A flair for flare affairs or whatever

[83457]

I assume this is a glitch, but I'm asking here if anyone knows why things work the way they do, in case I'm just being spastastic...

Solo extinction, start with a flare.

Play split screen, both start with flare.

Next game, my ss buddy starts with a flare, i don't.

Today, solo game, no flare.

Why the discrepancies? What dictates flare or no flare?

My hypothesis: solo you start with a flare, first mp (custom in this case) game glitches (due to last game being solo) and gives a flare when it should not. Next game, he still had a flare because he didn't use his during that first mp game. Since i used mine, now it won't give me one because I'm not supposed to get one in mp extinction. Then, the opposite of the first glitch; I don't get a flare solo because my last game was mp.

Now, next solo game should give me a flare and then the next mp ss game should also start with a flare.

Is my hypothesis correct? Or can someone point out the real reason that i must be missing.

If i am correct, one should be able to glitch any mp game into starting you with a flare.

There I go, encouraging cheating again. Disgusting...

(typo repair and replacement)

Edited August 20, 2014 by 83457

[83457]

Okay. It appears tied to the Tank class: if i do a solo game as tank, i get a flare. Then, switching to ss medics, we both start with a flare.

But if i do solo medic/engineer/weapons specialist, i get no flare. This is odd since tank is the most viable class solo already. I'm guessing it is there for the mp extinction, where tank pretty much sucks.

So if anyone knows about this better than I, please point it out.

Still sussing this out...

It may only work split screen...

New hypothesis: take tank class, go to custom game, have ss friend join (clone of your class), then switch to another class. This pretty much mirrors what we did originally when it happened.

Do other classes start with any bonus items? I didn't see any in my experiments.

I'm a very curious person. If any of this is too cheaty for this site, feel free to delete this thread and let me know. I won't be offended/don't mean to offend anyone.

Edited August 21, 2014 by 83457

[thedinobot]

They did a couple of upgrades to the classes. Tank starts with a Flare and Engineers are immune to traps. Don't think Medic and Weapon Specialists got any upgrades since they are already great.

[83457]

Cool, thanks. I didn't realize the engineer got trap immunity.

What i Assn trying to suss out is why/how i start the other classes with a flare, since i keep doing it by accident somehow.

So, i play tank. Then SOMETIMES the next class that i play, after playing tank, starts with a flare. It even does it to my buddy and I; after playing tank solo, he comes by and we play split screen medics, but we start with flares (again, just sometimes).

That is what I'm trying to figure out.

[thedinobot]

Cool, thanks. I didn't realize the engineer got trap immunity.

What i Assn trying to suss out is why/how i start the other classes with a flare, since i keep doing it by accident somehow.

So, i play tank. Then SOMETIMES the next class that i play, after playing tank, starts with a flare. It even does it to my buddy and I; after playing tank solo, he comes by and we play split screen medics, but we start with flares (again, just sometimes).

That is what I'm trying to figure out.

 

Oh, then it might just be a glitch. Interesting.

[83457]

I don't think that it is intentional. Just curious as to what triggers it. I usually play solo or split screen and we get more flares than we use anyway...

[83457]

I've noticed a few things that bleed over.

One day i was messing around with casual. Then my split screen buddy came by and we did a regular difficulty run, but the scorpions only shot one glob at a time and we found ourselves often standing around doing not much on the last few hives. After the game, we got regular-difficulty teeth and i checked the setting and it was on regular. But clearly it was too easy.

Off topic: i did a 9 relic casual and it was still easy; i was downed once on the last hive because i got careless and 3 scorpions shot me at once as i was battling Hunters. To be fair, i had hybrid medic-tank (and clearly no mortal relic).

More off topic: I just got csa for 500 teeth.

[thedinobot]

I've noticed a few things that bleed over.

One day i was messing around with casual. Then my split screen buddy came by and we did a regular difficulty run, but the scorpions only shot one glob at a time and we found ourselves often standing around doing not much on the last few hives. After the game, we got regular-difficulty teeth and i checked the setting and it was on regular. But clearly it was too easy.

 

 

Well maybe you're just too good for regular difficulty now lol. Also, I am finally starting to play again! Haven't played in a little over a month now so we'll see how it goes.. 

[83457]

I've noticed a few things that bleed over.

One day i was messing around with casual. Then my split screen buddy came by and we did a regular difficulty run, but the scorpions only shot one glob at a time and we found ourselves often standing around doing not much on the last few hives. After the game, we got regular-difficulty teeth and i checked the setting and it was on regular. But clearly it was too easy.

 

Well maybe you're just too good for regular difficulty now lol. Also, I am finally starting to play again! Haven't played in a little over a month now so we'll see how it goes..

Well, the next game was back to what i call normal.

But now, after so much hc, regular is so easy; I'm always like 'wow, look at all of the skill points!'.

I've done 6 relic solo on poc, but one of my 5 relic runs gave more points.