Sammy

There is help... and then there is help.

You will see it even with AP. Its just to show you that yes he has armor. But I can see how that can be confusing so perhaps something else would be better. Maybe the AP icon if the player has armor or another existing icon if you have one that comes to mind. I know about armor and explosives. Its too good. In 1.46 it will work differently just not sure yet how. It should provide protection but less than it does now. I am open to suggestions.

Could you be more specific about AP and body armor? The car has always been considered by many to be a 'cheap' kill in all the various games it has appeared. That is to say, considered by its victims. Which is why there are emp nades and hardwired. The emp nade has the same timing as a stun. Quite a few people hate Betties also but not going to remove em.

Quick question: How many people actually use all 10 saved class loadouts? Or do you just use the 5 with one of each type?

Yes spectators, except clan members, have lower priority than others. Both in terms of active players given higher weights but also because playtime does not increase for spectators. However whatever time spectators already had... say if they went for a drink... does not go away. Redirects are not perfect and never will be.

Been there. Done that. People dont stay. Not that there arent enough players out there to do it. They just dont want to be the first or wait for other people. The 1.46 mod ready for testing soon. 1 or 2 additions suggested that I want to see if they can be added without too much trouble or breaking anything. When that happens you are welcome to join it and invite others. Sound like a plan? Hmmm?

It works. You need to press the special weapon key to switch back and forth. You also dont have to 'activate' it. Unlike Duke there is no timer. However you also dont get all the big health and armor. Also no speed boost. Just the gun. Even so if the death machine didnt work the first time it would have been good to tell me about it. Many people neglect to do things like that. Also make sure I dont forget about it, which I do alot. I thought about the streaks and wondered if for the server it might be a good idea to disable certain streaks once in a while for a week to generate more variety. What if there was no uav? Or helicopters? No mininuke? No different than reality. Often things are down for maintenance and not available.

That is very true. As soon as KC got their first run I thought 'oh shit'.

Go Giants! Pretty disheartening their loss in game 6 but they won in KC before and they can do it again. Lets whip those Royals.

Yup finally found it. And yes it was one of the temp changes I made for the test but it was buried in the scripts and had to hunt for it. All is good and a big thank you to everyone that helped track down the problem and put up with all the server restarts. As for the cars cars cars everywhere, it was somewhat in the realm of the vehicle games in UT but much faster. Not everyone's cup of tea.

Only thing I can think of is maybe not everyone didnt change their disabled streak from the car to something else. Should have been disabled anyways but maybe not. Cars reenabled. edit Ok someone tell me this...................... to get the unlimited RC took two lines of code. Just two. Restarted the server. Now the lines are gone. File back to what it was yesterday. Exactly the same. So why is the problem still there?

Ok I wanted to see how the server would run with lots of cars at the same time and lots of cars in a match. Would it work smoothly? Or would it cause issues? Seemed to run ok. Which is good. It is turned off at the moment until later this evening when there arent as many players when I can make sure its all set up properly.

I would think that would be self explanatory.

No it is just for today. Patience young padawan. There are no 'infinite' killstreaks except for the car test that was only supposed to last for a couple rounds last night. Right now you might be seeing them occasionally as care package awards but thats all.

I am sure there are some people with floppy drives laying around. But yea more than likely the magnetics on the disk are just unreadable at this point. When it says formatted to IBM it just means DOS 16 bit.

With no car I am seeing more helicopters and a couple other things. Interesting to see how many use 1 of 3 for that streak. For now, if anybody sees a car its via a care package.

Information about the RC-XD: Everyone getting a car was not a bug but a temporary addition to see what happens if there is a large amount of cars at the same time over the course of an entire round. See if anything goes haywire. It was only intended to be there for a couple rounds while I was there and then removed. I did that and did a fast server restart when finished. All looked ok so I went to bed. I figure a full stop-start was needed to completely clear things out. All should be good now. Sorry bout that.

I mean is... when you respawn frozen, where are you respawning in relation to where you were shot. If you were shot on a ledge do you respawn there? On the ground below it? Or somewhere in the air in between the two?

Ok so you are respawning in the air? That sounds like you are respawning maybe while the body is still falling, which is where it gets its respawn position from. Can be fixed and will likely require a check of some kind to make sure the body is no longer moving before getting its location.

Trick or treating has changed quite a bit not so much in terms of costumes or anything like that. But of parents taking their kids in the car to different neighborhoods to get more and better goodies. That and the teenagers wanting treats also. Parties are better. Of course if everybody got rocks they might stop doing it.

While I was specing someone dropped a mininuke and I suspect its range settings are far too big in the server options. I saw players die that were not even close to the explosion fx. IIRC the defaults were raised by due to complaints... as often happens... about it being too weak but maybe it was adjusted too much the other way. Feel free to ask players, both the attackers and victims, their opinion on this. Just for clarification, mininuke, B2 and the helis all have the same weights for choosing the awards.

The way it works is that you respawn normally but your controls are frozen so you cannot move. The difference is that the origin given to the spawn function is obtained from wherever the body is not a spawn point. Something to keep track of: are you respawning as frozen before the body has finished falling? I am wondering if the watcher for body location is being stopped early and the last known origin is in the air where the body was at that time. This may or may not be where you were shot. As for the ladder also something to keep track of: Is the body really close to the base of the ladder? I dont know how maps do ladder triggers but does it work by distance to the ladder mount point and it is done automatically? Not like wall mantling?

Are people respawning as frozen where the ragdoll body lands, if the player was shot in the air, or are they respawning in the air where they were shot and then fall again?

When did you last see the bubble thing? It shouldnt even be possible now unless for some strange reason you actually respawned as frozen in the air. Maybe you are thinking of the older mod last week that was on for a couple days. That one had a problem with player bodies and ragdolls.

Ok you shouldnt be getting those from the 8-kill one. I remember at one time I experimented with an advanced uav of sorts for it. Bigger map, faster refresh, cannot be shot down, etc. edit: I dont see those as options. strange.