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DDave-id
in Strategies and Guides
Hi all,

After a "pause" of several years, I'm enjoying playing Tribes again tremendously. Many Kudos to Tribesnext for making this possible. Even though now I mainly remember I was mediocre when I was at my best and I now am back at square one.

I have two question, I hope it's not too inconvenient to unite them in one topic.

- I can't use ingame chat anymore. Y and U are still bound to the team/global chat, I get the cursor in little frame underneath the chat window when I press them, but I can't type a message. If I try, it's still the ingame controls. I have no idea on how to solve this. I only use the superstats and uberzoom script, but had no problems last time I fired up T2.

- Mortar turrets. I mainly play on Goon Haven (there probably isn't an alternative for casual play?) and noticed people often mount mortar barrels on turrets close to the home base. I hate that. "Back in the day" there seemed to be consensus that mortar barrels are more or less useless, especially close to home base. Have I missed something and have they suddenly gotten useful somehow? Besides for teamkilling and destroying farms, that is?

Thanks for any answers,

Dave-id

Comments

  • CCorrosion
    The chat problem happens to me occasionally and I never have a clue what causes it. I'm sure somebody knows.

    As for mortar turrets, its either newbs who lack common sense or someone just being an ass.

    Not that surprising it happens on goons all the time though.
  • ThythThyth
    Chat typing issues might be a locked modifier key. If you had Ctrl or Alt pressed when the game loses focus, it may think those keys are pressed for the rest of the game, thus break input for message windows.

    You can try tapping the modifiers in sequence, but sometimes you need to close and reopen the game.
  • KKryand
    When that happens to me I usually have to press a bunch of buttons. One key at a time, press both Shifts, both Alts, both Ctrls. Do this a couple times with the chat menu both open and closed. Usually doing that once or twice always fixes the problem. I've never had to completely restart the game.
  • tteratos
    I occasionally had that happen with Vista. Running in Windowed mode and not using xfire helped.
  • Red ShifterRed Shifter
    edited September 2009
    Dave-id
    - I can't use ingame chat anymore. Y and U are still bound to the team/global chat, I get the cursor in little frame underneath the chat window when I press them, but I can't type a message. If I try, it's still the ingame controls. I have no idea on how to solve this. I only use the superstats and uberzoom script, but had no problems last time I fired up T2.
    I think that may be a dual-core issue. I would recommend trying the instructions in this thread.
    Dave-id
    - Mortar turrets. I mainly play on Goon Haven (there probably isn't an alternative for casual play?) and noticed people often mount mortar barrels on turrets close to the home base. I hate that. "Back in the day" there seemed to be consensus that mortar barrels are more or less useless, especially close to home base. Have I missed something and have they suddenly gotten useful somehow? Besides for teamkilling and destroying farms, that is?
    A lot of awful players migrated to GH. I've even seen MANUAL CONTROL OF MORTAR TURRETS.
  • DDave-id
    Thanks for all the suggestions. I've seen this happen with affinity set to 1 core and I don't use vista, so that's not it in my case. I guess that leaves me with trying to tap a lot of keys :) I still don't know if it happens all the time or not, I rarely chat during a game. I'll try it out.

    As for the mortar turrets, they should implement Vista procedures on that one: "You selected a mortar turret, are you sure you want one? Click yes, no, cancel.", "You clicked yes, please confirm your choice by pressing yes, no, cancel". "The Inv station is about to hand over a mortar turret. Click yes, no, cancel to confirm". And the same when someone tries to mount one.
  • DDave-id
    Just to follow up: tapping the modifier keys helps.

    And a small anecdote: yesterday on goon haven I saw someone attacking the enemy base with and MPB. Probably wanted to mount a mortar turret on it....
  • hhurrr
    I was once in a game on Logan's Run where someone drove the MBP just slightly behind a terrain bump straight outside the enemy base, and then mounted a mortar turret on it. It had free fire into the entire enemy spawn gird (sans that inside the base), and the carnage was pretty terrible.
    And in this instance, since the MBP was escorted by a tank and had its original driver tending it & throwing flares, there was nothing meaningful that the few enemy players that actually tried to do something about it while as HOing could accomplish (yes they were that bad).

    It was probably the 2nd rapest game I've ever witnessed on GH.
  • hhenry700
    Red
    Dave-id
    - I can't use ingame chat anymore. Y and U are still bound to the team/global chat, I get the cursor in little frame underneath the chat window when I press them, but I can't type a message. If I try, it's still the ingame controls. I have no idea on how to solve this. I only use the superstats and uberzoom script, but had no problems last time I fired up T2.
    I think that may be a dual-core issue. I would recommend trying the instructions in this thread.
    Dave-id
    - Mortar turrets. I mainly play on Goon Haven (there probably isn't an alternative for casual play?) and noticed people often mount mortar barrels on turrets close to the home base. I hate that. "Back in the day" there seemed to be consensus that mortar barrels are more or less useless, especially close to home base. Have I missed something and have they suddenly gotten useful somehow? Besides for teamkilling and destroying farms, that is?


    A lot of awful players migrated to GH. I've even seen MANUAL CONTROL OF MORTAR TURRETS.
    ah nice,now guys no not respect good turrets anymore,dude they destroy farms but them replaces the farm,also since its long range when u have sensors not destroyed its a really anti-baserapper turret,it tks sometimes,SOMETIMES,plasma almost never kills cappers it sucks,mortar pwn capper 50% of times,plasma 20%
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