Is there a new glitch in town?
This afternoon my team came across a rogue group. We killed 3 of them pretty quickly, but the 4th member just couldn't be killed. I was running PM and put a really heavy bleed on him of 270K per tick. His health went down to just one bar remaining, but wouldn't go down any more even though I was still pumping bullets into him. Bleed damage numbers were still coming off him as well as the bullet damage numbers, but his health just wouldn't drop any further than having the single bar remaining. My team mate was also hitting him. This player then carried on face tanking us until the rest of his team re-spawned and eventually killed us. He was running Nomad.
Then this evening we've come across another player with exactly the same thing happening, again running Nomad. Only difference this time was the player was boasting over game chat " you'll never kill me."
Something is amiss here.
I thought I saw this happen yesterday, but thought at the time I must have been mistaken. After what has happened today it seems there's a new glitch raising it's ugly head.
Anybody else experienced this?
Not sure if this is related, but when you bleed some NPCs, they get the bleed icon when hit with a cluster seeker but take zero damage (which I posted about during the GE), and it happened quite often with the cluster seekers.
Of course it's and NPC vs a player but maybe there is something up with the bleed mechanics?
I don't think that's the problem. Even when I stopped shooting at him to target his returning team mates he still wasn't losing health even though he was still being shot by a team mate who wasn't running PM and wasn't bleeding him. All the time damage numbers were coming off these players but their health wouldn't drop any more once it was down to a single bar left.
Seen something similar in resistance - joined a team of two who were on about wave 13 (obviously friends from the chat) - their health would go down to the last bar but never lower regardless of how much they were facing and occasionally I'd die completely at random even between rounds followed by derisive laughter on voice from them (not sure what was going on there) - so I spectated them for a bit and noticed how they'd just face tank anything and their health was never going below the last bar. Unfortunately didn't note what setup they were using and don't really recognise gear properly from appearance anyhow.
I left at about wave 26 or 27 whichever one is the data breach - one was casually tanking everything while securing it while the other seemed AFK.
Did it look like something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9dHFNx0vJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_p7wjrEPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGGQ5As0zY
Pretty similar but I never saw them drop below the last health bar - other than that looked pretty much identical.
EDIT: its pretty much why I don't bother with the DZ and I can't see them sorting it without a complete overhaul of the game architecture - in my first few hours all I encountered were people who either just wanted me to kill them as quickly as possible so they could get back to PVE or people like that who were seemingly unfazed by a lot of damage but also seemed to do a ton to damage themselves.
Ive seen this a fair few times in DZ and LS modes. No matter how many times you hit the damage just doesnt go down - at all. It looks suspicious to me but without knowing the entire range of game mechanics the only thing I rely on is going back for more encounters. If I cannot kill that player over 5 or so encounters because the health just doesnt drop then I report them.
I guess it could be some sort of sync issue. If its some sort of fancy mechanics **** by combining a mask like enduring or something with some other talent then good luck to them. But I doubt the devs would let it lie if it were. Its too OP.
Those I've encountered never went below having 1 bar of health remaining. Just been reminded that it was 3 times we saw this yesterday. The two times I mentioned in the DZ and once in Skirmish. Three different players in one day and possibly one the day before. Something smells here and I don't think it's a one off glitch that's happened by accident which appears to have happened with the guy in the video where his health drops all the way down to nothing.
If I come across this today I'll be sure to save some video of it.