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Fps off Checkbox?

Various things about Spring that do not fit in any of the other forums listed below, including forum rules.

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Add an option to turn FPS mode off.

Yes, i don't like the cheating.
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Yes, but it's not of importance.
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No, i like using tricks to give me an advantge.
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Total votes: 45

Kixxe
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Post by Kixxe »

mongus wrote:cmon kixxe, post the replay of that game and we can bitch all toguther if its worth it :evil:
I'm trying! Fileuniverse had denies my upload everytime i try... maybe it has something to do with the filename :/
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Post by Egarwaen »

smoth wrote:RLY? I have not seen that yet, but hey if someone can reach you with his comm then you were comm rushed and it has little to do with your ability to play the game with fps mode. Also the d-gun weapon expires after a certain distance.
In games with "Limit D-Gun" on, FPS mode can be used to fire the D-Gun outside of this area. This means that "Limit D-Gun" is pretty pointless.
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Dragon45
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Post by Dragon45 »

You're mixing apples and oranges... FPS mode can be used to bypass the Comm limit DGun... this is an exploit. FPS mode itself is NOT, I repeat, NOT is an exploit.

The devs know about the exploit, and im sure they're working on it... if, once the Comm-Dgun Range exploit is taken out of the FPS Mode feature, will you be cool with it?
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Dragon45
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Post by Dragon45 »

Wait just a second here.

You're calling for FPS mode to be enabled/disabled via checkbox. That means that both the enabled and disabled states are equally a part of gameplay, and equally features.

Therefore you are calling the enabled FPS state a feature.
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Azu
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Post by Azu »

Why not just make a check box option that disables the range advantage from FPS mode? Would that solve the problems? Or..?
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Post by Egarwaen »

Dragon45 wrote:You're mixing apples and oranges... FPS mode can be used to bypass the Comm limit DGun... this is an exploit. FPS mode itself is NOT, I repeat, NOT is an exploit.

The devs know about the exploit, and im sure they're working on it... if, once the Comm-Dgun Range exploit is taken out of the FPS Mode feature, will you be cool with it?
Dragon, perhaps you should heed your own advice: Now you stop twisting our words around.

FPS mode is fine. Using FPS mode to make units violate the rules - fire farther than they should be able to, fire when they shouldn't be able to, fire at targets they shouldn't be able to - is not fine. Everyone in this thread who's expressed a problem with FPS mode has said that they'd have no problem with it if these exploits were fixed. Since many will probably be annoying to fix, having a simple option to disable FPS mode in games would be a probably-less-annoying-to-implement alternative until the bugs themselves are fixed.
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Azu
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Post by Azu »

Why not a check box to fix the bugs, that, when checked, fixes the bugs, and when unchecked, stays the same as normal buggy?
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Post by Dragon45 »

Using FPS mode to over-ride DGun restriction- Bug.

Using FPS mode to use Spring's physic engine more effectively than the standard attack command can use it- Useful Feature.

The latter is not a bug. Bugs imply a need to fix. The latter thing does not detract from the experience.
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Post by Egarwaen »

Dragon45 wrote:Using FPS mode to over-ride DGun restriction- Bug.

Using FPS mode to fire weapons further than their maximum effective range- Useful Feature.
Fixed your typo.

What's the difference between the two? In both cases, you're able to use FPS mode to do things you shouldn't be able to do.
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Azu
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Post by Azu »

Wouldn't a better fix be to, instead of nerf FPS, just buff up the AI so that it will aim that way also. That way the people who love FPS so much won't have anything to complain about right?
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Post by Guessmyname »

Azu wrote:Wouldn't a better fix be to, instead of nerf FPS, just buff up the AI so that it will aim that way also.
Because that would screw up the balance of quite a lot of mods...
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Post by Azu »

Okay then I guess just left with best option being:

Make an option that removes the FPS Glitch or Feature or Advantage or whatever it is called, so if people want to play without that, they can check the check box, if they like it the way it is, they can just not touch the check box. Will that suit everyone's needs?
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BvDorp
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Post by BvDorp »

Lol. ur back to the TS.
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Azu
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Post by Azu »

I don't use teamspeak.
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Dragon45
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Post by Dragon45 »

Now just you wait Sir, let me correct YOUR typo.
Egarwaen wrote:I like taking things out of context, blah blah blah
Do you understand how the engine works? The "Attack" button works within the context of the simulation- not the other way around. As such, even if that command doesn't accurately reflect what the true range of the unit is- well then that is in the design of the Attack calculation- which doesnt use the shortest distance vector, but, an APPROXIMATION, to save calculation time.

If the attack button's range-finder were modified to reflect these actual simulation values, now we wouldnt have a problem, now would we?


But again, I don't think it SHOULD reflect the accurate value of the vector- its a fun little trick, and like i said, adds character to the game.
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Post by bamb »

You don't save much calculation time by doing

1) r^2 = x^2+z^2 (current method that allows fps bug) compared to
2) r^2 = x^2+z^2+y^2.

It's roughly one third more, or even less if you count that the overheads don't increase much at all.

I don't get it why the targeting should be different than the range. If the range is 3-dimensional, so should the targeting be.
Only reason is mods "breaking" but does this really have such a drastic effect? Currently stuff on hills or in pits shoots farther than it should? Or targets further than it can actually shoot? I'm all mixed up by this 2d and 3d mixup.
mongus
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Post by mongus »

IRL weapons surpass "given" max range.

its a very accurate simulation then!


after all, this is not starcraft, cool.

you are funyn.
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Azu
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Post by Azu »

They should fire that way without FPS, to, then
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Post by Egarwaen »

mongus wrote:IRL weapons surpass "given" max range
Real life has very little to do with TA.
Drag-on45 wrote: If the attack button's range-finder were modified to reflect these actual simulation values, now we wouldnt have a problem, now would we?
No, because then they'd have done exactly what I asked for - eliminated the rules violation that can be achieved using FPS mode.
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Post by Azu »

And it's a bad comparison anyways. It has nothing to do with range. It has to do with angle. FPS mode can change the angle. By default it just attacks ground basically.
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