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Pavlock on Team Arena
by Steve Gibson, Aug 26, 2000 5:55pm PDTA few of the guys at id are still working away on wrapping up the Quake3 Team Arena expansion pack which we havent heard much about for a while. Bobby Pavlock at Rogue played a bunch of the pack recently and shares his impressions in a .plan update that may be of interest.
... us Rogue-types cruised out to the new id offices last night for a little beta testing for Team Arena, and all I can say is "WOW!" That is by far some of the most fun I've had in a long, long time. The new maps are sweet, of course. But what really rocks the gameplay are the new powerups, weapons, items, and gameplay types. Man, oh man! The chaingun is, how can I put it... BADASS! When you're firing that thing it feels like you're carrying around a big 30MM gun from an A-10 and chopping people into pieces. The kamikaze item is insane. If you like blowing people up, you'll love that one. But my favorite, by far, was the new powerups. One in particluar was my power-up of choice. I loved it so much that when one of my teammates would take it, I would be yelling and screaming at them for taking it :) Long story short - Team Arena rocked my socks off! <snip>He then continues with an update on the progress of Alice which is based on the Quake3 engine and is a bit further from release.
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Top 5 Games By Players
Half Life 26468
Quake 3: Arena 4276
Unreal Tournament 3872
Starsiege TRIBES 2654
Quake II 1985
The bottom line is that Q3A and UT have been keeping neck and neck for a long time. However, Q3A appears to be ontop of UT more often than UT is ontop of Q3A.
Basically, the problem we have here is that a bunch of snot nosed brats who suck at Quake3 want to stir up some shit on a saturday night, because they are too much of a fucking nerd ass loser.
I am planning on buying Team Arena. I have gotten my money's worth out of Q3A (as I have from every id game I've purchased) & I expect I will out of Team Arena too.
I wonder how many of the "id won't get another dollar from me" crowd are the same guys that never bought Q3A in the first place, or are just pissed because they couldn't warez it & get it for free?
-Quag
So let me get this straight. We have to pay $35 more to get a map that we should have gotten in the first place?
id can suck my uncle's pet cow's left nut as far as I'm concerened. They aren't getting another dollar from me.
$30 for a mod couple of new power-ups and a couple of new spam weapons seems like a rip-off.
not to mention that Epic gave theirs away
blech
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Hehe... Mister Team Arena Guy, live in the flesh.
(I'm obviously bored.)
When I gleefully noticed that the female models weren't half-naked or wearing chainmail thongs, Jon replied, "That was actually one of the directives from 3rd Edition. They really want to make them not half-naked. Not the fur bikini kind of thing. Much more heroic. In fact, when we have armor for these particular models, its full body armor. Its not just like half-midriff."
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You mean apart from the SHIT maps, FUCKING STUPID bots, lack of gameplay times, SHIT netcode for anyone who isn't an LPB, and the fact its nothing but a glorified SDK?
I hate the 'feel' of it.
But I'm sure it will have good networking code. hahaha.
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This guy rambles on like someone cares about what he says. I'll let the crappy Team Arena screen shots and id's latest track record speak for itself. I don't need some two bit douche bag from Rouge trying to push a product on me.
I will NOT buy Team Arena! Q3a was a HUGE disappointment for me, and id should be embarrassed. I can't believe the same company that made Doom, made Q3A. The engine is a work of art, especially after seeing what you can really do with it (FAKK2), but Q3A's game content is mangina.
ps: If you are NOT Carmack do NOT make plan file updates. FYI, no one cares about you.
Thanks!!!11
BTW: #21 LOL!!
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Ra2 rocked nuts!
Your capped at 90 fps most likely, I bet it will go even higher if you raised the cap.
Maybe I'll check out a Radeon once the prices drop a bit. ;)
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I have no problems maitaining 60 fps in ra3map4 (castle map) on a measily 366@550.
Then again I run @ 800x600 16 bit.
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--Zilla
It's just awesome how you be across the map against a werebull, warm-up your minigun and blast the thing away while it charges against you. Sorta like a western stand-off ;) Even more awesome is when the massive thing crumbles and dies just inches in front of you, and you haven't moved a hair :) The feeling is just amazing!! Reminds me of J and K shooting down the alien ship at the end of MIB...