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old.Quorthon
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Well, I haven't played Q3 in months as people know, due to my new-found love of CS, but I just had a game that finally made me play Ra3 for the first time in ages again.
Map; CS_Siege. I was playing as CT, and doing quite well as it happens, all things considered.
Problem, teams were 10 T v 8 CT, with T's determined to camp out their base (as is their right) rather than rush and give us a chance. They had around 4 AWM's, 2 behind the crates to the left of the jeep covereing the ramp, and 1 or 2 more covering the sewer entrance from the small stairs leading to the hossie area. As if this weren't bad enough, 1 of the CT's was actually off having his lunch or summat, so it was really 10 v 7.
Now this map is difficult enough as it is for CT's, even with the same no of players, but with this kind of imbalance it was just fucking ridiculous. Any requests to even up the teams were just met with accusations of whinging, moaning etc. We couldnt get the non-playing CT kicked either. It was ridiculous at times cos at one point it was down to 5 T's against this one vegetable, and STILL THEY CAMPED THEIR BASE!!!!!! (admittedly this was the first time we realised he wasnt playing but still, you get my point). You expect when it is down to this many peeps, that the larger no of players will hunt down the 1 remaining enemy.
Furthermore, if seems that whenever a new player would join the map, that they thought to themselves "Bugger me, this is siege and Im gonna get slaughtered as a CT" and went and joined the T team, at 1 point the team imbalance was actually 11 v 6!!!!!!!
No I dont pretend to know the mentality of people playing these games but I must question what sort of kick they get out of being on a winning side in these circumstances. Are these the same people who beat up grannies at bustops??
I still think back to my dissertation on this board a month or so ago for which I am grateful to many of you for excellent feedback I got. In that waffle-fest, I said that while I now loved CS & thought it was excellent, I still recognized the flaws in the game that prevent it being perfect. Well this time something really snapped in me, a sickening feeling that the whole thing was just rather pointless. The whole "teamplay & tactics" thing goes out the window in these circumstances & the game seems rather hollow. That is why I felt all of a sudden like a game of Rocket Arena 3. It just feels so much more......er........honest?!??? No pretensions of grandeur or of being anything more than pure deathmatch, but all good fun.
The above fiasco could have been prevented by team auto_assigning being taken out of the hands of the players. Auto_assigning should be compulsory. Again, I re-iterate the view that on maps which are heavily weighted in favour of 1 or other team and which promote & encourage tactical camping, that their player numbers should be limited. Certainly, the game should not allow new joiners to continually join an already over-subcribed team.
Anway, it was refreshing to get back to some Ra3, but fuck me!!!, I cant get used to the speed of it!!!! Its like CS on crack & E after 10 double espressos!!!!!!!!
Q
Map; CS_Siege. I was playing as CT, and doing quite well as it happens, all things considered.
Problem, teams were 10 T v 8 CT, with T's determined to camp out their base (as is their right) rather than rush and give us a chance. They had around 4 AWM's, 2 behind the crates to the left of the jeep covereing the ramp, and 1 or 2 more covering the sewer entrance from the small stairs leading to the hossie area. As if this weren't bad enough, 1 of the CT's was actually off having his lunch or summat, so it was really 10 v 7.
Now this map is difficult enough as it is for CT's, even with the same no of players, but with this kind of imbalance it was just fucking ridiculous. Any requests to even up the teams were just met with accusations of whinging, moaning etc. We couldnt get the non-playing CT kicked either. It was ridiculous at times cos at one point it was down to 5 T's against this one vegetable, and STILL THEY CAMPED THEIR BASE!!!!!! (admittedly this was the first time we realised he wasnt playing but still, you get my point). You expect when it is down to this many peeps, that the larger no of players will hunt down the 1 remaining enemy.
Furthermore, if seems that whenever a new player would join the map, that they thought to themselves "Bugger me, this is siege and Im gonna get slaughtered as a CT" and went and joined the T team, at 1 point the team imbalance was actually 11 v 6!!!!!!!
No I dont pretend to know the mentality of people playing these games but I must question what sort of kick they get out of being on a winning side in these circumstances. Are these the same people who beat up grannies at bustops??
I still think back to my dissertation on this board a month or so ago for which I am grateful to many of you for excellent feedback I got. In that waffle-fest, I said that while I now loved CS & thought it was excellent, I still recognized the flaws in the game that prevent it being perfect. Well this time something really snapped in me, a sickening feeling that the whole thing was just rather pointless. The whole "teamplay & tactics" thing goes out the window in these circumstances & the game seems rather hollow. That is why I felt all of a sudden like a game of Rocket Arena 3. It just feels so much more......er........honest?!??? No pretensions of grandeur or of being anything more than pure deathmatch, but all good fun.
The above fiasco could have been prevented by team auto_assigning being taken out of the hands of the players. Auto_assigning should be compulsory. Again, I re-iterate the view that on maps which are heavily weighted in favour of 1 or other team and which promote & encourage tactical camping, that their player numbers should be limited. Certainly, the game should not allow new joiners to continually join an already over-subcribed team.
Anway, it was refreshing to get back to some Ra3, but fuck me!!!, I cant get used to the speed of it!!!! Its like CS on crack & E after 10 double espressos!!!!!!!!
Q
but it didnt last for long as my gung-ho, clear em out, soften em up tactic took effect.