*Freezetag blindness

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CyAne
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*Freezetag blindness

Post by CyAne »

Was fed up with CTF so I started playing Freezetag.
Its BaseQ FT (on the dog servers) and Im having a hard time seeing the red and blue models.

Are enemy models and/or colors possible?
Or is there any way to make the models stand out more?
I already put my gamma up which helps a bit.
Any help is appreciated =)
menkent
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Post by menkent »

there are other FT mods out there that use pm colors/skins. ultra freeze-tag? osp1.0x has a built-in FT mode i think :shrug:
CyAne
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Post by CyAne »

Yes I know, but I cant seem to find any good servers (OSP/UFT)
Plus I kinda like these BaseQ's, nice people on them.

But if anyone knows some OSP/UFT servers, please share ;)
(Europe, NL)
CyAne
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Post by CyAne »

Another question: What is facejumping? :paranoid:
dzjepp
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Post by dzjepp »

There are quite a bit of servers I see in eu that people play on (uft). You should play uft anyway as it's better than ft and osp ft, you get improved sounds and gfx (snow and nice ice/cold breath effects).

Use ase and you'll find some good servers.

Mods that don't have bright skins I just use vertex lighting, with mapoverbrightbits at 3. Works like a charm.
Oeloe
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Post by Oeloe »

CyAne wrote:Another question: What is facejumping? :paranoid:
I guess it's just jumping in someones face and fragging him, when he doesn't expect it. I think the hiding on ledges like on Overkill is lamer though, but that's because my teammates are usually not smart enough to look there.

I've been playing a lot on these two servers too for the last 1 or 2 months and it's nice because they're full very often and the games can be enjoyable, but the level of skill isn't really great. :x I seem to be one of the very few people that actually tells his team where enemies and powerups are when i'm frozen (like a coach). It's also sad to see teammates walking into ambushes although i've already warned them that enemies are there. :icon23: ;)

But to answer your original question: there are no promode skins in Freeze Tag, but forcemodel is fixed though. So you can force everyone to be Keel when you set cg_teammodel Keel (and cg_forcemodel 1).

For some reason Ultra Freeze Tag has completely died in Europe. :tear: It's a great mod though, with many features. The unlagged code isn't very nice to play with (except for insta rail freeze) and best disabled, but the load of other OSP/CPMA and original features are great. The spawn system was modified to suit FT mode (prevents spawn freezing).

I have no idea why people stopped playing it though.
Oeloe
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Post by Oeloe »

dzjepp wrote:There are quite a bit of servers I see in eu that people play on (uft).

Use ase and you'll find some good servers.
What are you talking about? ASE finds me only 6 European UFT servers, which are probably all insta rail freeze.
CyAne
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Post by CyAne »

Thanks Oeloe =)

I do try reading all the team-chat and keep an eye on the teamoverlay.
It gets me killed alot, I dont know the maps very well yet and Im to busy reading and figuring out were to go :D
Oh well, I have fun though. :icon17:
Oeloe
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Post by Oeloe »

Hehe, yeah, sometimes i just don't have the time to see which frozen teammate is closest so i just tank up and head for relatively safe areas, try to snatch an RA and look for some teammates on the way. I often end up getting surrounded and raped though. :icon32:

One of the annoying in FT is the bugged knockback system on frozen players. You have to shoot above the waist to actually move someone, but often frozen players get stuck. Weird things happen with MG and LG too. This is handled much better in Ufreeze.
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