The <insert favorite side here> celebrates victory!

Foxomaniac · Post by **Foxomaniac** » 07 Sep 2006, 22:30

http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/ ... foxie/tas/

See images.

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Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 07 Sep 2006, 23:34

Uh....what?

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 07 Sep 2006, 23:40

I dont know whats happening here but im gonna say its awesome

Foxomaniac · Post by **Foxomaniac** » 07 Sep 2006, 23:41

Notice how many weapons there's in the sky? >__>.

Many diffrent weapons - from maverick shots to peewee EMG with spider rockets for dessert.

Makes a rather nice firework-scene.

(images are subtle hints of a bug.)

nobody2u · Post by **nobody2u** » 08 Sep 2006, 01:12

Nice fireworks. How do you do it?

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 08 Sep 2006, 03:37

High trajectory for everything?

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 08 Sep 2006, 03:41

Ahahah, nice...

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 08 Sep 2006, 03:53

Hmm... Hmm.... figuring out how he did this is more fun than the picture itself ^^

My bet is on him altering the gravity on a map to be -500 or something.

Pxtl · Post by **Pxtl** » 08 Sep 2006, 04:05

I've seen similar behaviour happen on a bug. I'm embarrassed to admit it was on SpeedMetal (yep, I finally tried the accursed map).

What happened was somehow a vamp or two were trapped outside the map (checked they were vamps in the spec mode after I gave up). Units in the viscinity of the confused place the radar dots thought they were (within the map) would simply fire straight up. From what I understand this happens particularly on SM, and particularly with aircraft (as such, one frequently sees flak firing into the air and coming down, wreaking havoc).

So we've found a good use for SpeedMetal: it's a wonderful stress test of the engine.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » 08 Sep 2006, 05:49

This is possible (to an extent, obviously higher gravity keeps them lower) on any map, without modifying AA.

am0kk · Post by **am0kk** » 08 Sep 2006, 08:19

yeah, ive noticed it happens with all L2 fighters in AA. It appears when they get close to the enemy's defences ( fighters or anti-air) they going into loop of dodging and looping, and always gaining altitude.

I have found that you can only then select them by going to free cam view and lookign straight up and do a box select to catch it.

You can give it a move order, but it wont go as its stuck in it loop. Also trying to manually fly it down also has no effect.

The only thing to do is self-destruct it.

It is a wonderful way to destroy their base when their own shots fall back to earth :D

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 08 Sep 2006, 10:21

moved to off-topic.

Foxomaniac · Post by **Foxomaniac** » 08 Sep 2006, 14:48

Nemo is correct.

I'll do some more testing with it before I submit a bug report on mantis.

It's actually not useful in practical combat, extremely hard to aim - but it can still be used to good effect if you have ahem... a spam of units lined up.

Could also be used as a suppressive fire field, kinda like arty - only better =p.

Spring RTS Engine

The <insert favorite side here> celebrates victory!

The <insert favorite side here> celebrates victory!