| Fake Beacons And How They Are Annoying [message #217262] |
Mon, 04 September 2006 10:36  |
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jnz
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if your playing and you hear "ion cannon beacon deployed" and you think "yes the las buildin destroyed if this goes off" and it does go off and nothing happens. it turns out one of your n00b team mates has planted a fake beacon.
i ask them why and they say that it destracts them, but does it hell! it takes 2 poeple to look and tell if is a fake.
and that can be done in seconds
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| Re: why the hell do poeple do this? it bug the hell out of me! [message #217263 is a reply to message #217262] |
Mon, 04 September 2006 10:39  |
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futura83
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that can sometimes work very well. especially if you are battling for the field; someone plants a beacon, and some people will search their base for it, which can mean people on the field will retreat which will make it easier to take the field. it can also force a few engineers out from repairing to look for it, which is useful if they have only one building.
although, it would be stupid to buy a beacon and waste it if you have no ref 
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| Re: why the hell do poeple do this? it bug the hell out of me! [message #217364 is a reply to message #217336] |
Mon, 04 September 2006 18:20 |
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I've never heard of a fake ION Beacon. 
Commmmonn if the enemy has ONLY 1 building left and you are straped with cash well... why not?
Seriously people how can you fight a war on terrorism with all of your borders wide open!
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| Re: why the hell do poeple do this? it bug the hell out of me! [message #222040 is a reply to message #217262] |
Mon, 25 September 2006 04:29 |
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Sniper_De7
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He was probably talking about this...
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if your playing and you hear "ion cannon beacon deployed" and you think "yes the las buildin destroyed if this goes off" and it does go off and nothing happens. it turns out one of your n00b team mates has planted a fake beacon.
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Normally, you can tell where the ion is by looking at your radar and just turning in teh direction it is in and noticing if it's in their base or not. I think hardly anyone actually *uses* radars. Even in CS/S people often times don't use radar, not even with this new function where it actually SHOWS where the enemy was on the radar. So it could be like 2v1 and one guy on the team of two is off doing his own thing and then his teammate dies and logically one would think that if the enemy killed his teammate,he'd be in the general vicinity of where the teammate was. but of course he instead just wanders around the map aimlessly, not even care to look at the map to see where the bombsites are, or where he's going.
Oderint, dum metuant.
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| Re: Fake Beacons [message #222665 is a reply to message #222628] |
Tue, 26 September 2006 20:09 |
Berkut
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Most servers will kick for that.
More annoying is the beacon noise spam; repeatedly arming and unarming the same nuke. Nothing irritates me more than this.
EDIT: Erm, isn't there already a topic on this?
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| Re: Fake Beacons And How They Are Annoying [message #222827 is a reply to message #217262] |
Wed, 27 September 2006 13:33 |
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futura83
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every second counts, and releiving pressure of a siege could bring your team together to create a good enough rush to either take back the field, or destroy an enemy building.
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| Re: Fake Beacons And How They Are Annoying [message #226006 is a reply to message #217262] |
Tue, 10 October 2006 23:00 |
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Believe it or not they have their uses.
EG clanwar on Field, you're Nod and GDI's sieging you. You're having a tough time getting the meds out of the way. Someone lays a beacon in Nod base - GDI doesn't know if it's real or fake, so sometimes they'll conclude it's at the barracks or ref, and rush in. You block their rush with arties/lights and they've lost the field.
That's worth 1000 credits.
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