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BionicXAngel's avatar
4 years ago

kunai bug

Product: Apex Legends
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number RTX 3060
Enter RAM memory size in GB 16
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? BionicXAngel
Please provide your squad mates' gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name if possible.
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which Legend were you playing (if applicable)? Wraith
Which Legends were your squad mates using (if applicable)?
Where did the issue occur? In a match
Which part of the map or menu were you in? If you don't remember the exact name, please describe the area or what you were trying to do in the menu. Everywhere in game
What were you doing when the issue occurred? E.g. respawning a squad mate at a beacon, using an ability, a squad mate left the game. Holding or inspecting Kunai
Did your squad mates also experience the issue? Yes
How many matches had you played in a row before the issue occurred? Countless
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm)
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
How severe is your issue?
What happens when the bug occurs? Kunai "electric/lightning effect" seems missing from the blade when inspecting and completely missing when running, it's only on the handle now only when inspecting, and the blade has some kind of weird weird lines that ends abruptly near handles.
What should be happening instead? The "electric/lightning" effect should be visible on the whole Kunai when inspecting or on the hand holding Kunai when running with it like it used to be before the Raiders Event update.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Since it's a bug with Kunai's lighting effects you can clearly see it by just equipping it in hand.

Lighting effects on the Kunai are completely bugged out. You can see in the attached images, there's no "electric/lightning effect" on the hand while running. And there are weird lines on the Kunai Blade instead of older electric/lighting effects. Since Heirlooms come extremely expensive now i'm hesitant to get Wattson's Heirloom in this event. And yes i played on all maxed out settings.

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  • I don't own a wraith's heirloom, but I see a little bit of sparkle when you run with it. The way it does the electric thing comes from the age of the heirloom I assume, because kunai was the first heirloom and it was made with different graphics back then. I would love for it to sparkle like revenant's scythe does.

  • It's not about the old graphics back then, it was completely fine before the raiders collection event yesterday. Kunai completely lost it's fancy electric effect while sprinting. Those little sparkles are still there, i'm talking about the lightning effect specifically, it's just not there anymore. i can still see it little bit while inspecting, but while sprinting it just looks like i'm holding a basic knife. It's hard for me to explain but anyone with Kunai will easily understand what i'm talking about. Kunai used to show electric lightning effect around the hand near fingers while running till yesterday update.

  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
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    4 years ago
    Hi, from my testing I'm still seeing the electric effect but it's much more subtle than it used to be.

    Comparing it to some videos of the old effect it's reading to me as more of a bug fix - it looks more "correct" to me now than the old, bigger flashes - but I'll poke some folks on Monday to double check.

    If you happen to have some clips from your side can you upload them to youtube and add the link here, just so I can ensure what I'm seeing my side matches what you're seeing.
  • https://youtu.be/HPDi4idMOQQ

    From the start of the video you can see how it was before the event update, and from 15 seconds you can see how it is now. It looks non-existent compared to before. I don't think it was intentional since the effect is still there when inspecting (although subtle) but usually just playing the game running around it's completely missing. It's the first heirloom of the game so it doesn't have any fancy animations like new one...i just hope it wasn't intentional because i'll be extremely sad if they removed the only good thing from that heirloom on purpose. It just looks like a simple knife now instead of some mythical artifact like before.

    Also i attached a screenshot, you can see the highlighted area that line just ends abruptly on both ends of the blade, it wasn't like this before. So i'm pretty sure something is messed up with the Kunai because all these problems appeared only after the Raiders Event update few days ago.

  • xVensit's avatar
    xVensit
    3 years ago

    same thing for me now but with new heirloom tried everything to fix dont know what it could be. PLS HELP

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
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    3 years ago

    Hey @xVensit, thanks for the post.

     
    This thread is quite a few years old and is being locked here to avoid further necroposting.
     
    Feel free to create a new thread if there's a subject you're wanting to discuss that doesn't have a more recent topic, thanks!

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