Exploit relating to Bursting Mass and Mutalist Quanta Bugs

[Verticross]

I'd like to notify DE of an exploit I have found involving the Mutalist Quanta's Bursting Mass augment and various bugs that also decrease its effectiveness.

The separate explosion that Bursting Mass gives to the alt-fire orb of the weapon is capable of crossing Limbo's rift and hurting enemies regardless of if the orb was fired while in the rift plane or not at the time. This enables the player to amplify the damage of the orb by firing through it, then detonate it and kill enemies without ever having to leave the rift and be put in harm's way. This also works the other way around, with enemies being in the rift and the orb exploding in the normal plane.

 

On top of that, I've discovered a few other bugs that involve the Mutalist Quanta's alt-fire:

Various secondary weapons don't seem to increase the damage of Bursting Mass's explosion, with the Nukor, Gammacor, Spectra, Embolist, and Cycron not adding to its damage when the orb is fired through with these weapons.

The Akarius's projectile will either disappear or explode upon contact with the orb, depending on the range Akarius is fired from the orb.

Some secondaries are also capable of increasing Bursting Mass's damage from across the rift.

 

I hope, that at the very least, the issues with the secondary weapons not contributing to Bursting Mass is fixed, as Nukor feels like a match made for the Mutalist Quanta.

[RoachyToasty]

Well if you're talking about Nukor, the big issue is that the Electricity bonus will not combine with other Elements, since it's a Beam weapon. The old projectile vs hitscan issue still hasn't been addressed.