This is one reason why I enjoy maining Zen. His ult is one of the few that get refunded to you. If you die in the opening moment of Trance (typically this is when he’s speaking the “Pa” part of “Pass through the Iris!”), it’ll get refunded to you on respawn, complete with that little ult flourish that makes it look like it just fully charged. It’s immensely frustrating, but at least that very important ult comes back. I’ve had it happen on other heroes but it’s much more rare.
Wait. You guys projectiles, Ults and other attacks vanish when you die??
Hum. I’ve never encounters this glitch.
Its a bit common.
Mei is most known for this, cause her ultimate cancel-window was pretty wide. (May be still the same lol)
There is no thing as an invisible cast. If the ability/Ultimate does not have a cast time, then I’m afraid what you’re facing is a technical issue where the enemy has a lower ping to the server than yourself, so your actions, such as you activating said ability/Ultimate, are actually delayed compared to the enemy’s actions.
I don’t think you understand how things are actually working. There is a cast timer on ultimate’s for heroes like Mei and Tracer. Although it is very short it still needs to complete for the server to register that the ultimate finished casting. If you die between the cast starting and the cast ending then it shows on your screen that you started your ultimate, but it never finished. You also lose all your ultimate charge when in the past you kept it.
I don’t think Junkrats projectiles de-spawn after death
The kicker is the game knows you threw the ultimate, as you no longer have an ultimate.
Exactly. If you died because your killers latency was just faster than yours then the server wouldn’t have even registered you used your ultimate, but it knows you used it because you no longer have it.
But this is well known. This was a change they specifically made. It is completely intentional as a result of esports complaining. Just one of many changes they made to make the game less fun in order to cater to competitive play.
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Same thing with Winston, think it has something to do with the fact that if you did get it off, you should be invincible/have an extra 1000 hp.
Only ults that have a cast time will despawn if you are killed during the cast time snawball will not disappear if he gets fully deployed just like pulse bomb, but pluse bomb does have a short cast time but still a cast time
You talked about “Invisible cast times”, which simply do not exist.
Abilities/Ultimates with minimal cast times do exist though and they work exactly as you described.
So we’re on the same page here. When there is a cast time, that’s probably the reason why the ability/Ultimate was cancelled. If there isn’t one, ping is the one at fault.
Happens with pharah all the time. Honestly feels really bad.
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Do you see a cast bar on the screen when you use Mei’s ultimate? It’s invisible.
Lmao I see a pharah player
The animation duration of her throwing Snowball is the cast time.
Just like the Hammer - down animation is Reinhardt’s cast animation for Eartshatter.
No cast bar needed.