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10/24/13 at 16:20:41
 
I found out today, that Warthog can shoot other weapons, while using the flamethrower, like TM2 Mr. Slam. How many of you already knew this?
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Reply #1 - 10/25/13 at 20:19:40
 
I honestly never used Warthog that much, but I believe I have done that before.  I think Minion is the same way, right?
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Reply #2 - 11/19/13 at 22:20:16
 
Nah you cant fire anything using their specials except mega guns, and AA attacks. Same goes with outlaw, brimstone or shadow (secondary). They are locked out of using weapons whilst specials are going "pew pew"

This is one "drawback" to the gameplay IMO, from TM2 to TMB era.

Tm2 you could use multiple weapons at the same time, combinations. 2 Thumper specials at once, or even a power missile during Mr Slam's special w/ mines and driving backwards.

HOWEVER. A clever girl can get around this because TMB has insanely different missile speeds. Some are slooooower, others are fast.

So you could land a reticule, a freeze, a special, a ram. ALL at once. So the ret is slow, fire that and freeze first... turbo towards enemy, fire special and ram? All four land around same time = uber damage.

Obviously with TMX, most weapon speeds are pretty much uber wtf fast, so these strategies don't come into play. If they do, its minimal.

This is part of the reason why the weapon speeds being soooo fucking overclocked in TMX helped kill combos and make the game a spamfest.

The bigger reason was that it helped nuke dodging and driving. Of course Smiley
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Reply #3 - 11/23/13 at 08:42:12
 
That was one of the things that became very satisfying when TMBO was out.

I remember many games when I had a Ret charging on someone, I'd freeze them, fire the Ret, then hang a Scythe on them. Man that shit fucked them up. Or same combo but with a Darkside ram. Or Manslaughter splash.

Delicious.
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Reply #4 - 11/23/13 at 13:14:15
 
Yep, you can get super fucking creative too.

Its actually been done where two scythes landed at nearly the same time on one target. Shoot one long, at an angle so it boomerangs and takes longer approach to get to the enemy... then turbo fast and shoot one point blank.

And since most players who know how to drive and dodge (lol) can usually avoid the majority of outlaw and shadows machine gun specials, you can first fire a ret before doing their specials... then they have to dodge both at the same time, or get hit by both! Or shield both... cause that sucks.

You could sort of do Mr. Slam styled stuff with Roadboat which was neat, but he felt watered-down to me. Just an auto aim version of Tm2 Mr. Slam that sucked ya up with his vacuum cleaner. Mr Slam slamming moving targets = real skills that required timing and aim.

RIP Real combos.
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Reply #5 - 12/02/13 at 01:35:27
 
RoaDiE wrote on 11/19/13 at 22:20:16:
Nah you cant fire anything using their specials except mega guns, and AA attacks.

Warthog is able to do it, but you can only fire one weapon. You can switch to another weapon, while the special is active. Minion on the other hand, can't switch to another weapon during his special.
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Reply #6 - 12/05/13 at 18:13:05
 
I stand corrected, you are right! I never knew, guess all that TMBO polluted my brain.

TMB for some reason you can use a weapon during the Warthog Flame. TMBO, they disabled this. Interesting how this feature was removed and not allowed in TMBO...

I think I know why though. In TMBO Warthog's flame was a melting monster, and if you were able to use a weapon DURING that flame and use 60 mega guns; My goodness that would be beyond OP.

But would I prefer this feature were in TMBO? Hells yes. Don't care if its broken or unbalanced, it would add some gameplay spice! This was something I loved about using Thumper in TM2, and if Warthog could mimic that... bonus!

(Someone needs to hack this ability back into TMBO...)
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Reply #7 - 01/28/14 at 19:53:31
 
Lol, I always stick to Sweet Tooth and Outlaw.   Grin But even after unlocking minion I never knew that
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