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Originally Posted by squidhands
I've played one pretty laggy game on this last week. It was enjoyable despite the object flickering and phantom flags. With the amount of budget glitching that's been done to this, I can't imagine how 16 players would be able to play a game on this, or even 10.
Despite this, the main issue I have is with the grass base. I realize that you were going for a Blood Gulch feel here, but I'd prefer to have some access to the top floor from inside the base, rather than having to risk going outside just to get on top of it (it's one of my major issues with BG). Even something like a portable grav lift would work wonders here IMO.
I really love what you did with the larger base. It has a great feel to it, and the design works pretty well. I had some problems with getting stuck in the lift, but I accounted that to the lag.
I am pretty disappointed that this is so heavily budget-glitched, because this would make a wonderful entry into ATLAS. I'd like to play another game or two on it and see if I'm still having issues, and when I do I'll get back to you.
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Sounds like you had really bad lag issues. This is the first I've heard of it and even with a full room during testing it never lagged. Even the object flicker wasn't that bad, and that was only if you were looking from far end to far end (It's only really awful in forge). It also sounds like your group was too small for this map, even 8 players is stretching it. Anyhow, there is a completely safe way up to the top of the BG base and that's in the back. Both the teleporter and the sniper are easy to get to without being killed (bar a sniper who knows what they're doing). But this map is more single objective based or Team Slayer, so maybe you played an unsuitable gametype for the map. I'm curious as to how you got "stuck" in the lift since it goes both ways (even a mongoose can't stay in the lift for more than a few seconds). So while I'm just as dissappointed at your experiance as you were having it, I'm sure if you got a decent sized group together (and fed some powerbars and energy drinks to the hamster running your dialup connection lol) you should have fun on your next run.
Cheers.