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sauerbraten goal oriented team player mode

by Aardappel_ on 03/13/2006 07:46, 43 messages, last message: 03/18/2006 14:51, 9066 views, last view: 05/04/2024 13:12

Below is the simple specs for a teamplay mode that eihrul may be adding. He could use a model, btw... makke? tentus?

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potential teamplay mode: similar to "battlefield":

"bases" are placed thruout the map

a base can be in 2 states: captured or neutral. When captured, it is
captured by a certain team. This is shown
by the texture its rendered with (red means enemy captured, blue means
your team, grey means neutral). The model can be a flag, or whatever.

a neutral base can be converted to your team by standing next to
it for N seconds (N = 10 or so) within a certain radius. Multiple players speed up
the process proportionally. The time accumulated to N is counted by the server,
and reset to 0 immediately once all players leave the radius.

a base of the enemy color can be converted to neutral in exactly the same way.
(so often it is a 2 step process to take over a base).

at the spawn of a map, all bases are neutral, and all players spawn at normal player spawns,
and try to capture whatever they can. basis are captured, players will
spawn at whichever of their bases is closest to an enemy base.

if a player dies, they wait M seconds before they can respawn again (M = 20 or so).
if you have no bases left (the enemy has captured yours, or at least made em neutral)
you can't spawn at all and have to wait for remaining players to recapture a base.
if all bases are gone and all players dead, your team loses and the match is over.

Alternatively, if this doesn't happen, at the timelimit the team that wins is the team
that has held the most bases for the most amount of time (1 point per X seconds for every
base in your color).

No points are awarded for kills or self-deaths.

When you spawn, you are given a certain amount of ammo for randomly 2 weapons out of the
5 main ones, + pistol ammo. You will not be able to get more ammo unless it is placed in
the map, or if given to you by another player. Any other player can replenish your ammo
of types of ammo he doesn't have. I.e. if you have RL/MG and he has GL/MG, you can replenish
his GL ammo, and he can give you RL ammo.

A simple HUD shows bases relative to your current position in red or blue (can be a sphere with
arrows pointing outwards for faraway bases).

There may be additional powerups needed, to emulate the functionality of vehicles in BF,
but maybe without its already good enough.

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#24: Oh, and I have to agree with other posters

by Pxtl on 03/14/2006 21:08

Oh, I agree about the victory condition - I'd go for straight DOM-style scoring - no "elimination" concept, just "bases per second" to gather points. I'd include a baseless zone (either the periphery or the middle or something) to spawn all the players who control no bases - just spawn players who arrived at the baseless zone with crappy gear - zero armour, 50 health, pistol only. Then they get a chance to make a comeback if they didnt' focus on defense.

"respawn delay" just annoys people. The only game I've ever seen that gets away with it is UT's Assault, where the respawn delay is cumulative for the whole team - if you're the first to die in a while, you come back in immediately, but if your whole team is wiped out then you all have to wait until your cumulative respawn debt is paid off (can be up to 10 seconds) and then you all spawn in at once. Nicely encourages mass-kills.

There are many ways around respawn delay that are similar (but equally annoying) such as forcing fresh players to fetch weapons (that may be on a limited spawn-clock) before they are useful.