Our new deathmatch, your thoughts!

[hillbillyc]

will do chad! thank you for listening! there aren't much owners like you that are as involved in the community! keep up the good work

 

[42man101]

i love it, it reminds me of spleef, do you think too?

 

[hillbillyc]

I do enjoy the new setup, and I love the lengths of the games. It gives a more crazy fast-paced feeling as players rush for the chests they know and prepare for the arena death match. Maybe the 24 slot time is a bit short, I'm thinking somewhere around 30-35 minutes for that. And as for the client-side lag, I'm guessing most of the lag comes from all the lava underneath, so maybe get rid of the lava in exchange for a void hole? Same results, but less lag, and maybe get rid of the fire on the pillars as it's kind of loud and the animations of all the different fires may cause lag for lesser laptops and whatnot.

Maybe make it enough fall dammage for instant death?

 

[Blamph]

40 minutes is still pretty long. Most matches get down to the final 2-3 people within 30-35 generally. If you are inclined to change the time from 20 minutes (which I think is fine), 30 would probably be the sweet spot. Yes you miss out on two refills, but that should be plenty of time to run your route twice.

 

[Eaglesfan97]

As for the client lag, mooman is looking into improving the client's experiences

Yay! Thanks for fixing this Chad! I know me and everyone else that has lag on the deathmatch will be happy!

 

[kricken]

I'd have to agree with NewYorkKid, 20m is a little bit too short, but the shortening was a great change! I think 30-35m would be the sweetspot. I love logging into servers and only having to wait 10m at the most for a new game to start. It's swift and efficient.
I also think that adding back a full hour would seem really long having had played a game so exciting and short, but I can see how people would want 2 chest refills. We kinda stomped on some strategies there.

 

[hillbillyc]

Blamph, i disagree. that would just be pro-longing the game, without a second refill, making that extra time almost worthless

 

[CarPet300]

I freaking love these servers but it is not fun sometimes because there are so many hackers and when you report them the mods like them or something do not ban them. There should have to be 3 mods look at the proof and leave a comment on what they think because hackers at the moment are just ruining your servers...

But the servers by themselves are amazing and perfect in my opinion.

 

[Aellios15]

I like the new deathmatch; however, it's way too short. The new time limit allows for teams to simply camp corn and wait out the 20 mins until dm then totally dominate then. I've also noticed a huge increase in the number of hackers that I encounter ever since the change especially in the deathmatch. With the old time limit it was possible to pick off members of teams and even eliminate the hackers but with the new limit things have grown exponentially more unfair for people who play solo.

 

[DAL_9000]

Maybe make it enough fall dammage for instant death?

That would also make it a lot less laggy. Whatever works, I also get lag. I normally run at a smooth 50 frames and in death match it drops to like 20 maybe 30. It wouldn't be that big of a deal if I didn't have 4 or 5 guys coming after me while I'm lagging, so whatever it takes. I like the idea, just not the lag.

 

[hillbillyc]

yes. hackers are possibly the bane of everything, and your not alone in the hatred.

 

[hillbillyc]

Aellios, you make an excelent point. games are mostly just a hacking team dominating there way to the top. :\