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Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« on: June 21, 2010, 06:49:25 PM »
A Material Defender's daily job requires entry to reactor areas. Flare fever is a common side effect, resulting after exposing to high radiation and... Flares!



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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2010, 05:45:30 AM »
I had a flare battle with S13DriftAZ a couple days ago...

His flares ended up igniting my fuel leak...

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2010, 05:57:46 AM »
I've managed to hit myself with flares too :P Or ram into a flare on a wall ahrd enough that it transferred to my ship D:

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2010, 07:17:07 AM »
It's really easy to flare yourself. Just flare the wall and slide around touching the flare until it sticks.
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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2010, 07:36:08 AM »
lol... Nice pic! I did not know you could pick up a flare from a wall.
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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2010, 08:27:10 AM »
Flare-catching (shooting a flare down a hallway and flying past it so it hits you) is actually a pretty good way to practice tri-chording + ab-pulsing.  If you can do it in a Phoenix, you're getting there.  If you can do it in a Pyro-GL, you're pretty fast.  [I'm not sure if it's possible in a Magnum-AHT.]

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2010, 09:03:04 AM »
This reminds me of a netgame me, Techpro, and I believe Foil (dunno if he remembers) did once during which all combat deevolved into shooting each other with flares.

Even though we really weren't doing that much damage to each other, it was still pretty fun. :)
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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2010, 09:04:43 AM »
It's really easy to flare yourself. Just flare the wall and slide around touching the flare until it sticks.

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2010, 05:50:40 AM »
I get a lot of stick for throwing flares around in Veins trying to get that extra 1 shield.  ;D
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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2010, 06:49:05 AM »
I miss the days when flares traveled as fast as your lasers :P

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2010, 07:10:08 AM »
I miss the days when flares traveled as fast as your lasers :P
But the slowness of them makes it easy to lay down a wall of them :)

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2010, 02:19:25 PM »
This reminds me of a netgame me, Techpro, and I believe Foil (dunno if he remembers) did once during which all combat deevolved into shooting each other with flares.

Even though we really weren't doing that much damage to each other, it was still pretty fun. :)

I definitely remember.

As I recall, you and I ended up ganging up on TechPro in the flare-fight... I don't remember who got the kill shot, though.  :P

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2010, 04:39:32 PM »
I love the death message for flares...

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2010, 06:49:03 PM »
I love the death message for flares...
I've never seen it   :'(

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Re: Flare Fever: common disease among veteran MD's...
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2010, 06:58:42 PM »
You probably wouldn't have...  you practically need a flare war.

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