Rifleman Archive
Thread: I REALLY hate the AoE corpse bug
/sigh you would think SOE would fix a known issue that is considered an exploit rather then banning people who might actually think it is a special. I deleated my combat tag so I had no idea. I was always using flurry shot II then switching to pistol to dizzy KD the genosians for some "easy" kills. Never realised this was an exploit
So the people that can fix this know about it right? This has got to be fixed quicker than the +2.5x melee thing...
Nerutef wrote:So the people that can fix this know about it right? This has got to be fixed quicker than the +2.5x melee thing...
yes they know about it. when the correspondent forum was open to all i saw a dev post on that topic. but it should still be /bugged when you see it happening include waypoint and planet and galaxy.
That's it, you are outta here. I mean expecting us to fix bugs that causes massive damage when it isn't supposed to. Who do you think we are?"
PsychoticChipmunk wrote:How can they ban people for being the unwilling part of a bug?"How dare you use that special that is not really working right!
things like that come down to judgement calls on their part. this is why they dont post lists of known bugs. its kinda catch-22. since this thing has become such common knowledge the csr are less liekly to listen to the excuse of "i was just standing there..." im not defneding csrs or anything i am just trying to help the honest among us not to be a victim of such things. if corpses are piling up in a area stop using AOE attacks or move to a different area. this will prevent you from becoming a victim of mistaken identity.
i just hope they fix thing fast. it should be one of their top priorties. abuse of this bug can generate millions of weapon XP an hour for no risk. that is why it is considered an exploit. just dont put urself in the situation and move away from such activity and no worries.
sorry guys but this never happened to me...
Iuse AoE specials (as we all do) and my tactic is to send my pet to hit a lair to take out all the mobs... when all are around my pet, i shoot and with strafe they fall quite quickly... but the damages are not like those in the screenshots!!... i mean, they are around 2000 dmg... obviously the mobs are dead around my pet and keep appearing from the lair, so i shoot into that area, but never experienced that...
maybe it isan aleatory bug?? or maybe i am missing something?
I was in the geno caves, using adv strafe as i always have done against multiple mobs, when some guy comes up and shouts "you do know you're exploiting don't you". And i'm like "hey?, what the heck are you babbling about?" Then he says "of course you do, what am i thinking" and walks off. Which leaves me stunned, standing there thinking what the heck i've done to deserve this from a stranger?
Being the "honest" non-exploiting type, i get a bit worried, thinking i've stumbled onto some sort of exploit, so i head to the forums and see if i can find anything. That's when i read about the AOE bug/exploit and i start to panic, thinking i HAVE been exploiting without knowing it. So i put in a ticket to see what's what. Netx day i get a CSR reply to my ticket ingame and we have a chat. He's never heard of this bug/exploit so i tell him what little i know about it and end result is him telling me there's nothing wrong.
I'm still less than sure about the issue, but why should i drop my best attack, an attack i worked hard to get at master, just because they MAY be a bug in the game?
Added to this, it seems the geno's are using exactly the same bug/exploit on players!!! The number of times i've been dropped by one, in ONE shot, whilst fully buffed/healed and in armour is quite scary. Not a place for the faint hearted.
(I can solo these things as a melee but then I get no rifle xp). These are much better xp then pikets (which I probably can't kill yet anyways) simply because there is no travel involved, I always know where the next one will be and I don't have to wait very long for it to be there. Plus I feel much more like a sniper when I am shooting these things from 50-60m while other people tank then if I was running around like a headless chicken hoping my next shot would finally take out the quenker.
.Lol, I'd like to see how fast a CSR would show up after that.
Bamoo wrote:
It happens to more than just riflemen. It really hurtsMelee classesas you want to kill all things around you not just 1 target. The simple fix is to move out of the area and shoot/attack in a new area with no corpses. You could always go to dantoonine and kill pickets why must you get your xp in the caves? You could also use Mind Shots and headshots.
Hehe.....I'd like to agree, but there are quite a few corpses that don't have any loot and they stay even after you loot them. If I'm tring to clear out a spawn and the corpses pile up, I shouldn't have to move over. I hadn't noticed the bug yet, just thought the lag was horrible in the geo cave. That would explain how people were killing the spawns before I could even get 1 shot in. I was using SS2, it's my #1 multiple target killer......I'm not about to resort to picking them off 1 by 1 while 6 are aggroing me. SOE needs to just fix it and not accuse people of exploiting. They broke it, not us. I want the loot from those mobs so I'm gonna try to kill as many as possible by using my ss2 shot. I'm not looking to make the bug work in my favor.....it's gotten me killed several times...........but I'm not about to forfeit using my specials just because of it either.