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Topic: I've just had half an hour battle: Mycon vs Spatchi (Read 2809 times)
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onpon4
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The AI is stupid. In this case, you can usually hit them by simply firing while you're mostly facing away from them.
It's "Spathi", BTW, not "Spatchi".
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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IF you're going faster than you can normally go under direct thrust.
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The gravity whip is your friend. Eventually you will be flying right in front of those Spathi, and that is around the time to release a plasmoid. At a 90 degree angle to the target and your direction.
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Note for the thread-starter: you can edit thread titles. Just edit the first post and look in that top field.
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Mijin
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But, when I go at high speed towards spathi and fire a homing plasmoid, it hits me immediately when I fire it. Is that a bug or it is intended to be so?
Intended. You're moving faster than the plasmoid, so you run into it. The solution is to not fire in the same direction as the one you're moving in. 
Well, arguably it's a kind of bug. In space, you can't throw an object away from you and hit it, without accelerating, because there's (virtually) no friction.
Obviously we could ad hoc some reason within the SCII universe why this collision happens. But really it's a bug.
I suspect it was probably left in because it makes the game more entertaining, like the space invaders getting faster bug.
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« Last Edit: April 02, 2012, 03:17:39 pm by Mijin »
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Mijin
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Well, I have some experience with that.
A while ago I tried to make a starcon style melee game with realistic physics in full 3D. The results were as you'd expect. You spent 99% of the time drifting about, battling your own momentum to try to get near your opponent.
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Mijin
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Also, I should add to what I said before:
The mycon's spore thing is a homing weapon. So it makes sense that if you fire it in the opposite direction to the enemy, the spore can hit you.
I was just talking about the case that qwxy was describing; moving and firing towards the enemy, and hitting your own spore.
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