This thread is Not pointless, for posts just like these.

Thanks Kitty, you man'd up enough to apologize.  We all have our bad moments. 

j

lolololol this thread is epic, 2 months after 1.2 was supposed to be released and still nothing, stardock = fail. I will never ever purchase anything from them again..

To begin with i went to stardock went site originally to purchase Demigod, then I bought from the website and it tells me my credit card info is incorrect, to check it again and try again. I check the info, and once again submit the order, it says the same thing that my credit card info is incorrect. Well it double charged me and I had to call to get the charges cancelled, etc.. anyways I bought the game from newegg or ebgames online, and my cc info went right through like normal, so i should have known right then when I was just trying to buy the game, it had epic failure written all over it.

I've quit out of lobbies when seing Kitty in them, after a eeringly similiar experience to Lukas', the two of us and a player with less than five games logged losing to a 2man team with an experienced 3rd.

If I remember correctly, he topped it off with a "1v3, gg" at the end that time.

Was back on September 23rd though, glad to hear he's had a change of attitude since then

[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="431" id="2402532"  5 mins in, I notice the Vampire Lord teleporting across the cracks in the exile map constantly.  It's then I remembered reading something about an exploit for that map and the Vampire Lord on this forum in the past.[/quote]

That's hardly an exploit, you can do the same thing with the Cloak of Night or warpstone.

I would say that EB and generals teleporting across to the crystal areas on Exile and Crucible are exploits. To me an exploiting is when you become aware that a game mechanic isn't functioning as intended and you use it to your advantage. I'm fairly certain that those maps weren't designed with an intended insane movement advantage for those aware of the opportunity.

That being said, you've gotta just play the game as-is. If you don't like people warping across those gaps then don't play those maps. You should play however gives you the greatest advantage and if/when it gets changed in a patch you just adapt to the new changes as they come.

No amount of complaints will keep people from warping across those areas, it's not a winnable argument when it comes down to it.

Doesn't seem like an exploit, I mean, isn't it an obvious advantage of a short range teleport? You 'cut the corner's on maps like cataract and leviathan all the time, going over a short gap just seems to be the next step.  That'd be like saying that mass Charm + FLag lock to prevent an interrupt is an exploit.

hackers can active a cheat that makes them suddenly run very fast

hackers can manipulate game files to put an oak shield on themself even with no oak in the game

you are always oom, and your enemies always have infinite mana because they are hackers

the enemy always outlevels you because they hack

hackers can send trojans to your teammates, make it look like they said "screw this im out" and force quit their demigod app

hackers can get rid of fog of war, which is how they always seem to know exactly where you are

hackers can make their minions unkillable

irek:

"Hackers teleport can heal them for 2000 or hit u for 600"

Zechno:

"Hackers also do 650 damage to you with a teleport scroll!"

Nah, I think you guys are mirespresenting it. If you played warcraft III from the start you may remember forest walking with ghouls. You could avoid collision with ghouls by telling them to harvest trees behind a target... The purpose of the mechanic was obvious, it was to keep them from getting stuck on each other and other objects while farming, but the combat application was quite unintended, allowing you to easily surround a hero by ignoring all their units.

I would say the teleport trick is similar. The mechanic has a legit purpose and its current usage is not a bug, it's just likely not an intended usage. It's an exploit, but part of playing video games competitively is using that kind of trick to win, if it's part of the game it's fair game. Even if GPG/SD said they don't want you using it it'd be silly to stop. It's on them to fix it, but that doesn't change what it is.

Stfu?

Bringing this thread back to its angsty roots:

P4yeek is a stat bugger, he said this to me before quitting out of a game he hosted. Surprise surprise, it didn't show up on the record:

I would like to nominate myself!

I just rage quit a game because it was hopeless and I had to pee really bad.

Same thing happened when McShane and I played against Inexorable88. He played a terrible game as beast, and decided to blame his poor performance on the slight lag; even tho his team mates were doing just fine (Especially DUBTRONIC). When the time came when it was obvious he wasnt going to win, he went off into his classic supervillain monologue talking about how he wanted to start a "crusade against lag losses" (No joke!...Dude actually said that!). Seconds later he bragged about slowing down the game to an absolute crawl. His ashamed team mates left after it was clear he wasnt going to stop. We ended up waiting him out, but im sure he's done this several times before. McShane has a sneaking suspicion that he is actually the kid from the WoW freakout videos. Anyone have any idea how to report this kind of bad behavior?