Something screwy with reveal mechanics?

Battleborn Pendles
#1

How long is reveal supposed to last?

I was in an incursion match awhile ago. Our Ambra (@gulfwulf) would reveal Pendles and he’d get a red outline around him like when you see a teammate through a wall. I’m pretty sure this was lasting until he died, whether he was cloaked or not. There was a similar outline on Attikus for some reason as well. I was on Boldur, who has no ability to see cloaked enemies, and others on my team saw the same thing.

Not sure what’s up here, but maybe this explains some of the weird things people have described with Pendles being spotted from a distance when cloaked and not moving, etc.

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#2

I noticed this earlier today as well. I kept pointing out that I could see the enemy Pendles even in stealth for pretty much the whole match because there was a red outline around them the entire time. Pinging @JoeKGBX to let him know about this so he can add it to the ever growing list of things he has to pass on to the other developers. Sorry to make the list grow a little bit more Joe.

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#3

There seems to be a bug with Pendles that causes him to come out of stealth at random times. Also, if he is hit with a slow there is a chance that, when he cloaks, he will move at a noticeably slower speed until he uncloaks then recloaks again.

#4

Also should be mentioned that he is leaving stationary effect visuals all over the map (things like fx from venom or slow).

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#5

As far as the I cloaking bug goes, I’d like to know what causes it. I think it has something to do with picking the helix choice where you take less damage while cloaked, but of course I could be wrong

#6

It can’t be that as I’ve never chosen that helix.

There is one more thing I want to add. Reveal abilities will uncloak Pendles rather than simply reveal his location. It makes fighting against a team with Orendi, Ambra, Marquis, or especially Toby really hard.

#7

They’re supposed to uncloak him, that’s normal.

#8

This, from what I’ve seen, happens constantly with every character. Most notably for me the Thralls with shields.

#9

Oh, I know. It’s just that those characters render him almost useless if your playing against competent players. The big ones are Toby and Marquis. Toby only has to look through his scope to keep you in your base, and the range of Marquis’s owl reveal is quite large.

#10

Haven’t had Ambra uncloak Pendles. I’ve had it outline him though which IMO is pretty useful since it stays on him when he goes out of site

#11

Really now? That’s interesting. I’d like to know which effect is intended.

#12

I’ve had it reveal me so IDK I’ve heard it’s rather unreliable.

#13

My guess is not both. Lol

#14

Also if you’re playing as foxtrot and go for the swiss cheese helix choice then use the scrap cannon on pendles, the visual effect will stay stuck on him so people will know where he is throughout the whole match. Noticed this when I was chasing pendles across my base in Incursion with the visual effect still on him so it was pretty easy to hunt him.

#15

I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be the outline.

A while back I took Swiss Cheese for WF on a fairly regular basis while Mike hunting, it was always an outline when I hit him with it.

But honestly, I think it should always have been a full reveal.

And @John-Cena is right, Swiss Cheese reveal is bugged for Pendles right now where he is permanently outlined after re-stealthing until he dies.

#16

I was actually on Whiskey for the match that prompted this post, but pretty sure Ambra reveled him before I had even hit level 2 (she gets hers at 1).

#17

Wow. I feel kinda stupid. Then again not many people used reveal skills before Pendles was released, so I suppose I just never noticed.

I hope they fix these problems soon. Otherwise, it might become extremely difficult to play Pendles after players become more used to him.

#18

If it was me, then probably because I always take her right helix at level 1 because solar wind sets people on fire as well as revealing them. Maybe it’s the DoT attacks that are causing the problem?

#19

I said it was you in the first post and that Ambra gets the reveal at level one in the post you quoted. Yes I know. Old but slow.

#20

I am without the proper amount of sleep. I blame @Elaura for that.