Comments on: Famed Victories Of The Sky!

By: MrBRAD!

MrBRAD! — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:46:07 +0000

Argh! I wish I could play this.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:49:14 +0000

Human players can also load cannons better. Hold down the fire button while loading the cannonball and a progress bar appears, which IIRC grants extra range (maybe damage). You’ll stop automatically at maximum.

Unfortunately, loading cannons is not that fun.

By: Oddtwang

Oddtwang — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:02:04 +0000

I think the helper was meant to make it easier for newbies, but the problem is that they don’t realise there’s only 1 on a battleship and get reliant on him / don’t realise you can load things yourself (much faster with a bit of practice) – that’s how come I had the fastest reload award pretty much every round on Thursday (despite soloing), because I was doing it manually. The absolute fastest is for one of you to aim and another to load/fire it, but that only really works if 3 of you are in a small balloon (and aren’t under attack) or you’ve got loads of you on a battleship.

By: CakeAddict

CakeAddict — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:28:34 +0000

@wedge
Yeah it’s a bit annoying for us but I can’t blame them for it either.

And I also think it would be better to remove the loader guy, seems like more fun to me.

By: hurude

hurude — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:03:31 +0000

I Used to love this game!! im so pleased people are giving it some respect. count me in on saturday!

By: Wedge

Wedge — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:43:11 +0000

I can make this if I completely forget sleep for a day… which I may do.

My group tends to play random old mods a lot, and I do hate it when those few hanger-on veterans show up and ruin the game for everyone just wanting to try something out.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:58:50 +0000

lmao , I want a monkey trained to load cannons!

By: Davee

Davee — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:38:44 +0000

Was he even using the loader NPC? Considering his rate of fire, I think he was running back and forth manualy loading and firing to reduce the time it takes for the barrelmonkey. Or maby he did some combination? I dunno.

By: Senethro

Senethro — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:42:36 +0000

It might teach the new players how to load the cannon themselves as it was quite depressing to be helming a big ship with two players on the guns, each spamming fire/load commands at the bot such that he was usually stuck between the middle of them and missed half his load commands, meaning they were often firing empty barrels. All this while makaveli does scroll up-RMB-Scroll down-RMB while doing rings round you.

By: Arca

Arca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:21:58 +0000

Oh, and there are guys from long ago who can solo with devastating efficiency – Makaveli is one of them I can assure you – and this was from pre-barrelguy days… removing barrelguy wouldn’t hinder him at all. Originally those barrels just gave you ammo, so… turning him off would probably make it harder for new players.

By: Arca

Arca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:19:44 +0000

Heh, the barrel buttmonkey. Just opt to load it yourself? If you have it down pat it’s faster to load and shoot by yourself, I think. It might be a server setting but I don’t know.

Makaveli is an old-timer, I remember him from years ago. I’ve never heard of the other guy though.

By: Senethro

Senethro — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:07:11 +0000

Meh. Tonight wasn’t quite so fun. Somehow good players from when this mod was alive got wind of activity and showed up. In a 5v5 there was 1 player on each team with >80score and 4 RPSers with negative scores.

Everyone was forced into soloing on the small boats because they’re fast, a small target and having the gun monkey AI bot makes it too easy to have the same rate of fire as a battleship.

Come to think of it, is there any way to turn the AI helper off to force you to load your cannon yourself? Would make soloing less practical.