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A_Bugs_Iife's avatar
5 years ago

Finn glitch

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug Finn can active big deal then cancel it right away and if his team are around him, they all get 80% damage reduction permanently
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name?
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug?
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)
In what game mode did the bug occur? Heroes vs. Villains
What is your time zone? BST - GMT + 6:00
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game against light side and usually if they start losing and they know the glitch they use it to their advantage
What happens when the bug occurs? Finn can active big deal then cancel it right away and if his team are around him, they all get 80% damage reduction until they die as long as they stay in the radius of Finn's activated ability big deal. Finn doesn't get the damage reduction so the team protect him by usually have him camp in Leia's shield
What do you expect to see? I expect an ability not to be as overpowered as this and do what was intended - give only a damage reduction until the ability is over
Please select your region Europe
AMD or Nvidia Model Number

A lot of glitches in the game but this has to be the worst game breaking glitch I'm seeing right now as enemy teams that are losing start to exploit this glitch to cheat a win. 

5 Replies

  • I guess there's no point in posting issues with the game anymore. Nobody seems to care...

  • @A_Bugs_Iife 
    Yep, this BUG is very gamebreaking. I've never exposed this one due to the unbalance between light and darkside, especially considering the BUGs/Glitches that favor the DS. But this BUG is problematic nonetheless, especially in bigger modes like GA and Supremacy.

    The only thing that's off in your description is the amount of Damage Reduction Finn provides to allies. At most this value is 45%, not 80%. And in HvV (which you listed as the mode in your report) it only allows for 35% Damage Reduction for allies (because to get to 45%, Finn needs to affect 5 or more allies, which is impossible in HvV).

    If you want to try to get more attention to this (I can't guarantee anything, most of my reports went unnoticed through all these years), tag EA_Staff here. EA_Atic is a good choice as he has been around this battlefront 2 report forum for as long as I remember, and he's still the most active around here.

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    A_Bugs_Iife
    5 years ago

    Must be when they duplicate 2 or 3 Finn's (which ive seen) the damage reduction is higher? Because what I'm seeing is when this glitch is activated no matter how much damage you do to them their health barely goes down. But even still, 35% is still bad considering they're also being buffed by Leia's shield at times. @EA_Atic thoughts? 

  • @A_Bugs_Iife 

    Yeah, when duplicating Finn things can become really insane. If we have a character receiving 3 finn buffs at the same time, then this character would have an actual DR of 1 - 0.65³ = 72.5%. Add to that other DR sources like Leia's, or Chewie's, this value can increase even more.

    But I think that when you say their health don't go down, it is actually due to another side effect of Finn's glitch: The temporary health keeps getting replenished on allies everytime it drops to 0. So whenever you remove the yellow temp health from an enemy, if he's still near glitching Finn, that temp health will regenerate (like if Finn just used the ability again). This will give the impression that the enemy's health isn't going down if you can't damage him fast enough to compensate for the constant replenishing temp health.
    You can see it happening in this gif below:

    I know this is a very old footage to bring, but the effect is the same since then

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    A_Bugs_Iife
    5 years ago

    @RogueZeroRendar it's insane they left a game breaking glitch like this in the game. If I was a developer I would not be happy with myself leaving something like this in the game. Good work replicating it.

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