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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: XtremeBain on December 04, 2007, 01:04:16 PM
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Alright, let's try to win this year's Mod of the Year. Go visit http://www.moddb.com/mods/2155/paintball-2 and click on the huge MOTY 2007 award image to submit your vote.
2007 has flown by, so fast in fact with plenty of great games and mods releasing over the past few months, that the team behind the Mod DB has struggled to concentrate with too much awesome entertainment demanding our attention.
2007 is going to be the biggest Mod of the Year Awards program ever, we are going to see to that. We have many surprizes to unveil over the coming months as we take a look at the year that was, and showcase the best independent content to hit the gaming scene in 2007. Plus we have some insider knowledge that a few big-name mods will be updating in the next fortnight.
PHASE 1 voting begins today with all mod and indie game profiles showing a voting booth. We now turn to you our community, to nominate your favorite mods by voting for them. To vote simply follow the mod and game links below, find your favorites and click the big "VOTE" button shown in their profiles. PHASE 2 will begin in 20 days once we have tallied the votes and narrowed the list to the TOP 100 based on your selections. We've got big prizes, big shows, big showcases and live stats rolling out soon - so gamers, start voting for your favorite mods and games, and modders, get cracking and get votes for your creation so it can make the elusive Top 100. Best of luck to all!
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No.
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So um, Jitspoe think you should update that page sharpish? :P
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voted.
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HOLY CRAP!! Build 16 is up for download there! At least put 19 up!!
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HOLY CRAP!! Build 16 is up for download there! At least put 19 up!!
I posted news about build 19 a while back, but when I tried to upload the file, it never got verified or whatever process it needs to go through. I think I just gave up on it after a while.
I've put news on the main page about this. Thanks for the heads up, Bain.
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Voted!!!
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Done!
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Voted. : )
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Where do i see the standings so far? I can only see like the top 5.
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Is there any way we can put a little more content on that site? Like Build 19, some more screenies, or some of the youtube vids?
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Yeah, that one jump video on youtube is pretty sweet.
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Yeah, that one jump video on youtube is pretty sweet.
The German rap lets it down tho..
:D :D :D
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Honestly I don't think that jump video would do any good for Paintball. No one in their mind would want to play a game after seeing a video consisting of 0 shooting and just a bunch of jumps. Beyond that, the effects used scream amateur film maker.
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wat we need is a good quality of a good match and post that up with professional transitons
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I'd love to make a DP video, but the good software is just so darn expensive.
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The German rap lets it down tho..
:D :D :D
I was actually talking about my video, not MoSez's.
I was simply being sarcastic, not actually suggesting we use my video.
Anyways sk89q sorry my video screamed amateur. I guess all those nice jumps just got outshone by the poor editing right?
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Anyways sk89q sorry my video screamed amateur. I guess all those nice jumps just got outshone by the poor editing right?
DIGITAL PAINTBALL 2 IS NOT A JUMP MOD!!!
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Beyond Zorch's comment (which was 4/5 of my post... and thus my main point), what confirmed that I was referring to your video? I replied after lekky's post which specifically pointed out MoSez's video to be the one we were talking about, not yours. And even if the video in question did happen to be badly edited, you can't forget that the jumps are only 'cool' here because we know the game and the maps. To the random viewer on the Internet, he or she will be much more critical.
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Beyond Zorch's comment (which was 4/5 of my post... and thus my main point)
Hehe, sorry.
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Hehe, sorry.
I didn't mean to antagonize you, if it came off that way.
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You're correct, DP is not a jump mod. However, you need to be a good jumper to compete in DP.
Perhaps that is why you and sk89q aren't good.
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You're correct, DP is not a jump mod. However, you need to be a good jumper to compete in DP.
Perhaps that is why you and sk89q aren't good.
I suck because I don't play that often. :P
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With that attitude, have fun driving the game into the ground ;)
Anyway, I don't get good at any games; I only strive to be sufficiently decent for my own personal enjoyment. Jumping has nothing to do with it—I happen to like jumping, especially in Paintball. However, to actually get good at a game, it takes dedication, but I only warrant enough play time until I get bored—not very much. In addition, for me there is no fun in be able to "pwn" another person in the world just because I can snap my mouse and press my keys a split second faster than the other person, so I don't bother with that either. Now, I'm not trying to say that I am good at all, but you have never seen me play to begin with, so clearly you're pulling excrement out of your lopsided end receptacle.
That aside, I'm pretty sure you're only insulting us because you're feeling affronted from the criticisms (not insults) that you mistook to be aimed at you. Get off your high perch; most gamers are hardly interested in playing a jump game. Even if someone were, Paintball 2 is hardly the game to get if you're really interested in jumping; far better games suited to that purpose are freely available. If you take a step back and take a look, you'll realize that at the moment, Paintball has very little going for it. The graphics are ugly, the textures are mediocre (though not ugly) at best, the engine is ancient, even the reflective water doesn't fit in the game, the sounds tend to get annoying, playing pubs is asking to be insulted, there is virtually no way to find out how to play "pro," and there are people like you who cannot even take a small piece of commentary for its value. I didn't criticize the jumping aspect because I was biased and trying to cause grief for anyone; I was trying to provide my objective views on the matter, unlike you. Framing the game entirely in the light of jumping is just asking for a death sentence.
That's my 2c.
P.S. I am pretty sure most people don't care a crap about competing. They're just playing to have fun. They have better things to do or better games to play too.
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The graphics are ugly, the textures are mediocre (though not ugly) at best...
sk89q, I hold your opinions higher than most, so I've got to ask for clarification, you say the graphics are ugly, yet the textures are mediocre. I personally feel the textures are the low part of the graphics, whereas in my thinking, the graphics consist of models, textures (model textures, brush textures, and skyboxes), and lighting effects. Clearly, we do not have per-pixel lighting, bloom, etc. So lighting is pretty low, and the textures are clearly 10 years old. However the new player models are pretty good, the gun models aren't too outdated. They could easily be re-skinned and last another year or two (I'm relunctant to post screenies since it encourages modified content). Could you elaborate with your definition of graphics? :)
Sorry for typos, no Javascript on this machine.
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Oh no. The models are completely fine—in fact, I think they look really good (albeit the player animation is not great, but the model itself is good). It's really the textures I think, as I think it's the textures that really make or break a game. Bloom, special effects, nice round models, and all that jazz are good, but it could never replace textures. A game cannot stand on its own aesthetically with just effects and bad textures. However, it can stand on its own with good textures and no effects. When I said graphics, I meant textures. If we look at the "good-looking" maps we have, you'll see we are in a dire situation. Zen, as most of us have agreed on, looks better than most of our other maps, but if you look closely, it's far from beautiful. The textures and colors of the map do not really blend together well. It looks like whatever the closest texture was was used, and indeed this was probably true.
Your CTP goes in the right direction in solving our texture deficiency, but it feels flat and too pastel colored. I can't really firmly define what's so good or bad about it. I don't know; every time I see a map with just CTP textures or apply some to my map, I just feel like something is missing. Maybe it's because it's too pastel-like, or maybe not.
The textures in Paintball are not great, but they're not bad. It's still a lot better than a lot of free games. Really though, I think the best textures Paintball has are mostly suited towards grassy outdoor maps.
Detailed dynamic lighting would be nice, but I figure that's far too much for jitspoe.
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Thanks for the explanation, I comepletely agree with you., especially the CTP comments.
The CTP is pastel, to be honest, I never noticed how dull eveything looked until I saw some screenshots on a work computer where the brightness was as 80, and contrast 90. (I cringed and turned them down to the 70 and 55 I respectively use) If you, or anyone else for that matter, has a specific color tweak they'd like to see to a texture, dig up one of the CTP threads and let me know.
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Ahh shoot, you replied before I could edit my post. My post, although it makes several points, seems to have no coherent train of thought. I wrote before I fully thought through what I was going to say.
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First of all, I have seen you play. (And yes, you're not very good.)
Second of all we were joking when we talked about the jump videos earlier, so stop writing 200 word essays focusing around that point alright? I obviously didn't state that we should "frame the game around jumping."
And what is this garbage about me stepping back and taking a look? As if we all didn't know that DP doesn't have a whole lot going for it at the moment. However, DP has been growing more and more, so we'll see what happens in the future.
Anyways, perhaps you should think about what you write next time. That's my 2c.
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First of all, I have seen you play. (And yes, you're not very good.)
Second of all we were joking when we talked about the jump videos earlier, so stop writing 200 word essays focusing around that point alright? I obviously didn't state that we should "frame the game around jumping."
And what is this garbage about me stepping back and taking a look? As if we all didn't know that DP doesn't have a whole lot going for it at the moment. However, DP has been growing more and more, so we'll see what happens in the future.
Anyways, perhaps you should think about what you write next time. That's my 2c.
Every time you talk you scream, I'M A TOOL BOX and(http://mysite.verizon.net/jessay/imgs/lol.jpg) at you.
Anyways I voted and hope everyone else will to
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the "scoreboard" page on the mod of the year award site is pretty worthless. is there anywhere on there that i can check the total votes a mod has prior to december 20th? i'd like to see how we're doing
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dont know how many votes we got but our ranking is
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477 of 6,792
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The rank is connected to votes? All the games ranked higher than ours were updated more recent, where as those lowers were last updated earlier than ours.
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Second of all we were joking when we talked about the jump videos earlier, so stop writing 200 word essays focusing around that point alright? I obviously didn't state that we should "frame the game around jumping."
And stop throwing insults like a baby ;D You didn't need to say that either -- did you forget you can say things by your actions?
Anyways, perhaps you should think about what you write next time. That's my 2c.
Perhaps you need to learn how to show a joke when it is one, or thinking before you talk and throw insults. That's my 4c now.
But anyway, let's drop this childish argument and forget about it. Truce? :D
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:D
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Phase two now?
http://www.moddb.com/events/2007-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100
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Knack is about to turn your back into a red painting with his sharpened nails.
And I'm starting to like something I never thought I would... TF2. :O
Why in the hell would you NOT like TF2. Gimmie your SteamID.
EDIT: Okay, how in the world did that happen. Short term memory loss? I am ashamed. :<
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:o made the top 100?
VOTE AGAIN!!!
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Sweet, top 100! And the only Quake 2 mod on the list!
Clicking the silver "TOP 100 OF 2007 VOTE NOW" banner does NOT count as a vote, you will be redirected here: http://www.moddb.com/events/2007-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100 from there you have to vote fro Paintball 2 by locating it under the "Quake 2" header.
-y00tz
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Thats because its build 16.
Jitspoe also needs to add a news item regarding b20.
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News added. They actually got it up on the front page, too!
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72,389 votes :o
3 days left to vote, gogogo..
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I uploaded build 20 to moddb -- hopefully it'll actually make it through this time.
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I voted!
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I think I voted like 3 times. Hehe. Yay dynamic IPs! :D
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I thought you had to have an account to vote.
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Nope. ^_^
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W00t!!!! I have now voted for this game in both phase 1 and phase 2!!! Also i gave this game a 10/10, and based on what I see at the site right now, I believe we have a chance for top 5!!!! ;D
-Cusoman
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Explain to me how mod of the year 2007 could include DP2, considering its debut was more than 5 years ago?
** I will vote for it regardless =] **
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It still exists in 2007, yes? It is eligible.
If they only included mods started that year, it'd be %90 'LOOK GUYS THIS MOD IS GOING TO BE meddling FANTASTIC I MEAN LOOK AT THE CONCEPT SCREENS AND OUR PLAN OF HOW TO DO THINGS AND YEAH MAYBE WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING YET BUT I MEAN WE'RE LOOKING FOR DEDICATED CODERS AND MODELERS AND ARTISTS WHO ARE GOOD AND WILL WORK FOR FREE FOR A GOOD CAUSE CAUSE WE'RE A MOD AND DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY MONEY GEE MAYBE YOU THINK WE SHOULD HAVE PUT A BIT MORE THOUGHT INTO THIS *moddiesduetoinactivity*', and %10 crappy things thrown together in a year that have potential.
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No dice.
http://www.moddb.com/events/2007-mod-of-the-year-awards/features/25910/players-choice-winners-showcase
Congratulations to those that did win though, it was nice to seem some old Quake technology take home some awards.
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There's still a chance to win the Editor's picks. I wasn't expecting PB2 to ever win on the public vote.
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There's still a chance to win the Editor's picks. I wasn't expecting PB2 to ever win on the public vote.
...unless we ripped a page out of rom site's books and made people vote before they could download!
But that's evil and mean.