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Exploits/Protocol/Style - let's discuss
Jun 11 2005 07:27am

Ian Jandos
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Ian Jandos
I was just on a server with a very angry dark side :empire: user who was very upset with the imperfections that this game presents.

Parrying on the 2nd hit was among his frustrations...and although better than myself...it is hard to reason with someone when you are not trying to cheat them. Even though my training seemed to dictate that as part of my offensive strategy.

I suppose, you can play to just win (spam)...play to master standard swings...or play to master these "loopholes."

What are thoughts about that in regards to playing here and outside of here? Also, which way is most efficient?

Thanks
-Ian
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This post was edited by Buzz on Jun 11 2005 07:30pm.

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Jun 15 2005 10:22pm

SaZ
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 SaZ

this leads to the darkside -.-
ok i agree with this statement but...
this means that exploiters and anti-exploiters
are basicaly the same idiots who just whine when someone tells something bad about their style ...
i stick to the light side... no matter how ignorant it is...
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Jun 15 2005 09:48pm

Jacen Aratan
 - Student

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i judge ppl coz of they way of playing because...
when you ask ppl why do you exploit or something... their answers are just ignorant... pathetic...
bah


Funny, I could say the same thing about 9/10 of the anti-exploiters.

EDIT: I wrote this article a while back, perhaps it needs a bump.

This comment was edited by Jacen Aratan on Jun 15 2005 09:51pm.

Jun 15 2005 09:12pm

SaZ
 - Student
 SaZ

i judge ppl coz of they way of playing because...
when you ask ppl why do you exploit or something... their answers are just ignorant... pathetic...
bah
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Jun 15 2005 08:47pm

Masta
 - Jedi Council
 Masta

You cant and you shouldnt judge ppl by the way they are playing the game.Saying that you have no honor because you use exploits is just very wrong and insults your own intelligence.

I know a lot of very honorable and awesome ppl who are so very used to poking all the time that they dont even know how to play without it.Still, this doesnt make them bad and especially unhonorable persons at all.
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Jun 15 2005 05:11pm

Jacen Aratan
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where is your honor?


He probably left it at the door, when he booted up a game to [try to] win the gamemode they call FFA.

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i dont see any honor in exloits.


Exitus acta probat - the ends justify the means.

Jun 15 2005 04:01pm

†Johauna Darkrider†
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 â€ Johauna Darkrider†

I play mainly against exploiters - there are plenty on public duel servers. That is the best way how to learn to defeat them.
I can't deny I've sort of became alike them, but I know where to use it and against who.
I would never use 'poke' against fair player.
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Jun 15 2005 02:35pm

POYG
 - Student
 POYG

"You have to use it all. That is the expression of the human body. When your talking about combat.
When your talking about a sport. Now your talking about rules and regulations.
As your talking about fighting as it is with no rules (combat). Well then baby you'd better train everything."
Bruce Lee
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Jun 15 2005 02:23pm

(Jedi)Obi-JK
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 (Jedi)Obi-JK

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where is your honor?


These are video games, not real life. They really don't need to be taken seriously.

The simple fact is most everyone uses exploits in some game.

I mean seriously my favorite move of all time in JK2 was the air-ydfa. That was not supposed to exsist.

If exploits do exsist for whatever game you are playing, then its up to you. Personally I find they tend to be more trouble than they are worth.
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Jun 15 2005 01:57pm

SaZ
 - Student
 SaZ

i dont see any honor in exloits.
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Jun 15 2005 01:31pm

POYG
 - Student
 POYG

Getting handed to me along with my a** about every time I walk on the mat with one of you guys.:)
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Jun 15 2005 01:15pm

SaZ
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 SaZ

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I'm new to ja, so you can take my comments or leave them. I've played many online games and in every one of them there are ways to what some call "Cheap Kills". My philosiphy has always been "If its there use it". On the otherside when someone takes me out with one I don't whine. ;)


where is your honor?
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Jun 15 2005 01:03pm

POYG
 - Student
 POYG

I'm new to ja, so you can take my comments or leave them. I've played many online games and in every one of them there are ways to what some call "Cheap Kills". My philosiphy has always been "If its there use it". On the otherside when someone takes me out with one I don't whine. ;)
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Jun 15 2005 11:34am

SaZ
 - Student
 SaZ

actually you can call ppl noobs if they cant tell if its spam you are doing or not...
for example i scissor using movement at my best (scissoring without good movement is crap imo)
and he says that i just spam...
so after this i always have a question :
if its spam... you will know what i will do next... so why you dont counter me?

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Jun 15 2005 01:30am

Balian
 - Ex-Student

oh forgot about this thread actually. What i meant by not a personal shot is about those who use and don tlike exploiting. Just used your name cause we were debating I think, cant remember actually. My other sentence said that if those exploiters stopped they would still be decent players regardless of exploits or not.
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Jun 13 2005 12:40pm

Jacen Aratan
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Tido is 100% right (about the witch hunt thing, I won't agree with him on the exploits being cheap).. how come there's a new topic about these so-called "cheap ways of winning" every week? The few times I go on servers, I see students talking about exploits, and pretty much nothing else..

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...he said it was because of the popularity of JK3...


LOL.

Jun 12 2005 05:54pm

Carve
 - Student
 Carve

From a purely personal standpoint... I'm a decent duelist as it is. I probably won't improve much further than I've gotten now; I'm at my best (when I'm playing at 100%, anyways).

If it weren't for my obsession with not acting completely out of character and looking ridiculous, I would exploit the hell out of everybody. Why? Well, it's the same reason you shoot people in UT. Points. You get points for killing someone. If you have a bigger gun, you whip that gun out and use that instead, unless you have something to prove. I don't because I just don't want to. Same reason I don't do aerial fighting.
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Jun 12 2005 11:03am

Masta
 - Jedi Council
 Masta

How ironic, youve stated that your post is not a personal shot at anyone, but you are still using names in it.

You can say a lot about a persons character if you talk to them over a game or see how they are acting sometimes.I have never said im judging anyone by the way they are playing this game, to do such a thing is just absurd.
As ive stated already, there are ppl who play online games just for fun and dont care if they win or lose.If you constantly strive to be the best and only get satisfaction from winning duels, then its pretty logic that you will get worked up and/or frustrated after losing a few duels in a row.
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I can guarantee as well at least half the people you know that exploit can not use them and still win consistently.

Im not sure how to understand this sentence.
Most of the ppl i know who exploit are really great in doing so, which means that they are going to instakill their opponents nearly everytime they hit them.Nearly all of the aforementioned ppl are unable to win the same amount of duels without relying on exploits.
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Jun 12 2005 06:41am

Balian
 - Ex-Student

Well here I go!

*NOTE* this is by all means not a personal shot at ANYONE in the jedi academy*

Masta I think you are talking about a person who is the extremist not just general people who like to win. Face it everyone likes winning and I think everyone gets satisfaction from it. When u win a duel you don’t go “aww man I won that disappoints me” And when I first started I wanted to win every duel. I measured myself, at the time , by which Masters I could beat or what was the best hit points I ever got on them. Slowly it increased and I saw improvement. I know a lot of people that exploit and I don’t think you should judge their character or morals by it after all it is a game. I can guarantee as well at least half the people you know that exploit can not use them and still win consistently. <3 da masta.

SOS if someone is spamming one move you should eventually be able to figure out how to counter it because it is the same move over and over again.

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Jun 12 2005 05:51am

Ian Jandos
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 Ian Jandos

Good stuff Tido...that sums it up succinctly.

Be all you can be, and enjoy yourself while doing it ;)
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Jun 12 2005 12:34am

Tido
 - Student
 Tido

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to say the red overhead/backflip is an exploit is to say any move that takes advantage of the velocity engine (or whatever it is called) in the game is an exploit. you can flip out of just about any move to increase the damage and use speed/momentum to hit your opponent harder with just about any move.

i have to respectfully disagree very strongly with Thomas on this point :)


I'm also going to have to respectfully disagree with my beloved Thomas :). Unfortunately there is no fine line on what is exploiting in jk3 and what is not. Everyone has a different definition. There are people in jk3 that think I'm a 'clean' fighter. There are people who think I'm a heavy exploiter. It really comes down to if you think aiming your saber at someone is unethical or not as I do not poke (moving your saber back and forth rapidly during a horizontal swing), wiggle, or sway.

I've been playing the game for awhile now, and to be honest I just don't care if someone is exploiting against me anymore. I don't even give it much thought. It's just another opponent and you fight him - plain and simple. Complaining about how someone fights just isn't much fun. I'd rather focus hard and find a way to beat them (without exploiting); that is what is fun for me.

Unfortunately the JA is getting a bit absurd about exploits and its advocates. It's almost becoming a witch hunt. I've watched students crucify each other because one thought he detected a 'slight wiggle' in some obscure swing. It's becoming too common for students to brand people as exploiters when they most certainly are not. I almost half-expect someone to create a skin and a mod feature that allows admins to brand a big 'X' on your jacket if they think for one second that you are an exploiter.

The JA needs to offer more than just a lesson in jk3 ethics to confront exploiting. Anti-exploiting techniques need to be established and taught. It's always been my interpretation that the JA's mission (along with other things) is to educate and prepare students so that they can hold their own in the game. But Jk3 in June of '05 is not the same as JK3 in June of '04. The game evolves, and unfortunately exploiting has become a common practice. The JA's teachings have not kept pace with the rest of the game. The only antidote the JA offers its students against exploiting is for them to shake their finger at the offender. Instead students should be empowered with the knowledge and confidence to take on exploiters without dropping to their level.

Exploiting is cheap. It's pretty desperate to be honest. But no matter how much complaining is done, people are going to exploit today and even more will exploit tomorrow. Might as well figure out how to stand up to them and take them down. Otherwise just spending your time playing the game feeling bitter and critical of everyone isn't going to be much fun.


Jun 11 2005 10:15pm

3th
 - Retired
 3th

to say the red overhead/backflip is an exploit is to say any move that takes advantage of the velocity engine (or whatever it is called) in the game is an exploit. you can flip out of just about any move to increase the damage and use speed/momentum to hit your opponent harder with just about any move.

i have to respectfully disagree very strongly with Thomas on this point :)
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Jun 11 2005 09:25pm

bono_bob
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Losing is the secret to wining :p. Anyhow is the red overhead/backflip considered an exploit ( you can actauly do it better with a front flip if you time it perfectly) Sorry if it is, I just thouhg of it as a realistic maneuver you slice straight down cleaving through him and then baclfiping slicing out of him again. Ill try to do it less if you consider it a exploit, althouhg I have actauly done more damage with a red overhead/front flip. (100 hp and 100 shield to be precise) In other words its is slicing traight down and if you time ti right you do a front flip over them, raising your saber upwards and as you do the flip you pull your saber out of their head making massive head contact. (sounds painafull doesn't it) it isnt really easy to pull off, I did it more in a sense as a fluke shot, I mean the chances of actauyl hiting them witha vertical slice and then have the front flip over them pixel perfect are pretty low, I was surprised my self.) but yeah if that is an exploit I guess I wil be doing less Red Overhead.
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Jun 11 2005 09:14pm

Jeramia Adept
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 Jeramia Adept

i play to have fun. and those who are serious need to step away from the PC for a while
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Jun 11 2005 08:12pm

Vasper Ba'xian
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 Vasper Ba'xian

I admit that I have to watch my Overhead Red/backflip:eek: I think thats bout it though.:confused:
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Jun 11 2005 08:06pm

!SoS! Death Dealer
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 !SoS! Death Dealer

I think move spammers are ones of very little skill. To rely on the same move over and over again, that is a shame. Learn to fight right and earn greatness don't be cheap at getting to the finish line before you should.

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