Re: Evading homing missles

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From: aa10... Greg Prevost
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:43

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> >Richard Watson (rlwa...@ingr.com) wrote:
> >> In the registered version I seem to be unable to evade the homing
> >> missiles.  They follow me in other rooms and tunnels.  Does anyone
> >> have any good tips and breaking their lock?
> 
> 
> I thought that flares would attract the homing missiles?
> 

Not as far as I could ever tell, I tried like hell to use flares to make
it a wall or at least change course but it never seemed to work.

I found the best way was to just wait for it to come close and just move
sideways to avoid, of course this doesn't help against multiple attacks at
once or in tunnels but hey, who said this was easy!

Greg

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