by PlasticandRage Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:05 am
Yeah, something sort of similar happened to me last night. I was riding an elevator down and suddenly was falling about an inch above the elevator floor, and then died when it got to the bottom. Thankfully I've only encountered two glitches so far, and one was patched already, and the other was easily fixable with a quick quit and reload. Pretty much every next gen games got em. I'd be hard pressed to name one that didn't.
So I was just screwing around in the arena, and I decided to try to take on a wave using only my suspended bolas, and discovered that I really don't like it all that much. I had it paired with my ripper, which, as it turns out, was pretty much carrying the weight of the weapon alone. Most times when enemies get caught in the bolas, which I had combined with stasis coating for added slicing time, it catches them maybe once, and then they bounce out of it and don't get caught in it again. I also just found out the hard way that once it's down you can stasis yourself by touching it. So basically once you lay it down, you can't go near it until it's gone, where the suspended ripper blade goes wherever you want it to. I think I'm either going back to the bouncing bolas or something else entirely. The ripper is just too good at what it does to need to throw something else into the mix that does something even remotely similar.
Edit: Yeah, the bouncing bolas gets my vote as the best bolas weapon. It does as much damage as the suspended, but flies wherever you aim it, but, and here's something I've just figured out, when fired it slowly arcs downward as it flies, eventually touching the ground, if it doesn't make contact with another solid surface, and bounces back up in the air. What's really nice about that is if you pair it with stasis coating and aim it properly, you can catch your target in the legs just as the bolas touches the ground in it's downward arch, and as it bounces back up it'll send the enemy flying up in the air with it, and as the enemy is slowed from the stasis it'll fly slowly, allowing you to take it apart at your leisure. That is, as long as the initial blast didn't just kill whatever you fired it at.
It's pretty damn lame that you can't attach non-weapon parts to the single weapons on Hammond's Frames. I just got my first one, and I have to say I think it's completely useless. If I could attach rotator cuffs or support modules to it that might give me a reason to use those items. Such a silly addition.