One block gap glitching.

I've always been of the notion that if there is a glitch/exploit, as many people as possible should know about it, for one it makes the game more equal, since everyone can use it. And two, it alerts the devs to it faster the more people are using it.

 

I've never heard of it before, though I've seen it used in dirt like this:


On the question of whether we should use it or not, idk lol. It's not something I think the devs should leave in, but as long as it's there it's kind of neat to mess around with.

also: what the heck is up with the ingame screenshots and the weird alpha channel?

 

Yeah, screenshots are behaving strangely. I've found that simply opening the image in paint, then saving it fixes them, but doesn't work with any other image editing program.

 

That's not bias. Allowing one side to utilise it is biased. I say we freeze them and warn them.

 

Yeah, I posted this more for people who would want to incorporate this in a custom map or something. I could see it being used in ways that both teams could take advantage of it, or to put a twist on Attack/Defense mode.

Plus now that it's out in the open, people can recognize it when it's being used, or even take counter-measures.

A few other notes:
This can't be used while carrying an outpost or catapult.
These are extremely easy to grief, all it takes is one well-placed bomb, then it's useless and near impossible to fix.
The holes also work to some extent with adjacent blocks removed.

ALSO: The direction can actually be changed, but this is as far right-facing as it can go:


So it can go to the right but does have to start going left, it can also use conjoined open block spaces. The trajectory can't go any farther right, it also can't go level or point down when going left.

Anyway, for blue team it requires a ton more resources to use effectively, but a clever builder could use this well. (e.g. skybridging, covering tracks while digging into red base from below + turning it into an elevator for the rest of his team.

Still highly favors red team for useability though.

Also, if you're suspect or are afraid of people abusing this, there are several messages sent to the RCON every time someone uses it, saying "SoAndSo's position corrected."

 

The side bias isn't a big deal though, as a million things favour blue.

 

Which ones?

 

I had a weird teleporting knight bug recently, but a bit different. I think its for a different thread

 

Wow, it works cheatly. We can dig through the dirt and go to enemy base:)

 

Testing this out in the test build, and this issue has been fixed. It will not work in the next version.

 

Yep, apparently adding that extra hole makes it so everyone can use the glitch.

 

I still don't know if "we should use this while we can". It seems kind of cheap, especially as it helps red more than blue because it works better right>left than left>right. Also this thread encourages people to use the glitch, especially when taking the hill from blue by teleporting through your stone walls to keep the tunnelers out. Ever since I "figured" out how to teleport on demand I've been avoiding it, and when digging tunnels under people's bases I purposely "mess up" people's attempts to make a teleporter.

It is a cool "feature" if it could work both ways, and very interesting to mess around with. However I believe at this point it isn't right to use it in-game.

 

I made the regular teleporter and it didn't work... It looked like the one you made with the up 2 over 1. any suggestions or reasons why I could teleport? I don't think the games update patched it over yet

 

It only works right>left, so if you built it facing the other way it won't work.

 

I was on blue team so it was right>left. Well actually now that I think about it, Auri's has a sort of entrance. Mine was just a flat wall with a the starting hole.