Woah woah woah. I didn't know LG was causing people NIGHTMARES...
I'm sorry. We will patch this as soon as we can. Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have any more dire concerns regarding QuackWorld.

Thanks.

I implemented the iDrive functionality with TF2's scripting a long time ago, and there are a lot of people who use it. I'm sure this helped to spread the concept around.

+1

fake shaft ruined qw in many ways.... u actually needed skill on high ping shafting and predicting lg etc...

I was more referring to the idea of iDrive being always allowed, and not being seen as a slight cheat. There wasn't much support for that, at least in this thread.

iDrive could become universally accepted over time, like fakeshaft was. Or it could go the way of the fRJ script: used in small pockets of the scene; frowned upon everywhere else. I'm okay with either outcome. But iDrive is similar to the fRJ in that it lowers the hand-eye coordination ceiling a little bit. So I can see the case against it.

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I'm pretty passive about team overlay. However, if I was forced to pick, I'd say team overlay always on. Why? Allow me to ramble.

In biology there is the concept of emergent complexity, in which, as the complexity of a system increases, new possibilities for expression arise: a heart does things a single heart cell can not; a flock of birds does things a lone bird can not.

QW 4on4 is largely an exercise in information triage: efficiently sharing/analyzing information, but not to the point of distraction. Team overlay moves some of that information out of the voice channel and onto the screen. This frees up space in the voice channel for discussion of tactics and strategy, rather than item reporting. And I've noticed this difference in-game. It's not a huge difference, but it is there.

Is there skill in knowing when to report? Of course. But moving status information to the team overlay results in a more complex system. It's like raising the bandwidth of a connection. New opportunities for expression emerge that would have otherwise been squeezed out.

I wrote some stuff about teamoverlay and teamsays earlier and how I think that allowing teamoverlay ruins ppl's ability to report teamsays. Let me just clarify:

I don't think teamoverlay per se is bad, rather that mixing things up is bad. Using teamoverlay in mixes and then not in official games ruins things IMO. I think it should either be allowed at all times or not at all, anything else seems confusing. I know I'm more of the conservative type in general, and I do think that teamsays are a part of especially the 4on4 skillset. However I'm not sure what I think about teamoverlay.

I've grown the "mishabit" of looking at the teamoverlay while playing mixes because I don't think that I get reasonable information with teamsays there. I actually quite like the style of it. I do miss some really important things like where people died IF killed by nmy weapon (as in rl/lg nmy) though.

I'm starting to wonder if allowing teamoverlay (or something like it) always would help people get better at understanding the game and at the same time _not_ really change anything for those who doesn't like it.. But then again people used to teamoverlay doesn't usually report that good so it does ruin it for people who doesn't want to use teamoverlay, and we're back where we started.

Since this is a brainstorm thread,

how come granades arent affected by the throwers movement?

Friendly suggestion to anyone who thinks about doing changes to QW: Do not ever waste a single second on trying to reach an agreement accross the community. Will not happen, ever, forget about it. QW community is a reflection of the real world: people will never ever agree on one single thing.

If you want to get things moving, create your own branch of QW today, find your own developers today, do changes today, test changes, reflect on your tests, do more changes, find server admins who will run your modified game, run tournaments in your modification. Nothing stops you from doing this, everything is available to you. Also this is how people will vote on your changes: by changing the code for you, by installing servers for you, by participating in your tournaments. All that is much more fun and more effective thing to do than wasting your time discussing things with the whole scene. I wish I could go back in time and tell this to myself years ago.

By the way, "QW is good the way it is." Which QW are you referring to? 1996 QW? 2000? 2005? 2015?

i agree with jhony

So should we spawn like 5 servers where LG does 27 damage per hit instead of 30, and then play like a handful of games on them and draw a really weak conclusion from that? Not sure what you're expecting here..

No conclusions. Just start doing it, if it's better the community will follow your idea, if not, then not.

Finding and agreeing upon a change in QW, haha. That's not even touching on who's gonna implement it. But who doesn't love a pointless argument, so here we go:

• Teamoverlay. So if it was up to me teamoverlay with autotook and autolost would've been the standard, lol. It just seems to me like a more elegant solution to delivering information while teambinds are an archaism and a hot mess in general. But I get the old schooler's angle on this just as well. Moot point.

• Pitch limit. Well, kinda annoying considering it's probably the only fps that doesn't have +/-89. Oh well, not a big deal.

• Weapon damage. Whatever, fine as it is.

This was supposed to be a "brainstorm thread" not a ideological war.



The game didn't really change during the years, it was just the players improving their skills. And that is what makes this game so unique: you can break it's limits, do new things and have a new perception about it even if you never change a single byte.

Pull request to ktx to make /teamoverlay a vote.

i fired up Quark and tried to make the changes on the entities on tb5 maps. only managed to do it on dm6 without the new map crashing. maybe someone else with more experience with maps/entities can do it ?

The entities are stored as a single string in the .bsp file, you can just open it up (even just in notepad) and search for worldspawn, that should get you somewhere in the string. You can copy & paste out to a .ent file and modify there? In spectator mode, cam_pos will give you the current co-ordinates, if you need to move things around.

mannnn...... JohNy_cz NAILED our fu***ing brains with this one!!!
That's it !!!

Here's something I think we can all agree on. Remove the spawn on end that is furthest away.

Remove this from the .ent file.

{
"classname" "info_player_deathmatch"
"origin" "-392 608 40"
"angle" "90"
}

EDIT: I think this might already be standard on a lot of servers, just not the one I was playing the other day. Never mind.

One of the best things about end is that there's a far away spawn. I love slow spawning and then spawning behind someone waiting for me to come from the far spawn

Any news on Jawn Mode?

Or just play endmm4.bsp

haha sorry sed :<

KTPro used to remove that spawn, you'd have to explicitly add "localinfo k_please_dont_remove_end_tele_spawn 1" to your server config just to get it back

As for JawnMode, I've been concentrating on BMX while the weather isn't 150°C, but here's one excerpt from the changelog that ppl might find interesting, new version of my spawnmodel:

"Telefrag on crowded start (no telefrags awarded for first 2 seconds of game). 50% change of spawning on occupied spots IF occupee spawned more than 2 seconds ago. 50% chance of last spawn being excluded from spawn pool"

I used to hate spawn telefrags, but DM3 4on4 firstspawn and camping RA spawns to exclude them had to be dealt with, so this model is a compromise between the OG JMode spawnmodel and KTPro/KTX ones

My ideas (just ideas for fun really, not overly-analysed as this is brainstorming). I don't actually expect any fundamental changes in QW. Most of my ideas are more around subtle changes in any case.

Map entity changes:
-I'd like to see a health pack in the water on dm3. Not a game-changer but it is kind of depressing being in that area with health so difficult to
-Additional spawn point on dm3 (water maybe?)
-Reduce size of a cells pack on ztndm3
-Replace NG with SNG on dm2
-Add some shells on dm2

Game changes
-Increase GA effectiveness to 40% or 50%
-Make LG marginally less effective (perhaps increase reload time to 12.5ms)
-Increase number of starting nails in an SNG
-Reduce max rockets to 50
-Possibly increase self damage from explosives
-Possibly change quad damage to tri damage (not sure about this one in case it discourages aggressive play)
-Possibly have a short (say 0.3s) 'prespawn' period after death where you can see where you are about to respawn but haven't yet, so that you can react quicker

Rule changes
-Tournaments with experimental team sizes e.g. 3on3

As for changing pitch-limit that might be annoying because you've have to relearn how to do certain shots (e.g. if you are stood at a certain place on the map, you know where a full vertical lock shot will end up.

Uh, isn't the point that you can't look straight up or down (vertical) ?
Like, if you could look up past 70 degrees....to 90....

He meant full vertical as in pitched up as far as it would go, not 90°

I LOL'd a bit "Mostly subtle changes", they just include changing weapons, ammo, spawns, powerups, damage

These are actually really interesting ideas! Minor map balancing tweaks making for better gameplay. Thumbs up for this!
Other games like CS tweak their old core maps from time to time, why couldn't we.


I think none of this should change tho. Too much of a gamechanger.

Wholeheartedly agree with this. The standard NG is next to useless in pretty much any situation. SNG would allow for at least some reasonable firepower of the spawn.



Again would love to see this as I'm sure many others would as well. With the exception of e1m2 where (in a fairly balanced matchup) you're not going to be facing too much heavy artillery, GA is pretty much redundant as is. Increasing its damage absorption slightly isn't gonna change the combat dynamics too much but may at least give a player a fighting chance of escaping from an unfavorable engagement.

I always liked CPMA's armors: GA 50%, YA 66%, RA 75%. It makes the armour:health decrement ratio 1:1, 2:1 and 3:1 respectively .

For reference, QW armors are 30%, 60% and 80%...

I use ng alot On dm2. IF u are in a disadvantage, you can stop nmy from rushing towards you with ng.