Being Able To See Down Through Blocks

[Taien]

I'm getting really tired of tunneling into someone's base only to have the whole team exploit this bug to find me. I'm sure everyone knows about it, and I'm suprised I don't see it in the recent topics. Anyway, all you have to do is look down and you can see players through any blocks between you and them. It REALLY needs fixing (since .65 when I started, possibly earlier). Everyone exploits it and it's really annoying.

[Smiley]

Dig Deeper, Some glitches are good in ways were instead of hating glitches exploit them and become a better play from them find a way to dig around enemy's, dig behind them, don't dig right below enemy's and just be ready with your spade.

Imo I don't think that this should be taken out, not yet anyway there are more pressing matters at hand then this glitch.

[Taien]

The fact that you don't want it removed because it's 'useful' just proves how abused this exploit is :) Btw, I was just playing with you, I think. :)

And you can't say 'dig deeper' either because a lot of maps are built from the ground up and so you CAN'T dig deeper. It's a really bad and obvious glitch that should be fixed. And it's been around forever lol

[DoomSplitter]

This is a bug in the software renderer. I think this will be fixed once the OpenGL version is released.

[MoleMan]

I'm getting really tired of tunneling into someone's base only to have the whole team exploit this bug to find me. I'm sure everyone knows about it, and I'm suprised I don't see it in the recent topics. Anyway, all you have to do is look down and you can see players through any blocks between you and them. It REALLY needs fixing (since .65 when I started, possibly earlier). Everyone exploits it and it's really annoying.

Hint: it is a gigantic pain in the ass to locate people using this method. If you aren't deliberately looking for people, you won't find them.

ON THE OTHER HAND you make a crapton of noise when you dig as you are. You can hear that digging a very long ways down. Stop thinking you're invincible just because there's 20 blocks of dirt between you and the guys who want to murder you. I honestly think this glitch has its merits: Makes diggers not completely undetectable (finding them through sound alone is hard enough).

[ei8htx]

I agree, this needs fixin'. I exploit it all the time, especially in babel.

It's only fair.

[Danqazmlp]

Hopefully it will be fixed along with the intel being seen through blocks too.

[zephir]

no, i think it's a good exploit. I can catch tunnelers this way even though I do pretty well by sound alone, and when I tunnel across the entire map and right into the enemy base I don't feel too bad since I know that if they cared, they'll find me (and since they don't, then that means they don't care).

I also like how the intel & command post can be seen thru if standing directly on top or below.
there's a way to lay traps for the enemy on certain maps such as bridge wars. I invite the enemy to dig down for it. They're welcome to, and they'll break like 5 blocks and then fall for 30 blocks.

[Varun]

no, i think it's a good exploit. I can catch tunnelers this way even though I do pretty well by sound alone, and when I tunnel across the entire map and right into the enemy base I don't feel too bad since I know that if they cared, they'll find me (and since they don't, then that means they don't care).

I also like how the intel & command post can be seen thru if standing directly on top or below.
there's a way to lay traps for the enemy on certain maps such as bridge wars. I invite the enemy to dig down for it. They're welcome to, and they'll break like 5 blocks and then fall for 30 blocks.

You should not have to resort to bugs to find enemies. You can use your head to figure out where they are, something few enough people do these days. If the Intel is in one direction, and the digging sound is going towards it, what do you think the digger is after? Caeks?

This bugs is just an unfair way to find someone. But I agree, there are more pressing issues to deal with than this one.

[TheGrandmaster]

Tunnellers would be exceedingly difficult to find if it wasn't for this bug. You can use your ears to get near the location, it's then down to seeing through blocks to actually locate. It'd take much much longer without it.

Tunnellers can still use the tunnels, they'd just need to find a way of masking the entry/clear up where intruders had broken in.

As said, opengl will remove this bug. It's part of the voxlap engine which prevents the devs from removing it.

[Enari]

This needs fixing, but it personalty don't think it should be on the todo list...
It will be fixed with OpenGL anyway :(

[Arctic]

Some alternative way to make locating tunnelers a bit easier perhaps, but there is no reason why we should resort to a glitch to do this for us.

[ThisFrickinSite]

I'm getting really tired of tunneling into someone's base only to have the whole team exploit this bug to find me. I'm sure everyone knows about it, and I'm suprised I don't see it in the recent topics. Anyway, all you have to do is look down and you can see players through any blocks between you and them. It REALLY needs fixing (since .65 when I started, possibly earlier). Everyone exploits it and it's really annoying.

Hint: it is a gigantic pain in the ass to locate people using this method. If you aren't deliberately looking for people, you won't find them.

ON THE OTHER HAND you make a crapton of noise when you dig as you are. You can hear that digging a very long ways down. Stop thinking you're invincible just because there's 20 blocks of dirt between you and the guys who want to murder you. I honestly think this glitch has its merits: Makes diggers not completely undetectable (finding them through sound alone is hard enough).

i find people all the time this way in babel by accident. its usefull but annoying to never actually be 100% invisible br the blocks surounding you.