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Offline Unknown Target

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Small little gameplay thing.
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.
 

Offline TopAce

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Reply #1 on: September 20, 2004, 01:12:20 pm
The Ai targets you the same way.
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Offline Overlord

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Reply #2 on: September 20, 2004, 01:44:53 pm
What? Cheating AI?! :eek: ;)
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Offline kasperl

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Reply #3 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.
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Reply #4 on: September 20, 2004, 03:11:57 pm
Does alt-pause even work in multiplayer?  My impression was that all pause functionality was disabled.
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Offline Kie99

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Reply #5 on: September 20, 2004, 03:19:48 pm
Thanks for that! :D
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Offline Svizel

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Reply #6 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...
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Offline Kie99

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Reply #7 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.
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Offline Unknown Target

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Reply #8 on: September 23, 2004, 03:36:50 pm
Exactly, ditto.
 

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Reply #9 on: September 23, 2004, 03:44:01 pm
I am surprised I have never heard of that.
  

Offline Lightspeed

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Reply #10 on: September 23, 2004, 04:04:45 pm
I found that out ages ago.

It's not an issue, IMHO.
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Offline Kosh

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Reply #11 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. :)
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Offline TopAce

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Reply #12 on: September 24, 2004, 09:09:57 am
A stupid trick to make Bearbaiting easier.
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