Author Topic: Box Wars (Read 7633 times)

Grimm · August 06, 2004, 12:59:20 PM

Box Wars Main Page

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.

Tooky · 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.

Niteowl · August 06, 2004, 02:37:56 PM

i've been meaning to play this. tell me when someone has a listen server up.

BobTheJanitor · 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

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Grimm · 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).

lolfighter · 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.

Asurada · August 07, 2004, 07:56:31 AM

sounds fun! Count me in!

Satiagraha · August 07, 2004, 10:07:41 AM

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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.

Asurada · August 07, 2004, 01:48:05 PM

ahhhh....thats too bad. From what i heard from you guys, i think the game is enjoyable

That Annoying Kid · August 07, 2004, 02:23:29 PM

the idea for the game actually sounds pretty cool

Satiagraha · August 07, 2004, 02:54:15 PM

Heh, yeah. Talk about your perfect camo :lol:

Redford · 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.

Mr.Bill · 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.

Grimm · 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*.

tharsis · 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.

Satiagraha · 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.

Diablus · 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?

Grimm · 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.

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Path · 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.