Something Strange Happened

[funnystuffpictures]

posted on June 26th, 2009, 5:58 pm

Last edited by funnystuffpictures on June 27th, 2009, 3:08 am, edited 1 time in total.

Earlier today I was playing a 2vs2 game. I was feds any my ally was Klingon. While we were attacking I saw enemy ships coming and wrote to my ally these exact words, "cloak." And All the sudden I heared cheater and the numbers
0
0
0
0
0
0

What does that mean?

posted on June 26th, 2009, 6:02 pm

maybe it is some kind of cheat code, that isn't compatible with fo.

posted on June 26th, 2009, 6:08 pm

Never seen that before, can you replicate the action?

posted on June 26th, 2009, 6:13 pm

I just typed cloak into a 3.0.7 game and it did indeed recognise it as a cheat. Not sure what it does though. My guess is that it has something to do with mining.

posted on June 26th, 2009, 6:14 pm

hmm, I wonder if the mods know what it does?

posted on June 26th, 2009, 6:27 pm

One time I did that and every unit became phased cloaked but could still fire weapons. 

posted on June 26th, 2009, 8:47 pm

Only one I know is kobayashimaru. Why did they program in cheats?

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on June 26th, 2009, 10:18 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on June 26th, 2009, 10:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Most RTS games have cheats... "cloak" is not one of the listed ones for the original A2 however... odd.

Edit: strange....most of the other cheats work.. but cloak ain't doing nothing for me
Edit again: I found out that if you have ships selected, the more ships the more zeroes appear... 1 per ship 

posted on June 27th, 2009, 12:10 pm

yes, it's a cheat and it shouldn't work in multiplayer games. that's a fault on my side. however as it is just an awesome developer cheat, it doesn't do anything that would help you as player and is really nothing that would make multiplayer games exploitable in any way. all it does is to show awesome numbers thanks for reporting, i will move that out of the way for the next patch

posted on June 27th, 2009, 2:08 pm

Ok. Thanks. Anyother cheats while I'm at it? 

posted on June 27th, 2009, 2:09 pm

Does that mean it's being removed? It looks like it could be amusing.

posted on June 27th, 2009, 3:21 pm

one "cheat" that even works in multiplayer is 'cine'. (though i do not recommend to use it in multiplayer games) it disables your interface (including cursor!) which is quite useful if you want to take a fraps video without the interface in the way. to get the interface back you have to activate the chat with the enter key and 'cine' blindly again (as you have no chat input too)
'fps' - shows frames per seconds and other stuff, type again to disable
'version' - shows the fleet operations version

there are a few singleplayer ones, the only real cheat is 'levelup' which instantly promotes a vessel to the next rank.
everything else is more or less useless developer stuff.
oh, i nearly forgot about 'crash' but please don't send me a report after testing this one

posted on June 27th, 2009, 3:27 pm

Very nice Doca 

posted on June 27th, 2009, 6:50 pm

cool. Thanks

posted on June 27th, 2009, 7:58 pm

I found a cheat! I typed in:

"all_veteran=enterprise"

And that was in instant action (I was the feds)! The thing is that every ship, even the ones I built were vets. And the veteran limit was set to infinity. For example, if I had 10 vets, it would say the slots consumed over an infinity sign.