Re: Neat and Helpful X-Wing Bug

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From: no... Norm MacNeil
Date: Fri, 07 May 1993 15:32

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In article <C6n7K...@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ftw3...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:
|> In <bgabe1-06...@mac14.public.swarthmore.edu> bga...@cc.swarthmore.edu (Bradley Gabe) writes:
|> 
|> >Maybe it's common knowledge, but I just thought I should share an
|> >interesting bug in X-Wing.
|> >
|> >On the training course, it is possible to shoot out the turrets that shoot
|> >at you from behind on levels 7 and up without turning around.  Just shoot
|> Actually, I don't believe this is a bug.  The walls are holograms, after
|> all.

Yes but the really wierd thing is that *YOU* can't pass through them even tho
their shots and yours can pass through them; i.e., if you hit the hologram
base, you stop (you've hit the wall) but you can still shoot through it.

Go figure.
-- 
  Norm.

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