Minor Wraith bug that could use some addressing...

I dunno if any of your have encountered the bug with killing the wraith, but if you haven’t, I’ll outline it for you.

Basically, when the wraith is dealt a deathblow, its a two part dealio. First the wraith fractures all over and loses its hover, and about half a second later it explodes from within, killing the occupant.

So basically, say someone rockets it in the butt, the wraith will go crack-BOOM rather than just BOOM. It’s a cool effect and not a glitch in itself, but it can lead to some really wonky kill steals.

If anyone shoots the wraith during that fracture moment where its cracking up, they can often claim the kill. But not just the kill, they also claim any weapon specific medals attributed to that kill, even if they aren’t holding that weapon themselves. For instance, yesterday in a game of Invasion, I was noobing it up firing an assault rifle at a wraith when someone lasered it. Because I continued firing on it as it did its two stage explosion, I was given the kill AND the laser medal, despite holding an AR.

Another example was shooting it while a teammate hung on the back of it and melee’d it to death. Again, I was spamming AR, and apparently got a “pummelled” green fist medal and the kill when it blew up. I actually have a video of that, lemme find the link…

Giving a wraith the Wobbly H.

This is fairly harmless, but it shouldn’t happen. Here’s hoping it gets fixed at some point in the future.