Excavator glitch?

[Zaptn.]

I was wondering if this was a glitch or is ment to happen in game, i dont play moon much so it might sound like a noobish question.

Me and 2 friends were on round 11 or so, and the excavatrors were at tunnel 6, and tunnel 11. Is it possible for them to be in both tunnels at once, I was stuck in the spawn room and could not go anywere because of the excavators, and i didnt have a hacker. I died and started spectating.

At this point i only thought 6 had been breached by an excavator.

The other 2 went for Jugg, and came back and were stuck, neither of them had a hacker.

The excavators stayed there for a good 2-3 rounds they might've stayed there for longer but we killed ourselvs to save the boredem.

Has this happened to anyone? It seems stupid 11 and 6 being breached at the same time

[Zom-B_Hunter115]

As far as i know there are 3 separate diggers, Tunnel 6, Tunnel 11, and BioDome. All of with can be digging at the same time. The Bio Dome one just causes decompretion i dont think that one can actually kill you like the two in the tunnels can. Somebody correct me if im wrong

[RabbitZombie]

All three can go at once, as there are three different ones (called epsilon omicron and pi by the way)

they never stop unless hacked. So you can't just wait until they go, meaning if your on the spawn side your stuck.

And yes the biome one can't hurt you but the other two can.

[Superhands]

Actually I don't think all 3 can be breaching at the same time, the first time I played the map I let the 2 tunnels breach, then as soon as the Biodome breached I got an error saying there were 'no free paths' or something like that. Tried it again just to test it out and the same thing happened. Might have been fixed in the latest patch though saying that, I'll have to test it again...

[Tom852]

Are you sure Superhands? Never heard of this or noticed it... But I'm not sure if we ever let all 3 coming down.

@Zaptn.

That is one "feature" of the map, that you can get stuck in the spawn. That is also why there is that achievement "Free yourself thru resurrection". It's meant that you kill yourself, and next round you respawn in the dome or whereever, where your team is.

You always have to keep in mind which excavators are active. If both 6 and 11 are blocking the way and you go to jug with your team, make sure one carries the hacker to open a path.

[owner_101]

The two ones you said are supposed to come down together to get One Giant Leap achievement.

[RabbitZombie]

Yeah 6 and 11 need to be going at the same time fi that. Also I'm almost sure I've Had all three goin at once before, but fixed them all quickly.

[Zaptn.]

are there not 4 excavators?

Biodome, Tunnel 6, Tunnel 11, Labratorys?

I dont play this map often but im pretty sure i hear that woman saying ''Excavator __ will cause decompression of labratorys''?

[Zom-B_Hunter115]

nope only 3. you can see them if you look around when outside on the moon. also there are only three control terminals to hack in the recieving area

[RabbitZombie]

Laboratories are decompressed by grenading a window. Same with receiving bay. These have no excavators.

[Superhands]

Are you sure Superhands? Never heard of this or noticed it... But I'm not sure if we ever let all 3 coming down.

Yeah definately, black screen with error message. I'll have to test it again to see if it's been fixed by the patch and take a screenshtot if I get the same error.

[Tom852]

just tested myself, must have been fixed.

[Superhands]

Ah, good. Always wanted to NoClip to Area 51 once I've got my weapons and do some round-based No Man's Land gameplay, but the error would have stopped me doing that unless I kept going back to hack the Excavators. Now that it's been fixed I must try it sometime...