The bugs of ME3 MP

Since I didn't actually post all of these back on the BSN Prime boards, I figured I'd just throw out some of the coding reasons for the bugs for people interested.

First off, the infamous Missile Glitch:

The reason why this actually happens is because projectile weapons and the projectiles they fire are actually two different things according to the game. When switching around, you can cause it so that the game thinks that your Striker's projectiles are actually Cobra Missiles.

A fix for this possibly would have been to get the client to check the projectile with each shot and compare it to the weapon being used. It would potentially mean a lot of checks per second, but since it's purely client side even a toaster of a computer could handle it by today's standards.

Asari Huntress Tactical Cloak:

This one didn't increase weapon damage, and that's because the code for it is simply just missing. It's been ripped out, and it needed to be removed in about 3 different places which makes me think it was intentionally done. They were probably toying with the idea of making her cloak a pure power damage one and forgot to change it back.

N7 Typhoon:

So this gun is supposed to increase damage reduction while in cover, only it doesn't. One of the BioWare posters actually made a post saying they tested it and confirmed that the DR was being applied to your character.

and funnily enough they aren't wrong, it was being applied. It was just being removed instantly because of a math error in the code. If I remember the numbers right, the DR required less than 50% DR to be applied but at any point if you weren't above 90% DR then it would be removed.

Which meant it was mathematically impossible to actually get and keep the DR from this gun, even though it was being applied for a split second.

Shockwave on PC:

I think most of us by now know that you don't take radius increase on PC at rank 4 because it causes Shockwave to stop working.

Despite being a sphere in visual, Shockwave actually uses a cone for hit detection so this evolution increases the angle of that cone. Only problem it, it increases the angle of the cone more and more every time you cast Shockwave so eventually the cone folds back in on itself and stops working. Since the math uses cosine at some point, you can actually get it working again by spamming Shockwave and it'll keep working and stop working periodically.