That was a fun 2v2 match.

I do agree, some weapons need balancing. The AR is definitely a rape gun, the SMG feels like it has too much melee range, and the pistol seems underpowered. Also the shotgun seems to lack a bit of spread, though when you get closer the spread seems fine. The sniper's recoil isn't much of a recoil, instead more of a rumble. If there still will be a recoil, it might be best to change it to seem like a recoil (scope goes up instead of shakes around).

Quote: --- Original message by: il Duce Primo
If you want to be an official CMT beta tester now is your time. To make things short you now can be. The way it's set up is that you download the maps but you must play them on the Official CMT Server. What this does is allows us to watch everything that goes on with the map and when we want to release newer builds we are able to regulate them by not playing older builds. This then makes older builds of the maps unplayable. Who doesn't love the honor system.

Anyway here is the link to the download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1446834/CMT_MPG3_Ruins_PB1.rar

Join the Official CMT Server on 1.09.

Hey WTH I can't go into the server???????
It says 'The game has been closed'.
ANYWAY to fix it??????



O rly? Tell me why?
Edited by Kustrin 117 on Apr 4, 2010 at 04:41 AM

Well I put together a bug list with also a list of weapon tweaks. Next weekend will hopefully be another release of Ruins and we'll introduce Augur. With Augur comes the Spartan Laser, Bruteshot, and Spiker. The Ghost is also a playable vehicle. The server will run on a rotation with several gametypes for each map. Here are those lists that need to be fixed before this release though.






And ODX will also have fixed some animation problems here and there.

I still need to download your tagset first :P Going to do that now.

For the shotgun I think you should get rid of the old lag-bullet effect that it had, where you shoot and your shots don't actually appear until a second or so afterward.

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Nice try, but no.
Edited by ODX on Apr 4, 2010 at 03:43 PM

um the shotty in my view point is underpowered... i was chasing odx and he was five feet away from me it took me the hole clip in and 2 bullets to kill him......

prolly cause shotty lag. i have no idea how to lead the shotty cause of that weird lag thing odx was talking about. it does seem to have a delay

E: me and tucker vs. some guy


Edited by doompig444 on Apr 4, 2010 at 05:27 PM

I'm pretty sure you lead it exactly how you lead if it wasn't delayed- what it shows is where the shots actually hit, depending to the ping you have.

If anything the shotty might be alil powerful. You just have to learn to lead better. The team already fixed almost every problem on the lists I posted. Now I have to go in and fix the scenario files and work more on the bsp files. Expect new builds in the next few days.

The server seems to have disaperd off the face of the earth!

yer. found it. adress is 208.167.250.185:2302. any one want to play. Not very fun wandering arround amlesly.

yer. duce is the new CMT leader but its now Community Maping Team, not Custom Maping Team

No. It only works on CMT server. You have to join it ip play!

LOL I have the problem saying "The game has been closed", and no one is answering why the hell in happens or how to fix it.

yes duce is CMT's new leader and former means old or used to be

Having worked in game testing, I have to say, most of those are design change requests rather than actual bugs. Balance and requests are for the developers to decide what to do with based on the feedback they receive.



First, let me say, the AR being iconic is NO REASON for it to completely overpower the rest of the weapons. There still needs to be some balance, each weapon needs to be good for what it does, and having one that completely destroys in comparison to the others (IE the Halo 1 Pistol) is a bad idea. Same with weak weapons, the Pistol and Plasma weapons need to be good at something or else nobody will use them and they're just a waste of weapon development. A game where a single weapon overpowers everything else becomes very bland and boring very quickly. The more useful weapons there are, the more variety the game is going to have, as well as replay value.

I do have to say though, I dislike Halo 2 and 3's way of "WEAPONS ARE ONLY GOOD IN VERY SPECIFIC RANGES AND SITUATIONS," which caused the games to, in my opinion, be very "rock paper scissors." Don't have the EXACT right weapon for the situation you're in, you're screwed. Reach is taking a step in the direction of having weapons having wider effective ranges and more useful in various situations, as you can tell from the blooming crosshairs and the information in the latest update: http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=25376
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Apr 5, 2010 at 04:27 AM

http://www.xfire.com/video/26e9ae/ watch the hole video you can even go higher up on the map

^ For that, I suggest the mappers add an invisible barrier on the top of the level to prevent people getting out. Simple.

um they did... ill quote what duce and sali both told me. or something around that

Ill be reinstalling CE soon , M00kz will kick my arse.

/ignore

*pulls trigger for you*

I got a good video, but YouTube just stops uploading about halfway. Anyone know what's wrong?

Player clip is not needed for sky; lower the skybox.

Then we can't have the huge mountain outside of the map.

Which looks like crap, if theres gonna be that there should be a couple more, or more edges or ledges to it.

There is player clip around the whole entier map except that small area. I didnt get to fixing this problem wthere before I released. It wasn't a problem and still isnt a problem that hinders our testing. I have already fixed it though. And someone suggested just bringing the skybox down but thats a bad idea. It will cause plasma shots or other projectiles to dissapear too quickly if shot in the sky. Anyway so much has been fixed already and it's getting even more fun. I want to thank everyone who has played the map.

In response to the person having issues connecting to the server. I don't know what to tell you. If you think your map is corrupted then redownload. Or maybe you just can't connect. Sorry that you are unable to play but this isn't a final release and right now it's better than no release at all.

Fun stuff, cant wait to play more
Edited by 007 on Apr 5, 2010 at 07:38 PM

God, I hav'nt played CE since November. That was my worst game ever

My team sucked :V
nah jk, you guiz were great :)

I've been browsing this forum since early 2008 but never registered, but the few games i played made me want to come on here and say how fun the map was, the people were nice to :)

I was too nice to you lol :P

wow kyle it took you forever to come on here...... I think you know who i am btw. :P

Ive clocked so many hours on this map already. I keep coming back to play and can't get enough of it. I'm super hyped to play with different gametypes. I'm having a blast with everyone.

I vote duce aimbots XD jk but your insane duce

Yea, it really is amazing