Exploding cars

[Rinnag]

Whats wrong with cars exploding out of nowhere?

[Tripas]

What do you mean with "out of nowhere"? Because if they're hit with an explosion, laser or plasma shots and catch on fire... then you can expect them to blow up.

[Rinnag]

i mean, they were perfectly normal, nothing wrong and then just exploded

[Tripas]

Well that's weird, never heard of that one before. Are you SURE that it wasn't hit by someone shooting (doesn't matter if the shot hit or miss its intended target) that hit that car as collateral?

[Rinnag]

well, didnt pay attention to that, but does it need to be on fire? It got hit and seemed like it was ok.

[Mandemon]

Sometimes the flames don't appear. Listen to soldiers comments too. It's always better to be sure than sorry.

[Tripas]

Yeah, if fire starts coming out of the engine and if your soldiers say something like "Fuel's about to go", "Fire in the hole" or something like that, then move them out of there. Oh, and your squadmates will only say something if they're currently taking cover behind the car that was set on fire. They won't say a word if they're away from it, so do avoid moving them next to a car on fire just because they didn't say anything :p .

[Rinnag]

well, i'm gonna listen to what they from now on, thx

[Spacecataz]

Even if a car is off screen, far back, it can still be hit by a stray enemy shot and explode. Sometimes other cars exploding will set another on fire, and like mandemon says sometimes the flames dont show up correctly. That said, i love to have an enemy[s] hide behind a gas pump near a car, rocket the gas pump and blow up everything at once.

[passpatrik]

same problem here. no fire, no squad comments and then chain explosion out of nothing. looks like bug.

[Tripas]

Arise, Necro thread! Arise!

[red255]

Originally posted by passpatrik:

same problem here. no fire, no squad comments and then chain explosion out of nothing. looks like bug.

Unlikely

more likely you are just not very observant.

[Ashardalon]

might be the office with the warehouse map
the cars in that map have a bug that they sometimes chainreact
all of them, so if the one at the other side of the parking lot gets set on fire and explodes all of them explode
might have been one of the cars outside of his vision that got shot

[Tiny Kestrel]

Originally posted by RiNNaG:

Whats wrong with cars exploding out of nowhere?

Are the cars that are seemingly exploding at random in the fog of war? If that's the case, it could be that a shot from a battle you were having earlier went into the fog of war and hit a car, then when you moved up next turn you saw the car explode.

[rikashiku]

Originally posted by Tripas:

Well that's weird, never heard of that one before. Are you SURE that it wasn't hit by someone shooting (doesn't matter if the shot hit or miss its intended target) that hit that car as collateral?

It has happened to me. Sometimes the cars just explode randomly and then all of a sudden a pod shows up. For some reason they were killing another pod.