Homing Rockets [message #-971439] |
Sun, 05 May 2002 12:54 |
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I have noticed that with the rocket launching vehicles (not infantry) that sometimes the rockets home in and follow their target. What I have not found is a pattern to it, and figured out how to get them to home in. Earlier today, playing on Meadows_flying I used a Stealth Tank against an Orca, which was just hovering in place, so I hit it with the first salvo. The second and third salvos went straight and missed, however the fourth went past it, turned around and hit the Orca, destroying it. This has also happened with the MRLS, both for and against me. Again, I have found no pattern to doing it, and the rockets have even homed in on cloaked stealth tanks at long range, that were not revealed in any way, until my rockets curved to hit them. The ONLY thing I have found consistant is that my cursor has been close to or on the target that gets homed in on, but I am not sure. Does anyone know the scret/trick to doing this?
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Homing Rockets [message #-971438] |
Sun, 05 May 2002 19:32 |
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the trick is to press alt-f4 while clicking. Takes alot of practise abd patience, cause the game is know to crash after its first few homing missiles, it needs to get used to the generation of extra code.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971435] |
Mon, 06 May 2002 02:39 |
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LMAO!! yeah... alt+F4 will do the trick every time... But I have noticed this also... I don't know what it is, but it is kinda cool....
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Homing Rockets [message #-971434] |
Mon, 06 May 2002 04:09 |
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ive trid this and it usally works,follow the dot on you target thingy and wait for it to turn ywllow or red and fire for a homing.but wait ,for the yellow only turns red at some things.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971432] |
Mon, 06 May 2002 07:41 |
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quote: Originally posted by Woggy: the trick is to press alt-f4 while clicking. Takes alot of practise abd patience, cause the game is know to crash after its first few homing missiles, it needs to get used to the generation of extra code.
lol! he's right, I've done that enough and it never crashes now.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971430] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 02:58 |
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I'll try that red reticle thing from now on and see if it works. BTW, why would you even waste your time telling me "Alt-f4"? I guess there's no way to prove i didnt try it, but most ppl realize that alt-f4 closes the currently selected/windowed program... How do you think I get rid of all those porn ads??
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Homing Rockets [message #-971428] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 10:52 |
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I know what your talking about. I've missed a flame tank before that was pretty close to me and the missle went straight up turned around and came right down on top of it. It was the collest thing ive ever seen (almost). I'm going to spend some time in a mrls to try to figure it out. That would be awsome.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971426] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 15:36 |
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Half the time I'm in a MLRS, I'll pump off my six rockets. The first five will go straight and true. The sixth, however, will go vertical, loop-de-loop, loop-de-loop AGAIN, and then dive downwards and explode maybe 10 meters off the ground. No, I'm not kidding. It's why I take such a perverse pleasure in killing those things with MobArts.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971425] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 16:19 |
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That alt+f4 trick? I love doing that on AOL. I'll enter a n00b chatroom and tell everyone that if they want to see something really kewl... (usually a picture or a secret window in AOL) to press alt+f4. After that, I just sit there and watch the numbers go down... HEHEHE!
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Homing Rockets [message #-971424] |
Sun, 05 May 2002 22:09 |
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I wish to make this post summarise all the best (and obvious) tactics you can use whilst playing for NOD. I'll start us off with... 1. Stealth Blackhand & Beacon - sneak into base (with no defenses!) and plant beacon, then guard it.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971423] |
Sun, 05 May 2002 22:19 |
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2. Stealth Tank and Beacons; 3. Artillery: attacks GDI's buildings out of the AGT's range. 4. Stealth Tank and Flame Tank rush: Stealths attack vehicles, Flames take buildings out.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971421] |
Mon, 06 May 2002 01:37 |
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quote: Originally posted by Woggy: wow, such great obvius tactics
Don't forget.. you can kill infantry pretty well with snipers when you hide and shoot from dark corners. Anyhow... On undefended maps, I'd say do some buggy engineer rushes once you can afford them. Do it quickly though.. before they can buy a hotwire and place mines. Flame tank rushes are often successful if everyone rushes properly (how people screw that up is beyond me.. rush=rush, not stop and backup as soon as you start getting hit). I find them boring lately, though.. so I try to use different methods. [ May 06, 2002: Message edited by: kubi0461 ]
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Homing Rockets [message #-971416] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 12:15 |
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Flamethrower suicide run. Actually effective vs. tanks somewhat, and if you keep running, throw c4. Whee. Origional.
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Homing Rockets [message #-971415] |
Wed, 08 May 2002 07:13 |
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NOD noD Nod nOd whatever ack u suck.You don't have to correct every thing we say d#$!.Don't you think?
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