Resource Battle
SuperMunchkin
Join Date: 2002-09-28 Member: 1364Members
Join Date: 2002-09-28 Member: 1364Members
Far be it for me to whine- but I am seeing a trend in resources. Aliens have a much easier time collecting and keeping towers. I think this has to do with the player factor more than the game, but perhaps others have noticed as well?
In any case- I would like to warn of some cheat/exploit or something that was being used. The aliens were getting CRAZY resources. Ok, picture this: Caged 5v5. Marines beat down a couple skulks in the early rush- much less than you normally see. Build an armory and Obs, head out to the left doorways and are greeted with a wall of lame 4 wide and 2 high backed by def chambers. Errr.. ok... This isn't even 5 minutes into the game.
Same thing at the sewer hive right after we high-tailed it away from there. Up the ladder, packed with OCs and Def Chambers behind them. (could hear the healing) So, has anyone else encountered some sort of Resource cheat? I mean we played at a normal speed and they had fades/onos before we had an arms lab. We weren't incompitent, the commander knew what he was doing and pretty much all of the team did too.
I guess I'm saying that there IS something out there capable of messing with resources. Our marine resources went at normal speed. Only encountered this one time that I know of- but it **** all of us off. They did it for 2 games in a row- we left.
In any case- I would like to warn of some cheat/exploit or something that was being used. The aliens were getting CRAZY resources. Ok, picture this: Caged 5v5. Marines beat down a couple skulks in the early rush- much less than you normally see. Build an armory and Obs, head out to the left doorways and are greeted with a wall of lame 4 wide and 2 high backed by def chambers. Errr.. ok... This isn't even 5 minutes into the game.
Same thing at the sewer hive right after we high-tailed it away from there. Up the ladder, packed with OCs and Def Chambers behind them. (could hear the healing) So, has anyone else encountered some sort of Resource cheat? I mean we played at a normal speed and they had fades/onos before we had an arms lab. We weren't incompitent, the commander knew what he was doing and pretty much all of the team did too.
I guess I'm saying that there IS something out there capable of messing with resources. Our marine resources went at normal speed. Only encountered this one time that I know of- but it **** all of us off. They did it for 2 games in a row- we left.
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I think how it works is a player joins and leaves the alien team over and over again. When they join, they are given 10 starting resources, when they leave the 10 resources are distributed over their team. By doing this a few dozen times rapidly with macros, they can flood the alien resources in no time.
Although, details are a bit fuzzy, because whenever I join an alien team of a game in progress I start with 0 resources. Not sure how they're circumventing that.
Playing on a 1.04b server today, I can confirm the exploit is alive and well because we went up against a team of aliens which was able to spam out a big supply of offencive structures as well as bring up a hive without a problem at all. However, the 1.04 patch message on teh website says it's being looked into and will be revisited in 1.1.
All I can say is: Aliens, please abstain from doing this.
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