I'm going to guess they disappeared after a short while? It's a bug that's been around awhile.
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Has anyone come across this before?
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It's a problem that exists when you've got lots of enemies spawning like crazy in a single lag filled area. IIRC, it's an issue with the server lagging behind in real time and your client thinking that the Rikti has already spawned when the Rikti is still in the process of spawning. The other is that sometimes they're already dead and the server hasn't been able to keep up with everyone's client. It knows it's dead, but you don't.
During raids, there is a several second period while the Rikti are teleporting in. It used to be you could shoot them during this period, but they couldn't shoot you. Much fun was had.
Then they changed it. You cannot shoot them. They cannot shoot you. But they can still be TARGETED.
Yeah, it's annoying.
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Thanks for the various explanations. I'd never had this problem with my melee toons, scrapper or tank. I guess its more of problem for ranged attacks, and my energy/energy blaster is very much a ranged attack toon.
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Snake, I really would guess it's them having just spawned in and they're in the window where they cannot be attacked. I haven't seen the message that pops up when I try to hit these types of enemies, but I know this is a feature of how the game works and I have encountered it myself with a few of my heroes.
If you can see (sometimes a challenge in the raids), they usually have the teleport in animation going still as well. At any rate, pay as much attention as you could... I've learned to be sharp about this so I don't waste a Rain of Arrows on a big group that just spawned in, heh.
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Yep, I definately came across this when I was new to the game and participated in Rikti invasions. Like Fulmen's had mentioned, they're untargettable when they're in the process of teleporting into the battlefield. I just spam my TAB key while hitting my blast powers in the hopes of actually firing at something.
Yesterday on Victory, there was a Rikti raid on Steel Canyon. I gleefully charged off with my lvl 28 energy/energy blaster.
However, odd things happened during the big throwdown. I was hovering above the melee with stealth running, firing down into the madness. So far, so good. But, I had trouble using some of my primaries against against some of the Rikti. For example, I'd try to fire Power Blast against a Drone, and I'd get the message in the Combat chat box, "Can not use Power Blast against that target." I had several other primaries which gave me similar messages against other Rikti targets, such as the Heavy Assault Suits. I didn't take notes in the heat of battle (though I did say many bad words). I'm going to keep my eye out for other Rikti raids and/or go on some Rikti mishs to see if this happens again.
Has anyone come across this before?
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