More Irritating?: Illum Damage or Vasari SB Z-Axis Exploit

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We all know the conversation...

[Advent] Cheater!!!
[Vasari] Illums are bugged too
[Advent] fu@# you
[Advent] fight like a man

I'm curious which one the online community finds more irritating, the Illum extra damage bug or the Vasari Starbase Z-Axis exploit.

And please, don't claim the Z-Axis is not an exploit when it's used to position over the TEC or Advent starbase which for some reason can't shoot in all directions. Z-Axis in general is fine, but in this case it is an exploit.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The Z-Axis exploit can be done with anything, not just Vasari starbases.  Personally I think it's the biggest exploit in the current version.  Now, that's not to say that bugged illums aren't a problem, but they don't render starbases expensive paperweights...

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I dont even know how to use it... but then I have never played online

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

The Z-Axis exploit can be done with anything, not just Vasari starbases.
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True, it just seems people complain more when the Vasari starbase is used. The quotes above where from watching a replay from a recent game and watching the two players whisper at each other. In fairness the guy who was the victim of the exploit didn't whine to us about it but he did quit when he could have stayed in the game a little longer.

I dont even know how to use it... but then I have never played online
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It's not really an issue against the AI. The idea is to have the AI cheat against you not the other way around. Anyways the AI is not good about fortifying it's positions (repair, pji, hangers, etc) so it is relatively easy to take down a starbase.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Illums hands down.  In all the games I've played I've never seen someone use the Z-axis cheat but I'll see an illum spam at least every other game.  It is basically to the point where 90% of the people who do it are smurfs because they don't want to saddle down their main name with the rep. of a bug exploiter.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

The illum bug is not very avoidable as long as you play advent.  There is less malicious intent with it.  The Z-axis bug is completely avoided unless you INTENTIONALLY use it.  The person using it intends solely to cheat with it.  That makes it worse in my book.

 

[_]-Greyfox