Health and Ammo Cabinets exploit

(Ark42) #1

Dunno if its been posted yet, but you know most of the time you can plant and defuse your own dynomite near the cabinets for a free 6 XP. You can easily get level4 engineer on a single map without doing anything particularly useful for your team, especially when you can start throwing more dynomites at higher levels. The only time you can’t do this is when a friendly command post is nearby it seems.
You plant the dynomite and nothing happens, but when you defuse it, a global voice ‘Dynomite defused’ plays and a message appears to everybody about it being defused at the health and ammo cabinets. If you don’t defuse it, the cabinets never blow up or anything, so there is never a risk of losing the cabinets.

(Stee) #2

Can’t say I’ve noticed this one.

([=O=]SMYLER) #3

How do people find these things out ?

(Ark42) #4

Easy, just wanted to test and see if I could blow up the cabinets on Goldrush, but I couldn’t.
Its just the natural curiosity that helps people find things such as planting behind the guns on Oasis or blowing up the 2nd water pump by planting a Dynomite in the window behind the Axis doors on Oasis.
Did you know you can also get up to the area behind the 2 axis doors on Oasis as an ally simply by climbing the little wooden posts sticking out of the side of the wall? Climb up the ladder near the 1st cave exit and turn left and jump over onto the first wall, then go right and on up…

(Brinkman) #5

…gay

([=O=]SMYLER) #6

yeah you’re a bender I’m gonna vote you off the server everytime I see you for having these leet mad skillz stuff :eek: :eek2: :smiley: :smiley: :eek2: :eek:

Before you go bezerk matey should read the other threads we’re messing with ya in a nice way. Ewwwww that sounded kinda bendy.

(Ark42) #7

Funny :slight_smile: but you need 85 percent to vote me off my own server, I just use it as a suggestion for who to ban with WAB usually, since it only takes one or two No’s or obstainers to fail the vote.

(DrGratis) #8

Id have to saythat I think that is intentional. The wooden posts are spaced about right. I think this was done to get the axis who have a tendancy to hangout up there and arty, air spam the old city spawn. :disgust: It is a resonable counter. Its not like that area leads to the anti-tank guns or anything…

(Ark42) #9

Id have to saythat I think that is intentional. The wooden posts are spaced about right. I think this was done to get the axis who have a tendancy to hangout up there and arty, air spam the old city spawn. :disgust: It is a resonable counter. Its not like that area leads to the anti-tank guns or anything…[/quote]

Of course, that is definately intentional, but most people havn’t seemed to noticed it yet. I doubt the cabinet exploit thing is intentional, and I hope it gets fixed soon.

(wudan) #10

speaking of oasis, I had a problem just yesterday where I was L4 engie defusing 3 sets of dynamite after I killed the L4 engie who dropped and planted them. I killed him, and defused 2 sets, he was waiting for a medic, on top of the 3rd dynamite, I had the last one almost defused, he tapped out and suddenly I couldn’t defuse the dynamite through his dead body. Pretty crazy stuff, I’ll tell you, but next time I’ll just throw grenades in and the chunks of dead axis engie won’t be able to stop me from defusing the handy work :slight_smile:

(LegoManser) #11

That cabinet thing stinks and I am ready to call a vote for anyone who uses it.

The one with the wooden planks, I am perfectly OK with. I belive this is intentional.

I hate the corpse-on-dynamite thing. You have to gib him or wait for him to sink before you can defuse.

(Majikthise) #12

You can also plant/defuse at the bank doors on goldrush and have the exact same thing happen (6 XP). It can be done as axis or allies. I tested it, and on a normally configured server, one can get to level 4 engineering in just under 10 minutes.

(sniser) #13

Hmm, let’s see the good side of it… this means SD won’t get around some kind of client side patch - which might bring other little improvements too.

(Ako) #14

How is this done? I’ve tried it but I’m sure I’m missing something.

(Ark42) #15

How is this done? I’ve tried it but I’m sure I’m missing something.[/quote]

You have to chuck the dynomite more inside the window, if it leans too far inside, the blast wont reach the water pump. Its much easier usually to plant it outside but above the water pump hanging over the lip of the ledge. The alies can still reach it there if they climb up the wall, but that takes enough time that its too late usually anyways.

(pw50King) #16

Heeeeey Smyler :clap: Remember?

(wudan) #17

At least I know I’m not on crack. That’s really been bugging me. Oh well, now I have a good reason to lob a grenade rifle on my way up to defuse … uh … stay clear, team …

(SCDS_reyalP) #18

Which part of the issue do you think is client side ? Points are done on the server. Good thing too.