Fortress pulse can crit

Sometimes when I am escaping the fortress, I will be putting along and then instantly die on a pulse (after completing wave 24).

I have been hit by the pulse lots of times without issue, but just sometimes, it seems like it can crit and blow past all my defenses and take me out.

Now, I am not a tank. I am not a glass cannon either.

I have decent evasion, 100% chance to suppress, and 75 in every resist. I do not have any phys mitigation outside the 31k evasion. I have 1100 hp and 1700 es, something I cannot increase, thanks to the jank my build requires. I could do things to be tankier, however it really impacts my damage and smoothness to the gameplay.

This isn't about my squishy build sucking as much as I think the completed fortress shouldn't have crit capable waves pulsing from it.
Last bumped on Nov 17, 2025, 6:07:54 PM
Same thing has happened to me twice now!! I immediately finish round 24 and the pulse instantly kills me. It doesnt happen often but its happened 2 times now and its very frustrating. This feels like a bug

https://youtu.be/6u_I1ssQVsg
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Hypno88#3112 wrote:
Same thing has happened to me twice now!! I immediately finish round 24 and the pulse instantly kills me. It doesnt happen often but its happened 2 times now and its very frustrating. This feels like a bug

https://youtu.be/6u_I1ssQVsg


your video is private

OP's issue is just that they are a ZHP build, even if it can crit you can build a defense against that.
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Hypno88#3112 wrote:
Same thing has happened to me twice now!! I immediately finish round 24 and the pulse instantly kills me. It doesnt happen often but its happened 2 times now and its very frustrating. This feels like a bug

https://youtu.be/6u_I1ssQVsg


your video is private

OP's issue is just that they are a ZHP build, even if it can crit you can build a defense against that.


If I was ZHP, I wouldn't survive 95% of the fortress runs without issue. Sometimes I am far from the center, so distance doesn't seem to matter.

In either case, I think critting should not be part of the pulse.
Yeeah that pulse shouldn't be able to crit. If it was a more static number,unaffected by map mods, or straight up a % of your hp it would be so much better for so many builds. I have no clue what damage type it even is lol

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