I haven't seen an official dev response on it. One of my teammates justified using the move by pointing out that the announcer before the match does encourage cheating.
Couldn't one also harpoon players into the spawn area on Voidstar and the arrival point on Civil War? Not sure what it does. Are you implying it instantly kills foes when you harpoon/grapple them into your spawn area, Archer?
Yes, only in huttball. I have fought in the queueing area of Alderaan as recently as 2 nights ago with out an instant death. However I was grappled up there aswell.
Basically when someone is standing above the scoreline in there queue area in Huttball you have to either wait out the afk time debuf, which is around a minute I think, or do a latteral pass 30+ meters away.
I have reported 3 players and filed a 4th report for more information on the issue and all copy pasta response. They are looking into it and cannot provide more info. Sometimes forum moderators talk out more and I went through a couple pages of dev track and could not find anything.
Yes, only in huttball. I have fought in the queueing area of Alderaan as recently as 2 nights ago with out an instant death. However I was grappled up there aswell.
It does work in Alderaan as well. You sometimes get lucky and survive, though. Have grappled and thus insta killed several people on several occasions.
You can do the oposite, you can throw the ball onto the enemies on the starting ledge and they will instantly die too, in fact if 4-5 people are in the same place you can throw them the ball and the ball will chain-one-shot them all instantly and give the ball back to you, its quite hilarious.
Frag, now it all makes sense. Huttball by design has the ball explode and kill the ball carrier if the ball is brought to an "out of bounds" area. Harpooning ball carriers into a spawn area(or throwing the ball to people in that area) makes the ball explode. An unintended consequence of the out of bounds exploding ball mechanic.
You can do the oposite, you can throw the ball onto the enemies on the starting ledge and they will instantly die too, in fact if 4-5 people are in the same place you can throw them the ball and the ball will chain-one-shot them all instantly and give the ball back to you, its quite hilarious.
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Posted 1/31/2012 3:03:19 PMHas any word been given by a dev on if this is intended play or a reportable offense?
I tell my team not to do it but it has happened to my team several times. Even with the grappel instant kill the player sometimes scores anyway.
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Posted 1/31/2012 3:52:03 PMI haven't seen an official dev response on it. One of my teammates justified using the move by pointing out that the announcer before the match does encourage cheating.
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Posted 1/31/2012 4:04:17 PMCouldn't one also harpoon players into the spawn area on Voidstar and the arrival point on Civil War? Not sure what it does. Are you implying it instantly kills foes when you harpoon/grapple them into your spawn area, Archer?
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Posted 1/31/2012 4:45:18 PMYes, only in huttball. I have fought in the queueing area of Alderaan as recently as 2 nights ago with out an instant death. However I was grappled up there aswell.
Basically when someone is standing above the scoreline in there queue area in Huttball you have to either wait out the afk time debuf, which is around a minute I think, or do a latteral pass 30+ meters away.
I have reported 3 players and filed a 4th report for more information on the issue and all copy pasta response. They are looking into it and cannot provide more info. Sometimes forum moderators talk out more and I went through a couple pages of dev track and could not find anything.
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Posted 1/31/2012 5:04:09 PMIt does work in Alderaan as well. You sometimes get lucky and survive, though. Have grappled and thus insta killed several people on several occasions.
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Posted 1/31/2012 5:27:18 PMYou can do the oposite, you can throw the ball onto the enemies on the starting ledge and they will instantly die too, in fact if 4-5 people are in the same place you can throw them the ball and the ball will chain-one-shot them all instantly and give the ball back to you, its quite hilarious.
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Posted 1/31/2012 6:08:25 PMFrag, now it all makes sense. Huttball by design has the ball explode and kill the ball carrier if the ball is brought to an "out of bounds" area. Harpooning ball carriers into a spawn area(or throwing the ball to people in that area) makes the ball explode. An unintended consequence of the out of bounds exploding ball mechanic.
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Posted 1/31/2012 6:38:36 PMI'll give this a shot.
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Posted 2/1/2012 9:20:38 AMcan't wait to piss people off with this one!
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Posted 2/1/2012 9:32:23 AMum SI pull can do the same thing so stop complaining and just stun them.