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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Grimm on August 06, 2004, 12:59:20 PM

Title: Box Wars
Post by: Grimm on August 06, 2004, 12:59:20 PM: Box Wars Main Page (http://www.planethalflife.com/boxwar/)

The basic idea of the mod is playing on maps littered with crates of various shapes and sizes, and each player is a crate of some sort him/herself. By staying completely still, you blend in with every other box in the map, and moving is the only way anyone can spot you; You don't see anyone else's weapons that they're holding, and they don't see yours.

I've played this a couple times with a friend of mine, and even with just one other person it was entertaining. I think it would be pretty cool if we could get a bunch of us into a game of it. Even if we only play for a week like many of the other "fad mods" as Niteowl put it, I'd say it would be a pretty cool diversion for a while.

Of course, with any mod that's basically been dead for quite a while, not all of the download links work, although the Fileplanet link should be fine.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Tooky on August 06, 2004, 01:52:41 PM: Looks really different but fun at the same time... boxes with guns, ingenious combo!?~

Im up for it.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Niteowl on August 06, 2004, 02:37:56 PM: i've been meaning to play this. tell me when someone has a listen server up.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: BobTheJanitor on August 06, 2004, 02:48:11 PM: Not steam compatible at all. And hasn't been touched in a loooooooong time. Forums are totally dead as well. Go look at the last post in the forums and the date on it. (and see who it's by ;) )
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Grimm on August 06, 2004, 04:37:57 PM: Bah, he's right; I try to start a listenserver for the game, it just completely closes. No flicker of a startup or anything, just *poof*. Gonna have to find some way to fix this...

P.S. Bob, you little so-and-so... (I saw the last post made).
Title: Box Wars
Post by: lolfighter on August 07, 2004, 05:38:47 AM: No wonder their forums died. I mean, c'mon... Dark blue background, slightly lighter blue letters? Completely unreadable.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Asurada on August 07, 2004, 07:56:31 AM: sounds fun! Count me in!
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Satiagraha on August 07, 2004, 10:07:41 AM: Quote
sounds fun! Count me in!
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We're umm... not going to be running the mod. It's completely unusable on the Steam network. And since WON is going down (Is down?) that leaves the game useless.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Asurada on August 07, 2004, 01:48:05 PM: ahhhh....thats too bad. From what i heard from you guys, i think the game is enjoyable
Title: Box Wars
Post by: That Annoying Kid on August 07, 2004, 02:23:29 PM: the idea for the game actually sounds pretty cool :D
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Satiagraha on August 07, 2004, 02:54:15 PM: Heh, yeah. Talk about your perfect camo :lol:
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Redford on August 07, 2004, 05:11:25 PM: I played this back on WON a very long time ago. It is in fact a very unique mod and it's totally possible to blend in and be totally ignored. You need to move to find ammo and find other boxes, but doing so leaves you open to attack. What to do? Be CLEVER.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Mr.Bill on August 07, 2004, 08:12:17 PM: yes, I also played it a long time ago on won, before my departure from hl mods, where I'd try anyone I could dl... It's very fun, and has many moments.

but if your interested in games like those also try =

Snow Wars!
Snark Wars!
Surprise mod!
Snark Racing!
The Opera!

all great in their own way.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Grimm on August 07, 2004, 10:32:21 PM: I wasn't very sneaky about anything, I just ran around shooting and crowbaring every crate I found until my friend ran. Or I'd wait somewhere with the sniper, watch him get some weapons, then *pow*.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: tharsis on August 07, 2004, 10:53:55 PM: When I first played it a few years ago, I didn't like it. It was way too obvious which boxes were people and which weren't. Maybe it changed, but it still sucks that it's dead.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Satiagraha on August 07, 2004, 11:34:39 PM: Sounds like it'd get old quickly.

And tharsis, WOAH that's a big sig, see if you can make it smaller or find another one. We have sig size limits. For specifics, see LB or JHunz or and admin or someone who knows what the hell they're doing. The restrictions are something like 400x100 or less and under 25KB or something like that.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Diablus on August 08, 2004, 09:20:29 AM: Wouldnt it be nothing but one HUGE campfest for like 30 minutes until someone FINALLY decides to move and gets 29545873462378463826284 bullets in their chest?
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Grimm on August 08, 2004, 10:23:43 AM: With a group like us, we know we wouldn't be lame and just sit around all the time like that.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Satiagraha on August 08, 2004, 12:43:00 PM: Quote
Sounds like it'd get old quickly.
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Title: Box Wars
Post by: Path on August 08, 2004, 01:26:58 PM: Ah, this reminds me of my time when I played Quake 2 over the net. There were many fun things to do, including making a model and skin of a regular box (which would be downloaded onto their computer automatically). I can still hear it now... "OMFG THE WALL JUST RAILED ME!" Now that made for some very fun games.

But as to this mod, I can see it growing very old, very quickly. I also see why it died, beacause after playing NS for so long, I have memorized just about every inch of the maps, and once you do that in Box wars, its just a matter of shooting the box that doesn't belong. It is too bad that it does not work, because it would have at least been fun for a bit.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Diablus on August 08, 2004, 01:49:11 PM: There was this cool HL2 test mod created for HL1 called sniper wars or something.

they were testing all this stuff including a cool map creator on a server.

It was quite bugged. But the cool thing about it was, there was no official type of map. the Devs made it so every map was brand new because the server generated the map before the rounds started. So you never played on the same map. It was quite cool, actually.... it was very cool.

If boxwars had something like that, it would be fun i suppose.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Grimm on August 08, 2004, 09:53:45 PM: I think it would be cool for any mod to have a randomly generated map each time it's played; no game would be the same as others. And I don't mean the same like "Last time I jumped left and shot at that guy, but this time I jumped right...".
Title: Box Wars
Post by: lolfighter on August 09, 2004, 05:26:46 AM: Avara had a few maps that did something like this. Since all the boxes could be moved around (and you could even use them to crush other players with, assuming you knew which box they were...), the maps quickly stopped looking like themselves after a few moments of fighting, so you couldn't just remember the box positions and shoot the out-of-place one.
Title: Box Wars
Post by: Dubbilex on August 09, 2004, 06:04:48 AM: Quote
Ah, this reminds me of my time when I played Quake 2 over the net. There were many fun things to do, including making a model and skin of a regular box (which would be downloaded onto their computer automatically). I can still hear it now... "OMFG THE WALL JUST RAILED ME!" Now that made for some very fun games.

But as to this mod, I can see it growing very old, very quickly. I also see why it died, beacause after playing NS for so long, I have memorized just about every inch of the maps, and once you do that in Box wars, its just a matter of shooting the box that doesn't belong. It is too bad that it does not work, because it would have at least been fun for a bit.
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Actually, there's a way to move stuff around between round that apparently isn't utilized very often, for some reason or another.

http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Tutor...orial.php?id=36 (http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Tutorials/tutorial.php?id=36)

so yeah - with massive entity work it's possible to move every box around. Of course, people might just be able to memorize each of these variants, but it would be a lot tougher.