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dt1
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fake acid is back. and wrong. again.

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start a teamwork game.
have the first player move on to the fake acid square.
now the second player can walk on the first player.


* acid top is added to acid bottom in both the cave and the eaters.
* fake acid (only in v4) does not exist because it adds nothing to
* the game, and is different even in different versions of the emc
* player.
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Re: fake acid is back. and wrong. again.

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Hi Dave, welcome back!

Yes, the implementation of fake acid indeed allowed both players to stay on the same fake acid tile! :D

To be honest, I think this is really that sort of "nasty bug" that adds fun to the game, and should not break anything, as I am not aware of any teamwork levels that use fake acid, while there are a lot of single player levels that use it in a sensible way (like many levels in the "Down Under Mine 16" level set).

So I indeed could imagine to use that "feature" in teamwork levels that would allow players to enter a passage from different directions to pass each others at a tile with fake acid, which would otherwise be impossible! :)

Unfortunately, the current implementation of fake acid has drawbacks that are less "logical" (or funny, or useful) than that -- for example, an android approaching the player at a fake acid tile would kill it, same is true for a moving spring etc.

So I fixed it now, so there should be no difference (other than graphical) to an empty space tile anymore. (That fix will be available with the next version.)
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fake acid is back. and wrong. again #2.

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in single player or teamwork.
have the first player move on to the fake acid square.
now have an android move towards and on the player.
the android kills the player.
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Yes, just mentioned this above. It's fixed now!
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Re: fake acid is back. and wrong. again #3.

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have the player step onto the fake acid.
the stone kills the player.
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Yes, that's all the same bug (which I have already fixed).

I have just pushed that bugfix to the public Git repository, so you can check out the fixed behaviour!
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