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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Unknown Target on September 20, 2004, 01:04:10 pm

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Unknown Target on September 20, 2004, 01:04:10 pm

Just something I thought you guys might want to know. It's not really a bug, so I'll post it here. Whenever I have an aspect-seeking missile selected, and am targeting an enemy (the counter's going down until lock), and I hit alt-pause, the lock icon IMMEDIATLEY locks onto the enemy (with just about a 1-second time delay).
Sorry if this has been said before.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: TopAce on September 20, 2004, 01:12:20 pm

The Ai targets you the same way.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Overlord on September 20, 2004, 01:44:53 pm

What? Cheating AI?! :eek: ;)

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: kasperl on September 20, 2004, 02:49:24 pm

Can you check if this works in mutliplayer? If it does, this is a cheat, and should be fixed.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: StratComm on September 20, 2004, 03:11:57 pm

Does alt-pause even work in multiplayer?  My impression was that all pause functionality was disabled.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Kie99 on September 20, 2004, 03:19:48 pm

Thanks for that! :D

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Svizel on September 20, 2004, 05:06:13 pm

Honestly... if you thought that someone would want to win TVT by abusing some faster locking... well he would be probably shred on pices by nearest erinyes in less than the second this cheat-locking takes :D

edit: Thought it could be abusabe in Coop for bomb locking... But if anyone was really interested he could also hit standard pause while firing and wait till all missiles go on target... Not many ppl bother with this tho...

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Kie99 on September 23, 2004, 03:34:08 pm

Actually when I try this with FSO the triangle is going to lock on, I press alt-pause, everything stops except for the aspect seeking triangle.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Unknown Target on September 23, 2004, 03:36:50 pm

Exactly, ditto.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: MatthewPapa on September 23, 2004, 03:44:01 pm

I am surprised I have never heard of that.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Lightspeed on September 23, 2004, 04:04:45 pm

I found that out ages ago.

It's not an issue, IMHO.

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: Kosh on September 24, 2004, 02:17:23 am

Man you could really abuse Trebs, Cyclops, and Helios missiles by doing that. I'll have to give it a shot one of these days. :)

Title: Small little gameplay thing.
Post by: TopAce on September 24, 2004, 09:09:57 am

A stupid trick to make Bearbaiting easier.