Missile weapons unable to target enemy engulfing player?

When you are engulfed by an enemy, attempting to fire on the enemy with a missile weapon instead appears to count as targeting yourself and fires the projectiles in the SE direction. Consequently, the engulfing enemy can never be struck by projectiles (other than being caught in the AoE), even though you are presumably inside or directly on top/beneath them. Unsure if this is the intended behavior, but if you’re inside an enemy, I would imagine you could quite literally not miss hitting them with a firearm, penetrating their AV aside.

As a side note, using electrical discharge and targeting yourself does seem to work to hurt the engulfing enemy, but if the discharge kills a brave companion trying to save you, you take credit for the kill (rep loss for a hero companion in my test case) and the game pops up a message saying your companion was electrocuted by the enemy engulfing you.

Comments (3)