Sha8ds Pissed... So it's time for a rant
After having probably the worst experience of MORONS on a game of ET:QW. Ive decided to write a letter to ID or whoever made the game…
why?
well to screw off this Friends dealie and replace it with a “Moron Numptys” dealie
that way i can filter out all the servers with TKing morons, and morons that only go as snipers when the map calls for engies (could you believe that the server was full and NOT 1 person was building the bridge? except me, and NO one was supporting me either)
so anyway… id rather use the dealie to know where the MORONS are so i can stay away!
ill also put in the letter, WTF is the deal with the water? so much and so useless… and I want to THROW my knife MORONS…
anyone else got the sheets?
Sha8doW
(he who has had it up to here with Morons)
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Sounds like...
We need to start getting some scrims going. We’ve got a pretty big gaming roster of ET:QW players now (even though I’m not yet one of them) and we can avoid the “public server arseholes” issue that plagued Wolf:ET to it’s ultimate demise (at Optus and Internode anyway).
Are there many other clans out there getting sorted out for ET:QW?
I do know what you mean. You
I do know what you mean. You need to pick your server though. If it’s just you on there (ie no other IPX to back you up) just pick another server. Chip, Hashy and I had one of the best games on Friday night. Sab even showed up (in disguise – we didn’t know it was him). ltmon’s idea of organised games is good too. We have enough players to do it now (assuming enough of them can show up on notice). I think GA has bookable servers so we should be fine.
Clan’s who’ve shown interest for a game are Skullz, TOG, and there was at least one more. Even if they’re the selfish sniper type – that’s fine. We’ll play them and win.
Water, agree. SOO pointless.
Rant Justified (Shit Players = Shit Game)
I’m the least most qualified ET:QW player as I have never played any team games (Except Q3: Capture the Flag) in the past until now and alot of people talk about ET with me sitting there going HUGH?
My point is even with my inexperience within two times of playing each level in ET:QW I was able to pickup the basics as well as support my team mates were needed (ie find them on the battle field)
As ET:QW is teamed based I spend alot of time were the masses are and yes there a times when the masses on some servers don’t even mass near the right objectives, therefore these matches go on and I sit there going what about the objectives.
It is disappointing that you like many of us experienced a shit server with shit players but my first experience with CS was exactly the same and I’ll never play that because of the campers just sitting there.
Anyway back to my Justified comments, It seams that you experienced shit on many levels like many of us during the week and the idea of clans playing each other is a way better game and if anyone remembers back that alot and I mean alot of Quake 3 servers were locked off to the public and unless you were in a clan you could not get access to any Capture the flag games. So in summary I put it down to shit players and unless they join a clan they will continue to spoil it for the rest of us.
(n0mad walks away thinking he better read up on all objectives on every level before someone calls him a Shit Player :)
anyone else got the sheets?
Sure, I could bitch until you can’t take anymore, regarding team stacking,
lack of team work, people assuming the covert ops and infiltrator class are
snipers, players belittling and generally making the new feel unwelcome for
many less than valid reasons. All in all public servers are a very distasteful
for the above reasons, but you will come across a few really good people.
Kids destroy team based games purely because %90 of them don’t have
the capacity to understand that to win a team based game you need to make
sacrifices for your team, you can’t be “the king shit”.
I’ll stop at that, it would solve nothing for me to continue listing the issues I
have with QW and all games online.
Sadly Quake Wars is flawed in the sense of squad mechanics. The game doesn’t
support VOIP, when you join a fire team the members aren’t clearly indicated on
the map so it is very difficult to keep track of everyone. I believe that fire team
members should be painted as a unique color dot on the map, and that the fire
team’s only chat should be a far brighter color than piss yellow, that we can
change g_chatfireteamcolor #### but in game who has the time to communicate
with chat? There is no setting to adjust the fire team triangle color
(the marker above friendly heads) you can adjust the team color as a whole
and the enemys color. After saying that I have had a few games with Hashy, Fuzz,
Chipper and Sha8dow, and yeah it is great to know you have your team with you
but it is still nearly impossible to stick together as a unit, due to the poor squad
mechanics.
I have applied for a Team IPX permanent ventrilo channel which we should have
by mid week, I will post the details when it is active.
We are all adults so really I don’t see a problem with using the vent when ever
you play. The channel is password protected you don’t need to worry about
undesirables jumping in.
So as a whole what I’m trying to say is we have the potential to have a good game
anytime we log in a with another member, you can use the vent to quickly kick up
a few attack plans and then focus on that, from there use the vent for misc assistance
calls, ie: Hey where did everyone go,: god damn it sniper on the NE mountain, can I
get a medic once you’ve take him out.
Okay now worst case scenario, you are stuck on the most terrible team, they wont do
any of the objectives, they bad mouth one an another, they won’t lift a finger to help
you; Use the vent and try to make the most out of the crappy situation, like if you
have yourself and one other IPX find a vehicle that you can use to defend a patch of
patch of dirt or be sneaky and hunt the enemy in a team, imagination time.
The point is that even if you can’t possibly achieve the mission objective you can
still have a good time and make the enemy team work for their money.
Voice comms FTW!
> I have applied for a Team IPX permanent ventrilo channel
Thanks mate for taking the initiative. We’ve used Skype a couple of times before, and I think the team will have a better gaming experience if we start using voice comms in games more regularly. Not to mention that we’ll be a better team in scrims with some decent tactical planning etc.
Plus we can bitch about the people we’re playing with/against and make ourselves feel better :)
Us Linux types have some trouble with Ventrilo, usually able to get sound but microphones won’t play ball… TeamSpeak and Skype both work fine, but given I don’t use either regularly I’m not sure what we miss out on from not using Ventrilo.
Kazashi, have you tried using Ventrilo with Wine any time lately to see if this problem is fixed?
Shad: I think playing against dick heads (and Norwegians) is part of online gaming with public servers — it just happens and we can’t fix it any time soon.
EDIT: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3936
Nice: seems Ventrilo does work alright on Linux these days, surround sound and all. There’s an issue with push-to-talk however, as keyboard actions are swallowed by the active window (i.e. the game) and don’t get through the other app…. we’ll just have to be really quiet and leave it on all the time ;)
Ventrillo?
I haven’t tried it in Wine, I’ll give it a go though. I’ve got Teamspeak installed, but I’ve never actually used it. Skype works, but it only worked properly in OSS mode, which meant I couldn’t use it AND ET:W at the same time.
Basically, anywhere the public is, morons will be. It’s like that in real life, especially even more so online where people can hide behind a fascade. Long before the days of ET and Q3, back before Q1 was striving to be recognised online, the Moron (sp. homo norwegianus) was there.
Ventrilo works well
Latest version of Wine (wine-0.9.46) and latest stable Ventrilo, followed the instructions and had it working well I think… although there was noone on the test server to speak to. Really was fairly painless, although my sound card (Intel-HDA) is well supported with good drivers, which probably helps.
Next time someone is online to help me test further it would be good. There’s also a push-to-talk workaround that may work for me as well.
You’d think I would have better things to do at work… actually… I do!
Mate, I'm funking livid!
Yep, I feel like taking a sniper rifle, going onto a grassy knoll and taking out some dipsheets. Nothing to do with camping mofo’s though.
But yeah, ET:QW is a TEAM game.
I’ve played one campign so far on Shad’s pc and I was constantly voted best medic. There were quite a few medics out there, but it seemed that I was the only one actually reviving and healing people… Funny, I thought that was the medics’ main task…
too many chiefs, not enough indians… Plenty of idiots though!
Sounds like you guys are getting everything sorted, I can’t wait to get into this!
medics healing?
medics are supposed to heal? seriously? u sure?
lol i thought they wernt suppose to the amount of times you will be lying dead on ground and a medic will run right past into the middle of battle and get killed.
so hurry and get yas going kazozza we need good medics :p
Who would have thought...
yeah, it’s such a silly idea… guy with a portable defib and a medkit ctually putting the gun down to heal someone… geez!
To hell with the tax office, I’m buying my laptop!
Defib to help or suside?
i have always wondered if the medic dived onto the ground could he accidently set off the defib on his chest and kill himself since the sitting right on his chest near his heart.
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