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Hive Queen AI bug: It has intelligence of insect!
HQs have strange AI bug:
To reproduce:
1) Find sector HQ resides in.
2) Jump there with single ship. HQ starts moving in your direction. Guardian bots attack you as anticipated.
3) Scratch HQ and jump out.
4) Jump in again. HQ moves in your direction, but guadian bots "stick" to mommy's skirt. If they are not: repeat from step 2.
5) Now just "run" from it and don't let HQ to close more then 300-350m to you. Shoot HQ from distance of 350-650m until it dies.
6) After HQ is dead, guardian bots "remember" what their duty is and attack you.
7) Jump home.
I used Hornet MkIII with 4 Neutron Blasters MkIII.
To reproduce:
1) Find sector HQ resides in.
2) Jump there with single ship. HQ starts moving in your direction. Guardian bots attack you as anticipated.
3) Scratch HQ and jump out.
4) Jump in again. HQ moves in your direction, but guadian bots "stick" to mommy's skirt. If they are not: repeat from step 2.
5) Now just "run" from it and don't let HQ to close more then 300-350m to you. Shoot HQ from distance of 350-650m until it dies.
6) After HQ is dead, guardian bots "remember" what their duty is and attack you.
7) Jump home.
I used Hornet MkIII with 4 Neutron Blasters MkIII.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as an exploit or some other type of bug that should be reported via the Bug Reporter (see http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/bugreport to do so) and not here, but I do think that you probably shouldn't have given the procedure to the playerbase on how to reproduce it--the devs will take care of it if you send them this via a bug report, and there will be less "abusing" of said AI bug.
That being said... that's a rather amusing bug :D
That being said... that's a rather amusing bug :D
abusing? who wants to shoot an HQ from 300m away? =D
I'm usually within 50-100m the whole time... lol.
I'm usually within 50-100m the whole time... lol.
From my expierence, I think all non-Sedina bots do this. I do it all the time with collectors (while waiting for them to jump to the queen). I find it actually annoying when the queens & escorts do it, but that's just me...
There's an easier sequence to do this. Your approach to the bots is the key.
I think this behavior started when they fixed the crackbotting. Ever since then, the bots don't charge as aggresively (expecially when being shot at).
I don't consider this a bug, since the bots will slow down when you shoot at them, increasing their distance from you. If you shoot too much, too quckly, they slow down sow much it's difficult to hit them. In my opinion, there's much faster ways to kill a queen.
There's an easier sequence to do this. Your approach to the bots is the key.
I think this behavior started when they fixed the crackbotting. Ever since then, the bots don't charge as aggresively (expecially when being shot at).
I don't consider this a bug, since the bots will slow down when you shoot at them, increasing their distance from you. If you shoot too much, too quckly, they slow down sow much it's difficult to hit them. In my opinion, there's much faster ways to kill a queen.