abilites not working

TonicLove

don't even know if this is the right place to post this but here goes

loaded MA tonight...and I don't know how many time my abilities failed to register any damage...

like guns...you get the ability sitting waiting to activate...then it does, but no damage whatsoever

I had a combo of piston kicks machine guns fist and something else ( not in order, cant remember how it went down), but all three went as if there were working...but no damage.

anyone else get same problem?

**Pylat**

There's two types of bugs like this. First is the animation bug where the ability missed but the animation happens, you'll get the red flash in your hotbar, the reuse timer kicks in and it will say your abil missed in the system chat. That's just an animation bug and well known by the devs.

The second is more annoying cause you get a green flash in your hotbar confirming the attack hit, you lose IS and the animation happens but they don't take any damage. The reuse timer doesn't start and nothing is said in system chat, apart from the loss of IS it's as if nothing ever happened and that combat round never happened. Yes I have noticed this bug happening more often recently, I'm using spy and it seems to happen the most with Leg Sweep.

**MatrixRefugee**

I've had this happen with my gun abils in Interlock, and oddly enough, the way to get them to work again was to activate a consumable weapon (ie. Holy water, silver bullet, wooden stake) even if the target wasn't an Exile. Found it out by accident, and it was very strange...

The Leo

Pylat wrote:

There's two types of bugs like this. First is the animation bug where the ability missed but the animation happens, you'll get the red flash in your hotbar, the reuse timer kicks in ~~and it will say your abil missed in the system chat~~. That's just an animation bug and well known by the devs.

The second is more annoying cause you get a green flash in your hotbar confirming the attack hit, you lose IS and the animation happens but they don't take any damage. The reuse timer doesn't start and nothing is said in system chat, apart from the loss of IS it's as if nothing ever happened and that combat round never happened. Yes I have noticed this bug happening more often recently, I'm using spy and it seems to happen the most with Leg Sweep.

The first thing happens when both opponents use an ability for that roll and both abilities roll exactly the same value. It no longer happens against block as it used to. It's also shows as ---------------- in system chat.

The second one I haven't seen in a while (as MA or hacker), but happens moast often when I am a gunman.