Right now, I am on "Defused Gaming | Public TTT Server | 1 hit knife" (66.150.164.62:27015). Last map, we played ttt_airbus_b3, probably one of my top 3 Trouble in Terrorist Town maps. Two rounds before the end of the map, a player named ichimo (STEAM_0:0:45118624), who is also an admin, activated the first emergency exit exactly when the round started. I called him out for it. Peppermint Jello (STEAM_0:1:48392931), another one of the admins on staff, decided to slay me for calling out someone doing something traitorous. I missed the last round of my favorite map, because I called out a traitorous act. Admin abuse at its highest.
ichimo was a traitor, by the way.
Update: Half an hour later (8:30pm), I am still playing on this server, except it is on ttt_community_bowling_v5a now. ichimo once again admin abused, killing my traitor buddy and then threatening to prop kill me. I hastily tried to defend myself, but I find it somewhat suspicious that the admin targeting both of the traitors...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Sunday, June 30, 2013
ARMA and ARMA II Review
Both ARMA and ARMA II belong to the worst game series I have ever played in my entire life. This blog post will be continuously updated to reflect my views on this series. For reference, the games I will be writing about include:
I will not be writing about ARMA III because I do not own nor do I plan on buying it, however I highly suggest not buying it if it is anything like ARMA II.
So let's begin. The worst part of ARMA/II is the engine it runs off of. ARMA II "boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects."
Well, if realism means that there is no way to jump in the game, only some pathetic vaulting, then it must be realistic.
Do you enjoy knowing the target of your demise so you can plot your revenge? Well too bad, ARMA/II only tells you that you were killed, not by who or what.
Want to see technical game information? Something along the lines of a developer console? Too bad, it doesn't have one.
DayZ
My greatest mistake in buying ARMA/II was buying it solely for the purpose of playing DayZ because of all the hype. I can unequivocally state that DayZ is worse than the worst Source engine or Unreal engine mod out there.
I will not be writing about ARMA III because I do not own nor do I plan on buying it, however I highly suggest not buying it if it is anything like ARMA II.
So let's begin. The worst part of ARMA/II is the engine it runs off of. ARMA II "boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects."
Well, if realism means that there is no way to jump in the game, only some pathetic vaulting, then it must be realistic.
Do you enjoy knowing the target of your demise so you can plot your revenge? Well too bad, ARMA/II only tells you that you were killed, not by who or what.
Want to see technical game information? Something along the lines of a developer console? Too bad, it doesn't have one.
DayZ
My greatest mistake in buying ARMA/II was buying it solely for the purpose of playing DayZ because of all the hype. I can unequivocally state that DayZ is worse than the worst Source engine or Unreal engine mod out there.
- DayZ has the worst hit registration. If you enjoy hitting or shooting something at point blank range only for them to miss, you'll enjoy DayZ.
- DayZ has the worst animations. It's like Left 4 Dead 2 if you put your rate at 1000.
- No seriously, I have to make a point to expand on my last point. The zombie animations are terrible. If you attack a zombie crawling or crouching, to attack you it will stand up in a split second and then return to its former position.
- Not every building is hollow, most are simply models. This makes scavenging a lot less fun.
- And when the buildings are hollowed out, they look like crap! Take the hospitals for example. What do you think of in regards to a hospital? A large lobby? At least a clinic? No, the hospital isn't even a whole floor it's like a grandiose bus stop.
- If you are driving an ATV and it happens to flip on its side, your character has no way to flip it back over.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
L4D/2 Explicit Addons
L4DMaps removed their explicit addons, but thankfully I still have most of them:
- http://www.mediafire.com/download/n1iefa1bnz2iq5n/sillyzoey_althair.vpk
- http://www.mediafire.com/download/9aox24s1iwmme10/nude_witch_v2.vpk
- http://www.mediafire.com/download/s6yjcwhc579dkhb/nude_witch.vpk
- http://www.mediafire.com/download/o24f050tilaefpj/battle-scarred_nude_witch.vpk
- http://www.mediafire.com/download/s1qt4wg0wp5o5dp/rochelle_nude.vpk
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Review of BioShock Infinite
Last week, I played BioShock Infinite, a game that I have been had been (joke from the game) looking forward to since the 2010 trailer and the gameplay shown in 2010. I suppose I should have watched every trailer since then, because it was nothing compared to the original BioShock, and might have even been worse than BioShock 2.
No Spoilers
First, let's talk about some basic settings, like mouse sensitivity. The default mouse sensitivity for me felt like 3600 DPI, way too fast. And this was only one to the right of the lowest mouse sensitivity setting. I turned down Mouse Sensitivity all the way, and kept mouse acceleration off, then it was too slow. Mouse acceleration did just about nothing, on or off. So the whole game I played on awkward sensitivity.
As I walked onto the boardwalk and into the lighthouse, I was stunned at the detail in the game. It looked phenomenal. And when I summoned Columbia and took the rocket up to the sky, I was blown away as Booker was. I started exploring a city where the people were actually alive, not dead or crazies in BioShock 1 and 2. I expected some quests to involve the people of the city, which I will get to later. Towards the end of Chapter 1, I noticed something,
All the NPCs looked the same.
There are literally three models for the men, two models for the women, and I believe two models for the children. Originally, I believe that BioShock was going to be autocratic, fascist Americans vs. totalitarian, communist Americans, but instead it was
Gun-loving, Bible-thumping, Ku Klux Klan rednecks vs. anarchists
So following the redneck stereotype, if the citizens of Columbia all found their girlfriends at family reunions, then it makes sense that they all look the same! Inbreeding! Wincest! I'm glad that the revolutionaries eventually became the bad guys, because if, "Don't worry, I'm a progressive", was the staple response from most of the passive NPCs, I would have called this game an arm of the Democratic Party.
In comparing BioShock 1 and 2 with BioShock Infinite, it's interesting to note that radios existed in 1912 when the Marconi Company opened the world's first purpose-built radio, but pocket radios did not go into circulation until 1954 (Wikipedia), so Voxophones make sense.
The choice system was ripped out of the game midway through development.
They could have added a lot more choices like buying a bouquet from that girl, or using Devil's Kiss to help a maintenance man in one of the side rooms.
Autosaves are the most annoying part of that game. First, the indicator was not large enough, I never knew when I did or didn't autosave. Second, when you die right before the next autosave and it puts you back a couple dozen enemies, it causes nothing but rage. I can see where quick saving wouldn't be acceptable because it could get the player stuck, but I would have liked to revert to the previous, previous save.
That has been the one flaw of Halo and other games like it, is when you get to a bad checkpoint where you're low on health, ammunition, or it's just an impossible setup, and you can only revert to this same impossible checkpoint, or restart the chapter. At least when you choose your own saves, you can go back two or three, or more checkpoints.
Speaking of Halo, Irrational Games tried to make BioShock Infinite almost exactly like Halo CE, that or Borderlands 2. As I mentioned, the menus are very similar (revert/restart), you can only have two weapons (Halo CE), and you have both a shield and health (Halo CE). Borderlands 2 also has the shield and health dynamic, and being on the Unreal 3 engine, BioShock Infinite also had Floating Combat Text and Enemy Health Bars, that (when enabled) looked exactly like Borderlands 2.
At least Halo does multiplayer right, the only reason BioShock 2's multiplayer failed was because Feral Interactive left their multiplayer to Games for Windows Live. Big. Mistake. I have my issues with Valve, but they excel in supporting multiplayer for Source and non-Source games, old and new multiplayer, etc. If BS2 was Steam Powered, it would still be alive today, and at least BioShock 2 tried. BioShock Infinite made no attempt at multiplayer (to my knowledge).
There's no hacking in BioShock Infinite, the replacement is possession, which does not give you a discount on vending machines, only 10 silver eagles. There are telescopes that can be used for an achievement, but they cannot zoom, so they are useless. You can see all the scenery in an area just as good without a telescope.
Weapon upgrades, were actually done the right way: you bought them. In BioShock 1, you had to find Power to the People stations, and even then there weren't enough to unlock everything in the game.
But, one of the many things BioShock 1 did right was that it had an open world. There were several locked chests and one Fraternal Order of the Raven that I could have gone back for, but why would I want to? Instead of going directly back to the area, I would have to traverse several areas. Also, there were several points of no return, where I could never go back to those points in the game.
An open world would have also opened the possibility for more NPC quests, whereas most quests were based on items that you found, such as keys or codebooks.
I have to throw out an apology to my English friends, but the skyrails were wrong. You rode the skyrails on the left-hand side, not the American right-hand side.
The Vending Machines looked too similar, it took until near the end of the game to tell them apart from each other. Also, you can't jump and then attach to the skyrails in midjump.
The death animations, are one thing that I will give to BioShock Infinite, they were extremely detailed, such as electrocuting someone down to their very bones.
If I had to pick out three elements of the game that just killed it for me, it would be these:
1) The game depicted in the trailers was nothing like the final product.
Including the two videos above, this trailer had nothing to do with the final product, neither did this gameplay. In the last year, they completely changed the models and gameplay of BioShock Infinite, the gameplay that I bought the game for. Instead they made the models more cartoony and they killed a lot of the gameplay, such as Elizabeth attacking with you, instead of simply giving you resources.
2) I didn't form an emotional attachment to Booker or Elizabeth, at all.
Whenever Booker and Elizabeth had a chance for an emotional moment, the script botched it. Whenever they had a chance for physical contact that would lead to an emotional moment, it was skipped. When they did have physical contact, there was no emotion or facial expression on Elizabeth.
3) Choices were removed from the game.
You can tell from the beginning of the game that they planned on having separate endings based on choices, such as the raffle, the keys, and the ticket master, but about a third of the way into the game, the choices stop. Part way through development they just decided to cut choices from the game. This was inherently anti-BioShock and an insult to the series.
Miscellaneous
1912 was actually a mirror of 2012 (apocalypse, etc.), and Comstock sounded a bit like Cave Johnson. The plants looked pixelated on Ultra. The roof of the library on Monument Island was done terribly. There are many times during use of the skyrail and executions that I went through buildings or the head went through the clothing. There was another bug where I completed the last Vox code side quest and it still appeared on the objectives list.
Apparently you could be ousted for talking about Darwin, even though scientific racism would support the claims proposed by The Founders. There's a strange scene while Booker tries to reach the First Lady's Aerodrome, where a man asks a hot dog vendor if there's any sauerkraut. Are Germans above or below blacks and Irish, according to BSI? The mainstream culture of BSI also believes in killing children born out of wedlock, so at least in that regard they are no mirror to social conservatives.
There was an interesting reference to gendarme, and I have nothing but a positive opinion on Elizabeth's reference to Les Misérables. When you opened boxes of chocolates, you never received chocolates, it was always bananas and oranges.
Spoilers
I thought the Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) cameos were pretty cool.
The sound made every time you looked at a tear was the most annoying sound in-game.
I found several glitched/stuck spots in the game that the testers so poorly missed. First, remember when Elizabeth is captured on the elevator? If you jump from the blue transport to where you chase Elizabeth on the skyrail later, before she spawns the rail, you're stuck there and you need to revert to last checkpoint. While I was jumping down to Chen Lin's cell I got stuck and had to revert to the last checkpoint. On the way to Comstock House before the bar with loyalists, I got stuck on luggage and had to go all the way back across the gondola that has the Luteces talking. When targeting dropships with the songbird, about 25% of the time they would glitch out and be impervious to targeting.
The way I've worked it out, Booker is from Universe A (no baptism), and Comstock is from Universe B (baptism). Eventually, the story makes it to Universe Z (or what is technically 123 universe later based on the coin flips (there's actually a bug where the 123rd tally disappears and Lutece rewrites it)). From Universe Z, Booker and Elizabeth travel to Universe Y, where Chen Lin is alive. In this world, you also find out that there is another Booker who made it to Monument Island too late, and Comstock moved Elizabeth into Comstock House. You then travel to Universe X, where Chen Lin kept his tools and helped start the revolution. When Booker and Elizabeth reach Comstock House in Universe X, Booker is warped back into Universe Y where he meets Old Elizabeth, who in turn warps him back to Universe Z where Elizabeth is being held by Comstock (I assume that somehow the Songbird went through a tear from Universe X to Universe Z).
Final Boss?
Other articles have equated the songbird to all the big daddies combined, when you don't even fight it! It is an antagonist, sure, but one of the first questions I get from people who don't own the game is how the songbird fight is.
Another annoyance I found in the game is the lack of explanation on critical issues, for instance
What is Salt?
I can assume that salt is the solid energy harvested from Elizabeth in Monument Island, but it is never explained what Salt is. Adam was the high mutagenic material in the sea slugs that allowed humans to splice DNA. What is Salt, hard light? (And to anyone who says Salts and Vigor are the same as Eve and Adam, slugs can't eat salt, fact.)
Another issue for contention,
What is the Songbird?
There must be a songbird in every universe except A, but can the songbird travel through rifts? Also, is the songbird beast or machine? Why did Elizabeth have to kill the songbird once it was allied with her and Booker?
Similar to Fringe
Another reason I didn't find the ending that satisfying was because it was similar to Fringe (I've ridden this train before). Consider the following:
No Spoilers
First, let's talk about some basic settings, like mouse sensitivity. The default mouse sensitivity for me felt like 3600 DPI, way too fast. And this was only one to the right of the lowest mouse sensitivity setting. I turned down Mouse Sensitivity all the way, and kept mouse acceleration off, then it was too slow. Mouse acceleration did just about nothing, on or off. So the whole game I played on awkward sensitivity.
As I walked onto the boardwalk and into the lighthouse, I was stunned at the detail in the game. It looked phenomenal. And when I summoned Columbia and took the rocket up to the sky, I was blown away as Booker was. I started exploring a city where the people were actually alive, not dead or crazies in BioShock 1 and 2. I expected some quests to involve the people of the city, which I will get to later. Towards the end of Chapter 1, I noticed something,
All the NPCs looked the same.
There are literally three models for the men, two models for the women, and I believe two models for the children. Originally, I believe that BioShock was going to be autocratic, fascist Americans vs. totalitarian, communist Americans, but instead it was
Gun-loving, Bible-thumping, Ku Klux Klan rednecks vs. anarchists
So following the redneck stereotype, if the citizens of Columbia all found their girlfriends at family reunions, then it makes sense that they all look the same! Inbreeding! Wincest! I'm glad that the revolutionaries eventually became the bad guys, because if, "Don't worry, I'm a progressive", was the staple response from most of the passive NPCs, I would have called this game an arm of the Democratic Party.
In comparing BioShock 1 and 2 with BioShock Infinite, it's interesting to note that radios existed in 1912 when the Marconi Company opened the world's first purpose-built radio, but pocket radios did not go into circulation until 1954 (Wikipedia), so Voxophones make sense.
The choice system was ripped out of the game midway through development.
They could have added a lot more choices like buying a bouquet from that girl, or using Devil's Kiss to help a maintenance man in one of the side rooms.
Autosaves are the most annoying part of that game. First, the indicator was not large enough, I never knew when I did or didn't autosave. Second, when you die right before the next autosave and it puts you back a couple dozen enemies, it causes nothing but rage. I can see where quick saving wouldn't be acceptable because it could get the player stuck, but I would have liked to revert to the previous, previous save.
That has been the one flaw of Halo and other games like it, is when you get to a bad checkpoint where you're low on health, ammunition, or it's just an impossible setup, and you can only revert to this same impossible checkpoint, or restart the chapter. At least when you choose your own saves, you can go back two or three, or more checkpoints.
Speaking of Halo, Irrational Games tried to make BioShock Infinite almost exactly like Halo CE, that or Borderlands 2. As I mentioned, the menus are very similar (revert/restart), you can only have two weapons (Halo CE), and you have both a shield and health (Halo CE). Borderlands 2 also has the shield and health dynamic, and being on the Unreal 3 engine, BioShock Infinite also had Floating Combat Text and Enemy Health Bars, that (when enabled) looked exactly like Borderlands 2.
At least Halo does multiplayer right, the only reason BioShock 2's multiplayer failed was because Feral Interactive left their multiplayer to Games for Windows Live. Big. Mistake. I have my issues with Valve, but they excel in supporting multiplayer for Source and non-Source games, old and new multiplayer, etc. If BS2 was Steam Powered, it would still be alive today, and at least BioShock 2 tried. BioShock Infinite made no attempt at multiplayer (to my knowledge).
There's no hacking in BioShock Infinite, the replacement is possession, which does not give you a discount on vending machines, only 10 silver eagles. There are telescopes that can be used for an achievement, but they cannot zoom, so they are useless. You can see all the scenery in an area just as good without a telescope.
Weapon upgrades, were actually done the right way: you bought them. In BioShock 1, you had to find Power to the People stations, and even then there weren't enough to unlock everything in the game.
But, one of the many things BioShock 1 did right was that it had an open world. There were several locked chests and one Fraternal Order of the Raven that I could have gone back for, but why would I want to? Instead of going directly back to the area, I would have to traverse several areas. Also, there were several points of no return, where I could never go back to those points in the game.
An open world would have also opened the possibility for more NPC quests, whereas most quests were based on items that you found, such as keys or codebooks.
I have to throw out an apology to my English friends, but the skyrails were wrong. You rode the skyrails on the left-hand side, not the American right-hand side.
The Vending Machines looked too similar, it took until near the end of the game to tell them apart from each other. Also, you can't jump and then attach to the skyrails in midjump.
The death animations, are one thing that I will give to BioShock Infinite, they were extremely detailed, such as electrocuting someone down to their very bones.
If I had to pick out three elements of the game that just killed it for me, it would be these:
1) The game depicted in the trailers was nothing like the final product.
Including the two videos above, this trailer had nothing to do with the final product, neither did this gameplay. In the last year, they completely changed the models and gameplay of BioShock Infinite, the gameplay that I bought the game for. Instead they made the models more cartoony and they killed a lot of the gameplay, such as Elizabeth attacking with you, instead of simply giving you resources.
2) I didn't form an emotional attachment to Booker or Elizabeth, at all.
Whenever Booker and Elizabeth had a chance for an emotional moment, the script botched it. Whenever they had a chance for physical contact that would lead to an emotional moment, it was skipped. When they did have physical contact, there was no emotion or facial expression on Elizabeth.
3) Choices were removed from the game.
You can tell from the beginning of the game that they planned on having separate endings based on choices, such as the raffle, the keys, and the ticket master, but about a third of the way into the game, the choices stop. Part way through development they just decided to cut choices from the game. This was inherently anti-BioShock and an insult to the series.
Miscellaneous
1912 was actually a mirror of 2012 (apocalypse, etc.), and Comstock sounded a bit like Cave Johnson. The plants looked pixelated on Ultra. The roof of the library on Monument Island was done terribly. There are many times during use of the skyrail and executions that I went through buildings or the head went through the clothing. There was another bug where I completed the last Vox code side quest and it still appeared on the objectives list.
Apparently you could be ousted for talking about Darwin, even though scientific racism would support the claims proposed by The Founders. There's a strange scene while Booker tries to reach the First Lady's Aerodrome, where a man asks a hot dog vendor if there's any sauerkraut. Are Germans above or below blacks and Irish, according to BSI? The mainstream culture of BSI also believes in killing children born out of wedlock, so at least in that regard they are no mirror to social conservatives.
There was an interesting reference to gendarme, and I have nothing but a positive opinion on Elizabeth's reference to Les Misérables. When you opened boxes of chocolates, you never received chocolates, it was always bananas and oranges.
Spoilers
I thought the Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) cameos were pretty cool.
The sound made every time you looked at a tear was the most annoying sound in-game.
I found several glitched/stuck spots in the game that the testers so poorly missed. First, remember when Elizabeth is captured on the elevator? If you jump from the blue transport to where you chase Elizabeth on the skyrail later, before she spawns the rail, you're stuck there and you need to revert to last checkpoint. While I was jumping down to Chen Lin's cell I got stuck and had to revert to the last checkpoint. On the way to Comstock House before the bar with loyalists, I got stuck on luggage and had to go all the way back across the gondola that has the Luteces talking. When targeting dropships with the songbird, about 25% of the time they would glitch out and be impervious to targeting.
The way I've worked it out, Booker is from Universe A (no baptism), and Comstock is from Universe B (baptism). Eventually, the story makes it to Universe Z (or what is technically 123 universe later based on the coin flips (there's actually a bug where the 123rd tally disappears and Lutece rewrites it)). From Universe Z, Booker and Elizabeth travel to Universe Y, where Chen Lin is alive. In this world, you also find out that there is another Booker who made it to Monument Island too late, and Comstock moved Elizabeth into Comstock House. You then travel to Universe X, where Chen Lin kept his tools and helped start the revolution. When Booker and Elizabeth reach Comstock House in Universe X, Booker is warped back into Universe Y where he meets Old Elizabeth, who in turn warps him back to Universe Z where Elizabeth is being held by Comstock (I assume that somehow the Songbird went through a tear from Universe X to Universe Z).
Final Boss?
Other articles have equated the songbird to all the big daddies combined, when you don't even fight it! It is an antagonist, sure, but one of the first questions I get from people who don't own the game is how the songbird fight is.
Another annoyance I found in the game is the lack of explanation on critical issues, for instance
What is Salt?
I can assume that salt is the solid energy harvested from Elizabeth in Monument Island, but it is never explained what Salt is. Adam was the high mutagenic material in the sea slugs that allowed humans to splice DNA. What is Salt, hard light? (And to anyone who says Salts and Vigor are the same as Eve and Adam, slugs can't eat salt, fact.)
Another issue for contention,
What is the Songbird?
There must be a songbird in every universe except A, but can the songbird travel through rifts? Also, is the songbird beast or machine? Why did Elizabeth have to kill the songbird once it was allied with her and Booker?
Similar to Fringe
Another reason I didn't find the ending that satisfying was because it was similar to Fringe (I've ridden this train before). Consider the following:
- Comstock is Walter.
- Booker is Walternate.
- Elizabeth is Peter.
- Comstock traveled to another universe to steal his copy's child, just as Walter stole Peter from Walternate.
- Walter and Peter form a bond, which is temporarily broken, and mended again, just as Booker and Elizabeth do.
- Walternate sends shapeshifters after Walter, as Comstock sends Patriots and Handymen after Booker.
- Walter sacrifices himself and the child to fix the spacetime corruption he caused, just as Booker sacrifices himself and Anna to fix the universes harmed by his choices.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Why Lost Planet 2 is the Best Game on Steam and You Should Buy It
Lost Planet 2 is easily the best game on Steam that died because of a greedy publisher. CAPCOM developed/published Lost Planet 2 to its own downfall. For more than a year after the release of Lost Planet 2, it was priced at $49.99. Finally, they dropped the price, but only down to $29.99. If they dropped the price of Lost Planet 2 to $4.99 or $9.99, then we could begin to rebuild its community. If you ever see it drop to one of these prices, buy it immediately, and I'll play it with you.
There's only one problem with Lost Planet 2: community. This is why CAPCOM needs to lower the price drastically to get as many people in the community as possible. They are making no profit off Lost Planet 2 currently because there is no reason to buy it without people to play with.
Lost Planet 2 has all of the spectacular features:
There's only one problem with Lost Planet 2: community. This is why CAPCOM needs to lower the price drastically to get as many people in the community as possible. They are making no profit off Lost Planet 2 currently because there is no reason to buy it without people to play with.
Lost Planet 2 has all of the spectacular features:
- 5 different factions to play and level
- 22
GUNDAMS, Mobile Assault Units - Best boss mobs in any game I've ever played
- 32 models for NEVEC Black Ops, 32 preset models for Femme Fatales
- 5 different weapon classes, each with 7 weapons: Standard, Short Range, Long Range, Heavy Weapons, and Support (8 weapons)!
- 5 different grenade classes each with 5 grenades: Normal, Gum, Disc, Release, and Plasma
- 42 different abilities!
- 364 Noms de Guerre to choose from!
- 120 different Emotes to use!
Friday, August 24, 2012
Review of APB Reloaded
I've put about 24 hours into APB Reloaded and felt it was finally time to review it.
Pros
Pros
- When the matchmaking actually works it can be a very fun game—even if you lose. As long as the enemy team does not pull any cheap tricks.
- The customization is incredible for both clothing and vehicles.
- The developers created a mixing station where players can actually create their own themes with a piano and over a dozen different instruments to choose from.
- You can add your own music to the game and other players besides yourself can hear it.
- You can join other instances as a group.
- When you get killed by someone with a familiar theme it makes the game fun instead of aggravating.
- Pay-to-Play (P2P) players ruin the game.
- Your player reloads automatically and there is no way to disable it. This is a problem when you are leaning out a car window and stuck there while reloading instead of having your teammate take you to cover.
- Ladders cannot be clung onto halfway.
- If two players try to climb a ladder where each player is at any point on that ladder, it will push both of them off.
- There is a very common crash during character selection.
- When sitting in the window of a car and pressing F, the character has to crawl back into the car before getting out.
- In a car, players should be able to press a number or an F key to change seat positions.
- Because money you acquire as a Criminal must be laundered, it spurs a combination of gambling and addiction, with the addictive qualities of the game only accented by the gambling.
- You cannot search for items in the Marketplace (Auction House).
- The matchmaking system is worse than garbage. It's useless. I've had match-ups of four silvers against four golds, whereas it's supposed to compensate by giving us more players. This happened once, and it gave us two silvers but also gave the golds two silvers.
- I've had two missions that required a certain amount of kills where enemy teams did the following:
- Pop two kills and then drive away the entire game in a vehicle. The game should have caused their vehicle to drive slower since they were in the lead, but it didn't and what should have been a stalemate was a victory to them.
- Drive away to several spots in each district which are nearly invincible. One is in the northeast of the financial district where the only way to backdoor is to climb a ladder (you get shot while climbing), and the other is a long hallway where you can get sniped or picked off not even upon entering, but by approaching and trying to shoot back.
- You will see around three of the same civilian model while driving down most streets. With the incredible amount of options for customizing your own character, there should never be more than one instance of the same model in a world at one time.
- Civilians should never drop duplicates of
- Civilians cannot be mugged while sitting down, crouching down, or while on the phone.
- Cannot use the arrow keys in buy menus.
- Gold players can join any instance, including Bronze and Silver. Bronze and Silver players should be able to join Silver/Gold instances and Gold instances, respectively, so that they can play with friends. My first day as Criminal I played with two Golds and should have been able to. However, Gold players should not be able to join lower instances because they use their higher tier weapons to farm lower players which is beyond unfair
- Apparently when you have a bounty on your head, you can be witnessed by Enforcers at any time, even if you've been on the lamb for more than a minute and your last crime should have expired already.
- When witnessed or in a mission in general, the game might spawn the Enforcer by Your Drop, but after he kills you, it does not spawn you at Their Drop, but rather Your Drop, giving you no possibility whatsoever to fight the Enforcer for your money.
- Players join "Clans". This would be fine it it wasn't completely contrary to the plot of the game. Enforcer clans should be named Squads or Units and Criminal clans should be called Gangs.
- All streets should be named so it actually feels like a real city.
- Squads and Gangs should be able to take control of streets per instance.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Worst Gaming Organization of the Week: [DMG]
I recently finished playing on [DMG] TTT |One-Hit Knife|FastDL|Saved Karma| (66.151.244.2:27015) and left because of admin abuse. On ttt_terrorception5_fix, there were only two traitors left, Colin - FragRadio (STEAM_0:1:19166316) and DMG| Killhammer77 (STEAM_0:0:28958333).
First, I heard someone die in or near the office building. I then retreated to the hotel and killed Colin (I saw him kill the detective earlier, ironically I killed him in the same hotel room that he killed the detective). I then did a live check. No one responded. I knew by process of elimination that there was one traitor left. Finally, I initiated a radar bait. I waited in the bathroom for 25 seconds and then walked into the closet. As Killhammer77 walked into the bathroom I killed him from behind. Without a radar, he never would have gone into that bathroom.
I tried to tell him each of these things, the first three of which (hearing him kill someone, live check, and process of elimination) he flatly denied and I did not have a chance to give my most important piece of evidence before he said, "Argue with an admin and you get banned". A server without even the right to appeal before your punishment:
Afterwards, WeBuild4Life (STEAM_0:0:35132619) tried to simply ask about their rules as their MOTD was disabled, and they refused to answer any of his questions, until, in fact, they banned him for something he did not do, trolling (nor did he mass RDM).
First, I heard someone die in or near the office building. I then retreated to the hotel and killed Colin (I saw him kill the detective earlier, ironically I killed him in the same hotel room that he killed the detective). I then did a live check. No one responded. I knew by process of elimination that there was one traitor left. Finally, I initiated a radar bait. I waited in the bathroom for 25 seconds and then walked into the closet. As Killhammer77 walked into the bathroom I killed him from behind. Without a radar, he never would have gone into that bathroom.
I tried to tell him each of these things, the first three of which (hearing him kill someone, live check, and process of elimination) he flatly denied and I did not have a chance to give my most important piece of evidence before he said, "Argue with an admin and you get banned". A server without even the right to appeal before your punishment:
TTT: The Traitors have been selected.Round state: 3They also exhibited several other nefarious practices, such as accusing Colin of RDM x2 when he witnessed a DMG and his traitor buddy kill someone, but left before the admin could abuse and slay.
TTT: The round has begun!
(Someone) slayed You
You are: INNOCENT
Afterwards, WeBuild4Life (STEAM_0:0:35132619) tried to simply ask about their rules as their MOTD was disabled, and they refused to answer any of his questions, until, in fact, they banned him for something he did not do, trolling (nor did he mass RDM).
(TEAM) DMG | Sir.Derpington: Actually on this server it isIt should forever be known that DMG| Killhammer77 (STEAM_0:0:28958333), DMG | Sir.Derpington (STEAM_0:1:32357462), DMG | ๖ۣۜStool (STEAM_0:0:8403669), and DMG | Update (STEAM_0:0:24641616) belong to an admin abusing clan. Even Three (STEAM_0:0:16691262), a veteran of TTT and admin of several servers, agreed that they do indeed admin abuse.
Player :NxS: WeBuild4Life ºαQº left the game (Kicked by Console : Mass RDM + Trolling / Staff Di
(Someone) banned :NxS: WeBuild4Life ºαQº for 1440 minute(s) (Mass RDM + Trolling / Staff Disrespect)
HINT: As spectator, use team chat to talk during an active round!
(TEAM) DMG | Sir.Derpington: Then go play on another one where you know the rules
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