SMOLENSK-NEEDS NEW BREATH, What can revitalize it once more!!! Options

[Hellfighter]

I think Smolensk map should be tried out in CTF. The regular members it had have defected back to the tried and true Barby and Stock maps servers. It seems they won't be going back to Smolensk. If you like, I'll send you or post here the IP addy of a server running Smolensk CTF that I went to often which is full in peak playing hours [25 players] and could be fun as well as attract new arrivals and a new breed of regulars.

[ScrapyardBob]

Heh, if you can't find a rocket box near the russian spawn... check both the spawn tunnel and the defensive trenches just west of the spawn. There are about half a dozen rocket boxes in there.

The germans have a disadvantage in that they don't get a satchel within spitting distance of the spawn. Russians have two satchels in their spawn (one in the house, the other in the tunnel exit into the defensive works).

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Spawn logic in BAS is as follows:

- It attempts to put you as close to teammates as possible. Spawn points near teammates get a higher weight. This is why, on Barbarossa, Germans will spawn at G1 if everyone is on offense (and nobody stayed back by G2 / tank park). Smart german play is to keep someone back in the tank park (both to defend the spawn and to spawn germans in the shed). Same thing with Russian #3, someone should always stay back and guard the area around R3 to give better spawns to their team.

- It attempts to put you away from any enemies. However, it only checks a 1000u radius (the distance you can throw a grenade) around the spawn point before weighting it downwards. So if you're camping the German spawn shed, make sure you're outside of the 1000u radius.

- It weights any recent kill spawn points downward.

- You won't spawn on top of a blocked spawnpoint.

- If it can't find any spawns that it likes, it randomly picks one.