[Resolved] Yellowcake [not] stealth nerfed - Random CoV reload animations

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#21

I’m in the process of checking my bank, and yeah you’re right it seems to be COV related, I will update anymore I find

#22

I just found out what’s going on. COV weapons have different break/overheat animations of different length. For example, the Linoge can either have one part explode and replaced by the VH, or overheat and be cooled down with the water pistol. The water pistol animation is shorter.

When the weapon is loaded into the game, it is randomly decided which of these animations will be the first one, and the length of that animation is stated on the card.

The value stated on the card doesn’t change until savequitting, similar to the damage stat on a Night Hawkin.

Tested this with one of the Linoges. In 10 runs in a row, the value on the card correctly predicted which animation would come first. When it said 3.3s, the first animation was always the water pistol. When it said 3.9s, it was always the explosion.

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#23

That sure is confusing it must be only the linoge and yellowcake that endure that. All the COV AR’s I have dont have that issue. I understand regarding the nighthawk and the change of stats to night/day but that just weird for them 2 COV weapons to function like that

Fair play to you all the same :+1: It had me lost and still does a bit even after an explaination :grin:

#24

Perhaps the length of AR animations is the same. I only looked at Linoge and Yellowcake for different stats, and only tested it with the Linoge, but with that it was 100% reliable, so I’m pretty sure that’s the reason.

#25

Perhaps indeed.

Least we can conclude it wasn’t a nerf

#26

Title adjusted to avoid potential confusion now the cause has been identified. Man, this game is full of weird stuff.

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#27

You can cut at least a second off the repair time by throwing a grenade since it cancels the repair animation. If you do it long enough into the animation it still registers it as repaired

#28

Hey, yeah cheers for that you can probably close if you want, save more confusion than it already has :grin:

#29

Yeah phasegrasp usually works too, unless you’re trigger happy like me and it only works 2/10 times, cheers though :+1:

#30

I think the random animations will be news to a lot of people - certainly was to me.

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#31

Everyday is a learning day in the borderlands :grin: yeah I suppose leave the information out there ( we dont want repeated threads )

Thanks

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