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dm / Re: DM Server suggestion

« on: June 19, 2010, 05:16:41 PM »

The BFG is very hard to avoid if the BFG-wielder is at all competent with its use, and if there is nothing in the immediate vicinity to hide behind.  Couple that with the surprise of that BFG wielder having 2, 3, or 4! shots with the BFG, and enough armor to take a rail/rocket or two, and you're pretty much screwed.

I think the BFG does like 1000 damage max or something?  I guess that's if it makes a direct hit on you?  I know I saw the figures listed somewhere on the web at some point in time.

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dm / Re: DM Server suggestion

« on: June 19, 2010, 01:24:54 PM »

self handicapping for the sake of fun is perfectly fine... you are just creating a challenge for yourself which is great

The goal is not to self-handicap.  The goal is to seek an even playing field that does not contain, what I consider, overpowered offensive power-ups.  In this game, your killing/scoring potential is MUCH higher by having 4x/Quad damage versus, say, 400 health/armor.  I don't feel like getting frags in this game is difficult to the point where a quad power-up is needed.  I think the game is still loads of fun, and quite challenging (given the right players) without quad. 

BFG is more of a nuisance.  I find the BFG annoying when I'm in a rail duel, or having a good fight with another skilled player, and before one of us dies, someone waltzes in and takes us both out with the BFG.  Or those that attack you with like FOUR BFG shots.  I think the BFG would be a more tolerable weapon if it perhaps lowered the wielders health to 100 with zero armor while equipped, or perhaps only allowed you to have, at maximum, one shot with it until you respawn.

Yes, these things are "part of THE game".  A complaint here would be invalid if the good folks at id had made a perfect, or perfectly balanced game.  Of course, they did not.  DM flags are also "part of the game" so you can cater it to your preferences.

Not to mention... wasn't Quad changed to Triple damage in Q3?  And the BFG was significantly altered?  I think both of those items were gimped, were they not?

Again, my favorite experiences were on the DM8 Mage server, no self-handicapping required.

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dm / Re: DM Server suggestion

« on: June 19, 2010, 12:49:31 PM »

i said ffa players get some skill because they bitch about legit parts of the game because they are unable to play with them or against them :/ it isnt that hard to play ffa against things like campers or quad players... just learn how to instead of bitching about it, and after that you might even get some laughs while playing when you finally cap that camper with a jump shot rail to the face... 

As a "bitching" FFA player, I'm perfectly "capable" of playing with BFG and/or Quad damage.  It comes down to my idea of fun.  I like the non-stop action of FFA.  I like the simplicity of knowing where all the weapons are on a map, and knowing it will be available (although perhaps camped) when I get there.  I like being able to wildly charge into the action, without a well thought out game plan beforehand, and just start blowing shit up.  I don't want to have to be overly crafty attempting to disguise my whereabouts on a map so my opponent doesn't know where I am. 

Am I capable of altering all those things?  Of course... it's not like I was born with some sort of mental deficiency that denied me these abilities, but I choose not to develop them because they don't strike me as overly entertaining.  1v1 is a lot like a chess match in many ways.  I never did care much for chess.

I also like a challenge.  TDM is quite challenging for me, in ways I don't get challenged in FFA.  My preferred mod is FFA.  My problem with camping is a somewhat selfish complaint.  The more players that use camping as their preferred play style, the less players there will be that will be developing varied skills that will give me a challenge.  Same with quad.  FFA is trivial enough for me at this point.  I don't want to use quad and make it even easier.  I want to continue to improve.  I feel using quad is counter-intuitive to this.  I don't "like" losing, but winning against a tough opponent that is just playing really good is more rewarding than winning because I was the only one that ran quad, etc.

Btw, my favorite FFA experiences in this game have been on the Mage Warehouse DM8 server.  There was no BFG there, no power shield, no red armor, and rarely a mega health (and of course no quad on dm8).  The only armor was YA and shards, weapon stay on, etc.  That's where the best FFA players played regularly.  If you won there you were playing well.  I miss that.

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dm / Re: DM Server suggestion

« on: June 15, 2010, 06:17:35 PM »

GLARING problem found on Fuster's...  no way to check whether someone has AC or not.  Someone was using your nick "Frank Burnside" and using a bot + wallhack earlier.  Panjoo thinks it was probably Razor.  Apparently that server is easy to bring a bot onto.  Unless the real Frank Burnside commonly has 75% rail and 40% chaingun against better-than-average FFA players.

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Bot Drop / abc on Tourney4 using low fov? aimbot

« on: June 13, 2010, 11:02:34 PM »

This is from right now, demo attached

Edit:  Added a 2nd demo, probably more telling if necessary =)

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Quake / Re: bye to all

« on: June 12, 2010, 07:49:02 AM »

i usually notice that whenever i havent payed my isp bills for 3 months my ping goes up.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: June 11, 2010, 06:35:55 PM »

4 Non Blondes - What's Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCt0YQPn7g

Love that song =)

System of a Down - Lonely Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2ZFpoD9sE

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dm / Re: Where the bullshit ends...the game begins.

« on: June 11, 2010, 11:41:56 AM »

Hey folx. Led Pez here..Quake2 philosopher and preacher.

Greatly appreciate your efforts to make this a fun game for all Daf.

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Quake / Re: DJ script

« on: June 09, 2010, 01:39:26 PM »

When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought it was about some techno, record-spinning geek that I hadn't heard of before.

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: June 08, 2010, 03:29:58 PM »

Which AlienS version should I watch?

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: June 08, 2010, 07:39:33 AM »

I just saw the original Alien for the first time the other day.  I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say I was blown away, by any means.  I plan to watch Aliens soon, maybe tonight.

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1337 Frag Demos / Re: Neat grenade bounce

« on: June 07, 2010, 08:53:15 PM »

 

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1337 Frag Demos / Re: Camper Kill

« on: June 07, 2010, 08:28:39 PM »

Haha, nice frags =)  Love hearing some of the quake 2 death screams too, very amusing.

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Jump & Trick Demos / q2dm8 jump

« on: June 05, 2010, 12:28:01 PM »

Hadn't done this one before today, but it wasn't all that difficult after I tried it a few times.  It's the jump where you start out on walkway by chaingun/above GL, speed down towards room with 2 rail slugs, and go up the slope/ramp to railgun/third level.  I use the 2nd chute to the left instead of the one directly behind the spawnpad there.

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dm / Re: DM Server suggestion

« on: June 05, 2010, 08:31:14 AM »

it might thin out the DM server players though

and it might not.  I'm more inclined to believe that the majority of the players will continue to go to the regular DM server, but there will be occasions when the DM2 server has some heavy action as well.  Quadz's attention is attainable on a fairly regular basis, so if things take a turn for the worse on the regular DM server, as a result of this alternate-rules server, he would be able to fix things (by eliminating the new server) in short order.  As Frank mentioned, the DM server doesn't appear to hurt for players at really any time of the day.  I think the worst case scenario is that the DM2 server is more of a flop and stays empty the majority of the time.

Also the powerups are disabled half the time anyway so someone must have raised this issue before.

I was definitely one of those who raised the issue =)  The quad being on for a rotation, off the next was a compromise.  Having my druthers, it would have been off completely, but there were a number of people who preferred otherwise.  There's a thread on here somewhere where the discussion took place.  It's been a few years ago now I think.

I actually saw a player (Les Ped?) yesterday with a bind which was something like "12 years of Quake 2 - No Quad, No BFG, No Invul, No Camping, No Spawn Kills"

Led Pez I think?  He's in my clan.  It's just an alias =)