I decided to go ahead and reinstall quake and check out all of the new Quakeworld clients... the two biggies were Tenebrae and FuhQuake, which both make Quake look extremely good considering the game is around seven years old now...
If I had a super beefy comp, I'd probably use Tenebrae, because it makes your quake look like Doom3, complete with ALOT of pixel shading and bump mapping and lightsources (with corresponding shadows). But, I was running at like 15 frames a sec when I tried playing Tenebrae on 1024x768, so I decided to go with FuhQuake, which doesn't have nearly as many pretty features as Tenebrae, but it still looks great and runs fine.
Anyway, I installed TeamFortress, and found a server to play on. It's basically the same game, except people have absolutely ruined it. I mean, it's not even worth playing anymore. You know why? Rocketjumping. It's no longer a skill that has to be learned and perfected anymore. Everybody has it set to a script now, and all they have to do is tap a button and *boom*, they're 30 feet away and you're still wondering "what the fuck?"
If you don't know what rocketjumping is, it's using the explosion of a rocket to propel you high up into the air, or really far forward. It used to require jumping up and aiming down a rocket and firing. Now all it requires is a rocketjumping script and a key bound to exec it. It was fine when you had to do it manually, but binding the whole process to a key is just fucking stupid. Capturing the flag now only requires having a RJ script, because you can just rocketjump away from everybody that might try to intercept you. I took on two guys at the same time, it was about a 60 second fight (which is a very, very, very long time for a gunfight by quake's standards), and one of them ended up rocketjumping away from me while the other one shot me in the back as I watched in awe.
People don't even have to try anymore. Thanks for ruining a perfectly good game, faggots. :(
I guess I'll have to play TFC (eww) or Quake3 TF if I want a decent Teamfortress game now, that is if faggots haven't overrun those games also with rocketjumping scripts. And their excuse is, "it's a part of the game."
Last time I checked, you didn't have to program scripts to activate parts of the game, maybe unless you're making your own mods. Right now, Quake1 TF is actually "FaggotMod".
/done bitching
Posted by at August 16, 2003 01:58 PM
