Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: THE DUEL EXPLOIT
jd2134 wrote:
IM a jedi and get the whole duel enduel deal and thing the devs need to do something about it and need to throw a high level feral wookie into the feral wookie village ever now and then to break up the afk groups
Hey bud.... You got a probloem with wookiees?
lol j/k
Not sure if this has allready been stated.
But something annoyed me yesterday with this little duel end duel hiccup.
ON yavin four i must have been chasing a jedi flat out (us both on speeders) no word of a lie for about 20 minutes. He was around 800 away most of th time dropping to at least 750. When around 785 away I get the duel music, i was over a river and there were no mobs or npc's around me, I notice the jedi name flashing red and yellow before me just as the duel music stopped. I had a feeling he was simply driving about as he got wind I was after him, so it wasn't so much that, that suprised me.
But jedi can do this 750m away? He must have trageted me earlier and like me, kept me as a locked target.
So again maybe this is common knowladge to some, but for others be warned, if a jedi does select you and keep you selected, the bug (doesn't say the E word)described here, can be used quite a way away.
I got a great fix for this.
Remove /duel and /endduel. If you want to PvP, go join a faction and grow a set.
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Eskie wrote:
Maybe she didnt do the /duel exploit but figured since she was the only Jedi in town that you might be there for her? Its pretty common for BHs to camp cantinas.
Shaan'ti Hokai (Kauri)
TashunkaSapa wrote:
Eskie wrote:
Maybe she didnt do the /duel exploit but figured since she was the only Jedi in town that you might be there for her? Its pretty common for BHs to camp cantinas.
Unarmed and unarmored? You'd have to be a Jedi yourself to beat a Jedi without weapons or armor - TKM alone wouldn't suffice.
There are BHs out there who run around in Dancer's Leotards and dance next to a dueling Jedi - clothing doesnt say anything about intentions. When youre at 300 health even a Master Dancer / MBH can be a fearsome enemy
TashunkaSapa wrote:Yeah, but as soon as a fight starts you can't change clothes... so unless a BH is planning to fight in those leotards, the Jedi is going to have plenty of warning.
Personally, I enjoy hearing about all these Jedi who see danger lurking in every shadow. Fear SHOULD be the primary method of keeping Jedi in check. These paranoid fools don't seem to realize that the only reason they are hunted to begin with is that they're not discreet enough to keep from using their powers in public and staying off the terminals.
Obi-Wan stayed under the radar for 20 years, but then again he didn't go flashing his saber in starports all the time.
Yes, they actually fight in those clothes. They just pull out a scatter when the Jedi is in the middle of a duel and in a bad shape and whipe the floor with him. You can either use brute force and do the "run screaming towards the Jedi and blast away with all you have" stuff or you can disguise yourself to make the Jedi think he is safe when in fact he is not and take him by surprise when he is most vulnerable.
Any Jedi who can be beat by someone in a leotard DESERVES to be killed. The fact that they're duelling in public is indicative of the kind of irresponsible behavior that gets them on the terminals in the first place.
Personally, I think they need to bring back the Saber TEF, that would put an end to all this b00lshet duelling I see going on outside starports all the time.
TashunkaSapa wrote:Any Jedi who can be beat by someone in a leotard DESERVES to be killed. The fact that they're duelling in public is indicative of the kind of irresponsible behavior that gets them on the terminals in the first place.
Personally, I think they need to bring back the Saber TEF, that would put an end to all this b00lshet duelling I see going on outside starports all the time.
And how did we get from a BH sitting on stairs suspected to have a Jedis mission to Jedi deserving to die if attacked by a BH in a Dancer's Leotard? I take it you understood that some BHs disguise, right?
Message Edited by Eskie on 08-04-2005 02:48 PM
If sitting in civvies on the steps of a cantina in a ghost town to "deceive" a fully buffed Jedi counts as a "disguise" to you, I'm not sure who's the bigger chump.
You might want to go back and re-read the post that started this tangent - we weren't talking about someone hanging around unnoticed and taking out a weakened Jedi, we were talking about a paranoid and fully-prepared Jedi that assumes EVERYONE is a BH. Sadly, if she was as discreet as she was paranoid, she wouldn't worry about being hunted at all.