Stockpiling
- Thread starter Braiken
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I support the stockpiling of weapons as long as you bought them.
I play with a group of people who purposely suicide multiple times as a sharpshooter between every wave so they can sell the crossbows for extra cash. This feels like an exploit to me.
I'd be down for getting rid of the last part, but if you buy the weapons I think that is fine.
The selling crossbows exploit could presumably be fixed pretty easily by making weapons dropped during trader time disappear (or simply disabling grenade throwing during trader time would probably be simpler).
But buying weapons legitimately and stockpiling them I don't have an issue with, in fact aside from the odd firebug I rarely see people do it to be honest (I guess that's partkly because I play on public servers where oblivious late joiners always pick them up and sell them).
But buying weapons legitimately and stockpiling them I don't have an issue with, in fact aside from the odd firebug I rarely see people do it to be honest (I guess that's partkly because I play on public servers where oblivious late joiners always pick them up and sell them).
Not to rain on your parade but I'd just like to point out that this doesn't account for fall damage, friendly fire, the "suicide" command, walking into fire, something like the "carwash" on that garage map... etc. You'd need A LOT of effort to actually prevent people from killing themselves.
In addition, you don't need to "drop" a weapon to spawnsell. On a map like biotics lab, you can easily already be waiting at the trader, sell your weapon as soon as the trader opens, run back to spawn, drop your cash, suicide, pick up your cash, then run back to the trader and go about your business. There's always at least 1 trader per map where you can do this without needing to drop any weapons (for example the church trader on london).
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There are many reasons a player would do this.
1. A new player could join and not have enough time to make it to the trader. If this happens, then he could use one of these weapons.
2. Members of the squad could die, rage quit/quit/loose connection, meaning the remainder of the team might need more ammo.
3. The Medic could use one of them if needed.
4. The team could get killed, leaving one or two to attempt to solo.
Better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.
1. A new player could join and not have enough time to make it to the trader. If this happens, then he could use one of these weapons.
2. Members of the squad could die, rage quit/quit/loose connection, meaning the remainder of the team might need more ammo.
3. The Medic could use one of them if needed.
4. The team could get killed, leaving one or two to attempt to solo.
Better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.
I don't think it is cheating or an exploit, but it isn't really needed. If someone wants to, that is fine. I have 1300 hours in this game, and I rarely bought a spare. Usually when I did, I didn't need it anyways. Even if your main weapon runs dry, you still have a 9mm. Though not the best weapon, you can kill a lot of enemies with 15 mags, even on HoE unperked. Clots, stalkers, and crawlers can be killed with a secondary knife hit.
I never did the spawn suicide thing either.
I never did the spawn suicide thing either.
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Call me a scrub, but what is the advantage of stockpiling? It surely doesn't last more than a wave, the weapons would disappear at the start of the next one. Is it to have access to more ammo than you can carry?
As for the cheating bit, this seems like a conflict of terminology. If it's part of the game and intended by developers, then it's completely legit. If it's part of the game but not intended by devs, it's an exploit. If it's not part of the game (modified code, etc), and not part of a mod or mutator, then it's cheating.
As for the cheating bit, this seems like a conflict of terminology. If it's part of the game and intended by developers, then it's completely legit. If it's part of the game but not intended by devs, it's an exploit. If it's not part of the game (modified code, etc), and not part of a mod or mutator, then it's cheating.
Its for the extra ammo. For instance if you are support and you buy an aa12, drop it, and buy another, you can use one, exhaust the ammo, and pick up the other and have it with full ammo to continue your zed killing.
If I recall correctly, weapons used to stay around for a while a few patches ago. So you could essentially buy limitless guns and just set them in a camp spot and never leave for ammo. It was useful doing long games (Faked player solos) with this trick but I don't think the guns stay around anymore. I haven't seen stockpiling in quite a while.
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There isn't. Last year or so for an update, the devs removed any spare weapons on the deck. Problem solved.
It was never a "problem" beyond being a memory issue. Unfortunately that made it significant.
Actually guys there was. Everyone was stock piling so many guns that no one had ran out of ammo. Imagen a demo or sharpshooter with unlimited ammo on a tier 3 weapon. It was severely boring and made the game so much easier.
I see you you didn't read any previous posts of mine or noticed the dates. I was always against stockpiling and considered it cheating. Someone necroed this thread from well over two years ago when stockpiling was possible.
yeah now that you mention it, I do remember you was agreeing with my idea. I don't see why I should go back and read it all to double check your opinion cause of the necro. My bad.
