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6 years ago
I was messing around with the lobster buff.
With a range slightly larger than a defender (or a picket if thats what it's called now) and fall damage protection, lobsters are better than ever.

Here's some things i found out
1)Jumpjets take priority over lobster launch
2)Launching archers and having the archers attack while being launched will cause some of them to fling around
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With perfect staggering and proper targeting, in theory, four lobsters should be able to not only ascend to unlimited altitudes, but also move horizontally in a controlled fashion.

Combine this with any payload you want to rain from the sky, and speedmetal meta changes (probably with lobster added to banned units list).

Compared to newtons, this should be much more precise, adjustable in realtime, and allows simultaneous mass launches.

Edit: ah nevermind. Lobster cannot launch itself. So you drop a lobster for each stage.
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6 years ago
Do you want technical details or science?
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6 years ago
Fun times
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6 years ago
I'd suggest looking at Placeholder as well if you are trying to construct orbital battle stations.
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6 years ago
SErankGodde
this lacks trollord in the mix
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6 years ago
I just found a way to increase the throw range of a single Lobster to like 4000 range. :P
But I won't tell you. :D
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6 years ago
Make that 10000 range.
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6 years ago
Teaser
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New record 14000 range


Seems like i need a bigger map
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6 years ago
Btw, units take damage when they hit the ground when they are thrown that far.
Is that a bug? :P
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Impact damage protection - represented by the glow - only lasts 5 seconds, intentionally.

Is my reading of your hax correct in that you can do this with Skuttles but not with Snitches?
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6 years ago
Who mentioned Snitches and Skuttles?
Skuttles doesn't have jump jets so it is not like they can jump while being in the air anyway.
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I just threw a Detriment outside the map, that gotta be like 20000 range.
New record.

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6 years ago
With "a little" help from terraforming.

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6 years ago
We should make olympic games of lobster throwing detri!
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6 years ago
Even the unicode consortium thinks the new lobster is cool!
http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/02/the-lobster-emoji-is-official.html
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6 years ago
While I will try to avoid patching out cool physics things, I think making Newton ramps obsolete is a bit much. I'm fixing the out-of-range target leading bug.
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FIrankFFC
6 years ago
What is this and how are you doing that SErankGodde
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6 years ago
I targeted a Swift that is outside the range of the Lobster and moving against the Lobster. The Lobster will then lead the target and fire before it enters its' range. The units would still be thrown against the current location of the Swift.
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