It works without having to mod the maps, which is a big advantage - plus, the health bleed/armor bleed/falling damage all add up to really lesson player durability The rail at 45 is damn near useless with this much armor (it isn't meant for DM to begin with, but try a round on The Fragging Yard non ...

New version is up http://www.gizstuff.com/victrix/beefyctf/ Full readme: BEEFY CTF version .2 Date: 11/20/05 http://www.gizstuff.com/victrix/beefyctf Current test server: None yet! Contact if you can provide server space. PREMISE ------- Quake is more fun when fights last longer than 3 seconds. Flag...

I don't like adjusting reload times, it fucks with peoples timing if they go from playing this back to vanilla. Granted, if you play Beefy for awhile, you start developing 'bad' habits like closing to close range and deliberately getting into bouncy rocket wars or diving off high ledges to get close...

Nothing serious or major yet :) Post about it on shack http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11103888 http://www.gizstuff.com/victrix/BeefyCTF/game000.pk4 http://www.gizstuff.com/victrix/BeefyCTF/readme.txt Just makes players significantly stouter, with the intent of drawing out fights and allowing more...

Pathetic. Insulting.

I saw a 78% accuracy rating the other day - and this wasn't from a few rail shots, he was using it consistently throughout the match

Getting oooooooooooooold. I don't bother going for armor anymore :P

Heh. I was banned by a virus member for 'spamming' the nailgun. Especially good since I *know* the guys from previous Quakes, he just didn't know the name I was playing under. Awesome. Idiot server admins indeed But yeah, the whole custom downloads thing desperately needs to get fixed. Searching for...

The reason people are pissed is because there didn't *used to be* some huge wall

It's a de-evolution that we're getting less communication now than we ever have in the past on any Quake game

A serious step back, particularly for the hardcore community

Also cuts down on the ability to defend the flag carrier :P team damage is fine in tdm, control is the watchword there. It sucks ass in ctf.

I'm not sure what's causing this (new driver issue maybe?) but on my 6800, the texture quality keeps resetting to medium. Is there an easy fix for this?

As an aside, does anyone know if the 'multiplayer' portion of the D3/Q4 engine can be launched on init, instead of whatever passes for the single player portion? It's a relatively minor thing compared to the other issues, but its annoying that the startup and init of multiplayer is so slow.

Thank god. Now just some word from id about a patch and my prayers will be answered :P

If you can run through the center of Relativity on a populated server without a framerate drop on that computer, I dearly want to know your secrets :P

Heh, until the admins figure out how to host maps without disconnecting players who don't have every map file the server does... no go on any custom maps for me

I'm getting there myself. The last FOUR pc games I bought all had copy protection problems with my drive. Two wouldn't work while patched, period. One would not work in multiplayer for me and my friends, no matter what we tried (and this is not a tech-illterate group, largely IT professionals, I pit...

Try to miss?

Ugh. One more thing to add.

I'm not usually watching my rocket ammo in the middle of a close range firefight. Switch, fire, rail pops up, I die.

I really don't want to autoswitch to the rail after I run out of rockets

Is there a string for this somewhere that I didn't spot?

:D Dude, when I'm hitting 40% + rail consistently, I *know* something is wrong. I sucked ass with it q2, and in q3. Suddenly I'm some sort of rail pro? Don't think so. My friend who's actually *good* with the railgun hit 68% in a tdm match last night. wtf! That's right on edge of 3 out of 4 100 dama...

My money is on them fixing the most egregious of bugs, adding any functionality that is heavily requested and not _too_ difficult to implement (in terms of manhours consumed most likely), and possibly playing with the existing cvars/tweakable settings to allow and enable certain user and server admi...

As for the hitbox, he is using the skinniest model there to show how big it is. I'd like to see how large the box is on a normal marine model. The rail does seem very easy to hit in Q4 though, even when you can't see well. Heh http://photobucket.com/albums/a137/majorruth/ It's not the model, its th...

It is a combination of factors, for sure. I'm aiming to address as many of them as I possibly can in the mod. Threewave was too little too late And Capturestrike made me want to kill myself... shudder I do agree with you in terms of the scenes. I can't stand realistic or modern style shooters, perio...

You know, I didn't even think about that. I've been running OpenAL since I started playing it - in literally every other game I play, period, I don't enable EAX type stuff, EVER But like... in Q4 it sounds good. I suppose I should go check how it sounds without OAL enabled to hear it before I go cha...

I don't agree that the grapple solves rail problems. If anything, it amplifies them - what weapon are you going to hit a grapple monkey? Rockets? Shotgun? the rapid fire weapons (roofles) Nope, the rail. Again. That said, I do agree that the grapple is just plain more fun than without. I was shocked...

I have yet to see a single post or announcement or comment from anyone at Raven or id about the multiplayer, patches, bugs, fixes, future plans, or anything else Choose one 1) They're working feverishly on a patch and watching all feedback like hawks, waiting to pleasantly surprise everyone with a p...