Bursters are still broken (forever)

[myheartislessthan3]

Issue Type (Required):

Enemy Mechanics

Issue Description (Required):

Back after an 8 month break because Skitarii looked real cool.

Bursters are currently my number one issueº with the game and make me not want to play. Pushing them is a coin flip as to whether it will matter. At this point if I see one and it’s not completely devoid of anything else around, I’ll just try to run away and let the team eat the jank, so at least one of us has health to carry through. Even then, they damage you from distances completely divorced from anything sensible. You can be close to them after push and you’re fine, but if one’s chasing you, the distance seems to not matter.

I have had multiple games end with bursters when everything else was no problem.

That the hot patch said they were fixed is the kind of gas lighting that made me drop the game.

º I haven’t dipped back into Havoc (yet?), as the modifiers just make me cringe, so I have no idea if that’s just an Error Code Mission Aborted festival still. In which case, that would be my number one issue.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Please play your game.

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Common (<50%)

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PC - Steam

[myheartislessthan3]

Perfect example dropped here:

1 burster, 1 player dies, 3 fly

A funny moment… sad and unique. [One dies, three fly (Darktide, FUNNY)]

[myheartislessthan3]

Another wipe. Two bursters coming together (because special spam). Pushing repeatedly only pushes one. The other is unpushable. Go down during clutch. Game over. Killed boss, reapers, crushers, everything in site. Double burster is MVP.

Burster pairs create unpushable burster

Issue Type (Required): Enemy Mechanics Issue Description (Required): Possibly one of the problems I’m seeing with bursters. When bursters come in pairs (due to special spam where you get the same enemy inside itself or very close together) and they both are targeting you, pushing only causes one of the pair to register the push. Doesn’t matter if you keep pushing after the first one is pushed back, the second one will not register the push and will throw itself on you. Steps to Reproduce (Req…

[DeathPointforYA]

Just to add clarification to the still persistent issues:

Sometimes it is impossible to push them away, so they just explode in your face. They also cannot be pushed if they are locked onto your teammate, and if your teammate does not push them away, you get blown to smithereens as well. Very occasionally, their explosion range also seems larger for some reason, so even if you do push them away, you still get blown up.

[URKA]

@myheartislessthan3

Another wipe. Two bursters coming together (because special spam). Pushing repeatedly only pushes one. The other is unpushable. Go down during clutch.

That happened to me, at least 3 times.

That should not happen. Because then, you have no defense against them.

The other option is another player to push the other burster???

LOL.

[myheartislessthan3]

@URKA

The other option is another player to push the other burster???

I’m not sure that would help because they were both targeting me and – as you probably know – when the burster isn’t targeting you, that likely means you can’t push it. So .. yeah. It’s terrible.

[URKA]

@myheartislessthan3

when the burster isn’t targeting you, that likely means you can’t push it.

I didn’t know it.

That is a non-sense.

Are you sure?

Then you can’t save teammates.

[MadMartigan]

Whatever they changed to bursters they need to roll back. I preferred it when bursters were just half broken. Now they are completely broken.

[URKA]

@MadMartigan

Whatever they changed to bursters they need to roll back. I preferred it when bursters were just half broken. Now they are completely broken.

+1

[Phracatti]

From another thread, the issue seem to be not getting the increased push window and distance unless the burster is targetting you, whereas you always got it during the ticking phase before, so when they come in pairs and only one of those is targetting you, things will go boom.