PC Tracking people around the map with spears??

Haxor666

Haxor666

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So me and a couple of friends is doing a pvp game, deathmatch. With horde nights and all. We have been pvp alot early game, and I noticed that you can track stone spears, that you have been throwing. It helps alot finding it again, but if you throw it at other players, you can follow the spear around the whole map. For me, it seems like a bug. Cause you can sit in your base, and track other players, and at some point, they will give up their base/hidden base/underground base locations. The question is: Is it a bug, or is it that overpowered in PVP?

Btw, first topic ever, sorry for the kindergarden stage of spelling lol ^^

 
Bro, your spelling & grammar are in the top 1% among internet forums I assure you.

Definitely a bug. No way did they intend for spears to be GPS trackers. People - myself included - complained about how hard it was to see a spear that landed in grass, so we got trackers. Probably they need to make the tracker last like 10 or 30 seconds and then shut off. Or the player needs to be able to yank out the spear in their back and dump it on the ground. Or for extra fun, throw it into a zombie bear. Go track THAT to its base...

 
It would be cool to track a zombie bear back to a zoo POI that has hundreds of zombie bears in it...  Or maybe I'm not sure what cool means.

 
30 seconds can't be the solution as a typical way of loosing the spear is if you have to run away for the moment and need some time to whittle down a group of zombies. In some cases a player may even need a full night before he can try to regain his spear if he was surprised by strong forces at night and had to run back to a save spot.

Spears sticking in players just have to be handled differently than NPCs or blocks.

 
meganoth said:
Spears sticking in players just have to be handled differently than NPCs or blocks.
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Yeah, I couldn't come up with any that didn't seem worse to me than a timed tracker. My view of the tracker is that it was a bit of duct tape and glue to overcome the visibility issue of spears in grass. I didn't think it was actually supposed to be a GPS tracker on spears which the survivor implants with each spear made. Being able to find a spear hours later after running a mile away does not, to me, seem to be a mechanic that we need to preserve. But it is useful and I can understand why a lot of people would be irritated if it went away.

Maybe spears which hit player entities do their damage and then drop on the ground immediately? You lose the fun of yanking a spear out of a victim only to throw it back into him, but it solves the base-tracker exploit.

 
Either needs to disable the nav object when it hits a player, or greatly reduce the range at which it shows the icon. 

 
I can't get the image out of my head of a guy just walking casually with a spear in him 😁

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meganoth said:
30 seconds can't be the solution as a typical way of loosing the spear is if you have to run away for the moment and need some time to whittle down a group of zombies. In some cases a player may even need a full night before he can try to regain his spear if he was surprised by strong forces at night and had to run back to a save spot.

Spears sticking in players just have to be handled differently than NPCs or blocks.
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maybe have the tracker turn off after 300M

 
Can a player not pull out a spear from their own body?  If not, THAT is the true bug. Any player who is unaware of a spear sticking into him deserves to be tracked. 

 
Roland said:
Can a player not pull out a spear from their own body?  If not, THAT is the true bug. Any player who is unaware of a spear sticking into him deserves to be tracked. 
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First we need a pain interface to the game so a player has a chance of detecting it. Snowdog would surely support this.

 
Roland said:
Can a player not pull out a spear from their own body?  If not, THAT is the true bug. Any player who is unaware of a spear sticking into him deserves to be tracked. 
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And how does one know if a spear is stuck in his back in a first person perspective? You can´t just switch to 3rd person unless you are admin.

 
Lenny Lettuce Lips said:
You just gave a lot of other PvP guys ideas. Also spoiled your own secret.
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I know i've spoiled it, but I also dont want to do this trick in pvp, its a boring way of finding enemies or other bases. I like to play it all straight, without any kind of cheats, tricks og informations 😊

 
Is it really that easy to tag someone with a spear in a way that makes them unaware that they have a homing beacon stuck on them so they go running to their Yavin 4 base and give away their location?

 
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