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The Chatterbox => Gaming => Topic started by: Spectere on September 06, 2007, 04:03:56 PM
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I don't care for how they implemented dodging in UT99. At all. UT2k3/4 improved it considerably by allowing players to adjust the double-tap speed. It was far too easy to dodge off of a platform (in, say, CTF-LavaGiant) in the original so I just turned it off all the time (which put me at a disadvantage at times...oh well).
I didn't pub too much either. I wasn't bad (though being on dial-up and having to face LPB tranceiver whores got old REALLY fast...thank goodness they set a limit on that shit) but eh. I was more heavily into Action Quake 2 at the time, anyway.
Has anyone else ever played AQ2? It's freaking sweet. Way better than AHL (aka everybody freaking dive EVERYWHERE like a bunch of twats).
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Nah, I didn't, I honestly still haven't finished playing through Quake 2's SP, although I've been working on it. I got it with the special edition of Quake 4, along with the expansions, but forgot about it until a couple weeks ago. I'm just irritated at the last couple levels, and I'm having more fun playing Granado Espada, and raping people multiplayer than shooting really ugly strogg, rofl.
I never did play AHL, but I looked into it a couple years ago. The only similar thing I've played is The Specialists, which kicks serious ass. I freaking love that mod :V
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The Specialists is pretty awesome. Science and Industry is a jolly good Half-Life mod, too.
What pisses me off about the Half-Life games is that everything winds up getting eclipsed by Counter-Strike. CS is okay but I hate how it literally killed off every other mod in existence.
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Eh, kind of. S&I was pretty freaking awesome, I agree, but there's still plenty of mods people play. With TS3.0 coming out a couple months ago, there's a good amount of people playing that, and the bigger mods like Sven and NS are still alive and kicking. It's just a pity all the really awesome stuff like Rocket Crowbar died off :(
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It's just a pity all the really awesome stuff like Rocket Crowbar died off :(
That's the thing, unless your team is a hype-generating machine your mod is going to die. It's not like I remember during the Quake/Quake2 days where there wasn't really a single SUPERMEGAPOPULAR mod. You could find just as many servers for Action Quake 2 as you could for TW CTF as you could for TDM as you could for Weapons Factory.
With Half-Life, it's like "oh, S&I: four servers...TFC: 1000 servers, 2 with humans in them...CS: 849328943 servers, all full."
For the record, I'm bitter because a lot of awesome mods that I used to play died out as CS got bigger (and, incidentally, started to get less and less balanced and more and more sucky by that time).
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half life and counter strike have nothing to do with ut99 :(
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half life and counter strike have nothing to do with ut99 :(
It's kindah mandatory for every other thread on this site to get derailed.
What pisses me off about the Half-Life games is that everything winds up getting eclipsed by Counter-Strike. CS is okay but I hate how it literally killed off every other mod in existence.
:o well it's given birth to tons of mods (hide and seek, platforms, zombie, soccer) plus left 4 dead was inspired by zombie mods for css.
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half life and counter strike have nothing to do with ut99 :(
Fine, fine...splitted. :P
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Fine, fine...splitted. :P
lorlfdsadroflfrof :D
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Speaking of Left4Dead, it looks to be the greatest game EVAR >:V
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Speaking of Left4Dead, it looks to be the greatest game EVAR >:V
That, and team fortress 2, supar smash, metal gear, devil may cry (just a littel now that I hear that it's not based around Dante), Crysis and Bioshock are the only games I'm interested in.
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team fortress 2
Imma be playing that, believe me.
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That, and team fortress 2, supar smash, metal gear, devil may cry (just a littel now that I hear that it's not based around Dante), Crysis and Bioshock are the only games I'm interested in.
That's still a pretty hefty list. TF2 looks pretty awesome, and with Fortress Forever coming out later this month, it'll be interesting to see which is more awesome :V
Imma be playing that, believe me.
See above topic. I'll probably end up playing them both.
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^ the list is probably bigger, but I don't feel like listing things (spore, command n conquer, starcraft 2, wow expansion possibly.) Also what's fortress forever?
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It's a mod for HL2 that's devoted to basically cloning TFC, except with source graphics. It was announced before TF2 was.
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It was announced before TF2 was.
TF2 was announced a long-ass time ago, if you want to be technical. Development started with Quake 2 sometime around 1997-1998, then it moved to GoldSrc (HL1 engine -- derived from the Quake engine) when the developers were contracted to make it by Valve, then it became a standalone product, it got uberhyped in magazines, E3, etc, then nobody heard anything about it for a long time, then it was announced that it was going to come out after HL2, then it never happened, then they said it was going to come out with Episode 2 and Portal.
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Yeah well that's nitpicking. Fortress Forever was announced before TF2 was announced to actually still exist.
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I really hope the don't delay it more. It looks like they've made some for progress with it so I doubt they will.
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TF2 was announced a long-ass time ago, if you want to be technical. Development started with Quake 2 sometime around 1997-1998, then it moved to GoldSrc (HL1 engine -- derived from the Quake engine) when the developers were contracted to make it by Valve, then it became a standalone product, it got uberhyped in magazines, E3, etc, then nobody heard anything about it for a long time, then it was announced that it was going to come out after HL2, then it never happened, then they said it was going to come out with Episode 2 and Portal.
So, Duke Nukem Forever all over again, then?
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So, Duke Nukem Forever all over again, then?
Oh god, I need that game to come out.
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Well, fortress forever is out now, but I can't get it running :(
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We should merge this with the UT99 Server Thread again and see what kinds of radiation are produced from the resulting annihilation!
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Well, fortress forever is out now, but I can't get it running :(
Game rocks. Haven't tried TF2 at all so I really wouldn't know which one is better.
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I've got a friend who has played it (preordered orange box), and says it's freaking incredible, which is really impressive, coming from him. He's a tournament-level quake player, and pretty much thinks everything sucks unless it is ideal for competition, so that means TF2 will probably not fail.