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nothing I've seen or heard indicates that slicing past a weapon's damage cap is possible. My guy reaction is to say that she is lying and that if she's telling the truth it's an exploit somehow.

Message Edited by fishbrains on 09-09-2005 12:02 AM

Just so I understand this perfectly.

If someone brings me an advanced laser rifle that is already at max dmg of 1184, and I try to slice it.

Do I expect :

a- Sorry cannot be sliced , its at max dmg already ?
b- it uses the component, shows it's been sliced but does nothing
c - it uses the component , shows it's been sliced and lists the max dmg 'slice' of 8%, but does not increase beyond the 1184 cap ?

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ther34p wrote:

Just so I understand this perfectly.

If someone brings me an advanced laser rifle that is already at max dmg of 1184, and I try to slice it.

Do I expect :

a- Sorry cannot be sliced , its at max dmg already ?
b- it uses the component, shows it's been sliced but does nothing
c - it uses the component , shows it's been sliced and lists the max dmg 'slice' of 8%, but does not increase beyond the 1184 cap ?

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I had a and c happen to me.

Slice a weapon that is over the damage slicing cap should give an "a" response

Slice a weapon that is under the damge cap (but close too) lets you slice up to the slice cap that results in a "c" and if you still slice even a "b"

That is a slicing exploit that has to do something with the removal of a powerup, I think. There was a post about someone doing this kind of thing in the WS forums.

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Accamim wrote:
That is a slicing exploit that has to do something with the removal of a powerup, I think. There was a post about someone doing this kind of thing in the WS forums.

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Jaguarrr wrote:

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Accamim wrote:
That is a slicing exploit that has to do something with the removal of a powerup, I think. There was a post about someone doing this kind of thing in the WS forums.

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The slicing option doesnt show up until you remove the powerup.

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That is a fairly recent change though. Not so long ago you could slice with a PUP attached. Apparantly that was exploitable so now you see the current behavior.

Sounds to me they slapped a powerup on it and are boasting about that dmg output.

I've seen loads of weapons sliced beyond the speedcap though.....strange

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Jaguarrr wrote:

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Accamim wrote:
That is a slicing exploit that has to do something with the removal of a powerup, I think. There was a post about someone doing this kind of thing in the WS forums.

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The slicing option doesnt show up until you remove the powerup.

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I don't want to speculate too much. But, I think if you removed the power up and immediately sliced a damage capped weapon it might let you? Or, Slice it and immediately add a powerup and remove it later. All I know, is it was sliced and powered up and when he removed the power up to return it to a vendor, an absurdly high max damage remained on the weapon. Also, I have never seen a speed slice be denied because of a speed cap.

any way you do it it will still be an exploit

I get a message saying this weapon cannot be sliced as it has reached it's maximum damage. So I don't think that is possible.

sounds like a good time to call for a screenshot