Soldier of Fortune2 Update

someone set us up the bomb

sonuvabitch!!! it's

"someone set up us the bomb !!"

Why does no one ever get that right?! >:-(
</anal catchphrase corrector>

I think it's telling that SoF2 has 1/4 the number of players of Quake 3: Arena, 1/58th the number of players of Half-Life, and it's been out exactly 9 days, whereas Quake 3: Arena has been out more than 2 years, and Half-Life, at least 4 years. I think within a couple weeks it should challenge Quake 3: Arena, and be up there in the 10000 range within 6 months. Remember, this is a non-holiday season reelease here, it takes a lot of guts, after all the last major multiplayer fps released in spring was Tribes 2, and we know how well that has gone. Also, Half-Life is now on it's 10th Strontium edition or something, right?

Gooseman has continually eroded gameplay in CS in order to appeal to the least common denominator and broaden his audience. It's about time that somebody suceeded in "doing CS right", greatly improving the game dynamics and rewarding both teamwork AND skill.

But it's still not perfect. I've been talking with some other players and everyone seems to agree that they need to adjust the Incendiary grenades. It's too easy to block off key areas with its long-lasting effects. There are three good solutions to the problem:

#1: Reduce the duration of the burn. Right now it shuts down an area for 8 seconds. Reducing it to 4-5 seconds might help.

#2: Remove the "sticky" effect that the flames possess. Right now you take significantly more damage than expected since you're slowed down as you take damage.

#3: Reduce the damage in some way. I'm in favor of a "burning-out" effect, where the flames deal less and less damage the longer the flames burn.

Any other complaints? I've heard the shotgun cited a lot, but personally I like how it is right now. The one-shot-kill at point-blank is a good thing imo, since it's unlikely that an enemy will get that close if you're in a firefight with them, and thus teams have to make sure they cover the flanks. The autoshotty is most definelty not a problem, since it's almost completely worthless at anything but close range.

All in all, I'm enjoying the hell out of SoF2. There aren't a ton of servers online right now, but all the ones I've been on have had very low lag, great players and admins who are on the ball.

wasabi wasabi

SOF2 is the best FPS Multi player experience for me since I was addicted to CS which was about 2.5 years ago (haven't played it in about a year). I enjoyed Wolf multi a lot, but SOF2 wins as far as I'm concerned. Only thing SOF2 needs is a medic and stationary guns. Creeping through the weeds is so much fun. I don't think there is another game where you could be creeping up towards a teams base and if using cover properly you won't be detected.

Fuck you guys!

These comments about running around in grass and hiding rock,..... Umm I'm kind of liking that idea.


Surely it won't beat Q3 UT2 :( - not after all the good work they've done! :(

Little script thing I did in autoexec.cfg, it lets me duck in the grasses and tell my teammates something, by rebinding the talk keys to crouch first. After I hit enter I hit \ to release the crouch. \ also doubles as a crouch toggle.

set duck "+movedown; set crouchswitch vstr stand; echo ** Crouching...**"
set stand "-movedown; set crouchswitch vstr duck; echo ** Standing... **"
set crouchswitch "vstr duck"
set cmessagemode "messagemode; vstr duck"
set cmessagemode2 "messagemode2; vstr duck"

bind "t" "vstr crouchswitch"
bind "y" "vstr cmessagemode"
bind "\" "vstr cmessagemode2"

Want to play sooo bad, but after trying both the SP and MP demos and finding that they run badly on my system (p3-800, 384megs ram, gf2 mx) i have decided not to buy it. With mid-range detail on I can get 60-80 fps in Q3A, at everything on lowest in SoF2 I can barely break 20...dropping to 15 or so in a big firefight. First game I've had trouble with in a long time, didn't see that much more detail. :(
Be a while before I can afford to upgrade too. Oh well, back to CS. :\

Woohoo! The CS Killer continues its iterations...

for those who like to use voice its not a waste of time.

Clan's will appreciate it as well.

Maybe I'm just more tolerant, but I find that I can at least play SOF2 mp, and my system is a P2-450, 256 sdram, geforce2mx. Dunno how competitive I am, but I still have fun with it.

SP, on the other hand..........

Oh yeah, I'll be going to haiku's now

WooHOO! Good idea!
Also: Please fix inf on the raven map, it's far too easy to cap on. I had 4 rounds where I made more than 100 points this week. Once I capped 9 times in a row in less than 10 minutes.

Seeing as this is an SOF2 thread....

What's the pw to haiku's excellent server?

I got an email about the shackservers. Not sure whats wrong with them.

why are the shack servers fux0red, boston is so jacked, eveyrone looks like john mullins and the only weapon that does damage is the shotgun

So is the game worth buying? I would only get the game for Multiplayer, i loved the mp_shop map, but how are the other maps? i heard they were sort of small. Thanks for any replies, yours truely, CubsRock

what would be cool would be some indicator of knowing who on your team is primarly going offense or defense, while not perfect since shit happens on the fly, there are those of us who do actually play the same role on the whole map...

Finally. Integrated Voice Communication in a Game. caveat: that I actually like

Raven made them cygnus

well, there are 2 more maps coming soon, so even if they are too small there will be more :)

You guys always rag on Valve, yet all companies take ideas from them...

I personally am only working on multiplayer (thats my job) so I only posted multiplayer news.

CS was by no means an overnight hit.

When I was playing CS back in beta 4 there was NO WHERE near the number of players there is today and im sure back at beta 1 there was even less. Also, CS was a free mod on an already very successful game which helped its move up in the world as well.

Not to mention a extremely well put together mod.

no single player fixes?
i thought this was mainly a SP game? :<

yuck

Sweet! More content is always welcome. I should get my copy in the mail today.

YAY! these sound like great additions to the SOF2 juggernaut. If you haven't bought this game yet, you should flog yourself.

Eh, you probably will anyways.

-gren

flog yourselves that is

why put voice on? waste of time...... demolition sounds koo tho

uh.. first of all, the demolition was from counterstrike which was done by Mihn Lee (god i hope i spelled that correct). Just because they bought it doesnt mean they came up with it :) However, imho valve did an outstanding job with half-life and has done an outstanding job keeping an engine which is so old alive.

due to copywrite restrictions I had to change it.... haha. just kidding, apparently im not l33t enough to know the real phrase ;)

ARGH! It's "set up us", not "set us up"!!!! GRRRRRR!!!

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Most obvious question: Where'd the bots go? I see them here nor there! Wanted to make a server last nite and DM with a few of them but alas no bot menu option.