Yes the torchbears fire skills can not be used till you click on the immolation skill. Then all his ice skills are turned off and his Fire skills are turned on.

If I did this, then there would be no button for me to click on and be greyed out, so of course I was on fire.

I've only played about 45 minutes up to now, and I haven't figured out how that skill system works.

Like DeadMG, I'm usually confronted with "greyed out" buttons, and no effective skill to use.

For example. I have a cold, blue aura around my feet, but the left buttons associated with cold skills remain greyed out. The only colored button is the one to the right of the cold skills, the button that would make me switch to fire.

But if I press it, I become on fire ... but then, it is the fire-skill buttons that are greyed out, and the only button that is colored is the one that would allow me to revert back to the blue-aura state.

It's perhaps simple & obvious to some of you, but I haven't figured out in 45 minutes how to make the skills work. I'll try again today.

In reply #1, the poster mentions training a skill after transformation : I do not understand what that means, in practical game terms. You transform from a cold state to a fiery state : that, I understand, I can do it easily. But then what ? How do you train to acquire skills ?

I feel dumb : it might be obvious, but I don't get it.

Thanxxx ! I had not noticed that. I'll check it out later today. (Allow me to grant you +1 karma for your help on this thread.)

I've encountered this as well. Only with bad lag over Hamachi, though. I got a little ticked and suicided myself into enemy defenses, and I got the point back upon respawn. (Twice.)

I think this is the same bug as the one in SupCom where all commands made during a lag spike are dropped.