UnWheel EC feedback thread

I've been playing online for about 6 hours now and I've gathered alot of info about how people feel about UnWheel. For the most part people like it and have alot of fun. Two of the biggest hits seem to be UWKB-Billiards and UWBA-Jumpcity.

Here are some of the things that people have been asking for....

A demo derby game type
Random ball respawn locations for Billiards
Turbo, or boost
A rear view mirror for the rally car
Team versions of kball/ctf

And here are some of the things that are a must for future versions...

1.More polished maps, any map that is easy to get lost in (UWRC-Hilltop), will either make everyone leave the server or instantly start voting for another map. Also any map that doesn't look like a good amount of time and effort was spent on it will have people desribing UnWheel with four letter words, I'm sorry to say this Project X, but many of your maps aren't too popualr, Hilltop was one, Aldreas was another, RedPlanet also. Some need to be scraped and others just need more polish. I'm not saying people don't like all of your maps PX, ironicly one of your most simple maps, Avalanche, seems to be very well liked.
2.There seems to be problems with the spawing system, people spawn on top of each other even when the playstarts appaer to be correct.
3.Players vehicles need to be removed from the game when they leave, this can become a big mess on a bussy server.
4.There also need to be changes to the way race and rally games start, the way it is now, whoever picks their car first gets to start racing first.

There are tons of little things in every map that are uncovered right away with online play. I think several of our problems with maps can be solved with beta testers, now that we have online play that works well I think it's time to find some dedicated testers.

I'm sure I've missed some things and I'll probably update this post with more findings. Everyone please add your input to this thread as well, team members and players alike.

Dragon_Myr said:

I downloaded the Unwheel EC zip file today and tried to load the map Avalanche but it would not load up in game. Here's a shot of what UEd told me was missing.

This is much better than beta 3 (or whatever the last release is). Good stuff and thanks for bringing this mod to UT2004.

BTW, quick question, who made the static mesh roads?

-Myr

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I played online for most of the day today, including several games in Alavanche, and no one seemed to have a problem with getting into the map. I could be mistaken but I thought that package was one that came with UT2k4. Maybe someone else will have some input about it.

StevenHorton is the one who made the road meshes.

Thanks for the reply.

Sporx said:

hi , i really havent been around the forums but im a long time player of your mod as well as many others. I and several others came upon what appears to be a glitch while playing in the UWCTF-aquanum map, after awhile of play we began to experience what appeared to be delayed response time between ourselves and our vehichles, and even over exagerated responses. Our ping was normal, what was happening was basically wed tap left or right or even hold them down to turn and the action wouldnt occur until several seconds later, i tried to pivote my tires while standing still and found the same result. Also, i was going at a fairly slow speed having just made a k turn when i lightly taped the left key to reconfigure my position and it sent me flying in circles and eventual off the platform. When i respawned i respawned off kilter , rather then being flat on the ground i was at a 60 degree angle and couldnt move, hitting the flip key fixed this but it was still odd. I discussed all of these issues with other people while playing on the map and all of them agreed and reported similar and or identical problems.

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The only thing that I can think of is that the vehicles that get left behind sart to lag the server more and more as they pile up, I know you said that your ping was normal but I don't trust what the scoreboard says about ping, It was telling me I had a ping of 3, I don't believe it. Respawning off kilter and having to flip to regain control is a problem that might not be lag related, we'll try and get it worked out, thanks for the feedback.

Dracarys said:

Respawning shouldn't put you in the orientation you were in when you reset; you should be flat on teh ground and facing the same way as the playerstart. I also am annoyed by the lack of turbo, spawning in stacks, and the lack of a headlight control. Not having configuration for cars may be a good thing, as it forces you to try to work out which car is best for specific scenarios, not just using the same one with different settings. Also, not needing to tweak settings speeds up the car selection process, which lets you spawn sooner (also need to find some way to wait until everyone's ready to start). Much of the mod is dependand on everyone selecting the car at the same time; few gametypes aren't very effected, and all are to some degreee. I think we should have some team gametypes too (ctf, and kball sound good), as those can be a lot more fun, though I admit I love the chaos of FFA kball. Also, perhaps teh dump truck should be disabled for kball (much as I hate to say this; I use it all the time) because it can run over (and at teh same time flip) almost any other car, and no matter how many cars are fighting against it, it always moves forward. That brnigs us to another thing I'd like to see: Additive force. If three players are all pusing on teh one truck, I somehow think the truck shouldn't prevail. That's all for now, if you're still reading, so get back to work!


Oh yeah, adn whoever runs server 1, all the score limits except K-ball, CTF, and racing are too low. UWBA-Avalanche ends in two rounds, and Rabbit is REALLY short.

[edit] and a random ball spawn location setup for kball would kick ass! As long as it never spawned in or above a goal, or on a ramp leading to one, that is.

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Respawn orientation could be a bit tricky bacause you don't always respawn at a player start, but that's not my department so I can't really say. The turbo will probably make a comeback, but that's just a guess on my part. Also I messaged the guy resonsible for the servers about changing the goal limits, so hopefully tomorrow it should be better.