I think the classic style timer works wonders. Implementing a start timer onto all styles of gameplay would be nice. On a rocking game of Urban Chaos it can be over before your team even spawns..... and thats no fun for anyone except Opie. It would make the start of the maps more organized and balanced. Imagine... both teams clashing full force in the middle of glycen. No more free middle flags +1 for a good fight?
god ya... escort is a race to place as many stuff as you can before the tanks arrive. Kinda hard to do when there is only 3 vs 3 atm while everyone else is still loading.
once (on a large game a couple RC's ago) i was the first person to spawn on our team, and as soon as i got outside there was opie in a LT shooting our VF.
A timer is necessary, I can't count the times I capped all 3 flags on urbanchaos before everyone loaded the map. I agree with sandbag, I think I followed right after opie and was able to finish the VF with my light tank before NF could do much. (Could have been another game, but I remember killing the VF 1 minute into the game) Especially when new players come into the game that know nothing this will lead to confusion.
When I had HDR turned off I was the first into the map for the longest time...now i've upgraded my gfx and switched it on I spawn really late sometimes :/
new escort should be interesting to play with all the new changes Without the heavy tank/apc rushes before nf even get out of spawn
I like it too. :p But yes, some sort of timer would be nice but I think it should be cvar or at least changeable so you don't have to wait all day waiting for the time to run out.
Well, you can always use ent_fire to unlock the gate on escort before the 2 minute timer runs out, but VALVe restricted all ent_ commands to the host, so unless you are the host, don't count on changing that limit. Easiest way to change it for your server would be to use a delayed execute of "ent_fire door1 unlock".
I was meaning that when people are allowed to host their servers, there would be a field where they could put the count down time for the timer.
That's impossible, you can't control specific entities with CVAR's. You need to use the command i said.
What does that mean? (seriously, do I do something I'm not aware of?) I am Opie, and I approve this message. I would love to see a timer on non-cv maps. I always thought that there should be one.
I like the idea of 2 minute timer solokiller. the BE team will still be able to skirmish but it'll mostly give NF at least a little time to set up. think you could have a red light above the button that goes green when you can press the button?
