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In this battle https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1626263 a "hidden feature" showed itself again:
Units pushed by other units keept their momentum when reclaimed!

It stats at arround 21 th min with one of my DErankSnowlob Racketeers beeing pushed by a Tarantula and it keep its momentum while beeing reclaimed.
At the 24 th min it leaves the map!

Tested/replicated a few things here:
https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1626322
- Death explosion still occurs
- Death explosion doesnt work on 99% Skuttle
- Travel speed = push speed
- Airspeed, not groundspeed stays the same = Up/down -hill very fast.
- Graphic clips back into the map - AoE damage doesnt.
- Affected units INGORE terrain steepness and other buildings (didnt test enemy units/buildings so far).


(Ab-)uses:
- replicated + tested: Can be used to make Units traverse otherwise unpassable terrain.
- concept: some stacking possibilities useing area repair. (example units inside a hold fire deso still shooting outside or Iris/Aspis/Builders while the other hitbox acts like a "shell" or armor).

Now we can get Tanks, Coms and Striders up even the steepest hills and throught the deepest valleys as long as theres something to complete them on the other side!
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11 months ago
hm, could you reclaim a unit to 99%, and then send it?
makes completting on the other end easier
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back in the day, you could get space-snipers!

use transport to lift sniper. while it is taken upwards, reclaim transport. the sniper is lifted forever, gaining range and sniping the whole map! this has been fixed really fast though.
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quote:
hm, could you reclaim a unit to 99%, and then send it?
makes completting on the other end easier

The utility of this bug for transporting things is somewhat limited by Djinn doing it better (no risk of unit being lost in transit etc).

I guess you could use it to transport ships onto land or land units into the sea, but that is also more easily doable with air transports.

Stacking could be interesting, since this way you could stack eg outlaws into buildings. But outlaws live in shield factory, which has shields, which are like stacking as-is.

One could presumably fine-tune it to create an unit launcher (shoot a gunship at 45 degree arc, self-destruct it above enemy to drop payload), but newton does that fine, too.
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