Unfortunately, they were. But the whining and complaining about the length of time the release was in coming had grown to such a level that NOT releasing the beta would have been more detrimental to the community than releasing a public beta. In fact, many of the bugs in PB1 had been found by the Beta Testers already...but you wouldn't know that because all you care about is that it's not identical line for line to U2XMP.[tH]Angelus said:
Do you know ANYTHING about software development? It's pretty much recognized that an Alpha of software is NOT FEATURE COMPLETE. What "features" are missing from UTXMP whether or not they are working exactly right, even according to you?
This is a perfect example of one of the things that I personally think is A FUNDAMENTAL FLAW in U2XMP that should be removed from UTXMP. I knew alot of Rangers, even some "novice" ones, back in U2XMP that almost NEVER zoomed in. What is the point of giving the Ranger any other weapon than the Sniper Rifle if they can shoot it just as well as the Pistol in practically every situation?
So in other words you think that your opinions are right and if anyone has an opposing opinion they are wrong.
What's this? You unwittingly proved my point that XMP is NOT ATTACHED TO ANY GAME??? You, my good man, are exactly right! This isn't Ut2004! It's also NOT U2XMP! It's XMP, only AS A MOD FOR UT2004.
So your true colors show through. You think that it's possible to have a perfect game and that U2XMP was it. You think that you don't need to change anything from one game to the next. If someone remade Wolfenstein 3D with updated Textures, you would pay $50 for it.
Apparently your first post has lost you more respect than it has gained you.more than I have for you kid
Considering that alot of the community has embraced UTXMP and many people that complained about the first beta are even know less concerned with the feel of the game I think that this view is more of a minority than majority. At least half of the 4 month ago U2XMP community has left U2XMP and moved to UTXMP. Why? Because it feels like XMP and it's fun. You're just mad because all of the exploits you could take advantage of before aren't in UTXMP.
It would still be XMP.
XMP is a concept of [some number of] teams with [some number of] classes who capture certain objectives outside of their base to increase their "hold" on a map, use defensive deployables to defend their base, and try to capture all four of the "flags" (which could be just about anything).
XMP could easily be made into a four team game, a six team game, a three team game and still be XMP. XMP could easily have eight artifacts, three artifacts, six artifacts and STILL BE XMP. It could easily have a completely different array of weapons (i.e. UT2004 weapons) AND IT WOULD STILL BE XMP.
However, the problem isn't that you want to play XMP but better but that you want to play U2XMP on a better Master Server. My suggestion to you would be to write a modification to UTXMP that makes it identical to U2XMP and see how no one wants to play it.
Are your reading comprehension skills in the negatives? I like U2XMP just fine! However, there is no reason to port the game if no improvements are going to be made. Just leave it where it is and let it stagnate (because eventually you will find a game you like better and play that and no one will be left playing U2XMP).
Maybe you ought to try and show it better than you did in your first post. You really haven't gained any "friends" here, more likely enemies. Additionally, you are the minority still.
Wrong. That is ENTIRELY your own opinion. Many here, including people from Legend Entertainment, the developers of FMI and U2XMP community members will completely disagree with that statement on many grounds. At the very least, fps and netcode.
There are thousands of people who would tend to disagree with that statement.
You (and several other people on these forums) need to pull your head out and recognize that U2XMP IS DEAD. No new players are coming to it, less than 100 people are playing it at any one time. The master server goes up and down. And it is incredibly unfriendly to noobs (and lots of regular players will attest to that).
Many CTF players from these forums are already playing UTXMP regularly. Try not putting words into the community's mouth for once.
Oh we do? I forgot where you said that FMI should care what the "experienced" players think. I haven't heard as much whining from a community about so many things as I have heard in this forum about UTXMP since the day Ut2k3 came out. The simple fact is: many of the "experienced" players are whining but most of the community is not. New players are not going to come to U2XMP on UT2004 because new players never stayed on U2XMP before the Master Server problems.
You mean out of the whole 90 persona playerbase there's only like 30 of them left? Imagine that.
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