Darkwind - Viewing Topic: Do dropped spikes have an area effect?

Big Daddy
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I just ran a deathrace and hit two spikes. The frustrating thing is I saw them and was sure I was avoiding them. The event was 103250, my spikes are at about turns 85 and 100. But I could not see the first at all during my replay, and for the second it seems the "tyre destroyed" message is behind by one turn.

Is this a deliberate feature to ensure the spikes have some effectiveness, or could there be a bug with them or the chassis in detecting collisions?

The event was fine, I won, no damage. But I remembered to avoid any events with dropped weapons - I spent a lot of time scanning for them, think I saw them all, but still couldn't avoid them. That's no fun to me (and borderline even if they behaved predictably, just because of the scanning effort)

......................... vet wv0,1,0
Posted Jun 7, 2010, 5:12 pm