Gauss Railgun Infinite Range

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I'll attach a save later if no one can easily replicate, but I'm watching my Kol rotate to use this ability on pirates in one of my systems.  I can hover over the ability and see the purple circle and the defined 5000 range limit, however as soon as he acquires the right angle he fires and hits the enemy ship from easily half the grav well away.

Edit:  Hmm, after alt-tabbing behavior has returned to normal.  I'll watch the replay later and attach if it demonstrates it.  Don't know how I could have been seeing things though...

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

It seems rather elusive.  In Beta 2 I had a mothership cast Malice on targets clear across the grav well, way outside of its range.  It only happened once, and I've spent the past few weeks attempting to replicate it.  No dice. 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

hehehe actually if the railgun had no range it would be sweet :O

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, I certainly agree with the elusive aspect.  It seems to definitely pertain to autocast however as I've never seen it when I specifically order an ability use.  I'm tired so I'll just add in here instead of a new thread that in my same game, I've seen two other things that are weird.  One is a bug, one might be by design.

1.  TEC Hangar Defense structures are firing their flak when not yet constructed.

2.  Dunovs cast their Shield Restore on incomplete starbases.  This one I'm not too certain about as starbases being built do seem to have shield values, so maybe they're meant to be able to be saved like this while building.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

The HD platforms firing before completion was fixed in the last patch, wasn't it?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I sure thought I read that they were fixed recently, but I watched as the 50% done hangar spat flak fire.  It's tougher to spot as there's no muzzle flashes, but you can see the shells leaving the structure and heading toward the enemy.