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View Poll Results: What about Autofire? | |||
Allow Autofire! | 11 | 100.00% | |
Prohibit Autofire! | 0 | 0% | |
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15 October 2008, 09:57 | #1 |
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Autofire: Prohibited or Allowed?
It's not yet specified in the rules. I admit I used autofire for X-Out and Turrican.
I don't feel that's cheating (every joystick I had had an autofire-button or -switch). But it should be definitely made clear in the rules if it's allowed or not. What do you think? Last edited by john4p; 15 October 2008 at 10:49. |
15 October 2008, 10:08 | #2 |
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Allow autofire! Some games (like X-Out) aren't really playable without it
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15 October 2008, 10:09 | #3 |
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I think it should be allowed...
btw sorry for lame question but does winuae have autofires (cannot check it right now)? playing x-out on keyboard is torture, much pain no gain. my left hand begs for relief |
15 October 2008, 10:11 | #4 |
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In Turrican it's little harder to use secondary weapon with autofire on
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15 October 2008, 10:12 | #5 |
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Yes it has. Look at the screenshot in the attachment
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15 October 2008, 10:30 | #6 | |
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/\ - single fire (=> beam) [] - autofie X - jump O - 2nd fire button (or SPACE) R1 - ALT (=> grenades in Turrican I) |
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15 October 2008, 19:25 | #7 |
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I don't use AF and X-Out on a PS2 pad bloody kills my thumb after a couple of goes
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15 October 2008, 23:39 | #8 | |
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Here's what I wrote on the equivalent Lemon thread for those too lazy to check:
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16 October 2008, 07:32 | #9 |
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Okay, let's sum it up :
Autofire is available as a power-up : Prohibited Autofire not available : Allowed What I find quite interesting is that john control layout is not allowed if I got it right |
16 October 2008, 07:51 | #10 |
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Can I just say I'm only throwing ideas about at the moment, don't take what I wrote as gospel...
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16 October 2008, 18:27 | #11 |
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16 October 2008, 19:07 | #12 | |
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Here's what I wrote on the equivalent Lemon thread:
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16 October 2008, 19:08 | #13 |
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Can someone finally give me a damn linkie to the 'equivalent Lemon thread'?
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16 October 2008, 19:25 | #14 |
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16 October 2008, 19:32 | #15 |
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Cheers john Quite interesting discussion. I think the 'auto-fire is allowed as long as there's no auto-fire upgrade' is a good way to deal with it
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17 October 2008, 11:02 | #16 |
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Although I am yet to compete in the Games, I feel moved to say that there is no way to police / marshal such a ruling.
from this I would say that autofire should be allowed, even if you believe its a form of cheating. The only thing would be to consider rules for games that could allow you to Score Farm, (i.e. sit back and blast it up to a high score without doing anything) but this comes down to another type of Game Exploitation. its a tricky road to travel, my hope is that everyone whom competes is competing for the sake of the game and not the title of high scorer at any cost. but in the spirit of the Games.... Press Fire to Play |
17 October 2008, 11:04 | #17 |
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Yep, true, same as any other rule we enforce really, we just trust that people stick by the rules we set. Without that the whole thing would fall apart.
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