How to win Ark. Or, ceiling-planting.

[Azuvector]

Step 1. Exploit and plant the final objective on the ceiling, out of reach of anyone on GDF.
Step 2. Talk about how incredibly skilled you are, for 40 seconds while no one can reach the bomb to disarm it despite controlling the room.
Step 3. Hi, Toxic.Mixture.

On the off chance this sort of thing is actually legit, do tell, how does one plant on the ceiling and get a win out of it? Repeatedly jumping to reach it at the farthest reach you can manage is insufficient, when its on the ceiling above the bio tanks or wtfever they are.

[Tanzverbot]

On the off chance this sort of thing is actually legit, do tell, how does one plant on the ceiling and get a win out of it?

By jumping and proning. Standard keys for that are Space and X, i think.

[Szakalot]

its also worth noting that the last ark objective is going down extremely quickly, once the spawn is capped.
So its one of the more useless trick jumps.

[Azuvector]

Feel like sharing something more specific?
http://i44.tinypic.com/15g89de.jpg] (http://i39.tinypic.com/kdtyye.jpg)
Not where I'm standing, nor the other side of the same end, but above where my crosshairs are pointed, was around where it was planted. Not even visible from below other than as a "disarm this" HUD icon. Where it appeared to be in the ceiling.

From screwing around with it a bit, there seems to be no way to get onto there. Prone-jumping doesn't appear to work to the extent your comments suggest, and in general, jumping off nearby railings/etc, just results in you colliding with the overhang above. I suppose you could stand on someone else to reach it.

I've looked in several "trickplant" videos/screenshots/threads, and none even come close to this. Either my hat's off to this guy, or there's an exploit in use, imo. :P

[Pure]

I can confirm. It is possible by jumping and proning from the right spot.

[Lambert.exe]

Check this out:

http://community.enemyterritory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29187&highlight=art+of+trickplanting+lambert.exe

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4030/bioscanner2yl7.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6584/bioscanner3qz4.jpg
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/7074/bioscanner5kc8.jpg

IMO I was first, kekekekekeke. ^_^

[Azuvector]

I can confirm. It is possible by jumping and proning from the right spot.

Care to elaborate on this? The right spot, being where?

Check this out:

Seen it. None of the spots you've mentioned match the one I'm talking about. Y'know, right in the middle of the bioscanner, not near any walls? On the ceiling?

[Lambert.exe]

If I'm not wrong, placing explo-can on ceiling, even if 'white hand' appear, this charge WON'T destroy Bioscanner. Post screenshot pls, cuz I still can't figure what place exactly you are talking about.

[Singh400]

A plant is a plant. I often trick plant on Ark, if they trick disarm - fair play.

I for one didn't know about this, will be trying it.

Perhaps he didn't trick jump and just stacked with another player?

[KeFeaR]

killing everything and everyone>silly tricks

[Szakalot]

you cannot kill 'a thing':p
Thats destroying, not killing.

[LighT_Sh4v0r]

In that sense there is no such thing as violence in games.

[Szakalot]

of course not, violence is in our heads, not in the game.
There is nothing violent about a processor processing, or a monitor displaying.

[Lambert.exe]

Tell it to Germans Szak. In games in their country green blood is spilling.

[LighT_Sh4v0r]

Tell it to Germans Szak. In games in their country green blood is spilling.

That's where I was going ;)

[INF3RN0]

You can actually plant inside the bio scanner if you got the time on your hands like Adhesive and myself ;) . The GDF won't know where the hell its at :D .

[varlinx]

U can actually disarm this plant. Its true!:rolleyes:

[Szakalot]

anything armed can be disarmed, except perhaps for a stacked + jump plant, when your on your won, but i cant think of any in QW.

[DrFunkenstein]

I tried to find a spot similar to what you describe but I really can't. I didn't rely on trick jumps or anything like that, net_allowcheats 1 and noclip was what I used. Start a game on Ark against the computer, kick all bots and join the Strogg. Finish the first two objectives, enable the cheats and try to find a spot that will blow up the bioscanner.

I won't say I tried all possible spots but below are screenies of some of the things I did try. You get a white hand on each spot, but only the last one blows up the objective. The others don't do any damage.

On the ceiling:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterg/screenshots/ark_spot1.jpg

On top of the Bioscanner part 1:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterg/screenshots/ark_spot2.jpg

On top of the Bioscanner part 2:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterg/screenshots/ark_spot3.jpg

Like I said, only the last one worked. It would be hard to pull off a plant like that under most circumstances. You need time for it and my guess is it takes two people to do it (one jumping on top of the other.) I'm not exactly an authority on trick jumps but I don't see how you could use one to plant a charge there.

Dr. Funkenstein

[Azuvector]

Looked more like the #1 there. And it did blow the bioscanner.

[DrFunkenstein]

If the plant you describe was near spot #1 and it did blow up the Bioscanner, there might be a glitch in the map. I'm not a map editor so I have no idea how you could check that, but that's one possibility. I didn't take screenshots of all the places you can plant, but there are several there. You can plant on the tubes etc.

A second possibility I can think of is that there were actually two plants and everyone was worrying about the wrong one. The plant in the unusual spot, which was impossible to disarm, but that wouldn't have blown up the scanner at all :).

Dr. Funkenstein

[frizlefry]

If you plant the charge high enough up and close enough to the bioscanner screens the disarm icon appears to show the charge is on the ceiling. It is misleading. You cannot get a valid plant on the ceiling. The trick is knowing where to look in all the mayhem because the icon is not a help in this situation.