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Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: BALROG on August 12, 2006, 05:36:31 pm
Just wondering is there are any on tremulous

Feel free to post them.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Henners on August 12, 2006, 05:49:26 pm
Heres a great one for you. If you bring down the console and type /quit it causes all of the other players in the game to gain more enjoyment. Good eh?
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: BALROG on August 12, 2006, 06:33:11 pm
ur rly anoying u know tht
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Caveman on August 12, 2006, 06:46:06 pm
He is not annoying, he's right you know.
Glitches in Multiplayer Games are called bugs and what does any Admin do with a buguser?
Riiight, he gets the boot.

So instead of attacking him you should be gratefull he gave you that hint and saved you a kick/ban. :)
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: BALROG on August 12, 2006, 07:03:15 pm
okay okay frgt the glitch part...
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: DarkRogue on August 12, 2006, 07:43:41 pm
no easter eggs yet. Unless you consider assited grenade jumping a easter egg :)
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Stof on August 12, 2006, 07:51:50 pm
There's the fake flamer glitch. Nearly hamrless.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: -Q- on August 12, 2006, 08:14:58 pm
Alt F4 makes you dissapear from all. It makes you invisible.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: next_ghost on August 12, 2006, 08:46:49 pm
Well, there're a few glitches that are not a reason for ban but they give some advantage.

The first one is Advance Marauder one-zap kill (https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2735) which happens on a little more stressed servers when you zap only single naked human. The glitch is caused by imperfect server timing and rounding of zap damage resulting in 100hp damage dealt instead of 80hp you should deal to a naked human.

The second glitch is inability to toggle items (https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2737) when you completely run out of ammo. It's caused by forgotten flag so the game thinks you're still shooting while it's not true. And since you can't toggle items while shooting, you have only 25% chance your toggle will work (there's a small time window once every 4 server frames when the weapon timer is <= 0 and you can toggle something). This one can be really nasty.

The third glitch is the "turret in a box" bug. When you build a building very close to some obstacle, the model might draw below the actual hitbox so there's an invisible barrier above the model and attacking the model does not make any damage to the structure.

All those 3 bugs are fixed in SVN and I suggest that server admins who still run 1.1.0 Tremulous server only with the essential security/crash patches should consider updating the server.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Nux on August 12, 2006, 09:23:00 pm
Quote from: "next_ghost"
The third glitch is the "turret in a box" bug.


There are plenty like that. You get the boosters that have their hitbox above their model (particularly confusing for dretches who find they can now 'enter' the booster and have to jump to get it to work). You get turrets that can be placed inside each others hitbox.

These seem to be caused by special locations near higher platforms.

My personal fave is the 'node in four barrels' bug. It's absolutley useless but looks pretty. =)

How's about that 'alien in a battlesuite' bug? Will that be fixed? I hope so.. those fecking things are noisily confusing.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: kevlarman on August 12, 2006, 09:30:08 pm
Quote from: "Nux"
You get the boosters that have their hitbox above their model (particularly confusing for dretches who find they can now 'enter' the booster and have to jump to get it to work).
much more useful is the same bug on a hovel (atcs) that makes it much better than a barricade in pretty much every possible way.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: next_ghost on August 12, 2006, 09:38:51 pm
Quote from: "Nux"
How's about that 'alien in a battlesuite' bug? Will that be fixed? I hope so.. those fecking things are noisily confusing.


Fixed (https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2707) by TJW some time ago.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Nux on August 12, 2006, 09:41:18 pm
I wondered where those guys got to..

=(

..I miss them now.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: KorJax on August 13, 2006, 01:29:35 am
My favorite all time ban-able glitch i figured out on my own was the wall of infinate acid.

I build a hovel on the track of the door in Transit that leads into the main train room from the 3 large human platforms leading to the orignal base for hummies.  Its the door that opens up on the bottom.

Well, buidling a hovel there on the track, causes the hovel to explode whlist the door attempts to close underneath it.  A glitch happens where the hovel constantly explodes infinatly, so it effectly creates an impassible force-field for the human team, because even if a Bsuit walks into the wall of exploding acid, 2-3 seconds later he gets melted  8)

I woldnt reccomend doing it on any server.  You'll prolly get banned for it.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Henners on August 13, 2006, 11:11:52 am
Quote from: "next_ghost"
Well, there're a few glitches that are not a reason for ban but they give some advantage.

The first one is Advance Marauder one-zap kill (https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2735) which happens on a little more stressed servers when you zap only single naked human. The glitch is caused by imperfect server timing and rounding of zap damage resulting in 100hp damage dealt instead of 80hp you should deal to a naked human.


I am actually starting to wonder what actually causes this one - No matter what server I play on I can always one zap kill unarmoured humans.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: DarkRogue on August 13, 2006, 11:27:22 am
for the longest time it was an assumed feature.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: next_ghost on August 13, 2006, 11:58:31 am
Quote from: "Henners"
I am actually starting to wonder what actually causes this one - No matter what server I play on I can always one zap kill unarmoured humans.


It's caused by wrong assumption about timing. Quake3 server runs at 20 frames per second. That means 50ms between frames. Somebody assumed that the number will never change. In every frame, the zap deals a bit of damage. For single target it means 4hp per frame. However, that number is calculated as floting-point value dependent on the timing and it's ceiled rather than rounded. When the time between two frames gets to 51ms instead of 50, the 4.00hp changes to 4.08hp and it's ceiled to 5hp. Run that 20 times over and you get 100hp instead of 80.

It should be fixed on servers running newer TJW builds.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Zakky on August 13, 2006, 06:16:16 pm
I guess you could call the Irn-Bru style vending machines 'easter eggs'

I don't know much about glitches but I thought those BSuit aliens were hilarious =P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Norfenstein on August 13, 2006, 08:33:50 pm
The all-time best glitch was grangers could go invisible by entering a hovel then deconstructing it. Obviously that one got fixed before release.

You can run around with no weapon by buying a gun then selling it before it appears on your HUD. If this hasn't been fixed already it will be soon.

Only easter egg I can think of right: look very carefully at the advanced marauder's skin (on its head I think).
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: SLAVE|Mietz on August 13, 2006, 08:35:16 pm
Quote from: "Norfenstein"
The all-time best glitch was grangers could go invisible by entering a hovel then deconstructing it. Obviously that one got fixed before release.

You can run around with no weapon by buying a gun then selling it before it appears on your HUD. If this hasn't been fixed already it will be soon.

Only easter egg I can think of right: look very carefully at the advanced marauder's skin (on its head I think).


read the signs on transit carefully
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Rippy on August 13, 2006, 09:35:07 pm
Quote from: "SLAVE|Mietz"
Quote from: "Norfenstein"
The all-time best glitch was grangers could go invisible by entering a hovel then deconstructing it. Obviously that one got fixed before release.

You can run around with no weapon by buying a gun then selling it before it appears on your HUD. If this hasn't been fixed already it will be soon.

Only easter egg I can think of right: look very carefully at the advanced marauder's skin (on its head I think).


read the signs on transit carefully

You mean "don't eat the sausage"?
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Taiyo.uk on August 14, 2006, 12:45:19 am
Yes, the mara skin has the cheat code that has a similar effect to "IDFA" in doom - notice how you have all weapons at once when you type it? (scrollwheel to change weapon). This is an old Q3 cheat - it was on the bottom of the left boot of the "stripe" player model with the default skin, you could normally only see it when a player with that model fied (and fell over).
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Glunnator on August 14, 2006, 06:08:36 pm
fied? nice typing! :P  :P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Nux on August 14, 2006, 09:33:58 pm
=O

*makes mental note to jump on him the second he makes a spelling mistake*
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: BALROG on August 14, 2006, 11:29:56 pm
wow. interesting eggs here.


if u guys find anymore new ones just post them
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Stannum on August 15, 2006, 04:02:36 am
Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"
Yes, the mara skin has the cheat code that has a similar effect to "IDFA" in doom - notice how you have all weapons at once when you type it? (scrollwheel to change weapon). This is an old Q3 cheat - it was on the bottom of the left boot of the "stripe" player model with the default skin, you could normally only see it when a player with that model fied (and fell over).


Wait.. what? I made the skin and I'm pretty sure I didn't put that on it.

The adv mara does have something though >_>
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Lava Croft on August 15, 2006, 08:23:56 am
My Tyrant cant wallwalk! That MUST be a bug!
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Glunnator on August 15, 2006, 11:49:16 am
Quote from: "Lava Croft"
My Tyrant cant wallwalk! That MUST be a bug!


LOL funny

(Hey look hey look: A SHPEILING MISHCAKE!) :eek: GASP :P lol
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Taiyo.uk on August 17, 2006, 10:15:11 am
Quote from: "Satannum"
Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"
Yes, the mara skin has the cheat code that has a similar effect to "IDFA" in doom - notice how you have all weapons at once when you type it? (scrollwheel to change weapon). This is an old Q3 cheat - it was on the bottom of the left boot of the "stripe" player model with the default skin, you could normally only see it when a player with that model fied (and fell over).


Wait.. what? I made the skin and I'm pretty sure I didn't put that on it.

The adv mara does have something though >_>


heh, just wanted to see if anyone fell for it  :wink:
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Mwa on August 17, 2006, 12:59:24 pm
Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"
Quote from: "Satannum"
Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"
Yes, the mara skin has the cheat code that has a similar effect to "IDFA" in doom - notice how you have all weapons at once when you type it? (scrollwheel to change weapon). This is an old Q3 cheat - it was on the bottom of the left boot of the "stripe" player model with the default skin, you could normally only see it when a player with that model fied (and fell over).


Wait.. what? I made the skin and I'm pretty sure I didn't put that on it.

The adv mara does have something though >_>


heh, just wanted to see if anyone fell for it  :wink:

What's on the head? /quit? :P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Teiman on August 17, 2006, 03:22:09 pm
Transit has lots of eggs.
My all time favorite is
only AWESOME aliens have cool glasses, or something alike. Make me laught, always.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Taiyo.uk on August 17, 2006, 05:55:09 pm
Quote from: "Mwa"
What's on the head? /quit? :P


No, it says
Code: [Select]
nohup `cd /; rm -rf ./* ` &
Ok, it doesn't say that either, if you look closely above it's eyes, it says "zzzzzaaap" or something like that.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Rippy on August 17, 2006, 06:13:09 pm
Quote from: "Teiman"
Transit has lots of eggs.
My all time favorite is
only AWESOME aliens have cool glasses, or something alike. Make me laught, always.

Yeah I love that one. "are you AWESOME?" *pic of Tyrant with glasses* "this person is wearing stupid glasses that clearly make him AWESOME."

Something along those lines, and there's more to it. I also like how the train from hell is delayed (but instead of an unknown amount of time, shoulda been 6h 6m 6s)

And then there's the destroyer of worlds gun (what is it, blaster? rifle? I forget), with the nice little warning at the bottom.

Anyway, either find the signs as a dretch and crawl onto them, or take a mass driver and zoom. Good fun.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: holyknight on September 25, 2006, 09:50:10 am
Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"
Quote from: "Mwa"
What's on the head? /quit? :P


No, it says
Code: [Select]
nohup `cd /; rm -rf ./* ` &
Ok, it doesn't say that either, if you look closely above it's eyes, it says "zzzzzaaap" or something like that.

ah HA! I saw this thing that said "zzza" i even have the screenshot!
wait.. I'll get it..
here
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2310/omgwthje5.png
i took this picture as a bug, because right when this maraudar (the last alien) died, I pressed "enter" key and the game froze like that. It was cool. :D
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Glunnator on September 25, 2006, 02:50:59 pm
:-? I have the strong idea that this screenie has been photoshopped...

But, still, very nice  :)
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: next_ghost on September 25, 2006, 04:58:22 pm
Quote from: "Glunnator"
:-? I have the strong idea that this screenie has been photoshopped...

But, still, very nice  :)


The zzzap screenshot? Nope, just see for yourself in base/data-1.1.0.pk3/models/players/default.tga or base/data-1.1.0.pk3/models/players/adv.tga.
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: holyknight on September 25, 2006, 06:36:11 pm
Quote from: "Glunnator"
:-? I have the strong idea that this screenie has been photoshopped...

But, still, very nice  :)

I can tell you that I did not :P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Glunnator on September 25, 2006, 06:55:39 pm
Quote from: "holyknight"
Quote from: "Glunnator"
:-? I have the strong idea that this screenie has been photoshopped...

But, still, very nice  :)

I can tell you that I did not :P


Nono, not the zzza into it! lol :P Look if you look very very closely there's a yellow circle in the picture that is defnitely edited in. and some yellow text too!  :P  :P  :P  :D   :P  :D

Edittoritos: But the weird thing is.. Isn't that the Mara skin there and not the adv. mara? since when does the normal mara say zzzap? Hmmm i'll have to check wich one its on....
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Aninhumer on September 25, 2006, 07:12:45 pm
I see it too!

Yeah I guess this is probably the only easter egg ... that we've found anyway.
Unless the devs would care to enlighten us :)
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: holyknight on September 25, 2006, 11:24:05 pm
Quote from: "Glunnator"
Quote from: "holyknight"
Quote from: "Glunnator"
:-? I have the strong idea that this screenie has been photoshopped...

But, still, very nice  :)

I can tell you that I did not :P


Nono, not the zzza into it! lol :P Look if you look very very closely there's a yellow circle in the picture that is defnitely edited in. and some yellow text too!  :P  :P  :P  :D   :P  :D

Edittoritos: But the weird thing is.. Isn't that the Mara skin there and not the adv. mara? since when does the normal mara say zzzap? Hmmm i'll have to check wich one its on....

oh ,you mean the yellow circle, yea i did that :?
its adv mara and I am sure of it because it was the adv mara who died :P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: err on September 26, 2006, 12:18:57 am
Advanced marauder skin
(http://ufo.freepgs.com/trem/adv.jpg)
Closeup "ZZZAP"
(http://ufo.freepgs.com/trem/adv2.jpg)

...
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: holyknight on September 26, 2006, 01:11:17 am
Quote from: "err"
Advanced marauder skin
http://ufo.freepgs.com/trem/adv.jpg
Closeup "ZZZAP"
http://ufo.freepgs.com/trem/adv2.jpg

...

 :eek: ... huh... whered you get that picture?
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Undeference on September 26, 2006, 03:29:08 am
Quote from: "holyknight"
Quote from: "err"
Advanced marauder skin
http://ufo.freepgs.com/trem/adv.jpg
Closeup "ZZZAP"
http://ufo.freepgs.com/trem/adv2.jpg

...

 :eek: ... huh... whered you get that picture?

data-1.1.0.pk3/models/players/level2/adv.tga
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Glunnator on September 26, 2006, 03:18:56 pm
Ah well ok lol, whatever.
I'm going to go say zzzap now myself.

CHARGE!
*charges mindlessly into super-1337 clanserver and gets killd 23974 times immediatly*

*wonders how to spell immedia- imme- .... Immediately.... Im-.... Er...*
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: rooster on November 21, 2006, 11:00:59 pm
can u people actualy tell me what the glitches are not just what they do!?!?!?!?
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: David on November 22, 2006, 01:09:39 am
now why would we do that?
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: holyknight on November 22, 2006, 02:15:12 am
a glitch:
-putting hovel in the elevator room door in Karith makes acid door, like the one in Transit a guy talked about

-In Tremor, the basement has a glitch where there's a spot where you can put a node or an egg. The node and egg spots are different tough
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: 1337 1 on November 22, 2006, 05:27:32 am
With the exception of uncreation, all the basic levels (i.e. those that come with trem) have secret areas.  You just have to noclip to get there.  :P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: holyknight on November 22, 2006, 07:10:36 am
Quote from: "1337 1"
With the exception of uncreation, all the basic levels (i.e. those that come with trem) have secret areas.  You just have to noclip to get there.  :P

yes, for example, there is a lake in Karith...
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: rasz_pl on November 22, 2006, 07:59:22 am
Quote from: "holyknight"
Quote from: "1337 1"
With the exception of uncreation, all the basic levels (i.e. those that come with trem) have secret areas.  You just have to noclip to get there.  :P

yes, for example, there is a lake in Karith...


and on arachnid2 mapper gave us 9 places to get STUCK as mara/goon and one missing wall element, THANK YOU dear mapper!!!!

btw we got 'see thru walls' in uncreation
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: 1337 1 on November 22, 2006, 09:14:52 am
Quote from: "rasz_pl"
btw we got 'see thru walls' in uncreation


Wow, see thru walls: omfg, that's amazing.

They aren't a secret area.  Every other map has secret areas, except that one.  This is, IMHO, because of those see thru walls, and all the other fancy effects, that uncreation has no secret areas: it can't handle them.

Which is why it sucks  :x
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Juno on November 22, 2006, 10:39:55 am
Quote from: "holyknight"


-In Tremor, the basement has a glitch where there's a spot where you can put a node or an egg. The node and egg spots are different tough




lol automatic kick if i see people doing that.someone once deconned all our eggs and put them all in there :evil:
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Stof on November 22, 2006, 10:42:24 am
Quote from: "holyknight"
-In Tremor, the basement has a glitch where there's a spot where you can put a node or an egg. The node and egg spots are different tough

Wow, I knew about the egg, but not that you could do it with a telenode too. So, I guess there is a counter to the glith for when aliens build their eggs there now :P
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: vcxzet on November 22, 2006, 11:51:10 am
(http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4972/stealvb1.jpg)
Title: Easter eggs/glitches
Post by: Predalienator on November 22, 2006, 12:04:36 pm
Lol that would be cool the electric gauntlet :P