Does anybody know the answer to this? No teleporters are involved. Playing a game on a custom map, drivin the revver and KABOOM! it launches half the length of forgeworld and suicides me. It happened 4 times in that game. I've seen it happen in matchmaking, I've seen it happen on whatsisface's revball map too. Anyone know why this happens?
I'd guess buggy physics. Maybe it lags into the ground a bit, and as part of collision correction* it is launched into the air, like Halo 3's Elephant. * Most games use a posteriori collision detection, meaning that they detect collisions after they have occurred, when the objects are intersecting. Before physical effects (like ricochet) can be applied, this intersection must be fixed. Some games do this by applying "impulse", a massive source-less force, to one or both objects in order to force them apart. In some cases (usually when two objects intersect by a significant margin) the impulse used can be massive enough to blast the objects apart and launch them a significant distance away from the location of the collision. (Impulse has no real-life counterpart simply because it was invented to correct intersections, which themselves have no real-life counterpart.)
its a known glitch with the Revenant driving on forged surfaces. i think the most common cause of the glitch is the Coliseum wall. i am suspecting that since Col. Walls do not line up perfectly right with each other, the tiny, phased together, little seams in between each wall is somehow causing the game to spaz out? to my knowledge it hasnt happened anywhere but on a forged surface. seems to only happen after driving on forged surface for extended time as well
It happens on Hemorrhage as well, I've been the unfortunate victim of my ghost, revenant, even wraith randomly exploding and launching my defenseless spartan halfway to pinnacle in a glorious death.
really? launched off the grass? i havent had that happen, or seen that happen at all. and i play ALOT of btb and drive me a lot of revenants. perhaps the launch could have been due to a weird armor lock thingy? ive seen that sometimes.
I have only. seen it twice on matchmaking in many, many games, but it does happen. The surface on my map that catapults them is set at an odd angle (something like 17' ) and the blocks have tiny gaps/overlaps, so this seems to confirm what some of the above posters have suggested.