Pyro Flare Glitch *READ*

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Well, we would know if it were by accident. Someone attempting to do it a second time wouldn't necessarily be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I have also seen this happen in Warpath as well. Didn't catch them, but I'll watch out.
 
i'm surprised valve let the weapon act this way. very easy to have a timer so that the flare "expires" after 60 seconds.. very strange indeed.



~D
 
This has happened to me before, a very long time ago. I'm not sure how I did it though.
 
Dragonhill said:
i'm surprised valve let the weapon act this way. very easy to have a timer so that the flare "expires" after 60 seconds.. very strange indeed.



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You can get pipe bombs stuck in gates and such. But of course those blow up after a certain amount of time. I guess flares only explode on contact and not over time.
 
So like, I found this post on a thread about griefing on the SA forums:

I agree that flaring to lag out a server is dull. However, I've been doing a spin on this: flaring and baiting admins to permaban other people. I think goons will agree that this takes a certain amount of diplomacy and duplicity and is better than flaring 10000 times to kill a server.

My server of choice for this has an enormous clan population. I went to their website and they probably have about 40 admins and hundreds of members. It's big enough that clan members won't know all the admins, let alone all the members. I adopt the name of one of the admins and go about my business. Taking the name instantly has its perks, as medics will go out of their way to heal me. But I have a greater motive.

I secretly flare about 6-7 times being very careful to make sure that nobody spots me. This server is full of a bunch of tattletale regulars so 6 flares will be enough to attract their attention and make them notify a mod or admin. The admin warns that the next person seen flaring will be permabanned and frequently goes into spectate mode to keep a watch on everybody. Twice I didn't have to do anything more and the admin banned two pyros shooting flares at snipers in 2fort (which is stupid but not taking advatange of a glitch in anyway). I got two other people permabanned by calling them out to an admin (myself disguised as one of the clan admins).

I checked their forum yesterday and there was a thread about the flaring glitch. One of the admins posted that he unfortunately had to permaban one of their own clan members because he was caught flaring. I won't give away the server because it'll ruin everything, but this kind of trick can probably be fairly easily replicated. We can even goon rush a server, have one person disguised as an admin, multiple people disguised as "regular witnesses" who will confirm that an unlucky pubbie pyro was flaring, and get him banned.
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So... yeah.

Edit: link to thread

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2886637&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=20

p. sure they're talking about e specifically too.
 
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Because you guys are bumping this so often, how about sticky it?

Personally, Valve made a mistake with the gun altogether. But that's just my opinion.

With people with ideas that were expressed in the above post, we really have to keep an eye out.
 
bballer21 said:
one question...y would u even want to do that on purpose...lol. its pointless, and just makes the game lag. ahhaha.
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Why would anyone want to do most things that they get banned for? Its just people wanting to be a pain.
 
TF2 just got an update.

- Fixed flares not always being removed on impact

Hopefully that will help.
 
I let out a whoop of joy when I saw the TF2 update news saying it was fixed.
 
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