Urgent Patch: Moneyball can be shot down

Just tested. Takes a few clips of Gunner fire, or 7-8 clips of Assault grenades, etc.

You can also hit the ball from across the map with projectiles and knock it down. I don't think this was how it was intended to be.

If someone has the time to sit there and unload that much ammunition into your money ball then even a patch won't help you.

I'm sorry.

i bet you think Overtime is fair, amirite?

Not the point. The money ball shield is supposed to ONLY be able to be destroyed by the bots, not the Pros. To be able to do so is bypassing what the developers intended and is therefore at least an exploit. This is definitely something that is worthy of a patch fix.

Whether the OP deserved to lose because his team allowed this to happen in irrelevant.

On what map? I think you would need good accuracy to do that. And if you find them, have a shot at head-shotting them.

I do believe on all the maps the money ball is somewhat covered by its 'Indestructible' Glass that's pretty much faced towards the rest of the map. Though I'm guessing your able to snipe the Moneyball Shields down with the Assassins Shurikens if you get the angle just right. But even with that tactic might not work... Unless you pretty much figured out how high and how close you need to be to chip away at the Moneyballs Shields with the Assault or Gunners secondary weapons

Yeah we had 2 assassins do that by standing on the spawnbase and just shuriken-strafe kill the orb, quite annoying.

I mean the point is to push bots trough, having to fight 2-3 assassins constantly in your base isn't just annoying it's also pretty devasting to the gameplay itself.

Yep, I was gonna come here and report it but someone else beat me to it...

Some angles you have to hit from a certain side, but Assault grenades and mortar rounds can be dropped in from some angles.

@jjcpockets: You have to also note that is with just one person doing it. If several people fired you could probably drop the shields within 10-15 seconds.

And it all goes back to the original intention of the game, which is to make creating, escorting and protecting the bots a major selling point of the game.

If this issue isn't fixed, I think a lot of the mechanics that otherwise make the game fun, interesting and add depth become obsolete, and it breaks down into people finding clever ways to safely hit the money ball from extreme ranges, without fear of reprisals.

The bots taking down the shields first is, IMHO, a core game mechanic. So are we saying that because of a bug one week into release, this core mechanic gets totally tossed out the window?

Some people seem to be so desperate to defend the game against criticism that they'll even apologise for something that is quite clearly broken if these reports are true.

Let's be reasonable: if this is a problem, it needs fixing, preferably soon. It doesn't matter how hard/easy it is to pull off, or if there are ways to defend it. There's really no argument, feedback like this can only help the game.

This. I'm assuming only the hardcore fans are bothering to post on these forums, so it's our job to make sure the game is successful for the 99.9% of other players who aren't posting here.

The bottom line is this is broken and needs to be addressed.

If this is possible then it needs to be fixed ASAP.

I watched the 2nd half of the team 6 v team 4 video posted in general discussion and noticed when the player (assault) juiced he also attacked the moneyball to nearly drop its shields before he died, and that was in a tournament match too

I'll be glad to see the back of this, bots are slowly just becoming cattle to farm money off and that's it.

Yes, you can shoot the moneyball down. Yes, Uber knows about it. Yes, it was left in accidentally. Yes, it will eventually be fixed.
And yes, there has already been a topic about this.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1114

Honestly if they don't change how the game goes into overtime... they need to leave this in. I'm so tired of the kill farming just to save up to juice the ball in OT. At least with this I have a chance of dropping the ball with a decent team on maps like SteelPeel without having to completely rely on the bots.

Thank you. I had searched the Feedback and Issues forum for a thread but not the general. Someone can lock this one.