Warning: Bad Side Effect Of Spare Parts In Void!

[BadAimbot]

After running some Voids and Derelicts with the new mod Spare Parts I have discovered a shocking bonus effect in these modes I feel the need to warn everyone about. The mod is supposed to give you a chance of a resource when your Sentinel dies, but it also seems to increase the likelihood of your Sentinel dying. Even against the Infested who can't touch it normally (had him die today because of a Runner + explosive container blowing up at once, was quite funny) the poor little guy just constantly dies.

 

From my experience, death seems to occur most often when you activate a laser near the end of a mission. It's quite weird, but when the mod is off it doesn't seem to happen so it must be the mod's doing. I just want everyone to know the risks of using this mod.

[VScipii26]

It's probably psychological.
You little guy likely died a lot before, but when you have the mod on him, you're much more conscious of it.

[yangskiii]

If you're using the new sentinel which is like wet tissue paper thin, then yea, it's likely that it'll blow up that easily, or maybe VScipii26 is right, It's all in your head, 

[Murasume]

with the spare parts mods~

its telling your sentinel that he's just spare parts~

thus making him weaker and thinking of suicide~

poor bugger knows you only need him for his parts~

[Blatantfool]

 I'm tempted to agree with some of the posters above. Now that you have a mod that involves the little bugger dying equipped you are probably paying slightly better attention then you used to. He is probably dying at the same rate as usual - you've just taken notice to how flimsy the little fella is.

[BadAimbot]

Spare Parts is a good way of getting a bonus resource on Voids by destroying your Sentinel on lasers. I was trying to convey that in a funny way, but I suppose I suck at it. Oh well.

[FlanShark]

If it's not just perception bias, it could perhaps conceivably be something to do with having spare parts ahead of regen in the pet's mod set? i.e. it chooses to die and drop the item instead of popping regen.

Edited September 18, 2013 by FlanShark

[Blatantfool]

If it's not just perception bias, it could perhaps conceivably be something to do with having spare parts ahead of regen in the pet's mod set? i.e. it chooses to die and drop the item instead of popping regen.

 

 This would be bizarre.

 

 I'll probably ask about it at some point today, I gotta admit, I'm not expecting there to be any auxiliary effects on the mod.