Hi guys,
I noticed some strange “resist” effects appearing on many enemies in the game, even when not dealing any particular damage type. As an example, when I hit ice kraggons with a non-elemental weapon such as a Jackobs sniper rifle, and without any other damage modificators, I always see the light blue “RESIST” appearing on top of the enemy, next to the damage number. So it looks like the kraggon is resisting some cryo damage but no cryo damage was involved. This is just an example but there are many other enemies that seem to “RESIST” the wrong type of damage. I also found some who display an orange (fire) RESIST when I deal shock damage.
I noticed with both the characters I’m playing with, Wilhelm and Aurelia. But it happens even at low levels, when I don’t spec in any skill which grant damage modifications.
Aurelia has a skill called Custom Loads, which adds additional damage as elemental with snipers when scoped. She also has one called Wintertide, which adds cryo damage to your weapon for a short time after a kill.
Wilhelm has Cold war, which can freeze an enemy that has a fire, shock or corrosive DoT on them, but that doesn’t work with non-elemental weapons, so maybe it’s just damage from the environment such as barrels. Or even from other bandits shooting at them. They are hostile to each other.
My Aurelia is currently level 10 or little higher, and I still dont have access to the skills you mentioned. This is why it’s so strange. I see this happening even when facing a single enemy alone, no barrels around. Is this happening only to me?
It’s been a long time since I last played Wilhelm and I dont remember exaclty his setup. But I got the same behaviour at low levels with almost no skills, with the same enemies. As soon as I can, I’ll try to get some screenshots
There’s also Aurelia’s bitter riposte, a tier 1 skill which spawns a homing cryo ball when your fully charged shield is damaged. But if you said it’s not your skills, I’m inclined to believe you, it’s probably a spike shield like Russell said (if it was a nova shield you’d notice)
You mentioned kragons and apparent cryo resistance. And low level. I recall there being ice kragons at the walk-in to Crisis Scar, and plenty of those cryo mushroom deals. The kragons SHOULD resist cryo from them, so I’m just wondering. Level 10 is in the right neighborhood for this leg of the main quest in normal mode. So…
Ok, I think I found the problem. TheRAbbi is right, the specific places, infact, were the Crisis Scar and the Outlands Canyon. The source of the cryo damage were the liquid methane pools, where Kraggons were accidentally stepping in.
Concerning my past games with Wilhelm and different resist effects, I found it it was a bug that was corrected with a recent patch. I removed all skills and equip, put all back on again and the problem disappeared.
