Harpy's Napalm Shell feels worse since Season 2 update

[lime needle]

Since the Season 2 update, Harpy's torso Napalm Shell got a new animation which looks amazing, but now its core ability projectiles feels like it has become more difficult to hit multiple modules compared to Season 1. Most hits are now landing onto less modules, averaging around 1-2 modules (vs the 2-3 modules avg last season), and even the ariel shot trick which used to guarantee a 5-6 module hit is only generating a 3-4 module hit most of the time.

In addition, whenever an enemy walks over the napalm pool on the floor, it doesn't affect both their leg modules that actually touches the napalm pool anymore (or at least not as often), instead it seems to just affect the single pelvic module only for some reason.

[hardy otter]

pretty sure it feels worse because the projectiles now fire in a ring like a scatter shot instead of being stacked on top of each other and travelling in a spiral

[fleet fractal]

I'm wondering if the pool not affecting the legs has any relation / common cause to the bug with Tyr's heal.

[lime needle]

yeah but even up close, its hitting less modules though

[lime needle]

I'm not too sure. for Harpy, we know it got a new projectile animation so it might be related to that. I'm not sure what it is for Tyr's heal, but the devs are aware of that one and are working on getting that fixed asap

[hardy otter]

I just thought that was because it's a ring

now you have to either get super close to an enemy to hit a bunch or aim lower/higher so the top or bottom half of the ring hits them

[lime needle]

yeah it does seem better to hit them with the outer ring, its like the issue with the scatters from season 1.
btw i notice the new animation starts off as a smol ring n then blossoms to big ring now instead of progressively widening like in season 1

[hardy otter]

yeah

you can still stack a bunch and deal a ton of damage with it it just aims differently now

[lime needle]

ugh you're right. so have to offset shoot the napalm shell now. I'm able to hit similar amount of modules as season 1 with this trick, but it just feels odd to do and still feels a bit worse thanks @hardy otter

[hardy otter]

to be fair it is technically a little worse now I won't lie but yeah just gotta adapt and aim it differently

I'm still able to hit and do like 11k per damage tick like before

[lime needle]

op @hardy otter

[hardy otter]

nah I just use default harpy

[lime needle]

but now think of all the new players with default harpy who don't know this particular trick who may be struggling with landing good napalm hits

[hardy otter]

well that's the point of learning and getting better at the game right

I was the same

[lime needle]

maji is pro, even I didn't know til maji told me

[hardy otter]

idk about pro but I just have a lot of experience with harpy

[timber whale]

Can confirm, I get hit by harpy shots now and it just tickled. Before the update it'd be a death sentence if I were under 75% armor.

[mint depot]

Thank you for reporting, Fishstickers! I've shared your report with the team and will see if that's a bug

[autumn current]

Any update on this?

I've also noticed that standing in the napalm had a tendency to sometimes only damage the pelvis, leg armor takes no damage.

Then other times only the legs take damage, but not the pelvis. (Second pic, note the pelvis armor is the same.)