Bring back 4 teams

[JohnDoe641]

I always loved 3+ team dom and 4 way tdm was a blast in both Unreal and UT.

Not having the extra two teams was sorely lacking in 2k3 and 2k4, it's about time to bring them back.

 

[edhe]

The simple ability even to choose your skin colour in DM would be better than now, it was a good UT FFA DM thing...

 

[gregori]

considering the size of the new conquest maps, it'd might be interesting if there were more than just 2 teams in that gametype!

 

[Renegade Retard]

I thought you could see red but not blue and green.

There's various types of colorblindness.

 

[BooGiTyBoY]

VISION H4X!!!

 

[shadow_dragon]

UT had 4 teams and didn't need specialist gametypes and most of teh gametypes didn't support it in fact.
I don't really care much for specialist gametypes or even necesarily having 4ONS,4CON or 4CTF as default because just having 4 team skins as a default would make modding those gametypes ten times easier.

As for the problem with custom skins no including all team support? Well that will ALWAYS be a problem with new skinners who don't know what they're doing. Skins for UT2004 still get made without red and blue support adding another 2 will make no difference to skinner skills i believe.

 

[FireCrack]

Yeah, at the very least you can just add a generic layer with blending mode set to color (if you use photoship) and save 5 skins with the hue saturation adjusted (ctrl+u) and opacity set to zero for neutral.

 

[shadow_dragon]

Yeah, at the very least you can just add a generic layer with blending mode set to color (if you use photoship) and save 5 skins with the hue saturation adjusted (ctrl+u) and opacity set to zero for neutral.

Though you can bet any skin with that kind of team texture won't be downloaded onto my computer.

 

[Kantham]

2 is enought....

And i love toast

 

[edhe]

4 is better

and so are bagels.

 

[-AEnubis-]

3 Teams, and 3 Words...

English Muffins Rule

 

[Artman40]

4 teams all the way!!!
CTF and especially onslaught would totally rock. Especially if you play with 64 players (I hope that there are enough servers, which can hold up to 64 players at the end of 2006).

 

[G.Lecter]

as mentioned : RTSs often have 4+ teams in larger battles with players forming (temporary) alliances (essentially reducing 4 teams to two really big teams).
Besides ... a little complexity never hurt, provided it was done right.

I think that's much more than a little complexity... 1v1v1v1 is not the most common gamestyle in RTS (a good RTS game is always 1v1 or 2v2) Also, in a RTS there are only 4 players, but in Conquest there will be 32 (or 64!) It's too hard coordinating all those players and making alliances...
Anyway, that will be great in a mod some months after the game is released... I'd rather more 2-teams maps in the retail game...

3 Teams...

3 teams might be OK, some CTF3 maps could work well, without being a chaos... But I think that would be better for a mod too...

 

[Kantham]

Having 4 teams to expand the variety in selection of color for DM would be great. Actualy , i guess you can't change color inside ut2k4 in DM , the default is red. I noticed that yesturday and i was disapointed. It never seem to bumbed right to my mind for 1 year.

2 team is enought for Team work. But the real question is ''how many team color''

I change for 4 since it was well adapted for UT99.

 

[The_Head]

Also, in a RTS there are only 4 players

Someone hasn't done much research:
C&C Generals, 8 teams max
Even the old classic Total Annihaltion has 6 teams iirc.

4 teams should definetly be brought back. PLEASE EPIC!!!!

 

[edhe]

NB i'm not talking about ctf4, i'm talking about 4 skin colours, 2-3-4 way TDM, .. fyi.

 

[-AEnubis-]

Wasn't it map dependent in SC? I coulda sworn BGH was built for 8...

Netstorm was also 8, my personal favorite RTS ever.

 

[Olga]

Yes there are at least 6 team choices in good RTS games.

 

[G.Lecter]

Yeh, a good RTS game offers at least 6 different teams, but that's not the most common way of playing these games... I am a big fan of 'Age of' RTSs, and the serious (rated) matches are always between 2 teams (1v1/2v2)...

2 team is enought for Team work. But the real question is ''how many team color''

That's interesting (if the colours are different enough). The skins and announcers would need support for all those colours... but I am tired of Red&Blue too.

 

[gregori]

3 or more teams will probably be the best for conquest!