xtal256 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 International Boat Flinging Championship A few months ago i discovered a hilarious glitch that involves a boat and the tank spawn cheat (read about it here). Well i was bored the other day so i tried it again. But i can never seem to get it as far as the first time i did it. I would like you all to try and get it as far as you can, so i am announcing the first International Boat Flinging Championship. Here are the rules and regulations (first read my post to find out how to do it): 1. Mark your starting position on the map 2. Fling your boat! 3. When you land, pause and check your stats. Note the distance travelled by boat and plane. 4. Drive the boat in a straight line back to the starting point. If there is land in the way, spawn a Hydra (using the cheat) and fly the rest of the way. 6. Pause again and note the two distances again. For both, subtract the current distance from the last. Then add these two numbers together to give you the total distance travelled from the landing point to the starting point. 7. Post your distance here. 8. You get an extra point if you make the screen go white. You get another point if the game completely locks up (can't pause or anything) I never measured the distance i went but i did once go from SF to LS, beat that! Try and find a technique for doing it. I found that it works better if you spawn the tank when the boat dips down from a wave but it hasn't worked all the time. Happy flinging! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtal256 Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 Anyone tried it yet. I am eager to see how far other people can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abel. Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 this does sound very cool, well done on finding the glitch, and the awesome logo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtal256 Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 new news on boat flinging. It can now be done with a tank! If you enable the fast motion cheat, turn the turret around and start blasting really fast, you will start to go into a spin, bounce around uncontrollably and eventually get flung as far as the boats go! You can also spin really fast it you put the "cars float away" cheat on, tap the tank to get it to float then get in and fly up (using the fly cheat). Then take the fly cheat off and start spinning! If you ever drift down to the ground i guarantee you will fly further that you ever have before Try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taste Of Chaos Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Sounds like a good idea, though please leave it at least 2 hours before you double post to see if anyones replyed, not 2 minutes . I suggest to all pc users: Take a printscreen of your score when it comes up so we can make sure that your not lying. I might give this a bash later. Cheers! Opportunity knocks once in a lifetime, temptation will lean on the doorbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtal256 Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 please leave it at least 2 hours before you double post to see if anyones replyed, not 2 minutes . ??? What? I think you've got that the wrong way around. It was 2 days not 2 minutes Sep 30 then Oct 5, more that 2 days actually. I think u just looked at the time not the date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!!GC!! Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 please leave it at least 2 hours before you double post to see if anyones replyed, not 2 minutes . ??? What? I think you've got that the wrong way around. It was 2 days not 2 minutes Sep 30 then Oct 5, more that 2 days actually. I think u just looked at the time not the date. yea TOC its actually 5 days not 2. Anyway Haro, good thing you've found here i tried it but it doesnt seem to work the tank just falls in the water and i dont move. any ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtal256 Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 doesnt seem to work the tank just falls in the water and i dont move. any ideas How about, don't do it near water The best way i did it was: put the fast motion cheat on (twice to get double fast motion) turn the turret back go into close-up view (1st person) so the turret stays still and doesn't follow the camera shoot like crazy! Try and tip yourself over. Hit a ramp or something, most likely you'll be going so fast that you will bounce around uncontrollably and flip eventually When upside down, keep shooting and you should get into a spin. You will spin faster and faster and bounce more and more If all goes to plan, you will bounce high into the air and possibly crash the game! Someone try it on PC and see what happens when it crashes (locks up). Does it throw an exception or just lock up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!!GC!! Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 WTF are you on, im talking 'bout flinging boats. i thought this was boat flinging not tank flying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtal256 Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 ...but it doesnt seem to work the tank just falls in the water and i dont move. any ideas Well u did mention tank. I probably should have started a new topic about the tanks. Ok, i realise this is probably a bit confusing, i forgot u use a tank to fling the boat. When i said "It can now be done with a tank" i meant that u can get a tank to fly up in the air like u do with the boats. But, yes, u do use a tank to fling the boats. So, about the boats. It only happens rarely for some reason, i couldn't find a sure way of doing it. The boat needs to be moving when u spawn the tank. Just accelerate for a second or two, if you go too fast the tank will appear nearer to the middle of the boat. We want to have it spawn at the bow so it flips the boat up. I think the reason why it happens is that when the tank spawns, it appears inside the boat, but just slightly. The game tries to move the boat thinking that it's a collision (well, it is but the tank is already inside the boat). So using whatever algorithms it uses to calculate collisions and movement, it probably calculates that the faster an object goes, the further it moves each frame. So if an object has gone past the boundary of another object it calculates that the speed must need to be really fast for it to do that. So when the tank "collides" with the boat, the boat rebounds so fast that it flies half way across the map! Don't worry if u don't understand this, it's just technical details, and i might be wrong . But knowing that may help you to figure out how to do it (i haven't been able to do in a while, only very rarely). Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhoda Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Tried it today, spawned a tank after a brief acceleration period, the bastard fell right on me and I blew up. No flying boats today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!!GC!! Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Ok thanks for that explanation i will have to try that tomorrow if i remember cos ive got crap loads of stuff on tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenster Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Good gimmick! This could help with the tank part: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=190003&hl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxk Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 let me try but first some one make a vid of it so that i can do it right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtal256 Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 Yes a vid would be good. I have it on xbox so i can't get a vid (and i don't have a video camera) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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