Sick of Face, Lavagiant, November?

Is anyone else sick of Face, Lava Giant, and November? Seems like every @#$% server is running only these three maps...

With all of the new maps coming out, it would be nice to see a little more variety offered by the various server admins.

On a (somewhat) related note: To all of you server admin types, please please PLEASE enable the 'force team balance' option for any team game. It sucks donkey-dick to get smeared in CTF or Assault and find out the game was 7 on 2. Just a personal peeve.

Thanks - now go eat your peas. They're good for you.

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I was going to go to work today, but the voices told me to stay home and clean the guns.

A problem with force team balance is, even though it works when teams are assigned at the beginning of a map, after the map has started, UT doesn't put new players on the correct team to balance. If Red has 4, and blue has 5, UT often puts the new player on blue. I would like to see this fixed in a patch...


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I downloaded CTF maps "Orbital" & "Hall Of Giants" but haven't used them yet. Any thoughts on them?

I almost agree completely [PuF]USDA_Prime! I am completely sick of Face and Lavagiant, but not November. Usually when I see a server playing Lavagiant or Face, I avoid it like the plague.

There are servers out there running Face all the time 24/7... what a joke! Come on server admins play all the maps and some of the good user maps.

Some of the best games I have played were on levels like Command, Niven and my absolute favorite...EternalCaves.

Hall of giants is great. Haven't seen orbital. Try SOBforts too. I might be kind of partial to that map but I think you'll agree that is plays very well.

What's wrong with face and lavagiant. I think those are the coolest maps around. Because they are perfect for sniping. Oh and hall of giants sucks. It's far too big. It takes 5 minutes to get to the other site and 10 minutes to find somebody to shoot at.

Thanks for the info. Maybe I should get off my lazy *** and try them myself....


Nah, I'll do it later.

I've played both Orbital and HoG, and liked them both. My only beef with HoG is that it is almost _too_ big; seems like you'd need 10+ players per team to really get a tight game going. That many players is tough on the server...

Orbital kicks *** , but I've only found it on one server /~unreal/ubb/html/frown.gif

Some other good ones that are rarely seen:

Eternal Caves
Coret
Twin Valleys (I think this is the name, it has two identical forts with sniping towers, ramps, all kinds of good stuff)
Gauntlet

One caveat - some maps work with 20+ players, others are overloaded with more than 10 (this is more a problem with some of the DM maps, but still...) - server admins should keep this in mind when setting up their map rotations.

Any other good CTF maps you'd like to see in a server rotation?


I was going to go to work today, but the voices told me to stay home and clean the guns.

Don't forget CTF-Killgore, CTF-Stronghold, CTF-Milk, CTF-Underdwellers, CTF-McSwartzly, CTF Sketchpad, CTF Shiggy, and CTF Darkkeep.

[This message has been edited by Mr Z (edited 01-04-2000).]

I dont know what you have against face and lavagiant these maps own

Yeah, they're awesome and fun, but when that's all they have rotating on the server...

get's a little tedious. Especially if that is the server that you ping well in.


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