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Notorious exploiting of game mechanics.

twofatnutstwofatnuts Member Posts: 53 Arc User
edited December 2014 in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Hello.

Strait to buisness Undine Infiltration final boss entrance is trolled by eng players using Cover Shield thus forceing players to quit and never comeback this is frustrating not because of blocking entrance but because of players avoidind this stf and making it unable to start is there any way for devs to fix that issue? maybe temporary turn off that ability in game? or how about making this shield transparent making it crossable to prewent trolling in future well there is not enought players to chose from and most of players are engs and i cant be sure that eng player not decide to troll coz he got scolded in home.
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  • peetapipmacpeetapipmac Member Posts: 2,131 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    We just had someone do this in an infiltration run.
    She sat the site where the undine spawns and afk'd till we finished interrogating the citizens.
    Then when we got to the tunnels she ran ahead to the entrance of the final chamber, stuck up a shield to block us out.
    Then when we finally got in and killed the boss, she had the cheek to thank us for getting her marks for her. :mad:



    Really hate that cover shield power. Used way more to troll then for it's intended purpose. (and people said disco balls were troll devises)
    It's not my fault if you feel trolled by my Disco ball... Sorry'boutit.



    R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
  • twofatnutstwofatnuts Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The problem is that this shield may be used as high ground to jump somwhere and glich game and that is abused by far too many eng players.

    Skills avaible for players should not be antifan for other players.
  • jon1764jon1764 Member Posts: 81 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    ugh. Report those people. Right click on their character to show their name and @handle, take a screenshot and report to the devs/GMs.
  • robyvisionrobyvision Member Posts: 293 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    twofatnuts wrote: »
    The problem is that this shield may be used as high ground to jump somwhere and glich game and that is abused by far too many eng players.

    Skills avaible for players should not be antifan for other players.

    Report those that use cover shield its a exploit!!!
  • woodwhitywoodwhity Member Posts: 2,636 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Classic. A simple noclip for friends would help, similar to the force field dome, which only affects enemies.
  • thisslerthissler Member Posts: 2,055 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    peetapipmac wrote: »
    We just had someone do this in an infiltration run.
    She sat the site where the undine spawns and afk'd till we finished interrogating the citizens.
    Then when we got to the tunnels she ran ahead to the entrance of the final chamber, stuck up a shield to block us out.
    Then when we finally got in and killed the boss, she had the cheek to thank us for getting her marks for her. :mad:



    Really hate that cover shield power. Used way more to troll then for it's intended purpose. (and people said disco balls were troll devises)

    People said that about DISCO BALLS? The nerve.

    Well, Cryptic put Cover Shields in the game and they aren't going away.

    I honestly just don't know what to say about this.

    Open a ticket, in or out of game. I think THAT is the actual course of action to take.
  • wdocwdoc Member Posts: 98 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    People are going to troll with any ability. If you are being trolled or afkd, please report the player. Cover shields are very useful. I have many of times covered a team player to prevent them from being killed.

    I have also used it many times in pvp to protect vs lunges.

    Again, always going to be trolls.
    Doc of Hammer
  • neomodiousneomodious Member Posts: 428 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Try walking up to it and typing /stuck that may move you through.
  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I still don't understand why cover shields have collision for friendlies. This sort of behavior is inevitable and should have been anticipated. I've accidentally trapped fallen teammates before by dropping a shield before I revived, and having them get revived inside of it...
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  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    the ability is not the problem. Make the path wide enough to get by if one is deployed, fix the mission.

    Creating something to jump on to get to the high ground is exactly what an engineer WOULD do. Ask not what the intended use of something is, but what it actually DOES. (Paraphrased words of wisdom from one of the DOOM programmers speaking on assembly language programming).
  • twofatnutstwofatnuts Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Got trolled again but in bug hunt this time some troll just set cover shield in path of npc that destroys rocks at the end of this stf ,npc was blocked and anybody could speek to him some one spoken to npc and he said cover me i blow this rock blah blah and nothing happend he had to abandon stf...
  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    I would love to have the shield behave like the DOME skill, where you can walk through it. But that would anger people that use it as a "ladder".

    The skill does not have to be touched. Make the freaking entry point wide enough that one shield cannot block/cover it. Problem solved.
  • woodwhitywoodwhity Member Posts: 2,636 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    noroblad wrote: »
    I would love to have the shield behave like the DOME skill, where you can walk through it. But that would anger people that use it as a "ladder".

    I dont think an exploit makes a good contra-argument.
  • herachristherachrist Member Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    peetapipmac wrote: »
    We just had someone do this in an infiltration run.
    She sat the site where the undine spawns and afk'd till we finished interrogating the citizens.
    Then when we got to the tunnels she ran ahead to the entrance of the final chamber, stuck up a shield to block us out.
    Then when we finally got in and killed the boss, she had the cheek to thank us for getting her marks for her. :mad:



    Really hate that cover shield power. Used way more to troll then for it's intended purpose. (and people said disco balls were troll devises)


    I hope you all reported "her." "She" should be banned ASAP.
  • peetapipmacpeetapipmac Member Posts: 2,131 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    herachrist wrote: »
    I hope you all reported "her." "She" should be banned ASAP.

    Don't worry we were all more then happy to report her. Whether anything did/will come of that I don't know, but still gotta report.
    It's not my fault if you feel trolled by my Disco ball... Sorry'boutit.



    R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
  • hereticknight085hereticknight085 Member Posts: 3,783 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    This reminds me of a thread about a year ago by a player complaining about their BOffs being stupid in cover shield placement. We all told him to just remove the ability from his BOff. And he had the nerve to then insult our intelligence by calling us idiots.

    The simple solution. Cover shield the player out XP.
    It is said the best weapon is one that is never fired. I disagree. The best weapon is one you only have to fire... once. B)
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