Thermite sticking question.

I’ve been a thermite enjoyer since the buff. They compliment my load out nicely since I usually run a more chaff oriented kit. Every once in awhile one will hit an enemy, but bounce off them and roll to the ground instead of sticking to them.

I recently just encountered the glitch for the first time with “the bouncing bugs”, where all the bugs where basically jumping up and down and it looked like they were humping the ground. I’ve seen videos posted on this subreddit of it, but this was my first encounter of it.

Well a charger was in this group as well, and thermites are my primary charger killer. He was chasing me while happily humping the ground at the same time and the thermite nades just kept bouncing off, no matter what I did. Even if I held the nade for a sec for the spikes to come out first it made no difference, so I had to dispatch it by just shooting it in the ass.

I’m guessing when thermites bounce its due to angle just like how nades and bullets can bounce if it’s not a straight shot? Or is there a better way to make sure thermites always stick to the target?