Freindly Fire Servers

Harry_S_Truman · September 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Anyone play on one?</div> I think this game would take a new dimention on a FF server. All the spam attacks would be brough under control on both sides. Can't you see skulks biting and killing each other in a feeding frenzy? Anyone have any experience with this?

Jasp · September 2003

TheHaven UK server 2 runs tornney mode 24/7 for public play watching onos smashing up buildings then the skulk running infront of him is so funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Nearly as funny as watching 4 onos charge into a base <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> and killing emselves.

Marine knife fights are so funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Harry_S_Truman · September 2003

I'm going to have to check that out. Right now the game is played with brutish skills, true skill comes with the finesse of not killing your team members while still killing the enemy. I betcha on a FF server you'd have less problems with guys getting in front of your grenade lanucher!

Robert_Paulson · September 2003

I am thinking that I might be adding tournament mode to my server in the next few weeks, see how it works out and go from there.

I have always been a FF enthusiast in games I have played (adds realism) and it could be interesting to see how it works with NS pub play.

homerx · September 2003

FF servers are good from time to time, but it just takes 1 llama to ruin everyone's fun. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Geminosity · September 2003

I always enjoyed FF because it brought a few new strategies into play and I can already imagine onos charging through WoLs XD
shame you have to go into tourney mode just to enable it =P

Trojan2 · September 2003

Normally I love FF in games I play, makes it more skill based, adds realism etc etc. NS is deffiently an exception to that rule. Fights are so fats paced and personal that its vary difficult for most players to handle it. Allso many of the attacks and view points dont quite match up (Skulk comes to mind here) While thats no big deal if your mashing madly at a squad of mariens but, it DOES make a differnce if say 3 skulks are killing a resnode (you end up killing each other, basicly punishes you for working together, I for one deffeintly lone wolf more in FF servers) Then there is the random spray from the marines weapons. FF works with semi perdictible spray (think CS with its er, "recoil" system) But in NS weapon spray is totaly random, you cant say, carefully aim over you buddies shoulder, You might hit him, you might not.
There is allso no punishement system in NS that im aware of. In clan matches if you kill your pals there going to be 1 **** and 2 your probley going to lose. But in Pubs ther is nothing to stop greifers from doing it. Case in point, Com gave me a welder and a shotgun to hold base with. (1)NSPlayer says he wants a cool gun, com says no so he shot me while I was welding OB and took mine. By the time I had spawned he had already "given" it to the fade i was suppose to keap outa base with it. Later on this same assholedid the same thing to our team GL and then killed nearly all of us with it.

Harry_S_Truman · September 2003

This is true on any FF server, you just have to have it well admined. I've play exclusively on FF DoD servers and the intensity of the game goes up ten fold.

lolfighter · September 2003

I can imagine that gls would hardly get handed out, they'd simply be too dangerous.

homerx · September 2003

Yeah, and trigger happy HMG guys will mow down their own men <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Pa1adin · September 2003

admins are the key to ff servers but when they are there it is a whole other game.

Anlar · September 2003

At this time NS is not about skills, only one tactic rules them all: Get enough of your teammates to a place and get them aim at the same direction. The sheer power will take care of winning the game. If it is not enough, make sure they can get back fast enough.

Enabling FF would make the game very interesting. People would have to use formations, stop spamming, use the structures better (so that the marines could be in better formations) and the most important of them all: it would be more realistic.

Should need some other tuning though.. Make the weapons more accurate in exchange for both the marines and the aliens at least.

Devs, test it out?

Teflon · September 2003

I'd love this simply because of shotguns. It'd just take one poorly aimed shot to put down Jimmy Marine... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Ollj · September 2003

I once played on a FF server, it was funny as hell.
FF NS is really stupid, so all i did was killing ips, chambers and structures.
It became even funnier when a teammate kills me to stop it, i could forgive TK or slay him.
They all died.
Its just stupid.

ChimpZealot · September 2003

redphive.org -2- NS 2.01e [C-D REQUIRED] - 24.207.0.211:27015 just recently started testing out tourney mode for public play. Because of prodigy's HLA (<a href='http://myhladmin.com' target='_blank'>http://myhladmin.com</a>), when the server is full of regulars, very good games happen frequently. The only problems are in early morning - late day, when a bunch of ahem "nubs" invade the server. However, once again, HLA (<a href='http://myhladmin.com' target='_blank'>http://myhladmin.com</a>) let's the people on the server contact our admin channel on IRC to report problems.

Forlorn · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Teflon @ Sep 16 2003, 03:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I'd love this simply because of shotguns. It'd just take one poorly aimed shot to put down Jimmy Marine... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Not true, FF only deals 33% as much damage.

Avitar · September 2003

I play on FF servers, however i noticed something...

Marines have a much larger penalty in general than aliens by game design.

In many games I see a couple of sculks mess up a tf that is defended by a squad of HMG'ers
by jumping in the midded of the group.

The marines damage their own stuff far more than 2 sculks would have.

Just my observation.

Swift_Idiot · September 2003

I play on the same server Chimp does. There are some awesome games played on R5#2, and because we have very swift admins and a very low tolerance for BS, we don't have to deal with lots of complete nubs playing the "LOL OMG I AM EATIGN TEH HIEV!!!!!!!!!!!!11LOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOOOOLOLOLLLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLLOO".

Tournament mode - (nubs) + (skillz) > all

Freindly Fire Servers

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