Unpassable way

It is in general. Block type doesn't matter. Encountered this today, too. If you got these 2 angled blocks AND you have to jump, so no block to walk through, you can't go through.

Unless it's specifically stated as an exploit and a bannable offense, do not report them for it. You're only congesting the system with spurious reports, which itself can get you punished.

Although this is in bad spirit, it is only using the tools that the game provides you with, so it's not punishable.

It's also not exclusively in used bad spirit either. Someone could design a 'maze' type outpost, and use this configuration simply to make a 'one-way' door, with the intention of committing the raider to one option with that option being entirely valid.

Although I haven't used this (yet), I have used second-wave corrosive cubes to remove the primary path to the genmat to force the raider through the second part of my outpost. The sad thing is, by watching the replays, a good portion of raiders will attempt to bypass this and speedrun back through the corrosive cubes as they're transitioning, then have a tantrum and smack them before leaving, presumably assuming I've tried to 'checkmate' them into certain death, despite the fact that they've just ignored over 75% of my outpost and missed the very well signposted lost tomb.

no, it's against your desired experience. setting something up that makes you decide "do i shoot this and risk losing my ammo" or "do i ignore this and play around it" is an economic decision that is 100% a fair choice to give to a raider. that trap you described only hits the very middle of a hall, hugging either wall avoids it.

As much as I respect your building attitude, using good traps and ideology, I dare say, you're not 99% of the other users who purposedly build their trap like that.

Trapping their tombs behind a one way wall, making it extremely tedious on 4 floors worth wedge flamethrower traps which forces you to walk on the sides, and then blowing up the entire hallway with warmongers essentially forcing you to disable the exploited trap and losing resources and bolts, which are intended by the game to be retrievable to some extent/risk.

Just because you use it fairly, doesn't make it 100% fair. If the trap forces you to press the Menu option to get unstuck from a soft lock, then it's obviously not a fair trap.

And if you, as a builder, intend to use a trap that can cause a soft lock, despite all of your efforts in trying to hide or prevent it, then I can only look in shame as all of your efforts and respect is denied by that one ######### trap you used.

TL;DR Don't use exploits, that's how you get blacklisted.

One way door -> Tomb -> Intended goal -> Soft lock.

There's no defending that exploit and you know it. I don't want to repeat myself, but JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE COMMON SENSE AND USE IT FAIRLY, DOESN'T MAKE IT A FAIR TRAP.

The analogy doesn't work neither because you essentially told the raider to jump down the well and grab a shiny coin, promising as the builder that you will provide a ladder to go back if they try hard enough, and as soon as they jumped to get the shiny coin, you shut the lid on them and locked them in forever.

Now you might be tempted to say ; "I never softlock my raiders", I make sure they can't fall for it", to which my answer remains the same : "You're not the other 99% of the players using this exploit"

This is a game with a rank.

You can get your cheeky kills with smart traps, but anything that forces your raider to press the menu button to come back is an exploit, even if you swear up and down that raiders are supposed to be smart and know the way of the world through the knowledge of the old gods, they're not.

Use your tools however you want. Don't use exploits.

Edit ; Now, mind you, my discontent isn't from you using the trap, but rather it being available in ranked playlist. This is something that belongs in Social for fun, One way doors are an interesting thing to play with, but they're also a very dangerous thing to give to people with the building skills of a 2 years old, because we all expect builders to be like you, and not to be like garbage that enjoy soft locking people.

a fire trap has a grid of 9.

this layout neutralizes 8 of the 9 fire points. don't stand dead center of the block. why is this so hard to avoid?

Firetrap has a 5 block range and as you can see on this screen (maybe not rly clear but you see a part of them on the first screen on the left side) they are 2 block behind the unpassable triangles so they cover the corridor on the 2 sides with plasma turret. Everything here is full upgrade.

Also plasma on the ground explose after behing destroy so you can't pass this with the bubble shield cause that damage perce trought your shield and the corridor is way too long. It's a 24 pistons corridor and it's not a straight line so you can't push this, and you can't go slow cause you simply can't destroy the traps. That's why it's soo hard.

Traps behind the triangles are also 1 block above the ground so you can't grenade this.

And if you think you can go out for retrieve ammo accross the wall/cell you can't cause cell and ground are doubled.

It's just pure exploit and if you try to pass this triangles you can also be softlock inside the space between the structure.

Edit : more screenshots with better view.

I'm here for report a bug/exploit, not talking about strategy.

If you think this exploit is a joke and easy to complete, good for you but that's not the point.

Problem here is not the traps in the corridor but the traps on the 2 sides cause they are indestructible.

Being able to destroy only 3 traps in the whole outpost when there are more than 100 seems normal to you ? No need to continue this discussion.

Plasma and incinerator don't need to have a straight line to be effective cause it's AOE damage but whatever, you obviously don't understand how this outpost work and this post is about EXPLOIT AND BUG not STRATEGY.

This debate is pointless I'm master 200 I know what I'm saying but you are stubborn 😪

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Swanton

by:

ObviousGamer4 (Steam)

I have

a replay on this map dated May 7, 2023 9:22PM EST. Even if there is some magic angle that would permit you to traverse back through this triangle, I don't think it should be so magic that it takes crazy luck or foreknowledge to achieve.

You enjoy exploit, very well, have fun.