I noticed this months ago, but never asked on the forums. Often times when I fast travel to a location, people standing on the teleport spot, will start spontaneously shooting.
It happens a lot.
-You teleport it
-1-2 folks empty their clips.
-they don't move or anything.
They just empty their clip when I tp in.
Why is this?
I also hate when I teleport and continue to take damage from the enemies where I was even after I load into the new location. Also, kind of sick of loading in dead after teleporting. Why is my character taking damage while I am in the load screen?
It's not limited to fast traveling to a location. It also happens when someone is interacting with a vendor. It's not actually happening, i.e the player isn't actually firing their weapon, that's just how they appear in your client viewer. I don't know if they're aware of it or are doing anything to fix it but I don't think an otherwise harmless bug is high on the development teams priority list.
The damage when fast traveling is a sort of latency issue. When the loading screen is up your character is still at their original location taking additional damage. The damage you see your player taking when it spawns at the fast travel location is the delayed manifestation of the additional damage you took from the other location. I've seen it in other games. It's unlikely to change. You just have to make sure that you've moved out of the hostile area first or accept that you may have to use your revive option if you're in too much of a hurry to do so.
People shooting automatic weapons into the vendors truck
http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...ghlight=vendor
Personally, most of the time for me, on PC "fast travel" leaves me some time to go and check facebook updates, emails etc. while I wait for the loading screen to finish. When I click on the window to get back to playing defiance I will fire one round from my weapon. Most of the time not an issue, although I hate firing a detonator or RL inside Top-Notch, and once or twice I may have pulled a volge emergency to Iron Demon (but you cant prove that!)
Like I said this accounts for 1 round, not a whole clip.
IMHO its something that happens in all MMO's give people a place to stand they will occasionally fire off their AR, cast Fireball, /dance, no need to look for a reason.
Read the link above your post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kibblehouse
It aint just boredom. It happened to me.
it happens because they see you and can't help but shoot their load....tee hee heeQuote:
Originally Posted by Whippersnapper
Ah. Honestly, I thought some folks were using some auto-target program that glitched when you tp'ed on top of someone. So when I posted, I half expected people "in the know" to out cheaters or something. LOL.
Yeah I saw that post when it went up originally. And I meant to add a mention to that in my last sentence, my appologies.
However.... Freaky control/defiance coding issues aside, some people will just let off a clip or two just for the heck of it, I've done it myself (not into the vendor, thats just annoying) and human nature being what it is, if one person does it someone else will join in.
There have been endless accounts proving it. It's a glitch of some kind. It's not just people randomly firing for the fun of it.
It's most evident when you're working with somebody in a group, teleport to a vendor, and then one person starts firing wildly straight ahead until the clip is empty. 'Would you please stop that?' 'Huh? Stop what?' 'Firing for no reason. It's loud and annoying'. 'Wuh? I'm in my inventory screen right now. I haven't fired anything in the last ten minutes'. And there their character is, blasting away, only to suddenly and mysteriously stop.
It's probably low in priority, but it is very annoying.