Flying skipping power rooting. AGAIN!

Oh, look, Sam's making another thread. Well, this one is actually serious, because I'm tired of reporting this. I've sent bug reports and nothing happened. I told BABs directly and nothing happened. I filed a petition for it and nothing happened. To this day, I am able to avoid any and all power rooting by abusing a very simple bug. Don't believe me? Watch this:

Flying bug example, mind your sound volume

In case it isn't obvious, this shouldn't happen. And it's been happening for four years now, at least. And I've been reporting it for four years, at least. I got a post deleted because I posted this, but if it's such a dangerous exploit, you'd think someone would have done something about it. Nope. Here's what you do:

1.Activate Hover.
2. Make sure you're not in any combat mode. Press the Escape key two or three time to make sure.
3. Activate Build Up. This will put you in a "fake combat mode."
4. Activate attacks as you're moving. I suggest not stopping, but even if you stop, it doesn't seem to matter.

Congratulations. You've just broken the game in a way I've been trying to get across to someone in animations for longer than I care to remember.

But I know what you're thinking. OK, we know it's happening, but WHY is it happening? The answer is pretty simple - the "fake combat mode." If you activate Build Up while not in combat mode (i.e. the left-foot-forward stance) then it will make your character behave as though in combat mode, but using the stances for non-combat mode. What this means is you will always stand idle and relaxed, and every time you use an attack, it'll return you to this idle state. The only way to get out of it is to either use a weapon power to force a different activation sequence or hit Escape two or three times to get out of any "modes" you may be in. Actually, have a look:

Build Up big example, mind your sound volume

Note how in this video, I am not in combat when I use Build Up, and after using it, it doesn't look like I'm in combat mode still. Well, I am, even though it doesn't look like it. Notice also how I will return to idle mode shortly after attacking. Sometimes I need to take a step for this to become evident, but it happens every time. And it shouldn't. And it shouldn't be this hard to fix. Simply put, using Build Up and inspirations should put us in combat mode, not "whatever mode you were in before visually, but combat mode practically."

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Again, I apologise for all these useless threads. This will be the last one for a while.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Update on the issue:

With the help of Xemesis, a friend of mine, I tested this, and found a few exceptions of powers that won't work:

1. Anything which puts an effect on your hands, like Energy Melee or Fire Blast, won't work as that apparently has its own activation sequence that overrides the "fake combat mode."

2. Anything that summons a prop, like Fire Sword and Ice Sword attacks, will also not work, because they have their own activation sequences.

3. Basically, any attack which does something to your body which persists as you move has its own activation sequence which will override.

Things that I have found that this DOES work with:

1. Anything electric-based, so Electric Blast/Melee/Manipulation, probably Control/Assault as well. Well, except things like Zapp and Lightning Rod. Electric powers don't have any effects on your character that persist after you use them.

2. Brawl, when used without a weapon. Brawl inherits the activation sequence of whatever it's used with, so it will inherit the "fake combat mode" sequence and be bugged, as well.

3. Sands of Mu. If want to use the Sands but doesn't want to stand in melee for the whole duration, this power is also bugged. It appears to be using the most basic activation sequence, which is what the "fake combat mode" bugs.

I haven't tested other powers yet, but again - anything "basic" with no continuous effects or props should work.

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I don't know if Build Up is the only power which causes this. I'm pretty sure Aim and the other clones will do the same. I used to be able to do this with inspirations, but they seem to have been fixed at some point. I'm not sure if "exotic build up" powers like Kinetic Melee's Syphon Power will do this as I haven't had the opportunity to test them, but given that Syphon Power uses a combat animation, I'd wager it can't. I suspect things like Power Build Up might, but I have no character to try that with.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. It's... peculiar, and I'm surprised it's stuck around for so long.

This doesn't seem like a major concern to me.

Tenzhi, the last time I posted this, a moderator removed my post, telling me I was posting an exploit. The development team consider overriding rooting to be wrong. That's why Whirlwind was changed to root you, when it used to not do that.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I love when it happens. My character just stands there, all awesome and cool, while things die around him. I wish we had more powers that didn't put us in the combat stance. Especially laser eye beams looks so much better standing straight instead of crouching.

Feature not bug.

This is why I'm such a poor tester. How do you people find these things?

--NT

Cancelling animations has been around for awhile. Usually have to do it per power though and harder than the hover technique you demonstrated.

Not all bugs are bad :P.