Menagerie of bugs

Whilst the forums were down, I amassed a repository of screenshots of messed up things....

Turret verticle? What? Found this on Crossroads at one point....I stoped and scratched my head for a little bit there.
http://www.the42nd.com/members/gianelli.p/emp_crossroads0047.jpg
http://www.the42nd.com/members/gianelli.p/emp_crossroads0048.jpg
http://www.the42nd.com/members/gianelli.p/emp_crossroads0049.jpg
http://www.the42nd.com/members/gianelli.p/emp_crossroads0050.jpg

For this one - I was comming for the NF Team, and I got the commander bug where you can't exit the darned CV. So I suicided while looking at the BE base (well, where I knew the base was, but could see nothing. since there were no cameras, buildings or units nearby.) When I died, I saw this...
http://www.the42nd.com/members/gianelli.p/emp_duststorm0003.jpg

 

when you get stuck in the commandvehicle just type 'emp_comm_exit' in console

 

doesnt always work RPG (hence why i have that and suicide bound to keys now ) also how did u play empires in such high resolution? when i attempt that
my GUI messes up big time.

 

Once in EMP_Money, I was in the COMMV at the back wall looking at a closeup overview of one of the bridges when an enemy arty shell hit the bridge, and killed me because my viewpoint was close to it - i mean WTF :D

 

hmm odd always worked for me, the only reason why it shouldnt work is a lag spike, but could be something random, i dont exit the comm chair that much

 

btw you don't seem to realise what bug hes talking about

He's just shown everyone how to spy on the enemy positions by suciding while inside the com vehicle :eek:

 

The only bugs I see here is that comm(ie)s can be artied to death and that some of the prop models let you build on their surfaces even when the angle is >45.

 

Those first few screeenshots are features. So that you can place turret on bumpy maps.

The last bug was kinda meh, what is the exploiter gonna do? Suicide himself everytime he gets to the enemy base?

 

OK, maybe I wasn't clear enough...some got what the comm bug was, some didn't:

I was comm. NF on EMP Dust, looking at where the BE start out. Before I had to suicide, I saw nothing. Just blank space, and arty shells coming out of thing air (there was arty there, I just couldn't see it.) I suicided, and saw their whole base.

Yeah, I know, I just gave out TONS of info on an exploit, blah blah. But We're supposed to post stuff here so it can get fixed.anyway....what can I do with that info? Oh, I know where their CV is...

Or if I want to use it as an exploit "Do they have ruins?" Spectate ruins, suicide. "Nope. Do they have mid?" Suicide....etc. Its a crappy exploit, and if you;re going to do it, I sure hope and admin sees what's going on and bans the person.

Oh, and how can I play at 1680x1050? My HUD doesn't act up...I get a crappy framerate inside buildings, but otherwise I hold around/above 60FPS...all settings on high. I have a 7800GT which I volt modded and OC'ed a lot though, so that'd be how.

 

The thing is, any time you increase the resolution (or change it much at all for that matter), you need to exit the program and start it back up again for the hud to display right.

 

and have it ABOVE 600x800

 

600x800?

What kind of crappy vid card or monitor are YOU using?

Some people....

But yeah, I run Empires in 1280x960, and I have no problems unless I CHANGE the resolution. If you raise the resolution and then don't restart the game, it does mess up the HUD. The answer, obviously, is to raise the resolution.... and restart the game! Or figure out why the HUD gets messed up by resolution changes...

 

It's because of a bug in Valve's gui system that is out of our hands. Restarting is the only work-around for now.