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[Osmosis Jones]

That gunboat update is actually a bad thing, imho. A common practice of all good soldiers, is, when being healed by a medic, to shoot the nearby walls to increase ubercharge rate. If the gunboats absorb the majority of that, then it's another mark against them.

[The Doctor]

THEN DON'T WEAR THEM WHEN YOU'RE CHARGING THEM.

[Duke 2.0]

 In fact, it makes it easier to get your health to specific levels for the Equalizer.

[Osmosis Jones]

THEN DON'T WEAR THEM WHEN YOU'RE CHARGING THEM.

Whoah, caps attack. So, if I happen to run into a medic who needs to build  lot of uber in a short amount of time, and there's noone else around, I should run back to spawn and swap out? 

As it stood, they blocked rocket jump damage. Any other damage a soldier will inflict on himself will ideally be done for a reason.

In fact, it makes it easier to get your health to specific levels for the Equalizer.

This is actually a valid argument. As it currently stands, I can see the gunboats and the equaliser working quite well together.

[The Doctor]

I thought you meant when you two spawn.


Sorry, I just had a match full of idiots.

[Osmosis Jones]

Eh, we've all been there. I'm primarily a medic, and with a combination of an item that blocks healing and the [e] button, idiots have been on a huge rise lately

[Greiger]

Oh yea, things I meant to ask and forgot to mention.

A)  The melee only mode thing in the admin menu seems bugged.  I tried turning it on twice, and twice the server crashed when I did.

B) Is there any way for us admins to mess with the respawn times?  There are a couple maps that just seem impossible to win with instant respawns.  2 Engies held the first point of part 2 of dustbowl for 10 whole minutes because when our support died they instant respawned and took one of our lv 3 teleporters to get back almost immediately after dying. 

They might have broke through if they tried an uber, but pretty much everything else that should have worked failed because either the combat classes got back to the front too soon after dying or the engies got back to their stuff after dying before the attackers could destroy them.

And some maps you can do that kinda stuff on without teleporters.  When the spawns are way too close to the points for instant respawn.  Steel point A and Dustbowl 3-B come to mind mostly

[Eduren]

To be honest, I would really prefer if the DFC had vanilla respawns. They make for such a better game.

[dragnar]

To be honest, I would really prefer if the DFC had vanilla respawns. They make for such a better game.

More balanced perhaps, but I like not having to wait to respawn. It's much faster-paced and eliminates boring waits.

[Duke 2.0]

 In small games then instant respawns are good. For larger games, it can be horrendous.

[Eduren]

To each his own I guess. But another point is that especially with an influx of newbies, a vanilla respawn really helps people get better at this game.

[penguinofhonor]

I thought it was odd I saw a penguin on the server.  That was you then I assume penguin?

Eh, not me. I haven't been on the DFC server.

Other news: I've gotten 25 kills towards some mysterious 50 kill threshold that will allow me to get "normal points". I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.

[The Doctor]

HLStats.

The whole thing with needing 10-20-50-100 or whatever kills is so that new players to the server arn't tracked as readily.


HLStats is basically just showing your stats for that server. Mostly KD Ratio stats, though, it seems.

[Volatar]

I like quick respawns 

Also, stats? Awesome!

[Jakkarra]

Stuff.

Greiger, they could have EASILY destroyed those with an Uber.

WE did, and they had TWO more sentry guns!

We took about 2 minutes to clear the map!