Invisible Kira Laser - possible causes

(Borganism) #1

Howdy,

We all know about the invisible laser and since you mentioned in the stream that you still cant find a cause and have trouble replicating it here is my experience with it from the other night.

On dockyard as attacker, the EV was just turning the last corner and a Kira laser was on top of the EV. Im not sure where it was called in as I came across it late. When it moved off the side of the EV and hit the ground it went invisible. Could the change in surface height be messing with it somehow? I know when calling in the laser (or artillery) if the designator changes surface height it resets the call in, just wondering if it is caused by a similar issue.

I’ll keep an eye out for it as its really fkn annoying. You can at least avoid it once you realise that you can still see the damage on the ground to see where it is.

Borg

(NxA_Noxie) #2

Thanks ^^

(B_Montiel) #3

So far I’ve noticed the same thing as @Borganism. An other thing I’ve noticed which happened to me a couple of times : I pointed the laser somewhere, then it went out of my sight because I went for cover, then I pointed the laser from there. When the laser comes back in my sight, I generally only see the blue circle on the floor. But there might be some significant height changes in the way, so I’ll need to investigate a bit further.

One important thing I also noticed playing with friends on vocal chat is that there might be client differences : Playing on MM with FF on, I warned them that my laser turned invisible and some friends told me that they saw it clearly.

(FireWorks) #4

My personal bet is the lazor gets “garbage collected” in some way or overriden by other effects.

A classic situation for me is the defenders spawn of chapels last. People spam everything they can into the spawn to buy the carrier time. After all the airstrike/arty galore I jump over ramp and only see the orange light on the ground: Time to die.

(MisterMurder) #5

Same happens when the laser goes over a building.

(FireWorks) #6

I just lost my own lazor again on last stage of chapel in the delivery area.
It was just me defending and a nader coming in over the catwalk and hiding behind the cover at the end of it. I wanted to burn her out of her hiding and she shot 3 nades in my general direction. After the explosions close to my face, I was dead and the lazor gone. I believe it should have still been on the high ground near her.

(doxjq) #7

I thought it was just to do with being revived by Sparks? I am 99% sure that every time I die while her laser is going, and a sparks revives me, the laser is then invisible. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed an invisible laser while I have been alive the whole time.

(pumpkinmeerkat) #8

When initiating laser on top of first objective wall on Terminal it is visible initially but disappears when moved off the wall and back onto it again.

(SiegeFace) #9

From my experience it seems to be caused by other people activating there abilities around the same time or after the kira laser beam of cleansing holy fire o doom gets called in. Scrubbing through some gameplay from tonight to backup my claims

Edit:

On 2nd look it could be what @Borganism was talking about with elevation but I have had this happen numerous times when other abilities have been called in/deployed etc but this is the only evidence I have right now, will post more when it happens again ; )