I upgraded my body shield by punching a MRVN?

Question

I'm not one for MRVN abuse, but I do get a little pissy when one dumps out lots of white rubbish. So, yesterday I punched a less-than-generous MRVN and my shield upgraded from blue to purple.

Looking back at the video I had 7 damage to do to upgrade, and then I got a purple shield with 750 to upgrade it to red. I still had to use a cell to charge it.

Has this always been a thing? Have you been able to punch MRVNs to get shield points and I've been in blissful ignorance of this fact?

cheese9man · Answer

@EdwardDLuffy Yup that’s new. Baffles me the amount changes not in the patch notes.

kyldenar · Answer

@EA_David Why not keep it? Same for wildlife in KC when it comes back.Makes it consistent. (A lot less opportunities in the other maps anyway)

pandareno1999 · Answer

@Kyldenar  Sure,as soon as the MRVNs are programmed to rise up together and lunge 50m at you causing huge amounts of damage!

edwarddluffy · Answer

@Cheese9ManI think it might be a bug. I think it was introduced for the prowlers and spiders on Storm Point as NPCs you can damage for shield points. I think Respawn have forgotten to turn it off for MRVNs.

I think it will be removed - it's a lot easier to damage a MRVN than a prowler/spider.

zkepz · Answer

That is a sideffect of wildlife counting as armor upgrade in S11 😉It was not there last time MRVN was in play hehe

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