Patriarch killed us while spectating him >.<

[poop_party]

So my friend and i were playing KF in biotics lab, and were doing some pretty awesome pwnage by welding the door by the trader shut (me a lvl 4 support, he a lvl 0 commando, hes new ). We got to the patriarch, and we both had enough for some pipe bombs, so we welded the doors shut, and put 2 pipes in front of each.
However, my friend didn't realize he had two pipes, so with about 3 seconds left before the patriarch, he rushed to put the last one on his door. Well, the patriarch just happened to spawn right behind that door. It proceeded to launch missile after missile at the door, which killed my friend (all while we were stuck spectating it). It broke through the door and rushed me before the spectating was over. I stood valiantly with my AA12, but it killed me anyway.
So, i was wondering, is there a way for me to exit the spectating of the patriarch, and if so, how? If not, then I think that option should be included, as that (while memorable) was complete bull$hit.

 

[typ0]

I have a few too many of those cheap shots/free kills from the patty immediately after he spawns. It's pretty annoying isn't it? The least I can say is you can still move to a certain extent...but it's hard to run away when you all your directions have been inverted and you can't see where you are going.

 

[Top Secret]

That was your friends fault. You need to make sure YOU are in a good position and ready. Patty could be ANYWHERE. And remember, when he spawns and the camera is focused on him, YOU can still MOVE. Just remember your facing relative to Pat and use your WADS. I've had rockets shot at me during the spawn camera and lived because I ducked around a corner.

 

[nutterbutter]

You can move while patty spawns/spectates. And yes, it is unnerving to actually watch yourself hauling *** in the third person from Patty's spawn viewpoint.

 

[Spicy]

At least it taught you that during the Patriarch wave, you shouldn't weld shut doors that you're placing pipe bombs on.

 

[Salad Snake]

You can move while patty spawns/spectates. And yes, it is unnerving to actually watch yourself hauling *** in the third person from Patty's spawn viewpoint.

This. Nothing is done to your WASD controls while in Patty-view. You just need to figure out which way to run by how your character is facing. And yes, it is very interesting to watch Mr Foster run for dear life.....until you realize you are Mr Foster!

 

[Benjamin]

It's a bug partially to do with the spawning and apparently it's not important although I'd sure like to see it fixed.

 

[Vintage]

I've had him do that to me before, it was just three of us and he wiped us all during the cutscene. Then it does a close up of him walking around the level and he says "You're all pathetic." At first I was like wtf how am I pathetic you ****ing cheated and then I just started laughing my *** off because I realized we had just been trolled by the Patriarch.

 

[W00kiE]

I've experienced that 3 times in one year, so its not really a huge problem for me at least
More like amusing when it happends and you in panic try to run away in 3'rd person view.

And yeah, listen to Spicy, placing bombs at welded doors when patty is around just causes him to blow them up with his rocket launcher.

 

[EricFong]

Remind me a game in foundry, he spawn near a Sharpshooter with M14 and that Sharpshooter just keep shooting him in the head with help of laser sight. Which he just kneel down and run away.

 

[C_Gibby]

This. Nothing is done to your WASD controls while in Patty-view. You just need to figure out which way to run by how your character is facing. And yes, it is very interesting to watch Mr Foster run for dear life.....until you realize you are Mr Foster!

This. It's pretty easy to control, in fact, it feels just like Resident Evil/Dino Crisis/Parasite Eve 2.

 

[EricFong]

You miss Silent Hills.

 

[C_Gibby]

You miss Silent Hills.

FFFFF- I loved SH2 so damn much.

I was considering opening UDK and trying to recreate the switching camera effect some day... but nah.

 

[Spicy]

Also, it's fun to zoom in and out while the Patriarch delivers his opening line.

 

[Salad Snake]

This. It's pretty easy to control, in fact, it feels just like Resident Evil/Dino Crisis/Parasite Eve 2.

As far as consoles go, Dino Crisis 2 was one of my absolute favs, though it's control scheme was a bit more action-oriented then an average RE-style game. Something about killed a little velociraptor with an anti-tank rifle....

 

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

It's a bug partially to do with the spawning and apparently it's not important although I'd sure like to see it fixed.

yeah, unfortunately there are a bunch of bugs that have been in the game since it was first released. all we can do is sit back and report them, and then hope TW eventually has enough time to fix some of these things. even though they might not seem to be that important due to them only happening every once in a while, it's still very embarrassing and makes the game look cheap.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

It's a bug partially to do with the spawning and apparently it's not important although I'd sure like to see it fixed.

Frankly, I agree with them. People who have this happen to them (probably only once) will go on and on like it's some major issue, but I'll be honest, I've never seen this happen once in my 100+ hours with the game. Heck, I have friends who have logged more than twice that and even they have never seen this bug.

Simply put, it effects too few people, too infrequently, to be of any bother right now (if ever).

 

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

see i just can't accept that type of response to a problem....imo a problem is a problem is a problem. sure you can have priority issues, but choosing not to fix problems just because they only happen on rare occasions is merely an excuse to be lazy and unaccountable. what's worse, a giant hole in the side of your house, or a house with 20 leaky pipes? eventually those leaky pipes will do enough in water damage that the two problems are just as costly.

 

[Big_BenKYS]

It's happened to me about 10 times in my 300+ hours of play time. It seems like when he spawns close to you the spectating gets stuck for a few more seconds after he spawns, which is lame as hell. If they just cut it off as soon as he did his little spawn taunt and all that it'd be fine, but you get stuck spectating him in third person for much longer than normal when he spawns right next to you. Kind of aggravating when you work through 10 waves of Hell on Earth six man for something like this to do you in and there's nothing you can do about it.

 

[Dolphin Buff Man]

Lol, that would suck horribly. I've mainly had this problem on manner, but he generally spawns in the room next to you. I'm sitting there thinking "hang on, that looks familiar..." and then i realise that he is about to open a large can of whoop a** on me. I don't believe it's too big of a problem, it doesn't happen too much, but I can understand it would be very anti climactic on Hell On Earth...