Firebat Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Last night: my snow gets 1 shot and explodes. it had 1 dura. i lost it. logged off and waited for pvp server to open. Today, its happened twice in a ROW. 3 missions complete, two of them i got 1 shotted. The first time, the npc (whilst sinking) captured one of my fleet cutters, then one shot exploded me at full health, then sank, i lost a dura and won the mission RIGHT AFTER THAT , the first shot of the round, across the map, oneshot me and i exploded and lost another dura before i even had a chance to get my sails fully up. what the actual fuck? This was all in a snow.
Prater Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 The snow is infamous for quickly exploding, however I've never heard of it happening so often. It has never happened to me in 9 months of OW. 1
Tomms123 Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 You were really really really unlucky The chance that a insta explosion in the magazine happen is very slim. If I remember the nummber correct like 0.1% chance.
admin Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Snow is very short and its magazine is positioned higher (based on blueprints we have). That is why if fire starts near the magazine - its going to explode very quickly. 3
Henry d'Esterre Darby Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Or was it on fire and he didn't notice? I was set on fire a number of times in my snow prior to EA, and sometimes it took the bell a while to let me know - I noticed only because I saw the smoke. 1
Flavalicious Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Or was it on fire and he didn't notice? I was set on fire a number of times in my snow prior to EA, and sometimes it took the bell a while to let me know - I noticed only because I saw the smoke. ^^ I can almost promise you this is what happened. Ive spent alot of time in a snow and if you get a fire on the lower decks near the back of the ship, its really hard to see the smoke if your a veteran player, never mind someone new to the game who is focusing on everything else. Chances are it set you on fire and you missed the subtle warning signs and didnt go into survival fast enough.
Firebat Posted January 21, 2016 Author Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) ^^ I can almost promise you this is what happened. Ive spent alot of time in a snow and if you get a fire on the lower decks near the back of the ship, its really hard to see the smoke if your a veteran player, never mind someone new to the game who is focusing on everything else. Chances are it set you on fire and you missed the subtle warning signs and didnt go into survival fast enough. im sorry to make you break your promise =( 2/3 times i instantly mashed the survival key as soon as smoke showed. even before the fire bells rang. one of the three times it was 5 SECONDS into the round and the only shot that landed, blew me up. Its like smoke>boom in about 1 second i was told they raised the chance of it happening with the steam release, maybe they made a math error LOL i am very very very very SURE that all 3 times the explosion happened 1 to 2 seconds after smoke rose. before the flames even show. infact, ive never been lit on fire, im 3/3 for exploding instantly Edited January 21, 2016 by Firebat
LeeUK Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 If this really did happen then maybe the devs can look into it, as it does sound very extreme lol. Played a few battles in my Snow and hasn't happened to me yet, I am going to be expecting to explode when I play tomorrow now though xD
Bigvalco Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 I actually had a snow do the same thing, I've never had a magazine detonate so fast before but it took out 3 of us in cutters after only burning for maybe 10 seconds.
Deepgift Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Last night: my snow gets 1 shot and explodes. it had 1 dura. i lost it. logged off and waited for pvp server to open. Today, its happened twice in a ROW. 3 missions complete, two of them i got 1 shotted. The first time, the npc (whilst sinking) captured one of my fleet cutters, then one shot exploded me at full health, then sank, i lost a dura and won the mission RIGHT AFTER THAT , the first shot of the round, across the map, oneshot me and i exploded and lost another dura before i even had a chance to get my sails fully up. what the actual fuck? This was all in a snow. Sounds like we have a very rare case of bad RNG
BobW-Bristol-RI-US Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Sounds like a bug, but until then, hunt snows will long guns & aim for lower middle (HA). Has this been passed on to devs?
Pokerjoker Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 me and a Clan mate was in a battle today, with both of us using Mercery, he got set on fire and before the bell was finished ringing, he exploded, I reccon it only tok around 5-7seconds from fire to explosion, never ever seen that happen before, and he was allmost full on hull armor.
Capt.Ireland Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 I played for the first time last night. My first match. Had no idea what the controls were. Getting pummeled by the enemy yacht. Pulled accross his rear and randomly fired and ONE round hit him in the rear and set him on fire. 20 seconds later he exploded. 10/10 first match. 2
BungeeLemming Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 well one you were lucky enough to start a fire. two he was a: not sending his crew to "survival" and the fire reached the magazine room. or b: you were damm lucky and hit him very, very close to the magazine which made it explode very shortly after the fire broke out 2
Purple Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 i was in a small pvp battle with my snow yesterday. all was going well me and the other snow on my team were sticking together when i cutter that was on fire sailed up to us to about two ship lengths away from me and exploded killing all 100 of my crew insistently and bringing the other snows crew to 15. i could understand if my ship was on fire but getting all my crew killed by a small ship while my ship was perfectly find and sailed off into the sunset by itself was confusing. i would have understood if it killed a portion of my crew and set me on fire.
Capt. Rice Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 interesting stuff. good to know about the snow now.
Lymark Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 OP, If this happens to you again today, you should really consider getting a lottery and give it a shot !
BungeeLemming Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 you can extinguish the fire within moments. hitting the survival and waiting for a few moments doesnt sound too complicated to me. I see the problem in 1: ppl dont know what to do when on fire and 2: ppl like to troll bigger ships. Either way the consequences can be disastrous.. 1
Sly Sliver Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 you can extinguish the fire within moments. hitting the survival and waiting for a few moments doesnt sound too complicated to me. I see the problem in 1: ppl dont know what to do when on fire and 2: ppl like to troll bigger ships. Either way the consequences can be disastrous.. Nah, that's not a problem. The problem is how common fire is. 1
BungeeLemming Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 Fires are not as common as you might think. I can count the fires I had on one hand. Its the sheer number of players which is quite naturally raising hte propability for fires.
Aussie Pastor Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 I thought it was so strange that I had F11 a bug report. I was attacking a ship, I think it was a Snow, my fleet Cutter broadsided her, the fire bell sounded, the flames started. It was close to my bow just off starboard and the it came into my Bow Chases sights an one shot into her and BOOM! All over red rover, I got my 2000 Gold and 50 Exp bonus. But it was so quick I asked be clan mates and they said no bug, Snows are famous for blowing up quickly. Bu now after reading your post, it sound like the server just wanted some fun!
Sly Sliver Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 So yesterday I had this happen in my Snow. I had half armour on the side the shots hit, I was zoomed out so I saw them coming. I also saw I was NOT on fire (no smoke, no fire) and there had been some time since I was last hit. One of the shots hit high up on the back of the ship and BOOOOM! Instantly exploded. I just stared at the screen. Ps: Is the little boxes on the stern deck, between the cannons, the gunpowder on the Snow?
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