Issue Type (Required): Enemy Mechanics Issue Description (Required): Captain Void Shield Blast is One-Shotting/Damage through golden toughness, happens many to me, not the nearest to the captain, on a flat ground, nothing is hitting me Steps to Reproduce (Required): Fight a Void Captain in Havoc(…

Also reported here: [image] Captain & twins voidshield push attack oneshotting Bugs Issue Type (Required): Enemy Mechanics Issue Description (Required): As title states, the attack that pushes players back from captains and Rodin (not sure if Rinda ever does …

Damned ! They are learning after all this time getting bullied by us ! :sweat_smile:

Searched this down as it’s happened to me a couple times tonight as well. Downed instantly on both ogryn and arbiter, had upward of 90% health each time (and full toughness). First time was the regular assassination map target, second time was Karnak Twins.

As far as I can tell, the damage template is falling_heavy, so fall damage. Another player at this specific frame took ~10 damage, which matches what was happening in-game [image]

Edit: Seem the fall damage I managed to recreate was from the explosion when capt. does his arms out knockback attack, the void shield explosion. [image] [image] Which lines up with the vid right? [image] [image] So it’s not the shield break per se, it’s the t-pose arms and chest out knoc…

Even though the mechanics behind it is a little different, it’s still giving me clipping-into-the-killbox-under-the-map from Vermintide 2 flashbacks.

Yeah I think you’re right, I forgot about VT 2 stuff, and the nearby stairs/grills, sand piles and greeblies are sus. Split second b4 Verbal ate it: [image] That 1st room down the steps after pushing the 1st button in Relay Station (after lift) seems to be a good testing area, or it just may be …

Seems to be much more common when someone has been rescued recently. Had a game where two players were rescued in the same room as a captain and got one-shot by the shield soon after.

I suspect this is perhaps unrelated and a mere coincidence, I was able to sometimes reproduce it in the tests I mentioned above with bots, often de-spawning them and re-spawning them.

Captain Void Shield Blast is One-Shotting/Damage

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myheartislessthan3 May 27, 2025, 6:31am 2

Also reported here:

And it happened again to me a couple of days ago.

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Captain Void Shield Blast is One-Shotting/Damage

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