1.3.6.4y - OPEN BETA & TESTING

[Red Devil]

easy enough to add a check to see if a ship on team 0 is piloted or not.

[Nielk1]

easy enough to add a check to see if a ship on team 0 is piloted or not.

Yea, but one of the core reasons this was added included people blowing up the commander's ship while he was in a bunker.

So, NO.

[General BlackDragon]

From what I know of the current FF system, with Friendly Fire forbidden:

You should be able to damage Same-Team, or Team 0.

You should be able to snipe Same Team, or Team 0.

You should NOT be able to Snipe or Damage Allied (Blue) on radar.

With Friendly Fire enabled, you can damage/snipe whatever you like.

[Zero Angel]

This might have been brought up in the other topic, but whatever. In Strategy games, sniping is often a valuable tool for players to turn the tide of the game. For example, if an ISDF team is falling behind a Scion team, and a blink Warrior gets sniped and stolen, there could be terrible repercussions for the Scion team depending on who has the Warrior on the ISDF team.

Yep, but as mentioned before and completelly ignored, some find a need to set their 'preferences' in such way that even a simple feature as sniping works game-unbalancing. But ofcourse that is not true, is it?

Interesting. What would these 'preferences' be?

I'm of the mind that if something is seen as potentially game-breaking and is actively being used, either everyone should be able to have it if they want it, or nobody should have it. Keeping techniques secret and exploitable by a few only breeds inequity and resentment.

[Commando]

Based on testing.

You can not snipe allied players
You can snipe their ai units and pilots
You can sn ipe your ai units

[Commando]

It could be just me, but I've noticed player warping being worse in the most recent builds. In the past, the player may warp a little, about a meter, when strafing left and right. Now it isn't uncommon to see a player warp 10 meters.

[Red Devil]

high ping players?

[Vassili]

I confirm i have some freezes of 0.5 // 1 second that appear sometimes on evenements like transfering units, and the lag movements i can see seems worst.

And it's when i host, and i can see my ping do 0>500>0>500 !

[Red Devil]

now that you mention it, i have noticed that hesitation, too, especially when selecting multiple units. wondering if paving is still happening.

[Red Spot]

This might have been brought up in the other topic, but whatever. In Strategy games, sniping is often a valuable tool for players to turn the tide of the game. For example, if an ISDF team is falling behind a Scion team, and a blink Warrior gets sniped and stolen, there could be terrible repercussions for the Scion team depending on who has the Warrior on the ISDF team.

Yep, but as mentioned before and completelly ignored, some find a need to set their 'preferences' in such way that even a simple feature as sniping works game-unbalancing. But ofcourse that is not true, is it?

Interesting. What would these 'preferences' be?

I'm of the mind that if something is seen as potentially game-breaking and is actively being used, either everyone should be able to have it if they want it, or nobody should have it. Keeping techniques secret and exploitable by a few only breeds inequity and resentment.

You know exactlt what I mean, stop playing the saint.

[-Tsahalis-]

The lag has been increasing but from what I have noticed is that all the players have spikes in ping, going from 60 to 200 for an example.

[MrTwosheds]

Interesting. What would these 'preferences' be?

Its bug 310 ZA.
Read it, try it out, maybe practice a bit. Then think long and hard about wether you would really like everyone to use it.
Personally I would rather play bz2 the way it was intended to be played. But if you think the game will benefit from widespread knowledge of this exploit feel free to tell everyone how to do it and i'll get to work on bz2 strats tombstone... I would point out that even those who are using it in games seem somewhat reluctant to tell others about it.

[MrTwosheds]

The lag has been increasing but from what I have noticed is that all the players have spikes in ping, going from 60 to 200 for an example.

You might want to get a network monitoring program, such as TCPview. If you see regular packets coming in from different ip,s on kpn.net it will probably be our ddos attacker. It seems that he still has not got bored with the maggots that are eating his brain.

[Feared_1]

Interesting. What would these 'preferences' be?

Its bug 310 ZA.
Read it, try it out, maybe practice a bit. Then think long and hard about wether you would really like everyone to use it.
Personally I would rather play bz2 the way it was intended to be played. But if you think the game will benefit from widespread knowledge of this exploit feel free to tell everyone how to do it and i'll get to work on bz2 strats tombstone... I would point out that even those who are using it in games seem somewhat reluctant to tell others about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-1ffYCcr0

Give me a timestamp of when the technique you are referring to is used.

Once you realize that you can't, understand this TRUTH: The exploit you are referring to DOES NOT EXIST in the vet community.

Don't fix what ain't broken.

[MrTwosheds]

It exists... If its not used... fixing it won't be a problem with the people who don't use it then, will it?
Was that you in Vasillis game the other day? or your imposter?