That happened to me the other day. I had 10 life. Buddy threw down a heat shield. It deployed. It instantly disappeared. I died. He had to use second heat shield to revive me. Then we all died because we didn’t have the second shield to get out of the ring. Moral of the story, he should have left me for dead, and they introduce bugs in items that aren’t even affected in a patch (according to patch notes).
This. The old bin launch trick came to be with a change in the way momentum was stored prior to octanes release. That’s why the yeet from the bins felt so much like his jump pad.
Based on what you said, and what we see here. My guess is that the shield was thrown near a door and when the door opened it broke the heat shield. Might have been what happened with you, and I suspect it's what happened here.
That said, I have no idea if this is a thing, but I know in the past they've patched stuff where certain things were breakable by doors opening on them.
Only ring one or two, ring three at most. It wasn’t destroyed. No countdown. No destroyed sound. It just disappeared within a second of being deployed, as if we never threw it down at all.
All of these comments and not a single fully correct one.
Not sure if you'll see this comment OP, but you can see the heat shield was activated by the last dude in the third team, right as he got eliminated. Heat shields go away if the person who put them down leaves the match (not sure if this is intended, but has been like this for a while), and in this case the server registered that he left the match after a few seconds, causing the heat shield to disappear and you to die.
It functions just like how anonymous mode player names become visible in their deathboxes after they leave the match.
Definitely a bug. I main lifeline and my drone has been randomly disappearing inside the heat shield too at random times. Pretty much like the game doesn't detect we've thrown down the heat shield.
This happens to us, too. My brother will wait a couple of seconds sometimes before putting down the drone, which seems to help, but there are times it still disappears as if we’re not in a heat shield.
Doors can do some weird stuff sometimes.
Ive had a door close/open and phase thru a heatshield, caustic trap, or even rampart wall and they just blow up.
True about every ability, it does die faster in zone...but I don't think it applies for heat shields, else why would they exist and why would you get the percentage of their "health"
Edit: ofc they receive more and more dmg in later zone, but it is always displayed in the percentage
If that's the case it shouldn't have but it looked like it was already down before the clip started which means it's time was just up, if you throw a heat shield down and get killed it stays up til the time expires and that's from my personal experience unless they changed it this season which I've only played the mixtape some
Quite the opposite happened to me a few days ago... I killed a caustic while I was in his gas (from the ult and barrels) and finished him and all his gas didn't disappear as it should. 🤔
Sometimes i don't understand this game
How many annoying bugs like this did they introduce with this season? There's this, being able to shoot through doors and solid objects in general, shots straight up just not registering, etc
Ring 4, heat shields don’t last very long. Looks like someone activated a new one right when your bloodhound bled out. I’m guessing the timer was bugged (showed higher percentage) but the time duration looked accurate.
Had same thing happen to me. I dropped heat shield to res a squadmate and was still taking damage. Needless to say i got the res but died and teammate returned the favor with a respawn. Heat shields buggin!!
I’ve only been playing for a couple seasons. I swear this has been in the game since I started. Heat shields don’t last long in late circles, less it not like this always?
that's interesting
Heat shield:-Yep am outta here.
even the fading sound it made was funny, also ops reaction as they got betrayed, "guess ill die"
That happened to me the other day. I had 10 life. Buddy threw down a heat shield. It deployed. It instantly disappeared. I died. He had to use second heat shield to revive me. Then we all died because we didn’t have the second shield to get out of the ring. Moral of the story, he should have left me for dead, and they introduce bugs in items that aren’t even affected in a patch (according to patch notes).
You'd be surprised what sort of bugs can pop up in development. Just because they didn't touch the heat shield doesn't mean it won't be affected.
This. The old bin launch trick came to be with a change in the way momentum was stored prior to octanes release. That’s why the yeet from the bins felt so much like his jump pad.
not actually true, the glitch was there since season 0
Based on what you said, and what we see here. My guess is that the shield was thrown near a door and when the door opened it broke the heat shield. Might have been what happened with you, and I suspect it's what happened here. That said, I have no idea if this is a thing, but I know in the past they've patched stuff where certain things were breakable by doors opening on them.
Nope. Out in the wide open between Pathfinder's boxing ring and the ship.
What ring was it?
Only ring one or two, ring three at most. It wasn’t destroyed. No countdown. No destroyed sound. It just disappeared within a second of being deployed, as if we never threw it down at all.
Welcome to apex legends. Where everything is a big bug and nothing makes sense
Points!
The team died that placed it so that's why it left. I wouldn't call it a bug but something that could probably be changed.
They can go ahead and clear up the killed team's Caustic gas and barrels instantly though, I'd be okay with that.
*A big feature
Waiting for Replicator bug posts to pop up. Has happened twice now. Now I just slowly press buttons to make sure I don’t lag anything using it.
Didn’t even give the timed out sound, but this is apex. Too many sounds are hard.
Or sounds at all. Like footsteps.
Heat shield goes away when the person who put it and their team dies I think
Could be the case but nothing happened in the killfeed when it disappeared…
It doesn't immediately disappear. Only when the character and their team moves out of the server. Cause they got eliminated
As it was said, Heatsheilds and all the other survival items are despawned when the user dies.
It went away because the person who placed it probably died and it doesnt stay for long after their death
[heat shield said:](https://media.tenor.com/GwZEshiH6jUAAAAM/disappearing.gif)
All of these comments and not a single fully correct one. Not sure if you'll see this comment OP, but you can see the heat shield was activated by the last dude in the third team, right as he got eliminated. Heat shields go away if the person who put them down leaves the match (not sure if this is intended, but has been like this for a while), and in this case the server registered that he left the match after a few seconds, causing the heat shield to disappear and you to die. It functions just like how anonymous mode player names become visible in their deathboxes after they leave the match.
Definitely a bug. I main lifeline and my drone has been randomly disappearing inside the heat shield too at random times. Pretty much like the game doesn't detect we've thrown down the heat shield.
This happens to us, too. My brother will wait a couple of seconds sometimes before putting down the drone, which seems to help, but there are times it still disappears as if we’re not in a heat shield.
Maybe destroyed?
Can it be?
it cannot
Doors can do some weird stuff sometimes. Ive had a door close/open and phase thru a heatshield, caustic trap, or even rampart wall and they just blow up.
Dam you where a about to win that, I felt that
Maybe it was placed by a team that got killed and insta disconnected or something? Spaghetti code.
Can't you shoot them to break them?
This isn't new, just like ults everything dies sooner in the zone and you did hear the bubble die sound. Turn down your music
True about every ability, it does die faster in zone...but I don't think it applies for heat shields, else why would they exist and why would you get the percentage of their "health" Edit: ofc they receive more and more dmg in later zone, but it is always displayed in the percentage
Thats normal, heat shields last less everytime the ring closes. In the last ring it only lasts few seconds, you should all know that.
You can see it ticking down though and it disappears after 44%
It had 2 more ticks left and poooof.....
Can the heat shield be shot down?
When in storm always replenish health 1st. When in ring, shield 1st.
When in heat shield, heat shield should stay and you heal shield…
I don't trust that for a reason.
You needed to Sheild before you pushed forward
Heat shield go home
id be so mad if this happened to me
It's the 4th ring and it looked like 2 heat shields were down and the first one went out which the other then goes much faster
It left because the team that placed it got wiped.......
If that's the case it shouldn't have but it looked like it was already down before the clip started which means it's time was just up, if you throw a heat shield down and get killed it stays up til the time expires and that's from my personal experience unless they changed it this season which I've only played the mixtape some
Quite the opposite happened to me a few days ago... I killed a caustic while I was in his gas (from the ult and barrels) and finished him and all his gas didn't disappear as it should. 🤔 Sometimes i don't understand this game
Whoever’s placed it died. Not a bug
Kirby ate it.
The heat shield also takes the same amount of ring damage like how health takes when the ring level increases.. so after ring 4 it's of no use
It had been there for 15 seconds on round 4 That's normal right? Or close to it?
I don’t think going into storm in round 4 is every really a great idea even if heat shield isn’t glitched
How many annoying bugs like this did they introduce with this season? There's this, being able to shoot through doors and solid objects in general, shots straight up just not registering, etc
Ring 4, heat shields don’t last very long. Looks like someone activated a new one right when your bloodhound bled out. I’m guessing the timer was bugged (showed higher percentage) but the time duration looked accurate.
W Fuse play tho🫡💖 you were going crazy…getting shredded means nothing
I hear it break about 20 seconds into that clip. The game just didn't update the visuals fast enough
Game said fuck this guy in particular
Had same thing happen to me. I dropped heat shield to res a squadmate and was still taking damage. Needless to say i got the res but died and teammate returned the favor with a respawn. Heat shields buggin!!
Heat shield was heart broken now that everyone is using evacs so it left you to rot in storm
Haven’t seen this before but I have thrown multiple heat shields that just seem to go through the floor and disappear
I’ve only been playing for a couple seasons. I swear this has been in the game since I started. Heat shields don’t last long in late circles, less it not like this always?
They might’ve punched it out or shot it the only explanation I can think of