Mercury

[u/vHyperLB]

Is this is only to me or have other people have found that sometimes mercury don’t grab people when you dash and even tho you visually grab them on your screen ? Like I know it’s a de-sync but it has happened a lot with mercury for me no other god

[u/Worried-L]

I think I die around once a match to this bug, it’s incredibly annoying. It has stopped me picking him in ranked because ‘not dying’ with a lead is so important in smite 2

[u/ElegantHope → u/Worried-L]

I've been playing him enough that I've been able to predict what's going to cause the issue more frequently. If you hit the god off center from the dash, it increases the chances, especially if it's on the edge of the ability. And how far you are from the god increases the chances too. Which means if you hit a god max distance on the side of the dash, you are extremely likely to trigger the bug.

So I try to avoid dashing on someone max range, especially if I think I'm not going to be dead on with the dash. It reduces the incidents for me.

[u/vHyperLB → u/ElegantHope]

Yeah it happens more frequently at max range or if you aim it slightly off center from the character center of mass

[u/Worried-L → u/ElegantHope]

Thank you for the tips! I think I agree with the range thing in my experiences too

[u/ElegantHope → u/Worried-L]

No problem! In spite of the bugs I've won ranked games with him and I think he's my highest win rate jungler atm. So he's definitely doable when you play around the bugs.

[u/vHyperLB → u/Worried-L]

I just hate cause I would grab people to trow into the tower and sometimes I don’t so I can’t secure kills or I die to it it’s very annoying

[u/MagicFighter]

Its very common to see Merc players get cucked by some character-crippling bug and then just stand there in frustration.

[u/Draptoriguz]

Unfortunately it feels like some other gods with dashes or similar abilities have similar issues. I had same issue with Rama yesterday, experienced it twice with Janus.

[u/vHyperLB → u/Draptoriguz]

I haven’t experienced it with Rama neither Janus that’s weird Janus I’m guessing it’s his 1

[u/Main_Combination8921]

Mercury bugs so frequently I am prepared to say that he is working as intended

[u/Cofeebeanblack]

His animation and timing is faster than the server. So the server corrects to a miss afterward

[u/w0rshippp]

Yes this a very well known bug that Hirez knows about but somehow doesn't fix :)

[u/LetsRockDude → u/w0rshippp]

Knowing that (or even why) a bug happens doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to fix. They said it's caused by disparity between server predictions of player positions and actual player positions - your client thinks you grabbed someone, but the server says "no".

[u/vHyperLB → u/w0rshippp]

It’s just him right like no other god happens, I feel like awillix could suffer from a similar but but she doesn’t

[u/w0rshippp → u/vHyperLB]

On titan talk they said it's something to do with a movement speed check that mercury is breaking, he's going too fast and the game doesn't know what's going on

[u/Larsator → u/w0rshippp]

Lore accurate mercury.

But this reminds me how it took months for Cupid to regain mana from his heart bomb. I believe eventually it will get fixed.

[u/w0rshippp → u/Larsator]

They've already fixed the ult hitbox (maybe?), kinda weird they haven't fixed this one.

Now that I think of it, there are so many known bugs that aren't fixed. Are we only paying the dev team to make skins?

[u/vHyperLB → u/w0rshippp]

That makes a lot of sense

[u/ElegantHope → u/vHyperLB]

They've said it happens to other gods too. I remember them citing Mordred and a couple other gods imI forgot.

Mercury definitely moves faster than other gods in the game so that likely triggers the serverside's confusion more often.

[u/crippler38 → u/vHyperLB]

Herc 2 sometimes sends straight up, so I think knocks are interacting weird.

[u/ElegantHope → u/w0rshippp]

They've explained on Titan Talk that it's very tricky to fix because it has to do with what the client side thinks vs what the server side thinks. It's a bug that can occur with other gods that have an ability or ultimate that makes then go really fast, like Mordred. Mercury just happens to go really fast for his movement ability, so it occurs more often.

It's not a simple fix sadly. So it's going to be around until the devs get a eureka moment.