Something seems wrong about The Maw. It seemed like most of the time, it didn’t complete the cast, and any ship caught in it was released unharmed. At first I thought the unit it targeted had died or phase jumped or phased out, but I’ve had this happen other times. When I’m killing a minor faction I’ll park it in front of their ships and then eat them as soon as they turn enemy, and this works like 1/5 times. The last time I tried it it only casted for a split second before it canceled.
Is this somehow intended behavior and I’m using it wrong? Is no one else frustrated by this ability? Out of curiosity I kept track in my past game. Out of 11 casts, only two finished casting and ate all the ships. Out of the 9 that didn’t finish casting, only two of those managed to kill even one ship.
So am I missing something? Does the channel time depend on antimatter or something? The tooltip says 20 seconds but I’ve never seen it cast for more than 5-6 before it just stops?
This is with the ability on manual cast. On autocast it’s even worse and never kills anything.