Auto-Casting

[ModerateToSeverePlaquePsoriasis]

I know they took auto-casting out for squadrons and for lightning strike and boarding action, but I have faced some people that are clearly auto-casting anyways.

I'll do a trick with eldar for example where I Vaul's Maneuvre and speed past an enemy ship and even with a less than a second window, they manage to launch boarding parties with all of their ships.

What the hell is going on here.

[Panfilo]

They are mashing the mouse button so that the exact moment you get in boarding range it triggers. Nothing fancy.

[ModerateToSeverePlaquePsoriasis]

Originally posted by Panfilo:

They are mashing the mouse button so that the exact moment you get in boarding range it triggers. Nothing fancy.

Trust me I know how to play and I rebind keys to make things faster.
I'm literally giving my opponent a less than a second window with some of these maneuvres and at random times when they are clearly trying to get something else to work.

[Panfilo]

What's more likely, that they are just doing it the old fashioned way of click mashing, or magically using a mechanic that isn't even in the present game? Unless you are using yourself somehow, it's most likely just good reflexes and/or lag.

[ModerateToSeverePlaquePsoriasis]

or people have figured out the code where auto-casting is disabled and have enbled it and the game isn't protected enough to defend from people editing assets.

[Geredis]

Originally posted by ModerateToSeverePlaquePsoriasis:

or people have figured out the code where auto-casting is disabled and have enbled it and the game isn't protected enough to defend from people editing assets.

Have you tried doing just that? Or...no? Because unless you've done it and have a proof of concept to show that this is what's happening... You've just been incredibly unlucky, or the other guy is incredibly obsessive about click-spam. Which acutally can work in your favor in a way. If this guy is click-spamming, his focus is on that. Freeing yo uup to do something else that he won't be able to react to as effeciently as he tunnel-visions in on the boarding window.

[ModerateToSeverePlaquePsoriasis]

These are situations where I am out of boarding range, The enemy is trying to turn away, I Vaul's maneuvre, Speed up, and pass through his boarding window for less than a second.

[Larkis]

So other players are bether then you. Get over it but dtop blaming devy for your faults.

[panzerd18]

Why would they take out auto casting?

[Brannagan]

Not having auto-cast is a pain now but button mashing is nothing spectacular unless you have the reactions of an elephant then you only need a fraction of a second in boarding range to be able to trigger the action easily

[Jason]

yeah this isnt hard to do, you just anticipate that boarding is happening soon select all your ships and click spam on what looks like the first target untill the situation changes, no magic involved, easy really.