Basically I'm gonna be taking the original Overfloater, spiffy it up a tiny bit, and completely changing the gameplay dynamic. There will be two parts to the level, the upper level where the scis are, and the on the ground base where the spawns and admin are. This should better accommodate larger crowds, as well as bring a unique gameplay dynamic to the map. A beta is available.
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Posted by FatStrings on
Fri Feb 27th 2009 at 10:59pm
the only thing I could see as an improvement is the platform system allowing you to see friends
Yeah, it's build on Silverlight, bleh. There's not a lot of options for unpacking an executable onto a person's computer from a website. There's activex, but that's not going to give platform independence. There's shockwave, but, I don't think that will either.
I don't really get why they make you wait in queue twice or even 3 times in a row, instead of getting it done in one go.
Anyway, I got in and it was quite fun. It is also very simple vanilla Q3 with an added website to track your stats. I initially thought it actually lets you play in any browser, OS-independent, but it's really just a plugin to start Q3 from a browser-link. So, yea... Q3 was fun in 1999, it still is, but I have a hard time seeing the "revolution" here.
After crashing a few times i got to take the training session and i did well but when it was uploading my stats it crashed. i waited through the queue again and took the test again. it then crashed again. Im waiting in the queue (35000) to take the test again a day later...
I signed up pretty sharpish so I missed the intial queuing problems, although getting a game now takes a fair bit of forward planning! I've basically just left it open in my browser all day while I've been at work, and eventually I get in and get a game. Unfortunately the site has gone down a couple of times today, so even once in I don't stay in for long :S
Add ReNo as a friend if anyone fancies a game some time. Probably once it all quietens down a bit!
