Torque Bow Shots Bouncing Off Of Enemy

[radical00edward]

Has anyone else encountered their fully charged Torque Bow shots bouncing off of their enemies that dont have spawn protection? It has happened more then a couple times for me throughout this Torque Bow Tag weekend.

[Kenneth1250]

This happened when I shot at a person in cover. It just bounced off. I'm pretty sure that is the only time it has happened to me, though.

[HVAC Techie]

One time, yeah. I was hiding behind cover, someone was roadie running towards where I was, I charged it up behind cover and then wallbounced. It landed on him, but killed me because it was so point blank, but did nothing to him. And I know it hit him for sure... I definitely heard his character do the "What the...?" when the shot hit and stuck... so it either bounced off or he can sponged like crazy.

[radical00edward]

Just now i was in a game with someone (I have their name but im not going to post it here) and when i fully charged and shot him it bounced right off. The only way i was able to kill him was when he shot me i jumped over cover, kicked him and then exploded. He was using the Prescott character model.

[Leech Zombie]

yah i get it a lot, to the point where it is just ridiculous

Prime example, someone is blind firing over cover, I charge it, have it aimed right on there arm/head and it gives me the *bounces off friendly* animation type thing where your line of sight shows you were it will bounce to, but the enemy clearly isnt a friendly

[Brocust Drone]

That's how it is. For example, if you aim at... say, a Savage Theron behind cover, it will not let you hit them, and it just bounces off. I'm pretty sure it was designed to be like that, to prevent easy kills maybe.

[radical00edward]

The guy i shot at was running.. He didnt have spawn protection either because it was throughout the whole match. It wasnt making the sound of shooting someone with spawn protection either.

It did however display the 'shooting friendly' animation as well.

[DanTheGamer11]

It happens to me every time... I don't think it's giving people a good impression of me.

[radical00edward]

It happens to me every time... I don't think it's giving people a good impression of me.

You mean whenever people shoot you it bounces off?

[DanTheGamer11]

You mean whenever people shoot you it bounces off?

No all my shots bounce of of them

[Bspencer]

That and when I have Retro charged from a required distance, the execution sequence doesn't happen, I just bounce off????

[Tortyreus]

That and when I have Retro charged from a required distance, the execution sequence doesn't happen, I just bounce off????

You notice the little bar that appears when you start a retro charge? First it's white but when it becomes red then you execute an opponent. If it's white when you hit them, it's like a regular melee hit.

[richrd376]

Yeah the torque bow is rather inconsistent from what i've witnessed.

I had a match last week while playing guardian as leader, we were playin on overpass and I was making a strategic withdrawal (running for my life in other words lol) from the torque bow spawn into the spawn point when a torque bow round clearly hit the wall next to me. Not only did I see it hit the wall on my screen, the game even played the correct noise for the bolt hitting the wall. But low and behold, mr bulls**t took over and the bolt magically warped from the wall to my charactres a**se and you guessed it good bye mr leader!

But yes I have also witnessed torque bow rounds bouncing off characters and also retro charges bouncing off when nearly the complete bar is exhausted.

So many inconsistencies.........

[radical00edward]

Do you believe that networking issues are the culprit?

[DaRkNeSs]

Not to me, only blindfiring around cover and suiciding

[Bspencer]

You notice the little bar that appears when you start a retro charge? First it's white but when it becomes red then you execute an opponent. If it's white when you hit them, it's like a regular melee hit.

You notice I said the required distance? Of course the bar is red, sometimes it's near empty when I make contact and still I bounce off.

[Terra D Serph]

I haven't had that in particular. Speaking of friendly-fire notifications, I love it when someone is dumb enough to blindly run out of spawn when there are plenty of other ways to avoid getting plastered to the floor. I shoot them, and am disappointed to hear that initial "pew" sound, but then my gratification is immediately restored when I see the killfeed read "TerraDSerph -TBow- *XxXMLGnasherBouncerXxX*

[Sigmundur]

That has actually happened to me a few times over the weekend were my shots just bounce of players, just noticed it once bounce of me thoug without any reason at all.

[DarkNinja]

Yup, only when it wasn't charged enough.

[>I Am Legend<]

You need enough charge or it simply won't stick and i know you said in the op that the bow was fully charged but if it was it should have stuck. Sometimes i believe that the bow is affected like other weapons when you are not on a decent connection. Someone was on my pc yesterday while i was playing gears and on blooddrive i was clearly getting headshots with my longshot but it showed blood but no kill.

[HalfShell]

I do get the bounce problem sometimes, but more often I will make a great shot and get the stick noise but then nothing happens after that. There have been several times where if I am the last one standing all of my squad members watching me hear the shot stick give a little cheer followed by a big WTF when nothing happens.