Captain shield pulse instantly downs players randomly for no reason

Issue Type (Required):

Enemy Mechanics

Issue Description (Required):

enemy captains will sometimes instantly down a random player hit by it for no real reason

also please give us map, mutator, rank and server (why dont we have this???) selection, i never want to play blight spreads again
also remove deranking

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

  1. play a map with captains (works in havoc, unsure about the more fun gamemode)
  2. get instantly downed by captain shield burst

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Rare (<10%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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he does that pulse when he gets lower than half shield, he always did that, you can even see him doing the ‘‘come at me bro’’ animation

on shieldbreak instead of making that animation he falls prone

the reason why we don’t get that animation + pulse very often is because we take down the shield so fast that he can’t start it in time

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i know but the issue is him randomly downing me with it

oh, shoot, i didn’t notice that, its true now that you mention it, it happens sometimes

happened to me, now its serious, funny thing i still had my yellow toughness but it didn’t save me

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Here’s another video on Reddit: Reddit - The heart of the internet

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same fight


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You think it might be a new havoc feature? Randomly kill a player 1% of the time with each shield burst?


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Three months later and still no fix


Will this ever get fixed?


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Happened today 10/10/2025 fighting Karnak Twins on malice

@FatsharkJulia can we get an estimate of when this will be fixed? it’s been at least 5 months

The interesting attack:
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All jokes aside, Captains do need some lovin’

Could also have Scab Captain pop a smoke grenade, go invisible and do a stealth attack on a random player.

honestly give that to twins. They already pop smoke during their mission, just make it an attack they do when they take enough damage that resets their shield health too.

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Smoke stealth could be an interesting attack for Rinda Karnak to be used with her dash attack. Her popping smoke would be the visual cue that she’s about to dash a player. Rodin could get other grenade types than just pox gas, like shock mines or frags.

I bet someone who write the code is part troll and thinks its hilarious until they find out.

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