Should I be a cock?

[spuddyt]

In essence, my favourite game out there for online play - supreme commander forged alliance expansion, even when patched "up to date", has an enormous number of imbalanced units , exploits and general bugs (that (particularly the imba units) could be easily, easily fixed). Now, as I understand it, Gas powered games has actually developed another patch, and have sent it to THQ for QA testing.... which never gets done, so it sits there, the nirvana that could fix the damn game and its not doing anything.
Now, there are two ways around the broken units, and two schools of thought:
1. ignore the bugs and try to play around them, ban anyone who exploits from joining your games (you'd have to manually kick them each time and there's no way of knowing if they change their name) and finally relying on "honour" to not use the imba units.
2. Be a cock - Use and abuse every damn thing in the game to try and draw attention to the fact the game is essentially broken and get the patch out - If enough people complain, surely someone will listen right?

Do you think I should take the former or latter course of action? And should I encourage others to do the same?
Edit: also, should I draw the line somewhere? E.g. Abusing imbalanced units and climbing the 1v1 ladder pseudo legitimately, or just go the whole way?

 

[hagaya]

Cock it up, have fun while it lasts. Just make sure you don't get caught.

 

[Kermi]

If you're abusing glitches, you're only tormenting other players. They're not going to magically drop the patch because you decide to join the ranks of people who are abusing glitches to actually get an edge, regardless of how ironic you think you're being.

 

[VitalSigns]

YES
i pretty much always am

 

[Fightbulb]

Yeah, you're mostly being a dick to other people, not the people in charge of fixing the game.

 

[ace_of_something]

I suggest not playing the game. Or not buying buggy games in the first place. But that's just me.

 

[daviejjd]

If the imbalanced units are available to you, then they are to your enemies, so it's fair game mate

 

[Fenixhart]

I suggest not playing the game. Or not buying buggy games in the first place. But that's just me.

Not buying Buggy games nowadays is like not buying games at all. Now it seems that every game seems to have some form of bug.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Be fair, and dont exploit the glitches.

 

[InProgress]

Do you preffer being a chicken? Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.

I'd say send them emails rather than being an ass. Nobody likes to play with an animal.

 

[spuddyt]

Be fair, and dont exploit the glitches.

What about the units that are legitimately in the game, but blatantly overpowered?

 

[hydroblitz]

i say the latter, they need to get their asses in gear. you need to draw attention to the fact and cause people to realize how ridiculous it is. plus, it will be a lot of fun while it lasts, so, indulge the broken game!!!

 

[Headshot Gamer UK]

Orr, you could go for this amazing thing called middle ground and say, well I did kind of like it but it was a bit flawed, no?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Be fair, and dont exploit the glitches.

What about the units that are legitimately in the game, but blatantly overpowered?

Well then thats not a glitch, thats just the game's programming. Disregard what I said, have at it

 

[spuddyt]

If the imbalanced units are available to you, then they are to your enemies, so it's fair game mate

But that would mean everyone who wanted to be competetive would have to play a particular faction....

 

[Fenixhart]

Question: Is the Mavor still the Instant GG in SupCom?

 

[spuddyt]

Question: Is the Mavor still the Instant GG in SupCom?

in most cricumstances yes, but in a serious game if you have time to build a mavor, something has gone seriously wrong for your opponent if he's not capitalising on the massive resource cost to you - a mavor isn't imba, its insane power is balanced by it's impracticality, whereas something like the restoration field (which gives your commander so much health regen he can hug an enemy commander to death), is incredibly cheap and powerful, so is imba

 

[D_987]

I suggest not playing the game. Or not buying buggy games in the first place. But that's just me.

Not buying Buggy games nowadays is like not buying games at all. Now it seems that every game seems to have some form of bug.

Because there's so many more ways bugs can occur...

 

[quack35]

Go for it.

 

[yosophat]

Exploit blatantly and encourage everyone to do the same. Have fun; it's not your fault developers have dropped the ball.