Ok, so second chance. After last week's fiasco on my behalf I didn't want to risk a playtest tonight, but we did a quick check to see if I managed to fix the spawn issues, and I did.

Coming weekend we'll re-try the comeback playtest . Good news is I have time to fix the most urgent issue: the new weapon balance. A quick background so you know what I'm talking about:

We've had pretty ok hit registration for a while, but people died a bit too randomly due to high damage overall. The last few playtests we scaled down damage globally with a decent factor, and battles became longer, which we tried to achieve, but now it's a sprayfest once more. So I think I'm close at finding the proper balance: I need to augment the accuracy of assault and smg seriously. So yeah, I'm finally gonna seriously tone down the recoil & spread and make our main weapons a lot more accurate. That way we should get more long-range fights where the better aim gets rewarded. So I'll try to get that in as much as possible by next week, and we'll be able to test that, + everything I did for last week's test Please show up if you can!

sounds good, I'll try and get Styx kinda ok-isch to play (with 3 spawns)

I will not attend, but to give some good news, I'm getting a new pc quite soon so I will be able to play Off Limits like it should be played

nop, lappie nog kapot.

Balance stuff! Long awaited, this one:



Still left on my list: spec mode, melee, knife, vehicle bugs & stamina/weight system polish + some details.

Interesting, now we need a crowd to test it!
No Styx update, we can still play the version that's on SVN now, it's too much under construction atm to focus on playtest builds. February will bring sweets...

Well, there was 2 of us. I think that's actually a new record. Thanks mutant!

Sorry I missed this one, guys...

No problem. ;D

Well at least we got some helpful information out of it:

1. Shotguns need to have higher damage.
2. Snipers need to have higher damage and/or a higher headshot damage multiplier.
3. Grenades need to cause less damage. Improved throw speed in combination with new radar system makes them too efficient (Though bouncing grenades around corners to kill opponents was quite fun).

Anyway, lets hope for a higher turnout next week. I can't say if I'll be there or not myself. Since the playtest was so short (Not much we could have done after all), I did get some play into RNL. So I'm not sure which mod I'll go with next week. Here's hoping for a change in schedule for RNL (1-1,5 hour later or earlier would be enough).

some wip shots, I finally got the areaportals to work in the central U-turn shaped area and also got the layout pretty clean as well. Time to start making it look nicer Should go quite fast now I hope. I also cut the level up again like the past, where buildings are split in two, this causes a lighting seam again, but I had to work this way for a reason, so the seam fix will be for later down the line... ;o
Just posting to show I'm still working as well ... lol
MAYBE this weekend I'll have a version ready to play with 3 spawns...