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Ryder7

Ryder7
Hey there! I'm finally back to ED after a few months AFK, happy to discover all the new stuff and... Wait! I'm innocent! Felony is futiiii
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the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I do this mainly in a military CZ that has a SEC building at one end and two HABs at the other. Checkpoint Bravo has a (I think) a landed Eagle beside it. Sniping from the SEC building is rather satisfying and, I've found, Charlie and Echo become uncontested in many cases.

This means that only one checkpoint needs to be defended at aby one time.

If you boil them up when they attempt to take it and make 'em dead 'uns, you can let your NPC team retain checkpoints while you mass points from letting the enemy eat hot plasma. And bullets. Git some. Git some.
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I think the NPC pathfinding is bugged on that CZ - they stop climbing the stairs after a while.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Ryder7 said:
I pictured that and had visions of Q3 Arena, that space map with bots flying everywhere:LOL:
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I loved Q3 Arena! Can't get the dratted thing to work on this PC though :cry: *

And yes, I also wonder why enemies in CZ's don't use their jetpacks. Another little niggle (very minor) is that the enemy drop ship has an uncanny knack of landing very near to the next checkpoint to come online.

* EDIT: The Aphelion in ED reminds of Q3A's plasma gun. Which, in turn, reminds me of "Old Painless"

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Ryder7

Ryder7
]M[ said:
The Longest Yard? Still a favourite in Quake Champions :)

Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2156568957
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Yes, that's the one.:giggle: Back in boarding school, I remember a bunch of nerds asked for some old computers and installed a lan room in no time, goood times
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I loved Q3 Arena! Can't get the dratted thing to work on this PC though :cry: *

And yes, I also wonder why enemies in CZ's don't use their jetpacks. Another little niggle (very minor) is that the enemy drop ship has an uncanny knack of landing very near to the next checkpoint to come online.

* EDIT: The Aphelion in ED reminds of Q3A's plasma gun. Which, in turn, reminds me of "Old Painless"

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I'll give a try with the Q3 demo vers.
Loved both this and UT99, still a thing here from time to time:sneaky:. Too bad it refuses to work on your gig:cautious:
Also Predator minigun!
That's a lot of chidhood nostalgia (...and I guess explanations on weirdos the like of me and my crew grown up with all that:ROFLMAO:
 

]M[

]M[
Ryder7 said:
Yes, that's the one.:giggle: Back in boarding school, I remember a bunch of nerds asked for some old computers and installed a lan room in no time, goood times

I'll give a try with the Q3 demo vers.
Loved both this and UT99, still a thing here from time to time:sneaky:.
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My brief taste of “LAN” was with two “bubble” iMacs, an Ethernet crossover cable and the Q3A demo sometime in 2001…it was a fun weekend! 😁

…it wasn’t until we finally got ADSL here that I really started playing online/multiplayer - with UT2004 …we still play ONS (Onslaught - the team objective game type with vehicles) quite regularly on our small community server, with veterans and newcomers from all sorts of FPS games - it’s a nice, fun-filled counterpoint to the depth & complexity of ED :)
 
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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
I feel like I'm the outlier here...
In my younger days, I played:
  • racing games (the more arcade-y ones like NfS, P.O.D., Flatout or LevelR (as far as I know the first racing MMO))
  • RTS and CMS games (like AoE or Anno, but also had a look at Homeworld and other SciFi themed ones)
  • RP games (like Nights of Neverwinter, Everquest (didn't make it very far into that one, but will never forget the trains of NPC enemies following you around) and more recently NWO, STO and SW:TOR)
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
CMDR Timber McWolf said:
I feel like I'm the outlier here...
In my younger days, I played:
  • racing games (the more arcade-y ones like NfS, P.O.D., Flatout or LevelR (as far as I know the first racing MMO))
  • RTS and CMS games (like AoE or Anno, but also had a look at Homeworld and other SciFi themed ones)
  • RP games (like Nights of Neverwinter, Everquest (didn't make it very far into that one, but will never forget the trains of NPC enemies following you around) and more recently NWO, STO and SW:TOR)
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In my younger days I played Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Xevious and Gorf...
 

aRJay

aRJay
Fnord Velkor said:
In my younger days the most "tech" playing was a YoYo. ;-)

OK I'll admit to an electric train set.
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I was never very good with YoYos.
I did have a slot car racing game, no not that one, from Airfix.

The highest tech toy I had was a thing called a Computacar which was a white GT40 car model that you could program to go forwards and backwards and turn using a relative of the punch card where you cut patterns into the edge of the card which fed through the chassis of the car.

The trains were my dads really.

There were also three rockets one was water and air powered, the other two were launched by rubber band catapult, the one like a missile worked well the XL5 was less successful.
 
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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
aRJay said:
I was never very good with YoYos.
I did have a slot car racing game, no not that one, from Airfix.

The highest tech toy I had was a thing called a Computacar which was a white GT40 car model that you could program to go forwards and backwards and turn using a relative of the punch card where you cut patterns into the edge of the card which fed through the chassis of the car.

The trains were my dads really.

There were also three rockets one was water and air powered, the other two were launched by rubber band catalogue, the one like a missile worked well the XL5 was less successful.
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Is that a genuine catalogue, or was this intended to be a catapult?
 
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