Heavy Hitter bugged ?

[Ligma Bababooey]

I noticed that icon for heavy hitter is not showing up , and im not sure is it's just icon bug or if the effect/skill is even working

[Slurs! In the Discord]

I've had some instances on Vet's Weapon Specialist buffs not showing up but it still seemed like it was active, usually when I load into an ongoing mission. Probably a visual UI bug and not it actually going off.

[Ligma Bababooey]

Originally posted by Slurs! In the Discord:

I've had some instances on Vet's Weapon Specialist buffs not showing up but it still seemed like it was active, usually when I load into an ongoing mission. Probably a visual UI bug and not it actually going off.

hopefully that's only visual bug

[YARD_STALEV]

Originally posted by Ligma Bababooey:

I noticed that icon for heavy hitter is not showing up , and im not sure is it's just icon bug or if the effect/skill is even working

Heavy Hitter is one of the most bugged skills I used.
You never sure wether it is on or not, I dropped the penance for the better time.

[Solus]

The penance related to this talent works. It registers only heavy kills. Exclusively heavy kills.

So, to elaborate, killing enemies with bleed, or lights or whatever else even if your stacks are full, won't count. That's it.

[SH41TAN]

I misread the word "Hitter"

[Nate]

Try it in the Psykhanium or w/e. You can test it there.

[PizzaPasta]

Recently farmed the heavy hitter penance, pretty sure it's only a visual bug. If you set it to track the penance you can see for yourself mid-mission that the counter still makes progress even if the buff icon isn't on screen. Wish I knew sooner bc I only found out after I was 4000+ kills deep that I didn't have to wait for that icon to be present.

Helpful tip for anyone grinding the penance, you can build stacks with the kickback special melee to take less time setting up and squeeze in more kills early into a fight. Also recommend the skill that refreshes your stacks on light attacks purely as a combo extender if you have to do a lot of chasing- but note that only heavies count toward the penance.

[Steinar]

I get this bug alot. Never bothered looking into if it's purely a visual bug or not. It seems to fix itself when I let the "invisible" Heavy Hitter drop off, and begin stacking it from scratch. But it happens every now and then.

[FatSweatyMan]

UPDATE BUGGED!?

[Ligma Bababooey]

Originally posted by FatSweatyMan:

UPDATE BUGGED!?

What? No, it's not related to the latest update (that is not even out yet). Apparently, this is a fairly common old visual bug.