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([!]Icon) #21

I’ve said this once, and i will say it 1000 more times until everyone understands. Farcry sucks. Its all ripped straight from Doom. its basically doom on and island. Look at the so called “stunning” similarities in teh monsters, the only thing that Farcry had going for it was crazy carona distance. The farcry engine sucked, i dont think the graphics were good at all. IMO teh Quake 3 and HL engine are MUCH much better.

([!]Icon) #22

But CS received much needed updates from the developers, ET has received little-to-no updates from the developers (bani and team do not count).[/quote]

CS itself is a mod tho, so it was almost all HL fan made. The updates were essentially made by the fans. Like ET, bani made the etpro mod. not SD.

(bacon) #23

We were comparing ET to CS, not ETPro to CS…

(pgh) #24

ET is nothing tho without ETPro.

Just think, if there was no ETPro there would be < 2/3rds of the players as shown.

(yoobie) #25

na, i think they would be playint et anyway

(pgh) #26

They = Who?

People looking for competetive play or at least, a decent level of play.

Where is this in ETMain or Shrub?

([!]Icon) #27

er um…i knew that… :bored:

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #28

Where would RTCW and Quake 3 be (have been) without OSP?

running banimod :stuck_out_tongue:

(Sick Boy) #29

Yeah, running banimod on the 3 non-clanservers :stuck_out_tongue:

(Kendle) #30

Heh, what an excellent subject for discussion. As no-one can ever possibly know what would’ve happened to ET had ETPro never existed, we can all theorise (differently) and discuss ad infinitum. :smiley:

Personally, I’ve always been of the opinion that Clans drive server availability. If Clans aren’t playing a particular game, and server rental companies therefore aren’t renting servers to Clans hosting that game, availability of servers playing that game will almost completely dry up. There are still a few Banimod RTCW servers, just as there are a few MarketGarden and other servers running games / maps that are not played by Clans, but they are only a very few.

I took all my filters off in ASE last night, just for the hell of it, and the vast majority of servers out there are ETPro, with the rest an almost equal split between etmain and Shrub. There seem to be more Shrub servers based in the US, with the Euro’s seemingly prefering ETPro, even for multi-map Campaigns.

Quite simply, if Clans didn’t play ET there would be vastly fewer ET servers, and Clans wouldn’t still be playing ET if ETPro hadn’t existed. So all of you, even those (perverse) people who’ve never played on ETPro servers, owe Bani / Rain and Co. a debt of thanks. :wink:

(evilsock) #31

There’s still one UK Banimod server :slight_smile: [FuN] GoldRush (212.137.70.2:28888) - mooooooo! Where’s the cow! - uses mp_ice, headshot only with un-scoped (accurate) mauser- gravity is set slightly differently as well.

(mouse) #32

OMG i played like 3 months non stop on that server, that goldrush mode rox!!! didnt even know it was up. COW: 76 Gold, bring me more moooooooooooo :moo:

(Kendle) #33

I played about 30 minutes of Banimod Goldrush once. Was about all I could take before my brain started turning to mush. :frowning:

(ElderNewb) #34

which mean mouse’s brain is…? :blah: never tried it myself - must have a gander

(pgh) #35

Always avoided it too… :>

(mouse) #36

It is very much fun and involves some good teamplay, wich i really liked about it. And yeah my brain is a bit messed up indeed, totally no long term memory… :confused:

(ildon) #37

I think there would still be plenty of clans playing ETmain if ET Pro had never existed. There really aren’t that many problems with ETmain as a game, and it still has all the RTCW OSP features circa version 0.7 or so. In my experience, when clanners have a game they like to play, they will bend over backwards to make it work as a clan game. This includes being forced to do silly things (trust the other team won’t build sentries during prematch on Well in early TFC, or be forced to have everyone play spectator and try to join the game at the same time as was done at one point for some maps in Q3F). If the players like a game enough, they will MAKE it work.