06 May 14, 11:42AM
- about you: first contact with ac, favourite game modes and maps, country, age, clan, other games
Very start of the 1.0 (early 2009?); CTF ac_shine; France; 20yo; any; Minecraft, RotMG, LoL, FEZ
- 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?
I mostly play public games but I used to play only in a competitive way, here is the reason why I stopped: http://forum.cubers.net/thread-6799.html . I hate 1v1, in a match, nothing counts except the flags your team has, in publics, everything counts even if I give more attention to points than anything else. Points show who was really implicated in the game an who camped for his ratio. Points does not work for matches. Teamplay is the next level, the hardest to master and the most interresting thing in AC. All games are differents so FPM and PPM are worthless.
- community ties: where does AC community "happen" for you? only ingame, in the official forum, clan forums, IRC, mumble?
Official forum and IRC, for teamspeak/mumble/clan forums/in-game it's almost completelly disconnected from the 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?
I speak with Lucas almost everyday and he's almost always able to help me even if I fix most of my issues by myself.
I curently have an unfixed problem and I have no idea of it's origin, I have huge FPS drops (around -80%) since ~2 weeks but only on a few maps and zones, official ones included.
- what do you think about the AC community? how could the community be made better? what would you like to contribute?
We could increase the community by adding a better in-game interface that directly links you to the community itself.
- what do you like about AC?
Less than 30 seconds from the desktop to the enemy flag.
- what do you hate about AC?
Anti-cheat/abuse measures that were done to counter a few people, now I must play an ugly 200+ gamma game because of a bright-skin filter in combo with my dark screen, hit-drop issues, map restrictions.
- 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?
Laptop, dedicated graphic card, over 1000 fps but I max it at 200 (with recent issue, 200 most of the time, if not, between 40 and 150). 1367x768, no unofficial features except a custom sniper skin. All basic settings except the fov, musicvol and the sensivity.
- do you play with headphones or with a surround system or do you use the builtin speakers of your laptop?
Headphones
- 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?
The development of a game is not supposed to be infinite, once devs reach something good, nothing force then to continue and take risks so I think fixing bugs, even smaller ones would be the priority. AC is AC, I found it's development process unique and it's good like this IMO.
- one feature AC should add:
A better in-game interface, I'm sure we lost thousands of players just because they did not know/found the multiplayer.
AC should start with a huge capslock saying "PRESS ESC".
- one feature AC should remove:
Map restrictions.