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Offline Pooh21

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Loose formations
« on: September 10, 2002, 07:43:16 AM »
When attacking buff formations my goal is to loosen the formation up as it spreads the guns out makes each buff harder to defend. Its even better when someone turns. Unfortunately when the buffs straighten out, reduce power to tighten up or whatever, the formation doesnt come back together smoothly. The drones warp back into position, frustrating to see 3 of your precious 60, 30mm hit empty air where one second earlier was a smoking buff, so you level out take another shot at the lonely drone and he warps all the way back into position. I was wondering if it was possible to smoothen out the return to formation of the drones. As it is, it is very warpy and busting up formations isnt much use unless you do a really good job and get those cheap drone kills as they fall too far behind.
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Offline devious

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Loose formations
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2002, 09:45:23 AM »
Had the same problem last weekend - bounced the leader of a trio of Lancs and shot him up good. As I came around my pitch-back it was impossible to take another shot at the drones who were warping, one at a time, to get in formnation with the burning wreck off their leader.

left one warps, right one warps, left one warps....

Offline Innominate

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Loose formations
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2002, 12:09:26 PM »
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Originally posted by devious
Had the same problem last weekend - bounced the leader of a trio of Lancs and shot him up good. As I came around my pitch-back it was impossible to take another shot at the drones who were warping, one at a time, to get in formnation with the burning wreck off their leader.

left one warps, right one warps, left one warps....


This is a bug in the prediction.

The minute the lead buff dissapears(crashes or pilot bails) the drones will instantly reappear where they were.  Chasing them down will only make the buff's life easyer.