bms post framerate >>>>>> shiny. sorry. if you can retain shiny while having frame
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second then thats great. a frame per second, or frame per minute, is just horrible. i dont really care about how realistic the bullet holes in the wall behind me(go hl2 hitboxes) are, or how the blood flies off my head when recoil decides to randomly give a headshot. i care about having it playable. hl2 seems to be doing slightly better than when it was released, im having less problems etc, but its still a really heavy engine =\ more possibilities, sure, but you need options to totally destroy the graphics.
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the newer versions, when i started playing, were either "wow bad" or "hey thats fun", but shortly after that its "sup linear gameplay". being able to predict exactly whats going to happen just gets old =\ sometimes i run across the entire map since i know someone is doing whatever over by some hive or something.
aerorippers essayno kidding. i've been both sides of the issue now, the elitist and the pubber. i was elitist when i played tfc, wanted everything to be a match. not sure why, i didnt even enjoy matches really. guess i just wanted the order, instead of anarchy. as a pubber i want the game playable partially by skill and partially not. certain situations skill should overcome, and some it shouldnt. example is onos vs hmg. "onos can take multiple lolz!" says the onos as it dies to one hmger. can list on and on with complaints, but nothing has ever really been done balance wise for marines. just cost changes. </marine_rant> so yea conclusion is; aim for pubbers. add skill things, but make it possible to play even if you aren't perfect.
and yes, i know im still elitist about everything =\ hard to drop it sometimes. i'm trying, though.
another thing i wanted to touch on is slower gameplay. that is definatly needed. its a lot more fun, although it sounds bad on paper. instagibs are no fun for anyone. the differences between say, heavy and light, should be more noticeable. no bhop or wallstrafe stuff. heavy should retain its disadvantage, lack of speed, and gain armor, immunity to spores. fades and lerks...are entirely too fast. the giant skill divide there, aim vs sensitivity 80(skill is being able to not fly into walls 24/7), is really large. it just seems silly. slow it down, we aren't in a rush here. if it "takes too long to get somewhere", good. shouldnt be a short thing to be able to get to a key location. they need to be fought over, not "we're here, we're turtled, bye bye 4 rts."
Hell, if they had wanted to contiune the constie playtest, they could have set up private forums, protected by A) Apaches built in security, B) only user accounts for consties. A) denies you access unless you have a valid user name/pass, and is not something that is easy (possibly impossible) to comprimise.
It's annoying, and its killed the mod. That whole story about a corrupt database? Who doesn't backup the database on a major site before attempting to do a major upgrade. I'm sure the documents telling how to convert from 1.x to 2.x tell you to back up multiple times.
Even if the database was corrupt, get the forums back up.. even if they are empty. If you have empty forums and you still have people, they will fill back up. Forums with lots of posts and no people are pointless.
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indeed =\ its quite obvious they don't care at all. they just dont want to appear to be abandoning something they've worked on for so long, i guess. "bad pr"! .. hi welcome to the past 13959135 versions of ns.
so what have we learned? playability first, graphics last. also, if you're making the game, you're only so good at it. you're one person. dont listen to the clanners, they rarely know what to change. no offense to them, but i was one(diff mod but same idea really), and it just gets silly if you do all of the changes they want. shouldn't have to rely on rates to be able to live, imho.
disclaimer; i dont mean to switch this into a balance discussion, since i know i probably did somewhere above. i was just using some examples that people may be able to relate to. if you want i can use tfc ones next time. but dont take any of it as my final opinion, theres different situations to everything, and the examples can't apply to everything.
