The trading card effects...

Crow · #1 12-23-2007, 03:55 PM

Are ****ing annoying. The small size one is bugged so it sometimes hides the GUI and player nicks (dont ask me how, I have no idea) if somebody uses it, giant thing is just annoying, the auras are annoying, and shrink + stealth makes you almost invisible on Era if you stand on snow.

I seriously demand an option to disable that stuff.

Tom · #2 12-23-2007, 04:17 PM

Crow · #3 12-23-2007, 04:28 PM

Here you go, screenie of things ****ing up. Left (outside of the screen) theres somebody using small size and stealth. Only seems to happen with sizing effetcs.

Admins · #4 01-04-2008, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Crow

Here you go, screenie of things ****ing up. Left (outside of the screen) theres somebody using small size and stealth. Only seems to happen with sizing effetcs.

Is that player displayed correctly (small, stealth mode) ? May there is some problem with the textures or so, it could be possible to disable them in the Graal options, then you will not see your own effects either though.

The effects themself don't give any advantage beside the graphical effect. Of course it can be a help in hide-and-seek, but it wont help in spars. Also the stealth effect makes your "blink" so it shouldn't be that hard to identify a player who is using that effect.

Crow · #5 01-04-2008, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Is that player displayed correctly (small, stealth mode) ? May there is some problem with the textures or so, it could be possible to disable them in the Graal options, then you will not see your own effects either though.

The effects themself don't give any advantage beside the graphical effect. Of course it can be a help in hide-and-seek, but it wont help in spars. Also the stealth effect makes your "blink" so it shouldn't be that hard to identify a player who is using that effect.

You can hardly see stealthing players of snow.
About that screenshot, well, I kinda found out that it might be the size of my client window, maybe the size of the client window of the player who has the effect. But it acts like it is actually made smaller, and everything not inside is cut off, not shown and so on.

Dante55555 · #6 01-22-2008, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Is that player displayed correctly (small, stealth mode) ? May there is some problem with the textures or so, it could be possible to disable them in the Graal options, then you will not see your own effects either though.

The effects themself don't give any advantage beside the graphical effect. Of course it can be a help in hide-and-seek, but it wont help in spars. Also the stealth effect makes your "blink" so it shouldn't be that hard to identify a player who is using that effect.

I don't really play any other servers besides Zone, but there's issues with it there, too. Stealth blinking doesn't have much to do with making them easier to see, considering on Iricia they blend in almost perfectly with the background. It's a nuisance even one on one (in an unofficial spar, I suppose) because your eyes keep slipping over them and the jerk gets behind you and nails you with a greenrifle or some other weapon of mass lameness x-x...

I've also gotten a lot of lag since they were uploaded, but it could just be coincidence. Is there going to be a way to disable the effects in the next client?

xAzerothx · #7 12-23-2007, 06:59 PM

I don't think they'll allow it to be disabled since people paid for it. What's the point of stealth if you can disable it and see us?

Crow · #8 12-23-2007, 07:32 PM

Fun for the people which have it turned on. I demand something to disable it, if you can stealth you can have a huge advantage over other players.

Pimmeh · #9 12-23-2007, 08:20 PM

I think that is the point of the cards

DustyPorViva · #10 12-23-2007, 08:28 PM

What's everyone talking about? A little detail, please?

xAzerothx · #11 12-23-2007, 08:35 PM

There's a card that makes you invisble which makes you harder to see and to hit if you're playing a shooting server. A card that makes you bigger and a card that makes you smaller. Which also makes you harder to hit. There's also two flashy aura cards that are just for show.

cbk1994 · #12 12-23-2007, 08:40 PM

Like any game, they make stuff that would never otherwise be allowed on a server because it is too unfair to other players, and then sell it for actual money because everyone absolutely has to have it.

Rufus · #13 12-23-2007, 08:50 PM

On Unholy Nation I was pissing everyone off in the spar room with my flashing lights, it was great. Yeah Crow, I agree.

DustyPorViva · #14 12-23-2007, 09:01 PM

One thing they should never do is add anything that could effect the gameplay of another server. They could have at least talked to the managers of the classic servers if they hadn't.

Rufus · #15 12-23-2007, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

One thing they should never do is add anything that could effect the gameplay of another server. They could have at least talked to the managers of the classic servers if they hadn't.

They work on every server by default unless they're server-specific items, hence Crow's request. I've attached a picture in UN's Town Center spar, and you can see the "Shrink" and "Ring Aura" effect. The worst is the effect which makes you invisible, and these thing can be used everywhere.