The hottest trend on UT2004: lots of downloading!

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Hop on the bandwagon!

Make users wait 30 minutes downloading a map and 20 accessory files before
playing!

Wonder why a 28 player server not half filled needs a 20 square mile wide
map!

On the plus side, last night on ussr had rapid-fire weapons, and a few new
vehicles. One shot mortars(had 8 wheels, called a Paladin) and the other was
this tank-like vehicle.

Eh.

I download like 9 items, and I find I'm still playing the stupid Primeval
map.

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Spitfire 1500 enlightened us with:
> Hop on the bandwagon!
>
> Make users wait 30 minutes downloading a map and 20 accessory files
> before playing!

Lovely, isn't it? This is one of the reasons I hardly play online
anymore.

> On the plus side, last night on ussr had rapid-fire weapons, and a
> few new vehicles. One shot mortars(had 8 wheels, called a Paladin)
> and the other was this tank-like vehicle.

Sounds like the new bonus pack to me.

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"Spitfire 1500" <s1500@nospam.comcast.net> writes:
>Hop on the bandwagon!
>
>Make users wait 30 minutes downloading a map and 20 accessory files before
>playing!

Just download the ECE map pack from Atari's website, rather than leeching
it off of a game server at 1% of the speed.

>Wonder why a 28 player server not half filled needs a 20 square mile wide
>map!

I like the big maps - it makes getting out of position when someone
isolates a node a MUCH bigger problem.

>On the plus side, last night on ussr had rapid-fire weapons, and a few new
>vehicles. One shot mortars(had 8 wheels, called a Paladin) and the other was
>this tank-like vehicle.

These are the ECE vehicles. I like the SPMA - a rapid-deployment mortar,
even though I haven't quite figured out how to steer the altfire tv bomb
yet. *
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Paul Vader wrote:
>>On the plus side, last night on ussr had rapid-fire weapons, and a few new
>>vehicles. One shot mortars(had 8 wheels, called a Paladin) and the other was
>>this tank-like vehicle.
>
>
> These are the ECE vehicles. I like the SPMA - a rapid-deployment mortar,
> even though I haven't quite figured out how to steer the altfire tv bomb
> yet. *

Nah, you can't steer it, apart from careful aiming before you fire it.

The trick is to right-click stop it when it's directly over your target,
so you can start bombarding without wasting time getting the aiming
reticle in position.

 

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Dekaritae <maur@mdi.ca> writes:
>> These are the ECE vehicles. I like the SPMA - a rapid-deployment mortar,
>> even though I haven't quite figured out how to steer the altfire tv bomb
>> yet. *
>
>Nah, you can't steer it, apart from careful aiming before you fire it.

I don't get why it has the tv feature then. Are you just supposed to use it
as an intelligence drone? It does work pretty well for that.

>The trick is to right-click stop it when it's directly over your target,
>so you can start bombarding without wasting time getting the aiming
>reticle in position.

Oh - you use it for ranging shots? That's cool. *
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