Ok, the last one disintegrated into a shotgun vs. all debate but before it did Fragged mentioned how players stick halfway through the ground.

Isn't that called landsharking (aka "the ladder bug") and considered a cheat by leagues and most public server admins?

I remember a couple of guys doing that on a public server (one of thge BaH ones I think), pretty soon they were blasted with "gayass cheater", "go f*** yourself", etc. and were promptly booted when the admin showed up biggrin:

[Johnj]

Lots of sharking going on. I alwas try to kill the sharks. If I catch one on my server it's bant for them. All cheaters need to DIE.

[Zoner]

Play on respectable servers and you won't see it at all. If you do, they don't last long before they get the boot.

[KTOG]

The shotty walk is when you jump up in the air fire you shotgun, but hold down the fire button. Your body gets stuck in a funny pose. Its not really a cheat, you just ended up walking around looking like a dinosaur.

Originally Posted by KTOG

The shotty walk is when you jump up in the air fire you shotgun, but hold down the fire button. Your body gets stuck in a funny pose. Its not really a cheat, you just ended up walking around looking like a dinosaur.

oh you mean when they run around frozen all statue like?

I always thought that was lag/video problem related, not another stupid bug EA failed to patch oOo:

[YourFragged]

yah its funny as heck.. and i thinkt ehre is a server patch, b/c you cant do it on all servers..

while we are on the subject of stupid but funny bugs:
do you guys think the devs put those in on purpose for people to discover or are they really random glitches caused by messy code?

[pest]

^^Bad code.

Landsharking is easily fixed with a server side map fixes. Basically, with out giving away too much of how to landshark, it makes it so you die if you try to climb a ladder using the "use" key. Takes a coule of deaths to get used to, but stops the nonsense.

[Pvt Flagg]

2 ways to fix landsharking..

1 ..the moh admin mod pack (called mam script)

2 a anti-landshark fix..it marks off the out of bounds areas..and if someone gets in them ..it kills them and boots them ..

the one i use puts up a mesage that says ..

"hi i tried to get somewhere i dident belong"

then it kills them ..and kicks them ..

also hammers goodies ..puts objects over most of the map holes ..and it helps allot

Flagg

[Ralph Wilson]

Can you make a patch were people can still climb ladders. I sometimes need to climb a ladder, say, in The Hunt for example and I die. No intention of sharking, but I wanted to get to higher ground.

This specific case could be viewed by some to be cheating server side. Denying you the ability to get to an honest spot... There has to be another way to stop it.

[Pvt Flagg]

yeah the MAM script is the one that offs you if you hit E at a ladder..

but you can turn the ladder/mg-42 fix part of it off

or scip mam and run hammers goodies and black bart ..or mpsh anti-landshark fix


Flagg

[pest]

Yep, like flagg said, you can still climb ladders, just dont hit the "e" key to do it.

[Johnj]

Why would anybody press the "E" key to climb a ladder? I always walk up to them and look up while walking, and up the ladder I go.

[pest]

Originally Posted by Johnj

Why would anybody press the "E" key to climb a ladder? I always walk up to them and look up while walking, and up the ladder I go.

Habit, I guess. It seemed to speed up the process if you didnt line up with the ladder perfectly the first time. I dont use it anymore.

[YourFragged]

i run up to ladders jump and hit e..

i dont know why people get so worked up about land sharking.. its pretty funny to do actually biggrin: