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[defekt]

Annoyingly frequently the Heal Orb doesn't do anything; it sits there but refuses to convey health, then the enemy roll up and it gives it to them instead.  Sometimes you can back away from its healing radius then step back in and it works but not often, and if you're a C-class the Heal Orb Shuffle can easily take five seconds (which is more than long enough for a Scout to hammer you flat).  Seems to fail most often when deployed near a wall.

Edit: Missed the Bugs forum.  If a Mod would like to move this topic to the proper location that would be grand.

Edited by defekt, January 01 2013 - 08:13 AM.

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[Cyclonus]

I've gotten killed so many times because of this bug, It also seems to affect all health charges.

Edited by Cyclonus, January 01 2013 - 10:59 AM.

[Silk_Sk]

I see this a lot when I kill a mech in the air and start repairing under the orb as it floats down. Sometimes the speed of my repairing does not change and the orb just doesn't effect me. I suspect they may have some sort of blind spot.

[Etan]

Threw one on a teammate yesterday only for it to do nothing. We both went peek got hit and used it to heal then. So stepping out of range then back in sometimes fixes it. Only seen this the last few days tho *scratches head*

[jalmar]

Noticed this about 5-6 times during the last week. Hopefully they will fix it in the upcoming patch

[AsianJoyKiller]

I hate troll cookies.
Annoying as !@#$

[DarkPulse]

This seems to occur most often when the orb is close to a wall of some time. Perhaps its collision radius with the player is a bit too low_

[ParryDox]

Happened to me today after someone threw one on me, you just have to get out of the range and wait a little.

[defekt]

You can make it work sometimes by backing away, as stated in the OP, but most often I drop the heal charge and go into repair mode in one motion so there's no time to see if the charge is a dud or not, and once you're in the repair cycle it's a massive risk to pop out of it, shuffle, then re-enter.  The Repair charge is a strong item, it would be a shame to see it weakened so by being unreliable; after all, none of the other items have a 'fail chance' attached to their use.

[defekt]

Thank you for the thread move into Bugs, Mods.  o7

Oh, and 4 out of 7 Repair Charges were duds in last night's session.  *le sigh*

[Kazma]

It often happens on an inclined plane...
it happens 10 out of 10 at especially this map where you can fly when jumping on enemys, srry I forgot the name

[Houruck]

It happens to me regularly.
Sometimes it does not help that I walk away from it and back.

[defekt]

It's tricky to pin down the locations where Repair Charges don't work because in the below examples there are occasions when they do work as expected...
- thrown against a wall;
- dropped on an incline;
- dropped on a speedbump.

The obvious problem with the above is that the Repair Charge is best used when hugging cover so if it's not going to work reliably under those conditions the item loses usefulness, and we all know that Hawken needs to be making its items more useful not less.

[Gunhed]

Any one had thesame sytuation with Energy Units in Siege Mode_
I had one.. today!

[Houruck]

Houruck, on January 03 2013 - 01:40 AM, said:

It happens to me regularly.
Sometimes it does not help that I walk away from it and back.

Check the radar (there was no scrambler). I took several screenshots and was so lucky I even survived it.



And another irrelevant lucky situation. I was stuck in the floor and the enemies ignored me.

Edited by Houruck, January 03 2013 - 05:27 PM.

[-Tj-]

Seems to happen to me a lot away from walls in Origin, where the ground is uneven. Hope they fix this soon, it's really, REALLY annoying.

[GATX]

I want to resurrect this thread since the bug still exists. Even if not used against a wall, there is a chance that the healing charge does absolutely nothing until you move away from it and come back.

[Stealth_303]

Plus One to this OP - keeps happening to me.

[defekt]

Indeed.  Doesn't happen quite as frequently as before, down from ~50% duds to ~25% duds.