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Didn't like the 'sound' of it ;) - because it seemed to echo what Natural Selection did with the introduction of Combat (a reference that most NS players should get). Basically splitting the playerbase and dumbing down gameplay. And yes, I still don't like the sound of it, primarily because I...

It's not the fact that money is on the line that gets people camping, it's the spawn system and the 'come to me' gameplay. The cash rewards are just an added incentive, but the main incentive is that people like the sensation of winning and if there is a method that gives them an advantage, no...

In round-based spawn systems, like Sudden Death and Counter-Strike, long respawn times actively encourage camping. How many SD round have you seen end with 2 Engies at either end of the map waiting for Godot?

Site works now. Even if the site is basically going to be a set of forums for discussion, I think you need an introduction page (basic HTML will do), just to situate the newcomer and explain a bit about the purpose of the site and help navigation. Without that it's a bit daunting arriving at a...

Sounds like Sudden Death with twice the sudden and three times the suck. I mean, who actually LIKES sudden death? As an alternative to a draw, it serves a purpose, sure. But as a game mode of its own? If a game shipped with this game mode alone it would plummet into the depths of obscurity...

Can't speak for the US but in Europe there are 1-3 very active servers playing all official and other good custom maps for Empires. The regulars are solid and know how to play fairly well, although I have to say the admins aren't nearly as ever-present as you might hope. Sitting in an...

Timed out from a Massachusetts address, which is not a good advertisement for your site. I currently have no idea what your site is other than that it didn't work when I tried to find out. This happens to the best of startups, though (e.g. Cuil, the 'Google beater' had the same experience). But...

Custom mod or Half-Life 2 map? Are all the files in the right places? Have you run cubemaps in your map after compiling it?

Oh gawd I just lost a massive post on why most of the questions are a bit flawed and the results can't be used very conclusively... As for the profession of a level designer: In terms of the role, maybe. I can see that the role of someone who controls all aspects of level design (in the classic...

Sounds interesting, but I think your question format is a bit flimsy. Instead of asking which of these annoying things in games annoy you, you could have asked respondants to place them in order of priority, or asked them to comment whether they find them 'very annoying', 'fairly annoying'...

At ****ing last Valve give us what TF2's been needing since the Beta: a decent-sized mapcycle. Steel sounds genuinely interesting, as interesting as the new game mode in my eyes.

In that case it surely has to be Insurgency, Minerva and Eternal Silence, since they are the most polished of the rest (functionally, that is).

The Steam Group is like a petition, but it's made up of users who actually have Steam and whose information is a direct reflection of lost sales. Let's say of those 7000 members 1000 are Australian (one of the bigger countries hit most by the trend), of those, Valve could demonstrate that say...

You need to make sure you firstly are mapping for TFC. You need to set Hammer to the right game for this. I have never mapped for any CTF modes, so I would suggest checking out how it's done in TF2 and seing if it works similarly in TFC. I would imagine that Valve haven't changed how it works...

You found a Team Fortress (Quake) server? Or are you talking about Team Fortress Classic?

While Valve does make its fair share of mistakes, the big difference between it and other big names in the industry is that Valve almost always take quick steps to remedy the situation. I highly doubt that anyone acquiring Valve would have that same sentiment, unless in playtests for Half-Life...

Issue #2 was waived FYI. I don't think the first one was caught onto. I can't tell from the screenshot just how powerful that location is for SGs.

I would try to be there but I'm working tonight. P.S. That's a short credits list in your readme, Pi! ;)

Spies aren't intimidating because once they've broken cover either you're dead or they're totally vulnerable. Snipers are only intimidating at mid-long range, and only if they have good twitch skills. Engineers are mostly not intimidating, but a lot of classes forget how powerful the...