My view is that the modern id software team is a bunch of scrubs that love hitscan weapons. The railgun is Quake's sniper rifle, and the scrubs flock to it in all FPS games.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciEind3uJ2o :))

I agree wholeheartedly. That's why I like t9 much more, while it very much lacks depth it is still much better then oversized t7 or even battleforged (what a joke of a map)

Phil Helmuth is that u?

are you blind?

How could I be blind? I'm posting on a forum aren't I?

I guess I could be if I was a total baller and had some hot chick assistant reading and writing for me.

But no, that's not the case.

yeah well, how could mav be helmuth... it was meant to be ironic I think you might have gotten that and ignored it :p

aren't there monitors for blind people yet? I don't think this is very hard to do, only graphics would be impossible

what? seems u missed half of the update, lol
fatal instinct, thunderstruck, somewhat damaged, are perfect small duel maps, would be awesome addition to pro map pool, actually its me who asked id software to add them and next year they will be at quakecon along with the longest yard.

can't agree with that.

t9, phrantic, hektik are all (too) small maps. And you remember dm6? lots of big open spaces there too....

If you want to fight a enemy that is far away and has rg and you haven't then you should maybe change your style of play.

I disagree. If they would make the mg powerful again than one could challenge a rg player more easy on long range. I really miss this feature from the Quake 3 days - more damage, more precise on long range, a real finisher and a much better starter weapon. And don't you forget the nice knockback. :)

That's one crucial thing I dislike about QL, the mg being useless in most situations. :-/

What I've written is "newly developed maps," meaning completely new levels developed especially for Quake Live that were not conversions of any kind. T9 is a conversion from TA, phrantic is a level from cpma/q4, and hektik isn't new, either (at least iirc.) I agree that the maps that are redeveloped for QL are fine in size and thus perfectly suitable for duel, but I wasn't talking about these ones.

hektik is completely new

Then that's pretty much the only exception from the trend, when it comes to new duel maps.

what other completely duel maps have they done that follows this "too big to duel" trend than t7?

Devilish, Battleforged, they even tried to introduce Trinity as a duel map. They made Proving Grounds shit and Almost Lost imbalanced in duel.

It's as if no one at ID understood how duel maps should be made. A few years after the launch of QL, we still have one or two completely new additions in a standard tournament mappool, Hektik and Furious Heights, sine all the other new additions failed to be picked up due to their poor quality. The rest are just remakes of old levels like dm6, ztn, aero, hub3t1, dm13, t9, t4.

i don't even know what's your beef anymore. stick with one problem that might help. devilish really isn't that big, battleforged isn't a new map and trinity AKA QZCA2 well... it's not a surprise for me that a map originally named qzca2 is not suited for duel. i think it's hardly id's fault that the scene tried to force it as a duel map.

so the new (completely new specially designed for QL duel) maps are furious heights, devilish and hektik. i understand your arguments about furious heights but i don't think it's a problem. in devilish the only larger are is the center and it seems to me that you can close the distance pretty easily and hektik is hektik. so what is this megalomania trend? i can't see it.

and about almost lost and proving grounds. i don't think they made them imbalanced for duel, it's just that q3 and ql are different games and they _didn't do anything_ to the maps when they were ported. but none the less i think the era of proving grounds was finished when somebody realized that after losing control but still in lead you can just camp the teles. pretty boring. almost lost, pretty rail heavy, but it's not a new map so still can't see "the trend"

tbh I'd say that t9 is a new map

it wasn't played in duel anywhere and the new item layout made it a different and very good duel map for those 1.5 years

Germany wants k1llsen to be number one thanks to his ridiculous rg, I smell conspiracy!

awesome game



gotta love amiga longplays on youtube

Reminded me of this guy! (few years away!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ&feature=related