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posted March 21, 2012 12:35 AM |
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Well... considering how melee does a bunch of damage, I could totally see throwing knives being viable. If we look to reality we can just think about bullet proof vests, and they'd hardly help against a knife. Way too heavy. A bullet is a very light projectile, a throwing knife is much, much heavier. If we then consider that T:A doesn't have armour types, we could either just decide that they won't do anything, or they'd be armour penetrating.
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Adrius
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posted March 21, 2012 12:38 AM |
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Edited by Adrius at 09:12, 21 Mar 2012.
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Well Tribes have power armor man. It's described as favouring mobility more than protection in comparison to imperial forces but still.
Could be some kinda vibro-blade or energy weapon I guess.
It's still just some text found in a game file though. Might be something totally different.
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Well ok apparently melee weapons are supported by lore after all. Tribes' shielding works like Mass Effect shielding... blocking fast projectiles but doing absolutely nothing to slower ones. And since the knife is wielded by a power-armored arm it gets a good amount of force as well.
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posted March 21, 2012 07:55 PM |
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Edited by Shares at 19:56, 21 Mar 2012.
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So after the buff to quick draw I thought I should revisit the quick draw jugger with thrown spinfusor discs... I think it worked out fairly well, but I really think I deserved to win that game. 50% is an excellent boost to switching, and it is suddenly a considerable difference in switching time. I can use the MKD and thrown as a faster spinfusor and use the mortar as slow grenades or for longer distances. With the MLG I might even be dangerous against air targets, without having to learn to blueplate while having two different projectile speeds on my spinfusors •_•
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EDIT: Decided to link it instead, because large pictures are such a hassle to load for some people.
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posted March 21, 2012 08:07 PM |
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Played training, laggs like hell with a few 'middle of the storm' sections where I can shoot with full clarity for a few seconds before it reverts back to the sea of lagg 
Hungary had 10x the minimum connection compared to England, the f***?
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posted March 21, 2012 08:08 PM |
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Yea that was a massive kill count.
The server was choppy for me to a sometimes crippling extent. I didn't have much trouble with it before so I hope it doesn't stay that way after the server split-ups.
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Shares
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posted March 21, 2012 08:12 PM |
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A small hot-fix will be released today that fixes Ping not showing on the scoreboard.
During the hot-fix, we will also be introducing new back-end infrastructure/code that changes a number of backend things around the ways that players go in and out of matches, join friends, etc.
If all works well, this should be functionally identical to what is in place today, but it paves the road for the future introduction of Custom Servers, improved social features, and improved match-making.
It is likely that some issues will be experienced as a result of this change, and the servers may go up and down a couple times today while we do this test. (We may rollback to the old system once any initial issues are discovered an analyzed.
Servers are a-derping today.
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posted March 21, 2012 11:03 PM |
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Man, that must've been awesome.
When I get those kinda killstreaks (uh yeah, I totally do, totally) I just get in the zone... everything disappears around me and I get this tunnel-vision of murder. Then I wake up at the score screen and stare at the accolades in confusion and awe.
Fricking servers don't let me play... blargh.
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posted March 22, 2012 01:00 AM |
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Played Sunstar a few more times now and I can only say that it ended up being pretty much what I expected it to be. The small size and quick traversing made it into an overly offensive map, where the defence will be terribly overwhelmed in numbers. Both flags quickly leave their respective bases and the hunting begins. One ends up being return, only to be instantly llama grabbed and it all becomes a mishmash of people running everywhere and hoping for the lucky cap as your flag is briefly returned.
While this is mostly a metagame issue, I doubt it will be fixed on the pubs ever. The size is too small, just like on X-fire, but the base isn't as easy to defend. It needs to be slower to traverse and the midtower is too easy to hold, which just means that there wont be a battle there. Instead the generrooms and flag areas gets all the attention. It needs higher hills and more sniper cover, and it needs b2f and f2b routes if those energy fields are going to do anything... and that sun is so annoying, since it basically means you can't see people coming in as HoF, if you are even able to stand by your flag as you are in a 5v1 battle, as you are the only defender.
(Basically what I said the first time, but with an angry tone  )
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posted March 22, 2012 01:12 AM |
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Edited by Adrius at 01:12, 22 Mar 2012.
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I need to stop trying to give tips to people, most of them just get super-mad.
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posted March 22, 2012 01:42 AM |
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Well... that's just 'cause people are total noobs...
Uhm...
I think somebody needs to outplay me. I'm growing way too cocky over here.
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posted March 22, 2012 10:22 AM |
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I just can't handle not commenting when people go "When will you learn?" after killing me for the 15th time when I assault the gen, while they have 4 TCNs and a JUG down there and I'm the only one attacking.
I'm like "If it takes 5 men to stop me I'm happy anyway" and they don't get it and think I'm a noob for not managing to kill them all. I just shoot a fusor shot at them and retreat once in a while to keep them paranoid and focused on me.
Meanwhile my team is capping the hell outta their flag since all their defense is on gen. Mwahaha. Awesomest thing is when they even put their forcefields on the gen.
By the way, you can get a Beowulf into the gen on Sunstar. Nice to see Hirez learning from their past mistakes.
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posted March 22, 2012 10:33 AM |
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Two other potential weapons found in the game text files.
[TrDevice_RemoteArxBuster]
ItemName="Jackal"
InfoPanelDescription="The Jackal fires up to three rounds that stick to any surface, and are remote triggered for detonation. Perfect for setting up traps and destroying objectives from a safe distance."
UpgradeDescription[0]="+6 AMMO"
UpgradeDescription[1]="+20% DAMAGE\nVERSUS\nARMORED"
UpgradeDescription[2]="+6 AMMO"
[TrDevice_ArxShotgun]
ItemName="Arx Shotgun"
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Ohohooh... the Jackal for the INF... that would be glorious. The trolling possibilities are endless. Might be another class's weapon though, or it might just be leftover text but... who knows.
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Shares
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posted March 22, 2012 11:10 AM |
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Jackal for inf would be troll overflow! Destroy gener and put some jackals around and hide giggling in a corner and wait for a few techs!
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I just can't handle not commenting when people go "When will you learn?" after killing me for the 15th time when I assault the gen, while they have 4 TCNs and a JUG down there and I'm the only one attacking.
I'm like "If it takes 5 men to stop me I'm happy anyway" and they don't get it and think I'm a noob for not managing to kill them all. I just shoot a fusor shot at them and retreat once in a while to keep them paranoid and focused on me.
Meanwhile my team is capping the hell outta their flag since all their defense is on gen. Mwahaha. Awesomest thing is when they even put their forcefields on the gen.
By the way, you can get a Beowulf into the gen on Sunstar. Nice to see Hirez learning from their past mistakes.
Well... getting beowulves into the gener rooms is starting to be tradition on the pubs. It's not like it's that hard to kill, unless they have a bunch of techs repairing it, and we both know that excessive gener defence isn't worth it. The only problem I have with beowulves is that range. A few times I've seen them camping behind their base on Arx Novena, only to fire at our flag stand... yeah... that's how you put up a siege, while the jugger is still trying to find a spot where it can even reach the flag properly or busy fending off a single pathfinder.
As for when the gener is a fort I often go down there and shoot a couple of fusors from a distance and then just go flag harass and destroy all assets. I don't care if their gener is up all day if there's still no flag defences to be powered. All I have to do is go down there and shoot a couple of discs every once in a while and they'll usually think you're still down there.
EDIT: Except on Temple Ruins, since a single thumpertech can defend the whole gener room from any medium or light with a couple of turrets and sensor mines properly place by the entrances and heavies are easily cut of before they enter if the other defenders are looking.
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posted March 22, 2012 06:03 PM |
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"Damn mortar"
"Yeah it's the only way they can take us down"
Damn right we're getting too cocky hahaha. Pro elitist basterds we are.
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Shares
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posted March 22, 2012 06:23 PM |
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Damn it! I hardly noticed I said that! Somebody needs to crush me!
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Adrius
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posted March 22, 2012 07:14 PM |
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Beowulf no fun.
Missiles spamming poor tank.
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Shares
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posted March 23, 2012 12:47 PM |
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Edited by Shares at 12:53, 23 Mar 2012.
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Shares said:
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Infiltrators: Increased trolling abilities. Perhaps flashmines or something would be increadibly fun to see... or smoke grenades... or placed explosives which you can trigger yourself. I feel like there is quite some room for Hi-Rez to be intuitive here.
I knew I had heard the idea about the jackal somewhere before! Who would've thought it was my idea?
In other news me and my team got whitelisted during the night. Gonna play some PUGs before taking any more decisions about the team. Excrement will traverse downwards shortly.
EDIT: And we were starting to get quite cocky around page 3 even... just saying.
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Adrius
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posted March 23, 2012 04:25 PM |
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Whaaa... you got a team and stuff?
Doubt I'll ever play that seriously.
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Shares
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posted March 23, 2012 04:51 PM |
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Yeah... most of them are total noobs though, so we'll see if I can hold them together for any ammount of time.
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Adrius
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posted March 23, 2012 05:00 PM |
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I'm getting these annoying as **** bugs where after a match is finished I go straight back to the main menu without seeing the score screen at all.
Really annoying when you've got a nice server.
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