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Exploits (no flaming :D)
May 23 2005 09:40am

Jake Kainite
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Jake Kainite
First off, as I said no flaming please, or the thread will just be closed down. This is just for your personal opinions of 'exploits' and I really just want a clarification of the rules.

My opinion:

Basically if you can do it, I don't consider it wrong. This includes scripting (yes I know its against JA rules, doesn't make it wrong though :D)

What is the JA's standing on exploits? I read in a the intagib thread about strafe jumping being an exploit, which I spose technically is very true. However what about things such as throw pulling, swaying (or whatever it was).


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May 26 2005 10:07am

Aron
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Thread bans:

None yet. Let's keep it that way!


May 23 2005 06:23pm

Balian
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ok time for my 2 cents. First off lets get a lil definitions straight.

Exploits
Wiggle- Moving your mouse left and right spastically to increase you sabers area to do more damage.

Spin- moving your mouse to the right or left constantly to make your saber move 360 degrees or more to do more damage or block swings when u've screwed up or are getting hit(i am against spinning over the rest)

Poking- poking is tricky because some people think it is just extending. Poking is using the extension of a red swing but wiggling it back and forth from left to right. In essence its an extension plus wiggle. If you do this on a wall there will be 5 or 6 saber lines in a really small spot doing heavy damage. This is increases your damage abillity and your defence.

Non- Exploits-
As stated earlier gradius said backfliping with overhead was exploit. Now it is if you intend to do it for the damage but I myself backflip with swings to avoid enemy swings so you can possibly say im accidentally exploiting but Im just getting away from the hot laser thing.:cool:

Extending- is turning your mouse to point at your oppenent so your not left to open yet your not invincible like poking. This is not an exploit because it is no different then turning your mouse with scissor to face ur opponent. Face it no one here fights like this [swing walk forward missoppenent] swing walk forward miss opponent] you see my point.

Id like to clear something up too. Most people associate exploiters with high sensitivity. Mine is at 24.75 which is within the range of the bar under controls. The reason for this is I play all my FPS at high sens cause I want to be able to rturn around and shoot someoen in the face. I think its wrong when you go beyond that bar which I think maxes at 40 so....

As for the debate you can say exploits werent and arent meant in any game. That doesnt mean peopel still wont do them. You can also say that exploits werent meant to leave either because have you seen a patch?

But as far as trying to beat an exploiter go find Master SiNiStaR on BWN. He doesnt exploit at all and loses very little. He always used to yell at me for it and that is why I quit, lol.

But If your a good player you can beat anything that someone throws at you exploits or not.
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May 23 2005 06:17pm

Kainz00r
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 Kainz00r

If we all followed that mind set, the JA would be filled with master-pokers now, who if hit you in a duel would kill you instantly.

Would kill the game for me. Guess no one could complain about how "THAT HIT DID SOOO MUCH MORE THAN IT SHOULD" however, only bonus.
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May 23 2005 06:14pm

Jake Kainite
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 Jake Kainite

Well I always thought it was just teaching and learning, seems silly to limit the knowledge just cos: "some people consider the path to abilities obtained by exploits...to be....Unanatural" I know that the few classes I held were ALL about exploits and stuff in JKII (walla gliding, throw pulling etc) simply cos everyone else refused to teach them.

I just feel that use them or hate them, everyone has a duty to know about them and to become a JA master you really need to know everything and be able to do everything :D

Another point, the best way to counter something is to learn it and understand how it works.
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May 23 2005 05:35pm

Odan-Wei Belouve
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I agree with you Jake, even if your first point is somewhat, er, irrelevant to me. But we instruct people to play the original way, not the exploited one ;)
now if you go on public servers, you'll face exploiters for sure. If we could keep the game clean inside the JA, that would be great, that's just what I tried to say.

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May 23 2005 05:23pm

Jake Kainite
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 Jake Kainite

Well I disagree there :D (see isn't this great, we can disagree in a mature way, lovin it)

Few points. You can't really say its unfair and gives you an advantage cos technically everyone could do the same thing (thats right, I'm playing that card!)

Secondly, yes the JA has rules and respect blah blah blah, BUT primarily this place was set up to train people to become better at the game and enjoy it more, or for some people, to win more. There are no absolute rules against using these 'exploits' at the JA which means that they obviously don't mind them that much.

The people who aren't prepared to do anything to win, obviously don't mind losing, which is fine. Its just that you can't expect everyone to follow an unwritten honour code, it just doesn't work that way, not even in a civilaised place like this :D

At the end of the day, if you don't wanna be a victim to these moves, don't fight people who use em.
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May 23 2005 05:11pm

Odan-Wei Belouve
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 Odan-Wei Belouve

Just to make sure everyone agrees on the definition of exploits:
Quote:
An exploit is a bug in the game that allows you to do something that was not intended by the developers.
(found that on the web: www.gameguidesonline.com)
Talion, the JA is built on rules that boils down to respect of each other. Thus using exploits inside the JA will probably be seen as disrespectful by a good number of people (including myself). There are ways to play and win, without needing to use deviant methods such as the ones described in this thread, don't you think ?

ozzcoz: great quote, Sauce is right, except that in order to win a duel, you have to come close to land some hits. If your exploiting opponent is quick, you might end up dead before/after you try to land a hit because you came close enough for him to strike you down.
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May 23 2005 04:58pm

Aron
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 Aron

the exploit haters would definately love that counter.

May 23 2005 04:48pm

NotSoLittleCaesar
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 NotSoLittleCaesar

anyway. a simple way to stop a average poker, red sway to nearly a half rotation, stops he poke 70% of the time i found, then hit them with a combo (red swaying < you_)
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May 23 2005 04:47pm

Scythus Aratan
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 Scythus Aratan

The difference between strafe jumping and other exploits is that strafing add to the fun instead of taking away from it.
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May 23 2005 04:43pm

Aron
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 Aron

case closed? :confused:

Are you going to lock this thread now?

:D

May 23 2005 04:36pm

NotSoLittleCaesar
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 NotSoLittleCaesar

ok ok. this is a point i feel reall strong on.:

Poking: FINE! if it helps you play play with it. if u enjoy it. enjoy playing with it

Swaying: tbh only major swaying messes me off (1 hit kills i mean)

Insta kills (yes sum consider this bad): bu****** it takes skill to palce it. simple.

Basicly i think you shoulkd play and enjoy your self the msot, exploit or no exploit. case closed.
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May 23 2005 03:24pm

ozzcoz
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 ozzcoz

I think Mr Sauce summed it up perfectly on TS one day:

Whatever your opponent does, you don't want to get hit by his lightsaber. So don't stand next to them when they do a swing and just expect it to do only a little damage, or get blocked by your uber defensive saber stance. Try not getting hit by their saber/s, and suddenly exploiting doesn't really matter.
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May 23 2005 03:18pm

Rosie
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 Rosie

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DELAY MONKEY'S- These guys aren't so bad, and are easier to get around then the others. Their just annoying as hell.


I'm curious to know what you mean by this. Since I often use delayed combos in red stance and don't think it has anything to do with xploits.

May 23 2005 03:10pm

Vasper Ba'xian
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 Vasper Ba'xian

I think all of us use expoits in some way. Maybe their small compared to others. I accidently spin sometimes. accidents happen. Gradius said something about the overhead red/backflip out. I do this purposely. Sorry but if you come into contact with a normal overhead red swing, ur probly gonna get owned anywho. I think little exploits are ok cause they happen so easily in the game while dueling.

BUT.

There are those exploits that are use that I think anyone who rely's on them are ...well...patheticly skilless. meaning that if they were to fight w/o it, they would have their a$$'s handed to em. These are:
SUPERSPINNER'S- Im sure we all know who they are and what they do!

CARTWHEEL SPINNERS- These people are quite funny to watch at a distance. It's really comical. They are just like spinners but throw in cartwheels. Double the noob's deadly pleasure. Now I find myself doin the occasional cartwheel-swing by accident but i ALWAYS try to back away from my ooponent while doin it.

DELAY MONKEY'S- These guys aren't so bad, and are easier to get around then the others. Their just annoying as hell.

Wigglers- These people are funny to SPEC cause they look like their having a siezure everytime the swing. I ask why they do it. "to get thru their defenses!" hmm i have another Idea...get some skill!:D

POKERS- I really dont have a prob with em cause you can get around them if ur good enough and if not...well its good practice. POKING is all about movement.

Thats my 2cents;)
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May 23 2005 03:04pm

Rosie
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 Rosie

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Since its kinda hard to explain, ive made a lil demo.

Link


heh, thanks

May 23 2005 02:59pm

Kainz00r
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 Kainz00r

Good vid Sir Sensei Mastz00r of Haxiom teh Sexeh.

*Malevolent nod
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May 23 2005 02:46pm

Masta
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 Masta

Since its kinda hard to explain, ive made a lil demo.

Link
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May 23 2005 02:34pm

Rosie
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 Rosie

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The story of poking goes waaay back when JK3 was still young.

I have been interviewing a few people who have played this game since the very beginning and who claim to know how the whole poking business actually started (dureal is one of them).
The ESL pretty much gave birth to the technique which used to divide the community later on.When poking wasnt invented yet, the top 10 players in the ESL were all staffers.
Back then, everyone was really fascinated by the BF which instakilled nearly everytime someone got hit by it which sorta resulted in a constant BF spam in all ESL matches.One day though, a group of german people came together on a server and tried all sort of things to counter BF´s effectively.They found out that if you move your mouse really fast whilst someone is BF´ing, his BF is going to be blocked most of the time.It didnt took them long to figure out that these spins also instakilled everyone who came close to them.They added a lil bit of finesse to it so you didnt had to spin like on drugs, and called it "the pokemon swing".
Poking was invented, word spread really fast and during the next few days the pubs got filled with pokers.The mighty BF finally got bested and the top 10 ranks got suddenly filled with single users.

There is a great missunderstanding though.Most ppl think that poking actually IS what Jake has described, just because the english talking ppl think that its related to the verb "to poke".Ironically, the technique described by Jake depends heavily on "poking" someone (literally).
The real poke is a lot sloppier and requires far less skill then the technique described by Jake (also unofficially named as "aiming";).
Poking is achieved by wiggling your mouse really fast (high sens helps there a lot).It gives you a lot more momentum and therefor, is able to deal a lot more dmg.


So what's the difference between that and spinning? is it that poking is more of a scissor kind of thing?

This comment was edited by Rosie on May 23 2005 02:37pm.

May 23 2005 01:20pm

Masta
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 Masta

The story of poking goes waaay back when JK3 was still young.

I have been interviewing a few people who have played this game since the very beginning and who claim to know how the whole poking business actually started (dureal is one of them).
The ESL pretty much gave birth to the technique which used to divide the community later on.When poking wasnt invented yet, the top 10 players in the ESL were all staffers.
Back then, everyone was really fascinated by the BF which instakilled nearly everytime someone got hit by it which sorta resulted in a constant BF spam in all ESL matches.One day though, a group of german people came together on a server and tried all sort of things to counter BF´s effectively.They found out that if you move your mouse really fast whilst someone is BF´ing, his BF is going to be blocked most of the time.It didnt took them long to figure out that these spins also instakilled everyone who came close to them.They added a lil bit of finesse to it so you didnt had to spin like on drugs, and called it "the pokemon swing".
Poking was invented, word spread really fast and during the next few days the pubs got filled with pokers.The mighty BF finally got bested and the top 10 ranks got suddenly filled with single users.

There is a great missunderstanding though.Most ppl think that poking actually IS what Jake has described, just because the english talking ppl think that its related to the verb "to poke".Ironically, the technique described by Jake depends heavily on "poking" someone (literally).
The real poke is a lot sloppier and requires far less skill then the technique described by Jake (also unofficially named as "aiming";).
Poking is achieved by wiggling your mouse really fast (high sens helps there a lot).It gives you a lot more momentum and therefor, is able to deal a lot more dmg.
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This comment was edited by Masta on May 23 2005 01:23pm.

May 23 2005 12:45pm

Odan-Wei Belouve
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 Odan-Wei Belouve

Well, I agree that technically, strafe jumping is an exploit, yet it doesn't make the game unbalanced, IMHO.

Swaying, poking and the like however are truly unbalancing the game, making a clean duel impossible to achieve. People using pokes and sways are looking for victory only and it boils down to fragging.

In the JA, we frown upon those practices as they are seen for what they are: unfair means to win.
One can accidently sway while moving his mouse to keep his opponent in the middle of his screen but doing it willingly is another problem.

I don't even think it's enjoyable to win that way, sure it might take some practice to master pokin and the likes but what's the point? It will never be what the developpers intended in the first place, and it certainly isn't respectful of your opponent to bring him down with exploits.

My $0.02

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May 23 2005 12:34pm

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OMG flamez0r n00b j00 N00b h4x0r!

That is all.



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May 23 2005 12:00pm

Kainz00r
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 Kainz00r

I'll post here, it's easier for people to see and along the topic. No, that's more of an 'aimed swing'. Poking involves rapid mouse movement alternating between left and right, usually duo'd with a high sensitivity, or 'yaw' binds to do it for you. Basically the saber is in a load of places at the same time, with a high velocity.
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May 23 2005 11:41am

Jake Kainite
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 Jake Kainite

Got anymore info on this poking thing, sounds interesting. Is that where you slowly swivel your body in time with the swing so its always on your oponent? Post on my profile as I'm very curious :D
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May 23 2005 11:12am

Masta
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 Masta

Kain and me vs aXiom´s 2on2 team

For all the people who dont really know the european dueling world:
aXiom is the biggest and most successful german poker clan in the ESL atm.Closely followed by *aiming though.
Its ironic that we achieved this by playing completly legit, which is the best proof that theres still a way of beating pokers without exploiting yourself. =)

[/brag]
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May 23 2005 11:05am

Kainz00r
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 Kainz00r

Yeah you've got a point there, but I can half do it =D

Most seem to have a basic concept of it at least. That any better? ;p

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