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Title: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 04, 2010, 02:05:14 PM
When pressing (for example) 1 for building collectors before the textbox appears, its possible to place (AND build) them before the creeper starts growing.

This might explain some unbeleiveable scores in the highscores

Mfg
Siccles
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Mrmcdeath on January 04, 2010, 02:28:59 PM
Wow... I never knew that.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Aurzel on January 04, 2010, 04:44:35 PM
what what? i didnt get that
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: TheBuilder on January 05, 2010, 04:27:53 AM
place the buildings down before the beging text appears and they will be built instantl. i think thats wat he said
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 05, 2010, 04:38:02 AM
big edit: this seems to only work in the training sim, since the textboxes in the full-game dont seem to pause the game
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Aurzel on January 05, 2010, 06:04:00 AM
yeah i tried to do it, it's impossible in game
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: TheBuilder on January 05, 2010, 06:17:27 AM
try this, puase the game before the text box appears, use the number keys to place units, then unpause. click away the text, and see wat happens
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 05, 2010, 06:24:19 AM
never mind my last post, thebuilder is right! it works in every single mission (meaning the highscores are totally worthless)
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: TheBuilder on January 05, 2010, 06:28:04 AM
um siccles, r u talkin about the online simulator or the full game, cuase i just tried my own advice and it didnt work
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: SPIFFEN on January 05, 2010, 06:40:00 AM
Doesnt work for me , maybe it works on an older version .
If so , the highscores should be form the latest version that didnt have this problem !
( maybe the game works slower on older computers , so this works , the computer i use now is new )
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 05, 2010, 07:22:47 AM
ive got 314... gimme a sec i gotta make an impossible highscore and give you the link, then you can beleive me

edit: check the crux highscore... beleive me now?
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Mrmcdeath on January 05, 2010, 08:39:03 AM
Yea you just have to quickly keep pressing 1 or whatever you want and it lets you start building it before the creeper comes. But you cannot (or I just don't know how.) place them under the text.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 05, 2010, 09:45:27 AM
you can place it under the text, if you pause the game nearly instantly.

This bug could probably be fixed by making the pause button and the 1-0 keys only work after the text is shown.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Aurzel on January 05, 2010, 11:16:51 AM
yeah i just managed to do it (though i quit the game before the level finished)
so yeah t needs fixing
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: knucracker on January 05, 2010, 01:45:46 PM
Fixed in the updated version coming out this week.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 05, 2010, 02:00:28 PM
but will it still be possible to submit scores with earlier than the latest patch version? if yes it would result to nothing at all (and even if it would, they could just replay the map and finish it and submit the old cheated score if it isnot purged)
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Aurzel on January 05, 2010, 03:01:07 PM
he's right it would need to overwrite the previous scores which probably a lot of people wont be happy about
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: TheBuilder on January 05, 2010, 03:09:12 PM
just cause i want to be a cheater for the time the bug has left, how did u place/build units before the textbox appears?
i paused the game before the textbox appears and I cant place any buildings, dont know if i need to use teh number pad or if it dont matter?

Seriously how did u do that?
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Siccles on January 05, 2010, 03:14:16 PM
since it will be fixed anyway, I doubt it would hurt if I tell you:

start a map, while in the loading screen press p (for pause) if you did it right (and not too early) you will see a kinda grey and darkened out map. Now check if the buildings in the lower left are alight or dark, if they are dark press p 2 times very fast after another. Now check if they are alight again, and if not, repeat the hitting of pp.

Once they are alight, set down any buildings you want and then unpause (text should appear now)

Now wait till all the buildings are complete and then close the textbox
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: TheBuilder on January 05, 2010, 03:14:56 PM
k thanks
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: TheBuilder on January 05, 2010, 03:19:13 PM
to make it easier,

Press pause as soon as u see the mission loading screen,
though i dont know wat u mean by a darkened map, all i see is a black screen with mission loading in the middle
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Aurzel on January 05, 2010, 03:50:47 PM
guess i did it wrong, what i did is kept pressing 1 as fast as i could till the txt box came up and then started placing stuff and they built normally with packets though the emitters werent emitting yet until after i closed the box
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Karsten75 on January 05, 2010, 04:06:42 PM
Dang, and I can't manage to do it. Any particular map that this works on?

ETA: I'd like to beat Xylnala's Oh Snap map w it.... :)
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Dranar on January 06, 2010, 08:34:23 PM
It works in the game. Just click on any map in story mode and keep pressing 1 as fast as you can.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Kalistos on January 08, 2010, 04:31:14 PM
Plz in Next version. Rewrite, or clear score Leaderbord. I was in 1 place. ANd all my scores are legit )
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: DarthVader12 on February 15, 2010, 08:10:45 PM
I cheat and do that a lot.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: Kamron3 on February 15, 2010, 09:48:53 PM
=/ You shouldn't cheat.
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: creeper killer on March 01, 2010, 09:22:48 PM
LOL iM PLAYING ON A OLD VERSION AND WHEN i PAUSED THEN CLICKED AWAY THE TEXT BOX THE PLAY AND PAUSE BUTTON GOT FREAKIN MIXED UP! LOLOLOLOL
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: JACKL on March 06, 2010, 12:35:40 PM
Virgil,is there anyway to reset those highscores?
Title: Re: Building buildings before the game starts (bug)
Post by: knucracker on March 06, 2010, 03:14:52 PM
Scores from the older versions of the game don't go into the new high score tables.  The old score tables are still there, though.  I may eliminate them over time...