Orbital exploit

That's a rename bro. That ain't no smurf.

Or perhaps a renamed smurf!

*Edit*
At $6 it was hard to turn down the chance to get a practice account for the ladder. I just accidentally practiced into the top 10.

I'd like to mention that this match gave me a new way of looking at life.

We are meant to leave this planet. Elodea you spawned my future astronaut career.

I also had the commander troll icon enabled which made things even more rage inducing during the teleporter circus act (makes sense in replay)

I should get outside more.

I want to face palm so hard. Umbrellas cost 1750, Orbital fabber + Arkyd+ orbital factory = WAAAAAAY more. How the hell did you lose?

EDIT: my facepalm level:

You... you trolled yourself. I enjoy this way more than I should. I should get outside more.

I was just outside. It's scary. Stay inside

Finally somebody using orbital.

I find this thread name misleading, as there is clearly no exploit here.

I honestly see this as a fair loss. You didn't scout or prepare properly and thus suffered the consequences.

It's bloody hard to counter though in an efficient manner... I too lost to this 'unknown' trickster to this. On the other hand I got my own back later

My main issue with this is you can out build one orbital fab with com and a few fabbers, but once you have two...

I took out everything on the ground, but the com provides enough energy to run a few of these which means you have no chance to get a defence up.

What compounds the problem is early game its too difficult to attack to prevent. The only counter is build a dsr and umbrella the second you scout the orbital launcher. As soon as is ready com moves to orbit and bombs are out of the question.

None of this would be possible in earlier builds without the 3k com energy as destroying the base and pgens would effectively disable the orbital fabbers.

Am I being thick here? I can't seem to launch the replays by clicking through on pastats.com. Can anyone assist?

EDIT: Ah. I should have done some more searching. So this is how you do it:

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/info-how-to-open-replay-links.59212/

EDIT2: Nope, I'm getting this error message.



This is what I've put in my pastats.txt/reg file:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa]
@=""
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa\shell\open\command]
@="D:\\Games\\Planetary Annihilation\\PA\\PA.exe --uioptions \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa]
@=""
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell\open\command]
@="D:\\Games\\Planetary Annihilation\\PA\\pa.exe --uioptions \"%1\""

Oh that was funny hahahah. amazing that it went on for like 14 minutes.

pricesless

Tvinita mentioned in chat during some stream that he was unhappy with the way orbital fabbers and their reclaim worked. I would assume we may get to see some changes to them in upcoming balance patches.

yes priceless indeed

Was this you btw?

What you can do is get the lobby ID and do replay search for it ingame. In this case it is 8111485376460764097

No, he's Alpha2546 ingame.

I got to give this a shot; this was too funny.

@elodea

oh GAWD these hacks uber pls. Naah it wasn't me. You have to up your skills to get me on 1v1 ranked . Or I should go and make a Majin buu account. >.> Just for the hacks

Did he mention how or why he was unhappy with it? Visual wise? Or Gameplay wise?

Because as far as i know, it's fine gameplay wise and actually adds depth of player interaction. Infact, if you want to talk about balance of strategies, orbital strategy is on the weaker side with t1 1radar being able to see orbital units, and it's slow movement speed. There are plenty of ways to counter orbital rush even when he's already in your base reclaiming. People just need think a bit and discover them for themselves (i'm not telling )

People also need to scout. This is the same as saying cannon rush op, or some other starcraft2 cheese is op when they really arn't.

Orbital reclaiming and orbital teleporters seem awkward, and generally anything that is awkward should be changed.

It should be changed, not removed.