DEV'S I'd like you to explain

21k+ points at a major with a 6k character. I'm shooting
and watching score nothing. Mind you using a mass cannon.
I'm no pro I AT LEAST Score 60k + points most of the time.
Others will laugh.Then at Mt.Tam get downed 3x AIN'T no way.
Granted it was the volge but still.
Does this happen from lag or....... Cant score so no AF.
I want someone at trion to give me an explanation & or check my acct. Please

Not entirely sure what you want the Devs to explain, so they probably don't either.

However, using a Mass Cannon in a SS event takes more skill than I think you realize. The Bomber's bombs are physical, so if you shoot them with a MC, it explodes there (which may have been what killed you 3 times). Blurred Viscera can also set off MC shots. The lag can effect issues, like making debris invisible, which can also set off MC shots.

Depending on how much you're moving, tossing out a MC shot in a group of Troopers will more than likely get you a good dozen of their grenades all at once. Not to mention gain their attention for mass return fire if you don't put them down for good.

As for the score not going up; Mobs with armor plates deflect a TON of explosive damage. So a Visc with full shields and all plates up is just going to laugh at you. Hit it with Steel Blight, Plate Slicer, or simular syn weapons, Shrill, bio nades, or any weapon with bio to eat through the plates first. Or aim for those already damaged by others.

I prefer to be in the chaos, so my expertise with MCs is limited, but against volge, you'll have to plan your tactics and switch up weapons, imo. Nano stacking and control account for tons of damage against the volge. Using only a MC is going to reduce that (and the points that go with it).

I'd say there's nothing wrong with your account, just in tactics. Not being mean here, just blunt.

That is all excellent advice, Ryim.

I would echo that, as much as I like mass cannons, they aren't the most effective against the Volge - a bio BR or SMG are much more effective in my experience (perhaps Acid Bath with bio will be the exception?). And at Solstice Strikes it's very easy to get repeatedly incapacitated when you get aggro from groups of Volge with their grenades, barrages, charges etc. One time I chucked a grenade at a Viscera, it bounced off his head, landed in front of me and took me down LOL :o.

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Not entirely sure what you want the Devs to explain, so they probably don't either.

However, using a Mass Cannon in a SS event takes more skill than I think you realize. The Bomber's bombs are physical, so if you shoot them with a MC, it explodes there (which may have been what killed you 3 times). Blurred Viscera can also set off MC shots. The lag can effect issues, like making debris invisible, which can also set off MC shots.

Depending on how much you're moving, tossing out a MC shot in a group of Troopers will more than likely get you a good dozen of their grenades all at once. Not to mention gain their attention for mass return fire if you don't put them down for good.

As for the score not going up; Mobs with armor plates deflect a TON of explosive damage. So a Visc with full shields and all plates up is just going to laugh at you. Hit it with Steel Blight, Plate Slicer, or simular syn weapons, Shrill, bio nades, or any weapon with bio to eat through the plates first. Or aim for those already damaged by others.

I prefer to be in the chaos, so my expertise with MCs is limited, but against volge, you'll have to plan your tactics and switch up weapons, imo. Nano stacking and control account for tons of damage against the volge. Using only a MC is going to reduce that (and the points that go with it).

I'd say there's nothing wrong with your account, just in tactics. Not being mean here, just blunt.

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Thanks so much for your great info. My scores are returning to near my normal. I haven't changed anything YET. I prefer to run and gun and dont like to work close. SS's are giving me fits love the 11's. Laaaaag is killer
have all kinds of probs with reloading mass 1 then full clip. will endeavor to use your suggestions thank you again. For the record points were not registering.

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Thanks so much for your great info. My scores are returning to near my normal. I haven't changed anything YET. I prefer to run and gun and dont like to work close. SS's are giving me fits love the 11's. Laaaaag is killer
have all kinds of probs with reloading mass 1 then full clip. will endeavor to use your suggestions thank you again. For the record points were not registering.

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i find that sometimes points will stop registering. It will allow me to score so much then even though i'm unloading clip after clip the score stops stacking up.

I thought it was lag at first but its not. But it happens every now and then.

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...have all kinds of probs with reloading mass 1 then full clip...

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Yeah, I have had this problem with the mass cannon:


I have found a sort of work around: if I dont spam the fire button so much, it normally works better. It seems the reload problem is more likely to occur if I press fire as its reloading...

Hope this helps :)

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Originally Posted by mitch00uk

i find that sometimes points will stop registering. It will allow me to score so much then even though i'm unloading clip after clip the score stops stacking up.

I thought it was lag at first but its not. But it happens every now and then.

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Yeah, for me it happens about 50% of the time at majors. My score no longer shows on the right-hand-side, but I still get a score shown on the scoreboard at the end. I'm not too bothered about it, at least I still get the scrip, keycode etc :).

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Originally Posted by Light Energy

Yeah, I have had this problem with the mass cannon:


I have found a sort of work around: if I dont spam the fire button so much, it normally works better. It seems the reload problem is more likely to occur if I press fire as its reloading...

Hope this helps :)


Yeah, for me it happens about 50% of the time at majors. My score no longer shows on the right-hand-side, but I still get a score shown on the scoreboard at the end. I'm not too bothered about it, at least I still get the scrip, keycode etc :).

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when my score stops showing on screen i press start (ps3) and exit and score shows again....but what i mean for eg on scrapper arkfalls and you get the forge thingy i get to a certain score while pounding a forge thingy and the score will stop reg.

it just happened to a hulker as well. so i stopped shooting at it and moved to shooting the mobs which my score started to go up again.

try going into your L loadout screen and waiting for that to load up and show what your wearing then come out and see your score.

or switch to your secondary gun, a few of my guns do that as well, might just be lagg.

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try going into your L loadout screen and waiting for that to load up and show what your wearing then come out and see your score.

or switch to your secondary gun, a few of my guns do that as well, might just be lagg.

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Better way to fix invisible score, is to just inspect someone. Clanmember, friend, anyone. Usually works for me. If it doesn't, just try inspecting someone else.

Great tips, everyone :). I will try those next time. It sounds a bit like the 'solve' I use for when the bad guys don't appear - I usually bring up the main menu (I use a gamepad but on PC) and wait a few seconds...

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...but what i mean for eg on scrapper arkfalls and you get the forge thingy i get to a certain score while pounding a forge thingy and the score will stop reg.

it just happened to a hulker as well. so i stopped shooting at it and moved to shooting the mobs which my score started to go up again.

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Ah that's a different thing then. It sounds a bit like what I was seeing when I was shooting the matron at the CC majors - I guessed it was some kind of X amount of damage limit per matron appearance or something :).