Bile Bomb Is Bugged

Typhon · November 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">screenshots inside</div> Ok, i play fade alot, so i've known that since the patch bile bomb has been next to useless. I decided today that i would take some screenshots of a building while I bombarded it with bilebomb. These were taken during the final base raid on eclipse. I stood close enough that i could see the seige turrets health, then proceeded to hit it with a bile bomb, and take a screen shot showing the position of the hit, and the damage done. See for yourself: bilebomb is bugged.

Typhon · November 2002

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shot 7

Now, after 7 direct hits with a bile bomb, dont you think that it should have lost atleast 1 block of health?

baby_seal_clubber · November 2002

Quite stunning... I noticed that when I played Fade and wondered why my spamming bile bombs did nothing but kill marines and left the buildings intact.

Flak50C · November 2002

I noticed the same thing.... though splash damage must still hit buildings, because I took out some guy and the really damaged collector he was trying to repair with bile bomb...

Snarf · November 2002

You're right. Its the same with acidrockets.

xioutlawix · November 2002

Yeah, I've kinda noticed that too. I've tried assaulting bases and marines with bilebombs, but it just FELT like it wasn't doing squat for damage. I guess this kinda proves it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

TheScapegoat · November 2002

Yeah guys guess what IT DOESNT! It only screws the shitz out Marines. If you wanna kill Marines and Buildings at the same time use ACIC ROCKET.

SamW · November 2002

I remember being a heavy armour and heavy weapon marine and assualting offence chambers... alot of times is would see the green acid ball land right into my screne but somehow someway, I did not sustain damage (no healt, no armour damage). I think the alien acid stinks.

SamW · November 2002

hmmm the bile bomb is supposed to get a 2x damage increase on structures

Spydey · November 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (§W- @ Nov 10 2002, 02:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>hmmm the bile bomb is supposed to get a 2x damage increase on structures</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
..as is xenocide, which also does nothing. I'll try to get some screenshots to prove that today but obviously its alot harder..

Archuxerizer · November 2002

I always wondered why the huge turret farms never fell no matter how long I keep billing them with bile bombs. I just thought they are very resistant to ranged attacks, because claws and bites are so much more effective than acid rockets or bile bombs.

j0e · November 2002

this isn't 100% reproducible. i have taken out turrets with bile bombs

coldish · November 2002

Yeah I sorta got suspicious last night, I was in a game playing as aliens. I went gorge (we were dominating easy on caged) and made about 10 HUGE chamber walls then I switched over to marines and asked commander for HA (heavy armor) which I recieved, then I proceeded to see if I could get through my walls. I found that the HA sustained NO damage whatsoever even when there were about 40 acid balls coming at me at a time.

This should really be fixed... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

Other than that I haven't really found any bugs (besides the Fade one with bile bomb /acid rocket ^^) also the hitbox is screwed on a crouched marine when you try to bite him.. gotta hit below him or right in **obscenity**.

Necro · November 2002

well...it works for me

Typhon · November 2002

Well, you're one of the very few Necro. Spydey, now that you mention it, i also havent had much luck killing buildings with xeno. I used it maybe 5 times or so tonight during final base seige on the same group of turrets each time. I dont recall ever seing one die. Hmm. something else to look into.

DY357LX · November 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (j0e @ Nov 10 2002, 02:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>this isn't 100% reproducible. i have taken out turrets with bile bombs</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Yeah so have I but probably not as many as I should have. Considering the "2x damage to structures"

Visser · November 2002

Acid rocket is fine, it just takes quite a while. Never killed anything with bile bomb (and if youre strafing back and forth behind cover i usually end up redeeming myself befor long in the lag)

j0e · November 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Nov 10 2002, 02:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (j0e @ Nov 10 2002, 02:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>this isn't 100% reproducible. i have taken out turrets with bile bombs</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Yeah so have I but probably not as many as I should have. Considering the "2x damage to structures"</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
remember though that a person has 100 or less health, while a turret has 1000 (or 2000 for siege).

so if it takes 3-4 bombs (1 load with level 3 energy recharge upgrade) for a person, it should take 5x that many to kill even a small turret, which seems about what it has been for me in the game.

if you are still in doubt, turn on the showdamage variable on the server to see how much dmg is being done.

Dunsby · November 2002

Spydey, you killed someone with parasite? hahahaha Whats the icon like?

Also i shoot marines with bile bombs and htey never die.

relsan · November 2002

Yeah really, the bile bombs should do at least as much damage as gren launchers do to our chambers. As a Kharaa, I feel gimped <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

DlCK · November 2002

I've seen this topic around a bit. I've seen the bugged bile bomb as well. You have to use splash damage only right now for it to work. If I hit the floor with the bile bomb, I can take out a turret farm.

CForrester · November 2002

**Whoops, I made a mistake and misunderstood**

FF wasn't on on that server, I bet.

Anarchy · November 2002

Yeah, all of this is true, and it's due to the hitboxes on the bile bomb, they are totally whack, they like don't hit everything in the radius, only certain things <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

reasa · November 2002

Don't fool yourselfs into thinking bilebomb or acid rocket dosn't hurt marines because it dose (I know from experence) as for structures don't even bother BOTH bile bomb and acid rocket are next to useless on them
(example) stood for 5min fireing acid rocket after acid rocket at this enemy turrent factory from my safe position above now I could not see if i was hurting it or not but you would think after 5min it would break!
Then I got **obscenity** jumped down and ofcourse <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'> and that was the end of me. There are some problems with this mod but I love it (more then my old fav CS) its extremly inovative and has a bright future ahead of it

Suraman · November 2002

Ugh, why point out that your a CSer? The only possible thing it could do is lower the respect you get, heh. I use bile bombs alot to take out factories. It does take a very long time though. Like, I'm kind of guessing here, 7 volleys with adrenaline on. I kind of thought that was a bit much but now since you just take out the factory instead of every turret then maybe it's not so bad. I never thought that bile bomb might have been b0rked.

Although, there's also a topic about the siege cannon and how it isn't doing the damage it should, sounds a bit like the problem with bile bomb.

Wardancer · November 2002

as a fade the bile bomb should do 80 dmg to turrets right?

and the fades claws does 80 dng right?

then would the bile bomb do as much damage as the claws on buildings right??

they certanly dont, as far as i have excperienced you can run up and kill a turret fast with claw but if you try bile bomb it, it takes forever

Bile Bomb Is Bugged

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