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Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?

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From: c...
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:00
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In article <7pc9el$69m$1...@hyperion.nitco.com>,
  "Phil Benton" <Ed_H...@evilnet.net> wrote:
> Here's a scenario that happened last night:
>
> Me and one of my teammates [both on cable]  were slamming this guy
[28.8] on
> our regular server. He got his head handed to him and left before
fraglimit
> hit. This is a reguar occurance as this fella is rather annoying and
when he
> pops on we beat him down. It' stradition.
>
> Later in the evening, he pops back on, and persuant to tradition, we
> commence on assaulting him.
> End result of this later attack is *we* get whumped. furthermore, he's
> nearly untouchable and has unerring accuracy the remainder of the
evening. I
> had noticed on occasion as he was being persued that he would spin
around
> and fire w/o error, nailing us as though we were standing still.
>
> Wanting to test the "ratbot" theory, I immedaitely typed ratbot at the
> console and got no response. [aside of the irritable reply of our
opponent,
> who was rather PO'd that we'd accuse him of using a bot]
>
> I'm still kind of suprised that he killed us as easily as he did. He
> refrained form using the railgun ans was more apt to use rockets or
sshotgun
> w/ strength rune. furthermore, I have a *hard* time hitting him with
the
> railgun, even though I have no problem slamming a slug home on some of
the
> usually tougher opponents.
>
> Something just don't add up. Any suggestions, recommendations, or
theories
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil Benton
> aka Ed Hunter[SS]
> eddi...@home.com
>
>

what it sounds like is that this hpb kept joining and causing trouble,
so you made a tradition of running him out.  So, the guy comes back with
either someone with mega skills or with a bot (which is likely
considering the situation and how much he musta been itching to get you
back...)
I'd say it's possible that he had a bot, but don't get your hopes up.  A
lot of people are really good with stuff like perfect hits with rocket
launcher, dodging, etc.  A bot is always terrible with projectiles (it
only works with instant-hit weapons like railgun).

Sheesh, my isp sucks so bad that I had to get on deja just to send the
message (never appeared otherwise).


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