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ParaSait

Joined: 26 June 2007
Posts: 1478 		04 September 2009 17:43 (UK time)

Actually I'm going to report 2 bugs here, although I think they are technically almost the same.
Personally, I call it "Hiro Powers"; If you've watched Heroes, you know that Hiro is the one that can stop time and do stuff while everything's freezed.
They don't give THAT much advantage, but try em out, they're quite fun :)

1) Freeze Reloading
Out of ammo? Slow reload? No problem:
PAUSE THE GAME. (p and esc both work)
Now wait the amount of time left needed to reload. Unpause the game now, and you'll see you'll immediatly have a full clip again! So actually, you were reloading like Hiro would do it; In freeze mode :p
I discovered this bug while making this image, since I needed to pause the game in order to time screen 3 correctly.

2) Rapid Fire
This one's even more fun. Discovered this one as a result of some more experimenting with Freeze Reloading.
Take a projectile weapon with slow rate of fire (such as grenade launcher, rocket launcher, or for the ultimate destruction, fusion cannon ;)).
Now, shoot and

Both bugs will also affect enemies.


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Edited: 04 September 2009 17:54

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hirmuolio

Joined: 11 November 2008
Posts: 60 		04 September 2009 18:39 (UK time)

But aren't enemies reloading faster when you do that ~X(.
It wouldn't be nice if you get some uber cannons shoting to you rapidfire :p
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DarkRain

Joined: 01 March 2007
Posts: 1193 		04 September 2009 18:50 (UK time)

@ParaSait

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ParaSait

Joined: 26 June 2007
Posts: 1478 		04 September 2009 19:10 (UK time)

hirmuolio wrote:
But aren't enemies reloading faster when you do that ~X(.
Read a bit slower (^^,)
ParaSait wrote:
Both bugs will also affect enemies.


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Edited: 04 September 2009 19:11

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hirmuolio

Joined: 11 November 2008
Posts: 60 		04 September 2009 19:16 (UK time)

Didn't notice that :p
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me_mantis

Joined: 26 September 2003
Posts: 1152 		04 September 2009 20:41 (UK time)

very clever. Too bad it doesn't work in mp.
(this would be good with the uber cannon - but it does take the same amount of time paused as it would to normally reload.)

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Joined: 03 January 2004
Posts: 1799 		04 September 2009 22:23 (UK time)

Ouch. This could come in handy for single player.
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nyasudah
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Joined: 06 February 2005
Posts: 832 		05 September 2009 17:08 (UK time)

heh nice found, tho i wont use that much i think, still can be handy for some ppl
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