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Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: air_guard on October 03, 2001, 09:28:00 AM
it loving sucks, please ?


guard
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: R4M on October 03, 2001, 09:37:00 AM
Seconded!
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: DamnedATC on October 03, 2001, 09:43:00 AM
I suggest that using the alt f4 results in bailout with chute automatically pulled.  

ATC
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: iceydee on October 03, 2001, 09:44:00 AM
yeah. and it's not even difficult to do it...   ;)
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Ripsnort on October 03, 2001, 09:45:00 AM
Whats the reasoning for getting rid of it?

You get proximiety kill if someone alt-F4's if you're within a certain distance. It just takes awhile to appear on your text buffer.
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: hitech on October 03, 2001, 09:45:00 AM
Alt F4 Results in a crash.

HiTech
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: iceydee on October 03, 2001, 09:51:00 AM
I think there should be atleast like a 10 second delay before AH actually quits when you press Alt-F4. That would give a fair chance to get a proper kill.
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: LePaul on October 03, 2001, 10:50:00 AM
Can that be coded out?  Or is that a Windows function that is there to stay?
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Pongo on October 03, 2001, 02:13:00 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Whats the reasoning for getting rid of it?

You get proximiety kill if someone alt-F4's if you're within a certain distance. It just takes awhile to appear on your text buffer.

ahhh
thats how that works..thanks rip. Had a kill show up out of total no ware last night. And I had long 6 on a disaperaring typhy a minute befor...
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Wilbus on October 03, 2001, 02:16:00 PM
Second Ripsnort, no reason to get rid of it since you get kill if you're close or if you have dammaged the person.
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: air_guard on October 03, 2001, 02:47:00 PM
ok I musta been having a bad day then 3 b17`s that i wingripped did go away and no kill messag on two of them dunno what happend coulda been a bug.
so it do give a kill to the nearest enemy then ? i understand coulda been they went low and somone other got the kill then.

airguard
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Apar1 on October 04, 2001, 03:09:00 AM
Yes Guard, just takes a while for the kill to appear in text buffer most of the time.
But I have also seen it resulting in nothing on occasions.

Question I have is this; If it results in a crash, and that ALT F4-ing con is at high alt and you are at high alt too, do you still get the prox kill? How is "crash" defined here, is it instand "in-the-air-crash" or does it relate to "crash-on-the-deck"? I.a.w. does the altitude have enything to do with getting the prox kill in these cases?

[ 10-04-2001: Message edited by: Apar1 ]
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Shane on October 05, 2001, 05:35:00 PM
i just think you guys are confusing deliberate alt-f4 with simple disconnections (from a variety of causes) and ctd's (also from a variety of causes).
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Sancho on October 06, 2001, 11:36:00 AM
If my boss walks in on me I depend on ALT-F4.  Don't take it away!!  :)
Title: remove the alt f4 option ..
Post by: Spivey on October 07, 2001, 07:27:00 PM
Here's the reason to get rid of it: If the other guy damages you bad enuf, and you die or have to bail some seconds after he is toast, or someone else kills you before he logs out, you do NOT get the kill. Alt-F4 is the guys last gasping pissonu move to rob you of the kill or get back at you for killing him. Sometimes it works. Further, if you don't realize he has logged, and you keep shooting at him, (and this works especially well in GV's) you waste ammo and likely get yourself killed by someone else. It needs to be disabled.

Spivey