Tuchola Feedback - Beta1, being run on anarchic-x servers Options

[logik]

hey guys

i run anarchic-x.com and we're running tuchola beta1 in our current rotation. we have a lot of users and matches that get up to 40+ during peak hours. instead of making all of our users register over here i've set up a feedback thread on our forums. HOWEVER, i have posted the link to this forum in that thread as indicated in the readme. i hope you find any feedback they provide as helpful. they have been directed to post any comments, screenshots, or demos in that thread.

here is the thread link:
http://www.anarchic-x.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8055

thanks alot
-logik


This post has been edited by logik: 04/11/06 3:11pm

[ScrapyardBob]

20v22? That must've been a madhouse. I'm glad to see that you didn't run into any gamestate issues or other crashes with that many players. How was server performance under that heavy of a load?

MOB's server has been rocking all day, noon until almost 3am. It got quiet around 1am (10 players), then rebounded for an hour or two (15-20 players). I think our peak players was around 25-27, which isn't bad for a first day.

Matches seem even, the new stats package might even give exact win/loss for Tuchola on .76. Saw a bunch of matches today that were over in 8 minutes because one side or the other did a blitz and the other team didn't defend.

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Not entirely sure what to do about vehicles stuck in terrain. Getting stuck in rocks, I probably won't fix, unless it's a rock in the middle of a bottleneck (such as the rocks in the river on the SE corner of the farm area). Getting stuck in normal looking terrain, I will take a shot at fixing.

The jeep shot where you stuck inbetween the two bits of stone fence, I'll simply extend the vehicle clip on the stone walls to eliminate getting a jeep in there. (The downside is that it makes it harder to kill infantry at that spot by running them over.) I saw someone get stuck there on the MOB server as well.

Still working on map edges. Probably not a priority in beta #2 for next week.

That patch of road near the Hill 17 Radio Shack is a thorn in my side. It's one of the alpha blend patches that doesn't like to blend properly (there are a few spots in the HIll 17 trail network too). So I ripped out the blend that wasn't working and will hopefully remember to replace it sometime.

I'm pretty sure that Sigma (posted at 12:18am) ran into the invisible wall that is the fix for the map exploit. (If ya'll have that installed.) That invis wall was added just southwest of the German spawn, along the road that exits the spawn on the South side. The exploit fixer only lets me do rectangular regions, but the broken bit of treeline was odd-shaped. So I added a bit of a buffer to make sure you can't get inside that wall at all.

The barb-wire in the middle of the road is interesting. It likes to stick to players like burrs on a dog's fur. I'll simply move it a bit farther west so that you can't touch it without setting off the minefield.

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I am hoping to hit that balance between infantry and tanks. Where tanks have a chance of getting across a map, but they'll do it faster and safer if infantry clear the way. I also want infantry to have about 50-50 odds of evading if they meet a tank.

Sgt Thomas and I created a lot of havoc tonight, on foot, in the South Forest. We would setup in cross-fire positions with our anti-tank ammo and wait for Russian tanks to come rolling across the Southeast Bridge into the South Forest. As soon as they got into the killzone, one or both of us would fire at their rear panel and take them out.

Infantry can do a lot of damage if they play smart and know where the hiding spots are. A lot of times, tank drivers won't be able to identify which direction the shot came from. Especially if you use weapons like the mortar.