Noticed a trend?

[Drknecro]

What is this tree. co.

say tree co. out loud and you will know...







if your too lazy its trico.    

[andrewcleung]

Oic, that really needs explaining.

Have u ever notice that Ice Tag cant be seen anymore? I really missed Ice tag.

[MetallicSlug]

Dont ever disrespect Asians, we started the game ur playing now, so dont even criticize us, because u should be gratful for being able to play this game for free. So chill....

I'm terribly sorry.  I shall go around thanking every Asian I see for their part in bringing the wonderful game of Gunbound to us.

By the way, I am Asian.  I don't care in the least that I am.  You/your parents were born on a massive continent which half the world's population comes from, so what?  I feel no patriotism whatsoever, and I sure as hell would never join an "AzNrIcE" or whatever guild.

Another trend:  Chicks using Boomer that turn out to be undercover wands.

[zyad]

Have u ever notice that Ice Tag cant be seen anymore? I really missed Ice tag.

Ice tag is gone since softnyx made it a bannable offense...



Another trend:  people leaving the game to avoid getting dked.  its so annoying when you are about to get a dk, and one of the people leaves so you cannot kill both of them.  its not like it hurts them any to get dked... they just dont want you to get a dk.  

[andrewcleung]

I know it's banned. But how do they detect ice tag? We could simply replace ice with turtle and with ice as tag partner.

[creedo]

I don't think they could really detect it, or they could if they bothered to but they don't.  As far as they know it's just another 1v1 game with players who don't miss each other much

I suspect if they wanted to, they could write scripts to detect a lot of things -

If team B always skips turn, or has negative GP, team A could be detected as a botter.

If a room has only heals allowed then it might be something they can look at as an ice-tagging-type game.

If someone loses 10 or 20 games in a row it could detect that and they could check the chat text to see if it's one of those fixed games, i.e. 20 wins for gold hammer etc.

What I really wish softnyx would fix instead of the botting/tagging/trading ... is the small things that keep games from being fun or that prevent them from starting.  Disable teamswitching if a team is already full, or make it so that the key can invite specific people only.  Autokick people who refuse to ready without the key losing any of his 5 kicks.  Allow someone to close the room with a simple command so that you don't have to play the kick-really-fast-and-click game... i.e.
/close PlayerA PlayerB ... kicks those 2 and simultaneously closes room down a level.

This stuff would be sooooo awesome, a LOT of my time on gunbound is wasted in the ready room instead of playing, and I hate it.

PS: ok that was all offtopic.  I'll add some other trends I've noticed:

-People using my terms or formulas! yay! Of course I notice this much more than anyone else would so maybe it's not really a trend yet.  The other day someone said 'fork shot', and someone I played with today used 2.25 boomer lobs.

-Low ranked player always always trying to add a dragon to their buddy list as soon as they see him, then they ignore everyone shouting 'rdy up' for 30 seconds, then they say in some language the dragon doesn't speak "add me, ______".  Then after another 30 seconds of shouting they usually have to be kicked.

-Dragons/high ranked player selling accounts ... cbchui, xiaoxu13, vvvvvvv (someone told me did this months ago), kawikaze... etc

[Harboralpha]

If anybody can name an a.sate weakness i'll give you a cookie. Before you say 'Distance is its weakness kthx blah blah', distance ISNT isnt weakness. It still does 200 across the map with a well placed shot. Distance loses it 50 damage, whoopdiedo.

They really need to do something about it.

Sate weaknesses

Distance. It loses more than fifty damage. The lasers spread out more at a distance making it very difficult to hit with all three. In some cases quirks of elevation and ground shielding can cause all three lasers to miss. That's a wee bit more than fifty damage.

Put it in a hole. It's relatively small angle and tracer shot will cause it to shoot itself or simply hit the dirt instead of you.

Sate has a more difficult time shooting to the right than to the left. It's kind of a minor weakness, but it can be exploited.

It has a pretty low defense and is weak against "hit" weapons.


Anything else I should be listing?

[zyad]

I don't think they could really detect it, or they could if they bothered to but they don't.  As far as they know it's just another 1v1 game with players who don't miss each other much

-People using my terms or formulas! yay! Of course I notice this much more than anyone else would so maybe it's not really a trend yet.  The other day someone said 'fork shot', and someone I played with today used 2.25 boomer lobs.

well, i heard it had something to do with heals and 3000 damage bonuses.  they could detect that 3000 damage bonuses were occurring frequently in a 1 on 1 game, or something like that.  i am not sure how accurate that information is though.




and, on a side note, whats a "fork shot" o_0

[JediKitsune]

I guess you could say the most steadily increasing trend is the decrease of intelligence of players on GB. The first few were good, the ones who'd been around since kGB or close to the opening of GIS (like myself). After it got more publicity, more and more idiots joined and now we have the lovely community we have now.

Not to mention the Boomer has flip-flopped its role in GB. At one point, it was used by few, save the better GB players; and now every Joe, Schmoe, and Bob is using the damn thing.

[creedo]

harboralpha: Your weakness list is good, a minor correction: sate's got great angle range but it's placed very low on the mobile.  That is why it's so easy to fuck his angle.  Cake dual+ and I recently found armor dual+ with shot 2 first can leave him shotless.

Zim: besides the ones harbor listed, the weirdness of the tracer makes demands on the player's aim.  For example shotgun from left to right directly into the mobile at max power = 3 or all 4 lasers completely miss.  Obviously someone who doesn't use tracers can shotgun with no problem.  So you're forced to make nice lobs and place the shot carefully.

You also must memorize how the lasers spread shooting long range left to right and right to left... sure you CAN get 200, but can 90% of the sates out there know that you need to place the tracer almost an inch in front of the enemy when shooting left?  And besides having the knowledge, have the skill to put it there?

One more weakness, it's easy to hide behind dirt.  If the sate's shooting more than half a screen and you're butted up close to a wall of dirt, the dirt blocks most of the lasers no matter now perfectly he plants the tracer.  Someone like armor doesn't have that problem, he can hit directly.  In more rare situations like on stardust, you can hide directly under dirt and block most of the incoming lasers.

Zyad: fork shot is the term I came up for turtle's close range melee shot 2 trick, which you might know as the impossible shotgun from ramza's guide or by some other name.  Done correctly the shot 2 first snakes out to hit low, then the 2nd part 'forks' and curls into the enemy's back.

Jedi: werd :/   ...I didn't get to see gunbound when it was free of idiots, but I've seen the same thing happen to other games that have steadily grown in popularity (for example the virtua fighter series... there used to be like 5 usa fans on the internet and they'd drive hundreds of miles to play each other... now it's popular and the internet forums are clogged with junk).

I wish there were some age/maturity test in gunbound.  Or like a script that detected spamming and banned people who spewed childish insults all day...