Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news.microsoft.com!news From: "Tony Hafner" Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.playing Subject: Re: LMCTF 3.0 --> opinions? Date: 14 Apr 1998 15:57:14 GMT Organization: Microsoft Corp. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <01bd67be$303579a0$e1d0379d@duplo.dns.microsoft.com> References: <6ga5ti$9dt@newsops.execpc.com> <352f65d7.2319120@news.bignet.net> <3530284b.10913184@news.gis.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.55.208.225 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: clanworld.com rec.games.computer.quake.playing:38873 > >Well there is a few thing that I would like changed...more symetrical > >maps... > > Some of the maps are good, but some are just terrible! The ones that > are good are generally the symmetrical ones with defined "bases". Asymmetrical CTF levels generally suck. It takes a huge amount of playtesting to make sure they are fair- and even if they are, people will bitch that they aren't. > >brighter colors for red and blue skins...I had a real hard > >time seeing who was on my team.... > > I thought the colors are okay, but they should cut back the colored > lighting a bit. Too many bright red and blue lamps get confusing. > Some of the skin sets tend to blend together as well. Heh- play in software mode. You won't get the colored lighting that tends to screw you up so much. Or is there a variable you can change to turn this off? > > get rid of the lag... > > It's not like there's some magic "lag" switch they can hit that makes > your game really smooth. No, but well-designed levels can greatly reduce it. > >I have ISDN > >and it was lag city on the maps I have been on so far... with a little > >work and some better maps this will rock. > > It does seem to get very slow when more than 3 or 4 people are > fighting in close proximity, but that may just be me. My ISP's a > little flaky at times. This is also a map design problem. It's also an inherent problem in the Quake-style 3D engines. There is simply too much to draw to the screen with each rocket, hyperblaster round, etc. The best solution is to design maps that tend to limit the number of players in vis-range at any one time. This is why you get much smoother play in levels with narrow, twisty halls. And when in levels that don't have the Hyperblaster. -- Tony Hafner If replying to this post by mail, remove everything in my return address between the *s. Check out my home page at: http://www.geocities.com/~hafhead