Saturday Night Brace Party

Scrupus · 2010-09-24 21:00:51 UTC

All players interested in trying out the latest version of Tinman’s Brace Mod for QuakeWars, should meet up for a Brace party tomorrow Saturday 25 September, starting at 18:00 CEST (euro time). :stroggbanana:

Servername: ICE Brace Mod

Read more details about the Brace mod (and post feedback) in this thread:

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21849

In short, Brace is a Duos Deathmatch mod, where each team consist of 2 players, and all teams fight each others - everyone except your team mate is the enemy, and will try to kill you.

Main new features in the latest a4 version is support for Strogg side, and the Briefcase. Pluss a ton of bug fixes and adjustments

Brace is played on the 12 stock maps you know so well already, but due to the new gameplay the battlefield feels totally different - the normal objectives are not in use, and the gameflow can go in all directions.

New players should note the following differences from normal QW:

All classes can pickup and use all weapons and packs. This includes GDF/Strogg weapons - they will autoconvert to the right race model when picked up, so a GPMG will turn into a hyperblaster and so on. All classes can also revive teammates, with the Use button (F)
Each player can only carry 2 sidearms and 2 packs. You sometimes have to drop a pack or gun to pickup a better one, and I recommend to train a bit on how to use the pickup and pack system, as it can be a bit confusing in the start. The Use key (F) will pickup stuff - the Mount key (G) will pickup and consume.
All classes have at least one special ability, some of them have to use fuel cells/packs to charge them. See the Brace thread for more specific info.
Each round is exactly 23 minutes long, and will progress with several stages. It start with few weapons and long spawn times, but accelrate with more weapons/vehicles and shorter spawn times for each stage. The last 10 minutes is getting quite intense, while the 2 last minutes is totally crazy. :eek:

Final advices:

Learn to search for guns and try to memorize where you leave them if you die - the sooner you find a good gun, the longer you will live.
Try to stay close to your team mate, as you both will get an extra “brace” bonus when you’re close.
Try not to panic, and run out of the battlezone (usually around the Briefcase) if low on health, to recover and search for better guns and supplies.
As the Briefcase gives some extra XP, most teams will hunt for it. So whenever you are prepared for action, go for it - the briefcase is always visible on the map

That’s it for now, more details in the Brace thread.

Thanks to Tinman for creating this awesome mod, and hope to see many players on Brace server this weekend!

ED209 · 2010-09-24 21:11:41 UTC

Man Brace looks like fun. I saw Tinman’s vid of the gameplay, and it was going off!

light_sh4v0r · 2010-09-24 22:14:11 UTC

Bah, I can do any night but Saturday

Scrupus · 2010-09-24 22:32:48 UTC

It’s running all the time, join up now if you like - we’re playing

SphereCow · 2010-09-24 22:33:55 UTC

Played it yesterday with Tinman. It’s over the top fun. : O

Just the kind of mod I wanted.

There’s a couple of people on, now.

Does anyone have a link? (The auto download gives some people problems)

Scrupus · 2010-09-24 23:04:19 UTC

Yeah, download link here: http://etqw.nett.org/download/etqw/mods/brace-a4-13.zip

Not sure what’s wrong with the autodownload - it’s using the internal http download and it should be pretty failsafe, so if it works for some I dunno why it fails for others

Susefreak · 2010-09-24 23:21:46 UTC

[QUOTE=Scrupus;241685]Yeah, download link here: http://etqw.nett.org/download/etqw/mods/brace-a4-13.zip

Not sure what’s wrong with the autodownload - it’s using the internal http download and it should be pretty failsafe, so if it works for some I dunno why it fails for others [/QUOTE]

Usualy because of user accounts in the wildly popular operating systems don’t have enough rights…

Seanza · 2010-09-25 10:21:41 UTC

Sounds rather interesting, wonder if this is “cuppable”?

light_sh4v0r · 2010-09-25 11:33:36 UTC

I’m sure everything is cuppable for you. I foresee an infinite warm-up cup.

Seanza · 2010-09-25 11:46:57 UTC

I’m pretty sure everything is cuppable for me

Scrupus · 2010-09-25 16:41:35 UTC

Some kind of competition could be interesting if Brace get more players, but the usual cup format would not work - you would have to design something for multi team matches. As the battlefield is more or less player driven, I think you need at least 8 players on the field to make it interesting - 2 teams would probably be quite boring.

One format that might work, is to play 3 maps or so with all teams and give position score for each round, fex with 6 teams give 6 points for the winner, 5 for the next, and 1 for the looser - then the total sum after all maps gives the winning team.

Or a knockout cup, where the loosing team is replaced by a bot team (to keep the same amount of “players” pr match) until only one team is left.

Anyway let’s see how many players will dare to try this out - party starts in 30 minutes! :stroggbanana:

A few practical updates:

As the fireteam score system is a bit limited, try to stay with your fireteam until each map is finished - don’t leave in the middle of a match if possble.

Experienced players should try to team up with the inexperienced players, for better balance.

As we need a minimum amount of 8 players or so to drive the battlefield, I’ll keep some bots around until we are enough players.

Happy bracing!

Seanza · 2010-09-25 20:00:17 UTC

8 people on the server = 4 teams

So I would make 4 teams per group, top 2 from one go against top 2 from another. Same with the bottom 2 from each group facing each other. Or could work it out based on scores.

Note that I’ve yet to play this mod. Will try to do that tomorrow or some point next week and then come up with some sort of ruleset. Also, I did not expect it to be similar to standard cup rules

uTer · 2010-09-26 01:05:22 UTC

great idea

light_sh4v0r · 2010-09-26 12:12:01 UTC

will be reinstalling ETQW asap (it now restarts 6 (!) times before I can even think of finding a server :rolleyes: ) and have a go at this, maybe tonight if nirvana isn’t pulling away all the brace players.

YumYum · 2010-11-27 16:58:45 UTC

how about we play some brace mod today at 20 cet?

Scrupus · 2010-11-27 18:50:24 UTC

Yep - starting in 15 mins

Dthy · 2010-11-27 19:55:59 UTC

I can’t join Got his coming up

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copy gamex86.dll to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\id Software\Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars\brace\gamex86.dll
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Scrupus · 2010-11-27 20:40:52 UTC

hmm that was strange error

Try to install manually, download here: http://etqw.nett.org/download/etqw/mods/brace-a4-13.zip

Chris2 · 2010-11-27 21:05:54 UTC

Mod needs some more work imo, only way to win is to get case and grab a vehicle and hide on other side of map. Should be based on most kills not most running or camping.

light_sh4v0r · 2010-11-28 11:43:11 UTC

Good point Chris. Get rid of the xp/min and give like double xp/kill for the fireteam carrying the case.