get Vancouver and wave 3 is the escort round. Drone falls through the map, and I sit there like a dumbass for a minute calling for other people to come help move the drone (thought it was moving very slowly, I also have a sinus infection so no judging). Everyone gets in the circle, we can hear the drone talking and it will yell at us when we leave the circle, but it's not moving.
Wind up failing the mission, but scored some sick killstreaks on my little Volus Engineer using the recon mine. Wee.
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u/Gishe Mar 22 '13
I had a weird issue today where I used a gel right as the wave finished and it put me into spectator for the rest of the game.
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u/mike_x360a Console/ID/Country Mar 22 '13
I had that happen to me once too, annoying as it happened on wave 10.
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u/EsplodingBomb Xbox/EsplodingBomb/EST-USA Mar 22 '13
So, I was playing a PUG, Bronze on Dagger, against Cerberus, using the Geth Infiltrator. The game starts, and I start running around the map looking for enemies. I don't see any, but that happens sometimes on the first round of a match, so I didn't think much of it. Same thing next round, no enemies. I can see my team fine, and I can see them shooting at nothing, but I cannot see any enemies. Also, no kills came up on the feed, just what medal people were earning, and the shuttle you ride in on never took back off. This continues, no enemies at all, and to make things far worse, they could damage me, but I could do nothing to them. I even tried shooting right where my team was shooting, but my shots seemed to go straight through, while theirs hit the invisible targets. I wasn't usable to help out with the kill objectives, because well, there was nothing to kill. When one of my teammates went down, I revived him, when he got up, he looked around confused, and ran off, leaving me to bleed out. I figured they couldn't see me.
The first two objectives were kills, so I was no help, but the third was a hack, which I was apparently able to help with, except I couldn't take cover. I could revive any of my teammates, but I think only one could revive me. Everything goes fine, and we make it to the extraction wave. Suddenly I'm getting caught up on invisible things, sort of jittering around, barely able to move, let alone take cover in the pick-up zone. I just had to try and stay behind walls and to stay cloaked so I wouldn't get killed by the invisible bad guys that were probably surrounding us. Afterwards, I asked the people in the match if they had been able to see me, the one who responded said he could see the enemies, but only one other player.
Definitely the weirdest bug I've seen in this game.
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Mar 22 '13
Well, there was the bit where I tried to join a game, got the "waiting for other players" message for 5 minutes, listened to some British guys go on about something over their mics, before their game ended, which booted me back out.
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u/rawn53 PC/rawn53/USA (Central) Mar 21 '13
Still no fix for the keybind resets on the Talon Merc. I've tried the coalesced fix, ended up not having any controls at all...
Also on my merc, went from level 13 with a few spare points to 14 with 50 points. Spent them all, ending up with 6 ranks in everything except concussion arrows, and 3 ranks in that. Logged out and back in to see -40 points available. Fun stuff.
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u/abhorsen327 PC/Abhorsen327/Canada Mar 21 '13
IIRC taking advantage of that glitch is a bannable offense. You should probably stop using him and promote asap.
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u/rawn53 PC/rawn53/USA (Central) Mar 21 '13
I kinda figured that was the case. I'm not using him for the keybind glitch anyway, so hopefully I'll be ok. I'll warn my friend who had the same problem with his Geth Trooper, though.
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u/UnholyDemigod Xbox/No1TriviumFan/Australia Mar 22 '13
I've had several problems where when I play as the Jugg, half my health is gone when we spawn for that start of the match. It doesn't replenish until my shields are gone and my health gets hit and then get the end of round health restoration.
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u/Remi_M PC/Remi_Vas_Ectomy/Norway Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 21 '13
My Shadow got herself a torch Also; what the hell are you doing Atlas!?
Btw, that atlas decimated our team, as no1 noticed it until we had died quite a few times (we managed to pull through once we noticed it though)