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Offline Ronin RedFox

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Cheating is fun!!
« on: June 03, 2009, 05:51:22 PM »


Cheating in basewars is awesome! This is a Picture of those heavy missle turrets attacking a warship!  :P
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2009, 05:52:51 PM »
Do this yourself with...                         (Place it in your main d3 directory)

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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 05:28:12 AM »
Oh, but there's no fun cheating in Basewars...no challenge, and it's too easy...

...tho it would be faster to get those Doom Vultures through cheating...:P
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2009, 06:15:36 AM »
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Oh, but there's no fun cheating in Basewars...no challenge, and it's too easy...

I thought that was kindof the point of cheating.  :P

Except maybe if you're turning on the super-speed mode on D1. I, for one, believe you should be given more points for using it rather than be called a cheater and have all your points deducted.  ;)
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2009, 07:31:53 AM »
Yea, its more fun that way. I would consider "Astral" a cheat though.  :P
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2009, 07:36:07 AM »
I don't remember that one. What's astral?  ???
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2009, 07:45:43 AM »
You can fly through walls/doors.
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2009, 07:49:03 AM »
O. Right. That would kind of rule out the primary gameplay mechanic on which Descent operates.
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2009, 02:24:04 PM »
Cheating is pointless, takes all the fun out of the game. NOT fun. The only exception might be during level development, to get more quickly to areas you are working on.
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2009, 06:14:52 PM »
I cheat only after i finish the game. And i only look at walkthroughs from websites if im strugling on some thing for days.
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2009, 07:02:50 PM »
There are times when you desire to strive for greatness, to nobly overcome adversity and honorably achieve lofty goals. Then there are those other times you just want to blow $#1T up. “GABBAGABBAHEY”!  ;D
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2009, 05:30:02 PM »
I don't consider a walkthrough cheating, it's more like a hint. But I agree, only after a lot of trying without a hint.
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2009, 07:14:02 PM »
Walkthroughs are good really only when you've lost all hope (very easy to do in many Nintendo action-adventure games).

But I remember playing through Zelda: Majora's Mask the day it came out step-by-step with the Nintendo Power Player's Guide That was when I was 12. I began playing through it about a year ago again without that and had so much more fun with it... I remembered very, very few puzzles in it, so the game forced me to think really hard about stuff. Then I got stuck at that dungeon that you can flip upside down and right side up and haven't touched it since.  :P
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2009, 08:00:10 AM »
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The only exception might be during level development, to get more quickly to areas you are working on.

That's how "cheats" came about, you know. Little secret codes the game's developers used to quickly get through parts of a game to get to the parts you're experimenting or testing with. Originally, rather than taking the time to get rid of them when they're done developing, they left them in. When players started finding these codes, however, it rapidly became a tradition to include "cheats" for every game, whether or not they were actually "needed".
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Re: Cheating is fun!!
« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2009, 09:47:57 AM »
Some games simply do not have cheats. They are replaced by.. "THE DEVELOPERS CONSOLE!!" Thats really fun, if you know all the functions of the game, you can do really cool stuff.  :P
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