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Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 2/24/08 9:20 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi (Simpsons Rule) : No, it definitely wasn't a secondary explosion. Somehow while building a map : on Sandtrap, one of the Mongoose's spawn points appeared on the very : edge of the map, way further than the invisible barrier. We're not quite : sure how exactly it got there, but the spawn point for the Mongoose was a : good 15 feet in the air and the Mongoose would spawn, fall down, explode : due to the mines, and respawn again. : Anyway, we had invested a decent amount of time in the map and didn't want to : re-start building it, so we tried very hard to delete it. We ended up : trying to push a teleporter receiver node past the invisible barrier which : meant having to deal with the mines a lot . In Monitor mode we were : 'invincible' and had full overshields to help us survive as long as : possible. Psychophan7 kept saying there were 'tracer rounds' hitting him : and killing him. I kept telling him it was the mines. : He insisted. : Adding the frustration of trying to survive the mines, adding the teleporter, : and me not believing him, he finally went into theater mode and captured a : short clip showing it to me. It appeared exactly as the screenshots Burr : has posted. : My best guess is that the likelihood of seeing these 'lasers' increases the : closer to the edge of the invisible barrier you get. Since most people who : reach that invisible barrier aren't standing still, it's not very likely : people would notice easily. Perhaps they were originally intended to take : out flying vehicles but when the idea was scrapped, instead of removing it : from the code it was just easier to reduce the area in which the lasers : would be effective. : So, rather than the lasers taking out anything from 0 - 100 feet in the air, : it was changed to 0 - 10 feet. *shrug* It could be a lot of things I : guess, but the definitely still do damage. : -SR After reading this I went into Sandtrap on my own and flew within the mine perimeter in a Banshee and I saw a couple of times a weird orange light seem to strike the Banshee but only a split-second's worth. I went and passed the same area again (it was under the frigate between the Phantom wreckage and the Elephant on the side of the map opposite the Albatross), and saw it again on another couple of passes. I was intentionally flying low enough a mine or two was set off, but I wasn't hit or damaged by them. Oddly enough, I only saw it when I was flying in the direction away from the Phantom and I saw the orange light blaze across the left of the Banshee. I didn't bother to go into Theater Mode after to see if I could freeze frame it, but I may try it again.

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Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longish*	Burr	2/24/08 1:22 p.m.
oh right, pics	Burr	2/24/08 1:27 p.m.
Re: oh right, pics	FyreWulff	2/24/08 1:40 p.m.
posted too soon -whoops	FyreWulff	2/24/08 1:42 p.m.
Re: posted too soon -whoops	Burr	2/24/08 2:36 p.m.
Sandtrap Guntowers.	SinisterSamurai	2/24/08 4:08 p.m.
Re: Sandtrap Guntowers.	LostRock11	2/24/08 4:40 p.m.
Re: Sandtrap Guntowers.	SinisterSamurai	2/24/08 4:59 p.m.
Re: oh right, pics	PriorMarcus	2/24/08 1:42 p.m.
They're towers of DOOM! *NM*	BlueNinja	2/24/08 1:51 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	BolognaFire	2/24/08 1:58 p.m.
Some more pics. *IMGS*	BlueNinja	2/24/08 2:36 p.m.
Re: Some more pics. *IMGS*	Rosco-128	2/24/08 10:37 p.m.
You spelled laser with a Z :P *NM*	elpolloguapo	2/24/08 2:37 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Psychophan7	2/24/08 2:46 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Cthulhu117	2/24/08 2:57 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	elpolloguapo	2/24/08 3:12 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Burr	2/24/08 3:47 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	elpolloguapo	2/24/08 4:22 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Spartan Jag	2/24/08 4:07 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Kiloh Ekim	2/24/08 5:09 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	elpolloguapo	2/24/08 5:11 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Psychophan7	2/24/08 6:34 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Spartan Jag	2/24/08 6:40 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Simpsons Rule	2/24/08 7:06 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	BolognaFire	2/24/08 7:18 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Burr	2/24/08 8:30 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Simpsons Rule	2/24/08 11:17 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/24/08 9:20 p.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Decommissioner	2/25/08 8:42 a.m.
New to HBO, old to HIH	SPU7N1K	2/25/08 8:46 a.m.
Re: New to HBO, old to HIH	Decommissioner	2/25/08 9:44 a.m.
Re: New to HBO, old to HIH	Burr	2/25/08 10:03 a.m.
Re: Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longi	Owninater	2/25/08 7:06 p.m.