Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Armor holes maybe
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ElWookie
Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:16 pm
#1
I know this was something that happend shortly after release a long time ago and wanted to see if anything like that might be back... Here is why. I am wearing a full suit of kinetic comp sliced and made better than my set of ubese for HAM. Wearing all the pieces and am happy in my little tank, but melee damage is getting through with no reduction from armor. There are times where regular hits will get absorbed in their normal way and then some times the same hits go through. I thought maybe it was a bug in the armor and I would report it, but it was doing the same thing with my set of ubese. Granted, I am new to TK, but would not expect this to happen as I have played other close in professions before. Any insight into any possabilities would be appreciated 
Thx!
Darth-Dominus
Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:17 pm
#2
I noticed Friday night in Fort Tusken my armor wasn't absorbing damage at all, then I logged and went back and my armor was working normally. /shrug
Satis
Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:34 am
#3
last night near the end of my buff I either started taking alot of health damage, or my UA3 was hurting me bad for some odd reason. To the tune of 125 or so points per hit, or so it seems. I was fighting rancor, so it's hard to tell how I was losing the health. Granted, by boots were almost dead (300 condition when I finished). I was wearing the 4-piece armor set of comp. I figured the game was bugging on me, but this thread brought it to mind.
Darth-Dominus
Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:48 pm
#4
It appears you need biceps as well to "fully" protect yourself now. I guess they are slowly fixing the exploit one piece of armor at a time.
quitch
Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:21 pm
#5
Darth-Dominus wrote:
I guess they are slowly fixing the exploit one piece of armor at a time.
you do need buceps, I have tested this on Endor.
Message Edited by quitch on 10-19-2004 10:27 PM
Atama
Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:14 pm
#6
Technically, intentionally taking advantage of a bug to gain an advantage is the definition of an exploit. Every exploit that doesn't involve a 3rd party application is from a bug. But some exploits are worse than others, and I doubt that exploiting the armor system will get anyone in trouble.
Ryutek
Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:44 am
#7
Think of it this way:
Player A likes the way his character looks when he wears Chest, Pants, Helm, and Gloves, so that is all the armor he wears. He has a full suit that is donned sometimes just for the heck of it, but switches between the looks regularly. How would you prove they are attempting to exploit the system or not?
The armor issues are a bug, and will most likely be treated much the way the Vehicle Repair bug was treated. Allow it to continue until they fix teh problem in the code causing the issue.
Player A likes the way his character looks when he wears Chest, Pants, Helm, and Gloves, so that is all the armor he wears. He has a full suit that is donned sometimes just for the heck of it, but switches between the looks regularly. How would you prove they are attempting to exploit the system or not?
The armor issues are a bug, and will most likely be treated much the way the Vehicle Repair bug was treated. Allow it to continue until they fix teh problem in the code causing the issue.
O0oHalfLifeo0O
Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:42 am
#8
You may want to make sure that all your armor is at least above 1k Condition. Otherwise it may just be a bug...
Atama
Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:52 am
#9
"Player A likes the way his character looks when he wears Chest, Pants, Helm, and Gloves, so that is all the armor he wears. He has a full suit that is donned sometimes just for the heck of it, but switches between the looks regularly. How would you prove they are attempting to exploit the system or not?"
That's why I said that you'd have to be intentionally exploiting the bug. Sometimes that's hard to prove, or even impossible. I remember when you could shoot through walls in PvP and some CSRs were calling it an exploit, and yet it was hard *not* to shoot through a wall because all you had to do was have a ranged weapon equipped, be in combat with an enemy, and have that enemy run into a building.
I was just stating that technically it's an exploit, if you were intentionally avoiding the pieces you knew you didn't need, thus reducing your armor encumbrance and still getting the full protection of your armor. And I doubt anyone has ever gotten in trouble or that the devs or CSRs care.
Ryutek
Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:54 am
#10
No fear Atama, I was not disagreeing. Just thought I would give the others a different perspective so that it would be understood why 
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