K a few things :
f2 f4 switching is not es.
Cancel orders is and have been considered legit since the beginning of the game and is one of the things that the devs placed in the game with an intention for it to be used in all of the ways it is.
P.s hi dolts.
Make an account. Dolt. ![]()
then why did the relic guys tell me it was when i used it on them back in 99 ?
they also told me that any tactic with scouts that circumvents the game engine physics and makes scouts win vs something they normaly cant beat. ( IE twice as many defenders or light wall )
the F2 F4 switching i have beat a light wall on talas with and he had 2 supps on it. and it was only 40 scouts. i also had 60 defenders killed on me by some one who was using it. and he had only 45 scouts.
Circumventing the physics engine is cheating.
So… Why Homeworld Makers create that button??
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I think Every thing that developers add to game shouldn’t be a bug (It must be only if it’s very hard to win with it), Physic in game is not important, because it’s not real world.
P.S. most of skilled players are beating my swarm, so It’s not hard to destroy it (so it’s not a bug)…
did u read at all ostap lol.
with ships that are already out of MS and under full control on their own its fine to use cancel orders on but while ship is coming out it is not fine to do.
any tactics/formations hopping or kami during fighter fight = bug
The cancel orders would be to stop something. Say I told a bunch of scouts to dock, I could cancel that to make them stop. Or if I told a resource collector to harvest and I wanted it to kami into somebody’s grav, I could hit cancel orders.
Ye i read it, I know that is a bug (I just forgot to write about it
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I have never heard that f2 f4 switching was a bug till here.
well i was told it was by relic guys back in 99 when i used it cause alot of others where using it then.
jumping tactics does the same thing as jumping formations.
except when u jump tactics u can have your micro formations set up whenu go f2 they start to break up and go fast then u hit f4 again they reform and start a new attack run from their location instead of finishing the one they where on.
i have taken out a light wall of 20 that had 3 supports on it with 40 scouts using the F2 F4 swaping ![]()
if thats lagit then rest of scout bugs have to be as well.
when i see any scout bugs i use the counter bug to them ![]()
all what i know about f2 f4 switching is that, that is bug (and year ago called DS-dancing scouts)… Me and Yessmasster when we wondered that, We thought it’s not bug, but Someone told me that is, so I stoped using it.
I thought DS was Albino, since the scouts in albino apear to be dancing.
It should all be called BS, for Bullshit Scouts.
This would lead to ingame messages such as “Hey, cut the BS would ya!?” or “Oh man, Splitstar is full of BS”
if i had the influence i would make a patch that caps scouts at 5 and takes away their guns then they would be exactly that scouts ![]()
and i would kill other bugs too. but would be a waste of time to do it since it would not be made mandatory to download it ![]()
but that would fix all scout bugs for sure ![]()
or just take away their speed burst maybe.
I don’t know how “Albino Scouts” even got to deserve its own name. All it is is ES using F9 and F11 insted of the more common F9 and F10
Its just as bad using Camoze Scouts. Or no scouts as he builds none ![]()
Albino scouts are so name since they made thier debut under Albino|(smurfing clan who’s tag I cant remember). It was, IIRC Tyrone in that smurf clan from about a year ago that ended with a few people being kicked from SF etc. They get thier name because Albino created them, hence AS.
the so called albino scouts where only ES with the formation changing done a bit slower then full ES
he would wait till they passed enemy scouts then hit the wall or custom key and repeat they made most of teh attack run but not all of it.
f2 f4 is not a bug because it is beatable. if you do it rapidly, it can be beat. if you do it slowly, it can be beat. if you time it perfectly, then it can be very hard to beat. doing f2 f4 rapidly (indiscrimately) will greatly slower your ships movement because of the ‘twitching’. Skilled player will respond to this by switching to aggressive. So if you wanna label it as a bug, it is a bug with drawbacks hence to me, it is not a bug at all since it can be beaten. I have lost in scout madness using this tactics.
and kah, 45 scouts can’t beat 60 defenders. 45 scouts doing f2 f4 or hs or es, or whatever bug, can’t beat 60 defenders.
Thus, why is there a debate over a flawed tactics?
i took out 60 defs just by doing f2 , f4 , zzzzzz cause my micro formations twiged about and skiped attack runs and just smoked the defenders.
and normal ES of wall custom on F4 will eat 80 defenders with 80 scouts i did it in a lab before on a map where 1 had 80 scouts other had 80 defenders i could make that map again since i lost it.
and we could lab with scouts after. * many times this F2 , F4 thing has killed my full swarms in less then 6 seconds with half as many scouts.
and every time i done this F2 F4 thing to SLS guys they call me an ES user and then they HS me and i say haha only used your scouts F2 F4 * canceled orders on them and the SLS guy lost all his scouts on 3 of mine *
love teh HS counter since its not a bug.
btw afterlife all scout bugs are beatable
mostly by another bug but HS is beat by just hiting cancel orders and letting them lose all their scout son 2 to 3 of yours ![]()
and i seen 60+ scout walls eat up a tri wall that had 3 supports on it so dont tell me scout bugs cant beat defenders or walls cause i seen it lol.