Exploit?

today while playing I was goofing off and throwing blocks in random places.
One of them ended up on top of a turret and sat there... at least until the person in the turret complained that he couldn't see(so i destroyed it)
but I got to thinking what else the blocks could be built on. I put two on a tank and hide between them. now while i was taking occasanal damage nothing to serious I could repair said tank(which in turn benefited me by giving me a ride) later I noticed people doing similar things including building sentinals on a hellbender.

anyway I'm not sure this was intended by the developers but I thought I should warn you.

buildig sentinels on a hellbender rofl,thats neato. But that was my turret youmade that block on

yea sorry about that but it makes me wonder if I can build sentinels on turrets(or turrets on sentinels)

This reminds me of another server I played on where you could build your sents on top of mantas/raptors and fly around with them firing at everything

Micron(Micron) wrote:

This reminds me of another server I played on where you could build your sents on top of mantas/raptors and fly around with them firing at everything

That sounds crazy!..

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thatd be interesting thou..heh....def sents on ur raptor..invincible..

Turrets and block on stuff?....Hmmm...They have alwyas been abel to do so..BUT I thougth this was removed so they coudl only be built on world geometry in last build..o_O...
*After quick digging and searching*

Szlat wrote:

c) You can now only spawn sentinels and turrets on surfaces which are world geometry - so no more trying to perch sentinels on top of vehicles...

So Im right..so either..something went wrong..liek when the whole invincible monsters thing was happening ..or something.....
Was this jsut intended for sents..?..Cus it seems to be still do-able now (maybe it wasnt realised cus everyone just took it for granted...they couldnt)

Wait...5p33d0fD4rk, Could these vehicles still move.?..Cus before it would render the vehicle motionless if sent was summoned on it....

Ps Tryck ..Thing thats bad?Try running around shooting things when player keeps sticking grenades on ur face..Its sorta funny and not funny at the same time..

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Well, similarly to that, I KINDA experimented with it a bit, and while Friendly Fire was on, if person A was underneath a thrown disk by person B, and person B had summoned a wall the wall fell like usual.

However, since person A was underneath the disk, the wall fell on them and killed em.

It does make sense that it would kill them because of the weight on top, but perhaps it could be a quick fix.

And if the sentinels were summoned ontop of vehicles, and Friendly Fire was on, the sentinel would probably die from getting pushed even though the sentinel would be in stationary position? Or would the vehicles run right through them like some maps?

Dont certain..but with friendly fire OFF summon blocks and vehicles..(they woudl cursh ur teamtes and/or urself for it used to at least..I dont exactly try to kill my teamates )

But there simpler fix i believe....it just...didnt work last build maybe?

actually I think it was in a vehicle invasion that the sent was on the vehicle so that MAY have been the cause.
I'm going to test it in regular invasion on a engineer spawned vehicle.

Well, it wasn't an intentional kill, but person B was freaked out by getting killed by an inanominte (bleh) object.

Blocks spawn where ever the trans is, so they will spawn in the air and fall on whatever. I think that is ok. I haven't tested if they will do crushing damage,especially when friendly fire is on.

Turrets and sentinels should only spawn on world geometry, not on blocks or vehicles. The code draws a line vertically down from the trans (up for ceiling sentinels), and if the first thing it hits is world geometry, it spawns the turret or sentinel. Since vehicles are not world geometry, it should not spawn turrets or sentinels on vehicles.

If it is doing so, then it is a bug. Can you let me know exact details of what is happening, and I will try to fix. What turret/sentinel was spawned on what vehicle. And please just limit feedback to the latest version of the RPG 213. Thanks.

Ya I tried it and couldn't get it to work. The vehicle was a hellbender in vehicle invasion(I'm sure it was NOT an engineers) I can't remember the map name but in was a very big desert and the hellbenders were white(like when you've got reflect) when they spawned untill someone took them. I didn't see the sent spawn but I'm sure I saw it on the hellbender with people driving.
and it was a lightning sent.

Nx time I play Vinv Ill have to try it out.....Mite work seeing they are are built into a map.....so tis prolly just the Vinv that does it.....is that big deal then?...