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Article #224736Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?
From: c...
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:00
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). Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: c...@lingthng.com Subject: Re: If it smells like a bot... is it? Date: 1999/08/19 Message-ID: <7phepe$6d7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Deja-AN: 514739578 References: <7pc9el$69m$1@hyperion.nitco.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x28.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 206.16.41.100 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Aug 19 17:27:29 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDwazat Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit