So About That Tactical Alert...

[AmaziaTheAmazing]

Is it just me or were there more skates than a roller derby?

 

On a more serious note, was there anyone else having hitbox problems with dead sandskates? I think they kept blocking my shots.

[Acos]

I wouldn't know; I only brought a sword to that alert. I did keep tripping over their stupid bodies though. 

[Murasume]

skates are there due to the excavator~

its disturbing the skates so they attack it~

disturbing the desert with your Tenno drill~

so you have to be vigilant to not leave the drill alone~

they will needle the S#&$ out of it till it explodes~

Edited October 13, 2014 by Murasume

[RedEyedRaven]

Is it just me or were there more skates than a roller derby?

 

On a more serious note, was there anyone else having hitbox problems with dead sandskates? I think they kept blocking my shots.

 

The death-animations of sandskates often seemed to be buggy to me, and yeah, as the skates on the alert use the same model and physics as the normal ones this still applies.

[TheGlade]

skates are there due to the excavator~

its disturbing the skates so they attack it~

disturbing the desert with your Tenno drill~

so you have to be vigilant to not leave the drill alone~

they will needle the S#&$ out of it till it explodes~

I lol'd. 

[nyiinx]

I lol'd. 

Heheheheh.

It has a goddamn mouth and that scares me

[7grims]

i was lucky to have chosen ash, blade storm ignored all the dead bodies and kept killing all that was still moving.

[nonNPC]

I went as frost and brought as many Team Energy Restore as I could.

Keep on spamming Avalanche (about 3 times on each drill) and they're all dead.

But that won't stop them.

 

What frame did you use anyway?

[osheroth]

Yes, dead skate bodies seems to block your bullets. If you're having trouble just make sure to go with frost, oberon, or a penta....OR A FROST AND OBERON WITH PENTAS >:o

Edited October 13, 2014 by osheroth

[SilentCynic]

Banshee + Efficiency mods + Sound Quake = Desert Skate rave.

[AmaziaTheAmazing]

 

I had a team with Frost, Nova, Saryn, and Vaubon. the Saryn took care of skates, Nova primed, Frost bubbled, and Vaubon didn't have abilities on (leveling). If we had the drive we I think we could have gone to at least 5,000, Saryn wrecked those skates like sulfuric acid through metal.

 

EDIT: my formatting was bad and I feel bad.

Edited October 13, 2014 by AmaziaTheAmazing

[taiiat]

absolutely. the Corpses and not Corpses of Skates were throwing my shots everywhere. getting in the way, trolling you.

 

wasn't too bad, because i could just take a step to the side and continue killing each horde of enemies with just a few bullets.

 

 

i coincidentally solved 95% of the problem from skates by being Zephyr at all times so i could get Energy Cells ASAP.

but Turbulence was useful to make their Ranged Attacks useless too.

-snip-

hmmm, who might that lord and savior be?

 

 

;p

[RobWasHere]

Those damn skates couldn't be Nyx'd to tenno side q_q

[darthdart]

I dunno man you tell me. Were there more of the skates?

 

[Vanell32]

I lol'd. 

dat human teeth

[Arlayn]

Those damn skates couldn't be Nyx'd to tenno side q_q

I tried blinding them... Not even sure that helped with the two Frost casting Snowglobe, and avalanche all the time.

[Grulos]

Another good idea ruined by something awful that hadn't to be there.

[Xarfrax]

I duo'ed the mission with a buddy, we managed to keep the first 8 excavators fully operational thanks to rhino stomping with max efficiency so the skates weren't such a big deal really . I did see some odd hitbox herpaderping, but i think it wasn't the skates that caused it yet the hitbox from the excavator.
Once a site was done and the excavator disappeared for some reason the hitbox didn't seem to go away at the same speed as the animation. Might be the same problem occurred when it first appeared, bullets stopping in mid air because the excavator hitbox was up already yet the animation desynced.