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Mr. Gibbycrumbles
Aug 30, 2004

Do you think your paladin sword can defeat me?

En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style

Cleretic posted:

Garry's Mod has an anti-piracy 'bug' where the game will declare itself to be 'unable to shade polygon normals', in an error message that also includes the user's Steam ID. Anybody asking about this bug not only outed themselves as a pirate, but made it very specifically clear who they were when they did it.

That is a cool idea and I hope other games have similar tricks.

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Mr. Gibbycrumbles
Aug 30, 2004

Do you think your paladin sword can defeat me?

En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style
Speaking of bad game design - any game which "cheats" in order to force you to play the game exactly how the designers intend you to, grinds my goat. e.g. in some games like Call of Duty, they have a system in place to stop the player just running past all the enemies, whereby they will just "fake" a fatal shot to come from nowhere and kill the player.

In the middle of a battlefield this won't look out of place, but it often happens in areas where you know full well that no enemy could have line-of-sight to the player.

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