Linguica Posted October 14, 2000 You've been awaiting it for ages, and now it's finally here: beta 8 of Skulltag has been released! That's right, it's a new version of the "CTF on Crack" mod which has become so much more. Since there's so much new stuff I'll just do some hardcore copy/pasting here, so get ready:A couple important notes: The client/server isn't totally working yet. You can setup a server, and throw some bots in there, but the client end still seems to be pretty borked. I'm very close to fixing that, and will release a small patch upgrade when I do have it fixed. And believe me, I want this done as much as anyone. I want to play some CTF, Domination, etc... dammit :) Some of the stuff in there isn't totally done yet, specifically d2dm2 and a couple of the new skins in there. Meepy seems to have slipped in there. Um... ignore him :) So what's new in this version? A new level (d2dm2). Brand new "Multiplayer" menu for setting up network games, and single player botmatches (skirmishes). Three new modes of deathmatch, including survival, scoremode, and instagib. Several new skins, including the "Base II" skin, Chubbs's skin, and four monster skins. New navigation system for the bots (they now get stuck far less). Lots of new chat lines for the bots. Bots can now respond to other bots' comments. The teamgame mode has been revamped and greatly improved. Scoreboard problems have been fixed. A new grenade bouncing sound ('bout time, eh?) Many, many secret bots. Client/server (well, almost). Bots now recognize teams (and can play in teamplay and teamgame mode). Taunting Several new display features (including displaying player names) /me support mewse What are you waiting for? Go get it! 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Confusion Posted October 14, 2000 Those damn bots aren't getting stuck against the fucking walls every thirty seconds any more! Hurrah! Sod DOOM III, this is gaming at its finest. Good stuff indeed. Oh, and...um...first...y'know...first thingy. Yeah. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Caleb Posted October 14, 2000 has unreal been accepted into the doomworld? how awful, NOT! 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted October 14, 2000 BTW, you can setup botmatches by going to Multiplayer->Skirmish. Just throw like 10 bots into map07 or d2dm2 and have a blast :) You can also that with PWADs, like gothic2 and stuff. Enjoy! :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted October 14, 2000 How many secret bots has everyone found, and how did you find them? The secrets must be released! 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 14, 2000 Mmmmm. Skulltag is on my computer. The new version even ;) Ph33r dammit. /me Ph34r5 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted October 14, 2000 Skirmished 10 bots in map07. OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH MAAAAAAAAAAAN! IN MY PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted October 14, 2000 Oops, hehe, looks like the map sequence skips over d2dm2 for now. It goes from d2dm1 to d2dm7 still, when it should go from 1 to 2 to 7. I'll have this fixed in the patch. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 14, 2000 Chubbs is FAT. :) No news really. But now he's visually fat aswell ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted October 14, 2000 Haha, here's a shot from that 10 bot game Arioch mentioned: http://fracdime.dyndns.org/arioch/skulltag.png 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted October 14, 2000 Yeah, it would have been more effective if you HADN'T used IDKFA... IDFA would've been fine, but you got greedy Arioch =) 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Rhoq Posted October 14, 2000 Wow, it's cool to see such a great response. Let it be known that Doom shall live on! I regret that I was not able to fully complete the Chubbs skin. I spent a lot of time on him. Since it didn't get him all done for this release, you can look forward to seeing a full Chubbs graphics pack (complete with twinkies...and such) in the near future to make up for it. I hope everyone is enjoying SkullTag, so play on...! FREE HISSY 0 Share this post Link to post
wavelength Posted October 14, 2000 Where the hell do I download it?!? It's no-where on your page. 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted October 14, 2000 There's a link on the news page. Yeah... I better update the download page, too... 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 14, 2000 Try the place where it say. Download it here. (here is the link) Mmmmm. SkullTag owns 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted October 14, 2000 http://www.3ddownloads.com/showfile.php3?file_id=103121 oh, and why is there a rotating Hissy at the bottom of the comments? :) 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 14, 2000 What does the Taunt do? I know what it's supposed to do but I jsut don't seen anything happen when I press it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Risen Posted October 14, 2000 There's no sound attached to the base skin. Try some of the other ones, they've got taunts. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Cyberdud15 Posted October 14, 2000 I would like to see how screwed up the client/server games are :) well...actually im just curious 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted October 14, 2000 Yeah, heh, I accidentally forgot to put in the right sound info lump, so yeah, there's no taunt attached to the base guy. Heh, and the grenade bounce sound doesn't work cause of that, either. I'll have that fixed tonight. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 14, 2000 What does Orion do when he taunt someone? Belches? 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest q.pixel[rex] Posted October 14, 2000 I look forward to some tougher missions in the full release ;-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Risen Posted October 14, 2000 I've found seven secret bots. That doesn't mean the secrets must be released! :) They're not that difficult to figure out. Just think about it a bit. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted October 14, 2000 I didn't cheat my screenshot. As you can see, my ammo limit were still at original levels (signifying that I didn't have the backpack, which comes with idkfa in zdoom) ... OHHHHHHHHHH! ST OWNz. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted October 14, 2000 You can add mots by typing addbot pluto. etc. just cause theyre not in the list in teh skirmisch place, don't mean you can't add them. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted October 14, 2000 That wasn't my 10 bot game anyway. If you count the rankings, only 8 bots were there. 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted October 14, 2000 Also, if you've got teamplay on, you can go: addbot <botname> <team> ... to put them on a certain team. 0 Share this post Link to post