06 May 14, 05:20AM
(This post was last modified: 06 May 14, 05:31AM by RantingHuman.)
about you: first contact with ac, favourite game modes and maps, country, age, clan, other games
- Found ActionCube (0.92) while looking for FPS games that would run on Linux, in early 2007. I like playing CTF/HTF on ac_mines, ac_sunset, ac_elevation, ac_shine, ac_depot_onlygirlsneedarmour. TS in ac_complex, ac_desert2. LSS in ac_complex and ac_desert. Not a fan of TOSOK but it is cool if I get to gib Shadow. Country: It's complicated. Age 28. A&D. Other games: None at this time.
do you mostly play public matches or do you prefer clan competition? are you a regular 1vs1 player? do you care about your ratio or your flags-per-minute value? do you support team players even in just-for-fun games?
- Majority of my time is spent in public matches, but I like clan games too. Not a 1v1 player. I find the ratio useful because it reinforces how terrible I am at staying alive, which is something I never cared for much before it was first introduced. Don't care about flags per minute - it's a team game! I support team players in all games unless they are intentional TKers or Drakas.
community ties: where does AC community "happen" for you? only ingame, in the official forum, clan forums, IRC, mumble?
- Initially, to me it was all in-game with the occasional SF forum thread and email. Clan forums were cool to start with, but IRC is where I spend all my time. Official forum - it has been deleted and recreated so many times that I have lost sense of what it means to be in a forum community.
is it easy for you to get help with problems with the game? where do you get help? which problems could not be solved?
- Not had any major problems.
what do you think about the AC community? how could the community be made better? what would you like to contribute?
- It has changed a lot over the years, and fragmented. It would seem each new version brings in a new crop of players, and not many from previous versions stick around. Then again, I am basing this solely off in-game and IRC - I hardly visit the forums (it's going to be deleted anyway!). I'm not sure, what is there to make better. It is what it is. As a wise old man once said: w/e. I would like to contribute headshots.
what do you like about AC?
- Grenades (pre 1.1). The people (some). The gameplay (pre 1.1). The fact that I can fire it up and play a "complete" game that lasts as little as 10 minutes (yay for short rounds) or as long as there are players left to frag. That I can run and gun instead of slowly pacing around.
what do you hate about AC?
- That a large portion of the current player base is more entertained by gema than good ol'-fashioned fragging. That douze is a popular map. That we even need to control server sort order by official/custom maps. That grenades are no longer two per pickup and two frags per gib. Helmets. The ridiculous points system and messages surrounding it. That every new version seems to have some sweeping change in gameplay, that drives away players of the version right before. That anyone can become a part of the "dev" team at any given point and decide to drive the development of the game as they see fit, and then go away. Seemingly illogical auto team balancing that happens every now and then.
do you play on a laptop or a desktop? does it have a dedicated graphics card or do you use chipset graphics? what average fps do you play at, and what screen resolution do you use? do you use features like "reduced violence mode" or degraded textures? do you use colored vests?
- Formerly desktop, right now laptop. Dedicated graphics. ~450 fps, 1920x1080. I don't use those features or degraded textures, or coloured vests. I used to use teamskins.
do you play with headphones or with a surround system or do you use the builtin speakers of your laptop?
- Occasionally headphones, most of the time laptop speakers.
where should AC development be headed to? what should the next release bring? would you like AC to concentrate on it's own classic gameplay or should it be molded to be more like another game (and what other game)? do you play other games of the cube family?
- Focus on classic gameplay for sure. Next release should be focussed more on bug fixes and perhaps features that do not affect the gameplay too much. The charm of AC is in its "Action", IMO. I wouldn't be playing it if the gameplay was closer (than it already is) to games like CS or even Urban Terror. Cube family games: I have played Blood Frontier and Red Eclipse in the past, and still occasionally play Sauerbraten. Eagerly awaiting a full release of Tesseract.
one feature AC should add:
- None at this time
one feature AC should remove:
- Team "balancing"
- Found ActionCube (0.92) while looking for FPS games that would run on Linux, in early 2007. I like playing CTF/HTF on ac_mines, ac_sunset, ac_elevation, ac_shine, ac_depot_onlygirlsneedarmour. TS in ac_complex, ac_desert2. LSS in ac_complex and ac_desert. Not a fan of TOSOK but it is cool if I get to gib Shadow. Country: It's complicated. Age 28. A&D. Other games: None at this time.
do you mostly play public matches or do you prefer clan competition? are you a regular 1vs1 player? do you care about your ratio or your flags-per-minute value? do you support team players even in just-for-fun games?
- Majority of my time is spent in public matches, but I like clan games too. Not a 1v1 player. I find the ratio useful because it reinforces how terrible I am at staying alive, which is something I never cared for much before it was first introduced. Don't care about flags per minute - it's a team game! I support team players in all games unless they are intentional TKers or Drakas.
community ties: where does AC community "happen" for you? only ingame, in the official forum, clan forums, IRC, mumble?
- Initially, to me it was all in-game with the occasional SF forum thread and email. Clan forums were cool to start with, but IRC is where I spend all my time. Official forum - it has been deleted and recreated so many times that I have lost sense of what it means to be in a forum community.
is it easy for you to get help with problems with the game? where do you get help? which problems could not be solved?
- Not had any major problems.
what do you think about the AC community? how could the community be made better? what would you like to contribute?
- It has changed a lot over the years, and fragmented. It would seem each new version brings in a new crop of players, and not many from previous versions stick around. Then again, I am basing this solely off in-game and IRC - I hardly visit the forums (it's going to be deleted anyway!). I'm not sure, what is there to make better. It is what it is. As a wise old man once said: w/e. I would like to contribute headshots.
what do you like about AC?
- Grenades (pre 1.1). The people (some). The gameplay (pre 1.1). The fact that I can fire it up and play a "complete" game that lasts as little as 10 minutes (yay for short rounds) or as long as there are players left to frag. That I can run and gun instead of slowly pacing around.
what do you hate about AC?
- That a large portion of the current player base is more entertained by gema than good ol'-fashioned fragging. That douze is a popular map. That we even need to control server sort order by official/custom maps. That grenades are no longer two per pickup and two frags per gib. Helmets. The ridiculous points system and messages surrounding it. That every new version seems to have some sweeping change in gameplay, that drives away players of the version right before. That anyone can become a part of the "dev" team at any given point and decide to drive the development of the game as they see fit, and then go away. Seemingly illogical auto team balancing that happens every now and then.
do you play on a laptop or a desktop? does it have a dedicated graphics card or do you use chipset graphics? what average fps do you play at, and what screen resolution do you use? do you use features like "reduced violence mode" or degraded textures? do you use colored vests?
- Formerly desktop, right now laptop. Dedicated graphics. ~450 fps, 1920x1080. I don't use those features or degraded textures, or coloured vests. I used to use teamskins.
do you play with headphones or with a surround system or do you use the builtin speakers of your laptop?
- Occasionally headphones, most of the time laptop speakers.
where should AC development be headed to? what should the next release bring? would you like AC to concentrate on it's own classic gameplay or should it be molded to be more like another game (and what other game)? do you play other games of the cube family?
- Focus on classic gameplay for sure. Next release should be focussed more on bug fixes and perhaps features that do not affect the gameplay too much. The charm of AC is in its "Action", IMO. I wouldn't be playing it if the gameplay was closer (than it already is) to games like CS or even Urban Terror. Cube family games: I have played Blood Frontier and Red Eclipse in the past, and still occasionally play Sauerbraten. Eagerly awaiting a full release of Tesseract.
one feature AC should add:
- None at this time
one feature AC should remove:
- Team "balancing"