I went around a bunch of servers and never found any of these problems. I am betting on it being maybe lag while in battle, then breaking off causing it to be glitched.
Jumping to another server would be probably your best bet.
I did ask him a question also, but no answer either.
Mine was "why he was giving such little rep to all the people I saw fighting him?"
I almost laughed watching some of this, but learned long ago trying to tell some people to try something else, just ends up I must have no clue what I am doing. I would recommend all the people I saw on Darkhart try using lesser damage attacks.
So I am just going to leave these for food for thought, with no crew bonus.
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