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Envelope Behavior

Youko
Youko Member Posts: 187
in Ask the Community

I am trying to figure out if I encountered a bug or not, but for that I need to figure out how envelopes normally behave.

  1. Do envelopes have a limited time to be revealed?
  2. Do they get revealed automatically if a certain amount of time passes?

I've had a few weird things happen today and yesterday. First, I decided to finish a gen before revealing my envelope and the aura disappeared and I was never able to find it after. In another match, I hadn't revealed the envelope, nor did I open one, yet the effect around my character showing I had had appeared. Lastly, I saw what looked to be unrevealed envelopes on a map of which were not mine, but no one seemed to be able to reveal them (unless they were purposely choosing not to for some strange reason...)

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  • Brokenbones
    Brokenbones Member Posts: 5,223
    edited January 2022

    Hey

    What happened is that another player found your envelope and opened it, when you reveal it - you're not making it visible, you're making its aura visible and getting some extra points for showing people where it is

    Also there's a bug where envelopes that have been claimed have auras that linger for a bit longer than they should


    Hopefully this answers your Q!

  • Youko
    Youko Member Posts: 187

    Thanks, that mostly answers it but does lead me to think that the one instance may have been a bug (where the players didn't or couldn't open 2 of them). Are we also limited to only opening 1 envelope each? Because if so, I think what happened is the envelopes might have been opened, and then the modeled just glitched and stayed in the map regardless. Because both myself and a random teammate tried and couldn't get it to do anything.

  • Youko
    Youko Member Posts: 187

    Ok, that puts that to bed then. Definitely was a glitch. Thank you for taking the time to answer my posts! Hope you have a good rest of your day.