MobyGames bullcrap

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

What the hell? This is what they have in trivia: "Eightball

The eightball weapon in the game is called like that because it
originally fired 8 missiles. Play testing revealed 6 made a more
balanced weapon, but the name stuck.
"

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhtt

Who the hell wrote that? I would add citation needed because this is complete bullshit. Nobody ever said that of the developers and it is completely false. It's always been meant to have six barrels, the eightball name refers to the eightball game, the weapon is not named eightball but the full title is eightball gun, eightballs are the actual ammo, which the weapon fires as either grenade or rocket. And originally the rockets bounced off walls when launched for few seconds before the rocket started actually burning, so they did ricoche like when playing the pool game using sticks and the eightball, in fact the mechanism it loads is similar to that, its like the stick pushes it out. That was always the idea behind that.
But who the hell has balls to assume that eightball fired eight rockets and write it as a fact and that "play testing revealed". What play testing? Play testing with his own balls maybe?

Also lol at their forum with one thread "opinions from FPS fans". Fans indeed...drooling piles of goo that have no idea what game is about and who would want to make Unreal another MoA and CoD clone.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

It's a load of crap for sure. The Eightball rockets have an 8 on them like the pool ball. Pretty simple to figure out where the name came from.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Actually I can't spot any 8 on their skin, not even the higher res one from betas.
There is a bit of something on the mesh that could resemble 8 but this appears to be coincidence and just effect of pixelization. When the higher res skin is applied it's clear it's not 8. However they might have planned to have that on the skin.
But even without it it is clear. The rocket does resemble the eightball other way too, the coloring of the front for example, except there's no actual "8".

 

[Sir_Brizz]

That could be true. Maybe they said something about that in an interview. The Liandri Archives have that information preserved but it's not sourced either.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Yes, I remember some interview mentioning the original of the eightball gun, but the intention was there as this. If you look at the Unreal preview video from august 97 PC Player, if you are careful you will notice when they play deathmatch against each other (on youtube this is "PC Player - Unreal Preview" I think) you will notice at around 03:50 that the rockets do ricoche initially, this is hard to notice but this behavior is also in the 0.871d build so I know it first hand. But if you are careful you'll see right at 3:55 that he fires rocket at the wall, without it exploding but then he turns to the left and see it exploding on the opposite wall, initially i thought this was a rocket from another player but this was the original intention/feature of the eightball, before the rocket plays the anim where the yellow fire appears at its back, it does not explode but instead richochet off walls.

 

[MakeMeUnreal]

I found that on Mobygames.
Is there anybody who can translate Hungaryan to English good?

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

What do you need the translation for? But I don't know anyone from Hungary aside you I believe..or well don't really have contact with them. I played with some hungarian players online but I don't even know how they were named.

 

[Zur]

UT's flak cannon ammo has a smiley on it. What's up with that ?

 

[leilei]

Who the hell wrote that?

Zovni wrote that in May 6, 2001.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Lol, that's quite a while ago anyway..

 

[dinwitty]

The razorjack does the bounce, but no explode, but you can bounce the grenades around a corner.
You can right mouse guide the razorjack projectile. probably a concept precurser to the redeemer.

They may have done a game balance and take the bounce off. But the name stuck.

 

[Arnox]

That is stupid but...

 

[leilei]

The date was important to mention as it was during an era on MobyGames where factual accuracy and verification of authenticity wasn't given much thought then. Many old screenshots are replaced for authenticity reasons too, i.e. screenshots with scalers applied, playstation with anti-aliasing, low detail, etc...

 

[ambershee]

playstation with anti-aliasing, low detail, etc...

Hooray for ePSXe!

My console drive packed in years ago, as did the memory cards. My games library (where the disks have not inexplicably corroded...) however lives on in full HD with anti-aliasing