Questions w/ ctf shooting

[roosh]

i was wondering why sometimes when i shoot through a tail, a hole appears, and sometimes it doesn't, ne1 have ne ideas??

btw, i was wondering, does ne1 know how to do a powershot every1 tells me it is random, but lots of times some1 can do it a lot...

thnx

[Lucifer]

Man, is this english?

[Jonathan]

It's inliz.

BTW, as far as I can tell from a glance at the patch it's not random.

[roosh]

ok so when i shoot in ctf, sometimes my shot will make a hole in a tail of another cycle. sometimes it doesn't, why??

[Fonkay]

Although I've never played any of the shooting rooms, I assumed/understood that you "power shot" when you hold down the shooting button for a few seconds.

[roosh]

actually i meant when u hold break down for a few seconds and like 20 shots r fired in all directions it is very rare...

[philippeqc]

Aren't powershot only occuring when the WHOLE break buffer is consumed?

roosh: Not everyone on this forum is a native english speaker. I am myself French-Canadian. Could I ask you to restrict your use of l33t talk and other shortening technique?

Thanks

-ph

[roosh]

Sorry about the English .

Ok, lets say a power shot is when the whole break buffer is consumed. Now a fraction of the time when you consume the whole break buffer a, let's call it "super power shot" is given off. The difference between the two is that a regular power shot fires in three directions to form a sort of triangle around the car. However, a "super power shot" will fire about twenty shots at the same time to make a sort of circle of shots radiate around the car and go in every direction.

I was wondering how to do a "super power shot", since I am pretty sure it is not random.

Thanks.

[Jonathan]

Took a closer look at the patch. No such thing in there.

[wrtlprnft]

Aren't powershot only occuring when the WHOLE break buffer is consumed?

The treshold is configurable and defaults to .95 IIRC.

Note that on some servers the admin sometimes plays tricks by making the power shot immensely powerful for a short period of time, so it's more or less random.

Anyways, a power shot removes all walls in a (probably configurable) radius around your cycle, much like an exposion would.

[mudkip201]

ok so when i shoot in ctf, sometimes my shot will make a hole in a tail of another cycle. sometimes it doesn't, why??

It only makes a hole in your tail if you hold down the brake starting when it is full.