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shmeetzTA Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 am Posts: 696	Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) I think my game is bugged or something. As soon as they hit a hard surface they stop in mid-air and stay there as they detonate. It's really weird. Is that intentional? _________________ Ever feel like the guy you're fighting is able to stay in the air for just a little longer than everyone else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Cd5XogxnE
Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:33 pm

acro Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:02 pm Posts: 306	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) I could be wrong, but I think it's an implementation issue to prevent the grenade from sliding down slopes to become a rolling ball of death.
Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:55 pm

DibbzTheLoner Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:30 am Posts: 1616 Location: Australia Steam Gamer Name: Dibbz	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) This is how they're coded to work unfortunately. Gotta try to make sure it's only hitting the floor, lest you end up with a simple light show. An annoying bug in their detonation is when the fractal frequently fails to levitate itself upwards after being thrown on the floor, so it pretends to be a landmine and half the blasts are ineffectual. _________________ This signature is green. I like the colour green. Wait, why are you still reading? It should be obvious that this signature is pointless and just here to be green. Stop reading already! You're procrastinating too much!
Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:38 am

AmoraBunny Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:12 pm Posts: 1474 Location: Japan	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) DibbzTheLoner wrote: This is how they're coded to work unfortunately. Gotta try to make sure it's only hitting the floor, lest you end up with a simple light show. One on the ground, one in the air - death by choice. Most fract spam is easily avoided by flying up; if there's a frac up there as well, they are as good as dead. _________________ Desolation's Paradise A fan-fiction between two Tribes vets: AmoraBunny & TheEschaton
Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:58 am

BitRaiser Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:38 pm Posts: 148	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) AmoraBunny wrote: One on the ground, one in the air - death by choice. Most fract spam is easily avoided by flying up; if there's a frac up there as well, they are as good as dead. Well don't tell them that!
Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:06 am

Almeson Joined: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:43 am Posts: 619	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) DibbzTheLoner wrote: This is how they're coded to work unfortunately. Gotta try to make sure it's only hitting the floor, lest you end up with a simple light show. An annoying bug in their detonation is when the fractal frequently fails to levitate itself upwards after being thrown on the floor, so it pretends to be a landmine and half the blasts are ineffectual. Speak for yourself, i've seen ones that was just as effective as a regular one, except being, for the most part, invisible. Then there's a visual bug that comes out of some gen rooms where the fractals have a light show that goes outside the gen room and through the entire map. Doesn't affect the whole map of course but god d*** it gets scary when I see a fractal beam of light shoot past me, but I'm no where near the actual explosion.
Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:57 am

shmeetzTA Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 am Posts: 696	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) Will they work through walls? _________________ Ever feel like the guy you're fighting is able to stay in the air for just a little longer than everyone else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Cd5XogxnE
Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:31 pm

LHeureux Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:35 pm Posts: 349	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) Since CLOSED Beta that fractals always acted this way, so you can have area denial in mid-air. _________________ I give up too.
Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:56 pm

shmeetzTA Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 am Posts: 696	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) Weird. I've been playing since closed beta too and i never noticed. But i also never played Brute till now so... _________________ Ever feel like the guy you're fighting is able to stay in the air for just a little longer than everyone else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Cd5XogxnE
Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:13 am

AmoraBunny Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:12 pm Posts: 1474 Location: Japan	Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video) shmeetzTA wrote: Will they work through walls? I've been killed by my own, or others, fractal nads through walls from time to time. _________________ Desolation's Paradise A fan-fiction between two Tribes vets: AmoraBunny & TheEschaton
Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:42 am

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shmeetzTA

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 am
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Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

I think my game is bugged or something. As soon as they hit a hard surface they stop in mid-air and stay there as they detonate. It's really weird.

Is that intentional?

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Ever feel like the guy you're fighting is able to stay in the air for just a little longer than everyone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Cd5XogxnE

Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:33 pm

acro

Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:02 pm
Posts: 306

Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

I could be wrong, but I think it's an implementation issue to prevent the grenade from sliding down slopes to become a rolling ball of death.

Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:55 pm

DibbzTheLoner

Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:30 am
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Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

This is how they're coded to work unfortunately. Gotta try to make sure it's only hitting the floor, lest you end up with a simple light show.

An annoying bug in their detonation is when the fractal frequently fails to levitate itself upwards after being thrown on the floor, so it pretends to be a landmine and half the blasts are ineffectual.

_________________
This signature is green. I like the colour green.
Wait, why are you still reading? It should be obvious that this signature is pointless and just here to be green.
Stop reading already! You're procrastinating too much!

Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:38 am

AmoraBunny

Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:12 pm
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Location: Japan

Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

DibbzTheLoner wrote:

This is how they're coded to work unfortunately. Gotta try to make sure it's only hitting the floor, lest you end up with a simple light show.

One on the ground, one in the air - death by choice. Most fract spam is easily avoided by flying up; if there's a frac up there as well, they are as good as dead.

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Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:58 am

BitRaiser

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:38 pm
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Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

AmoraBunny wrote:

One on the ground, one in the air - death by choice. Most fract spam is easily avoided by flying up; if there's a frac up there as well, they are as good as dead.

Well don't tell them that!

Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:06 am

Almeson

Joined: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:43 am
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Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

DibbzTheLoner wrote:

Speak for yourself, i've seen ones that was just as effective as a regular one, except being, for the most part, invisible.

Then there's a visual bug that comes out of some gen rooms where the fractals have a light show that goes outside the gen room and through the entire map. Doesn't affect the whole map of course but god d*** it gets scary when I see a fractal beam of light shoot past me, but I'm no where near the actual explosion.

Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:57 am

shmeetzTA

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 am
Posts: 696

Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

Will they work through walls?

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Ever feel like the guy you're fighting is able to stay in the air for just a little longer than everyone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Cd5XogxnE

Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:31 pm

LHeureux

Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:35 pm
Posts: 349

Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

Since CLOSED Beta that fractals always acted this way, so you can have area denial in mid-air.

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I give up too.

Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:56 pm

shmeetzTA

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 am
Posts: 696

Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

Weird. I've been playing since closed beta too and i never noticed. But i also never played Brute till now so...

_________________
Ever feel like the guy you're fighting is able to stay in the air for just a little longer than everyone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Cd5XogxnE

Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:13 am

AmoraBunny

Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:12 pm
Posts: 1474
Location: Japan

Re: Is this how fractals are supposed to act? (video)

shmeetzTA wrote:

Will they work through walls?

I've been killed by my own, or others, fractal nads through walls from time to time.

_________________
Desolation's Paradise
A fan-fiction between two Tribes vets: AmoraBunny & TheEschaton

Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:42 am

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