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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: Excalibur on March 12, 2004, 12:11:29 AM
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hey i dont know how many old school player know about this but you can zoom in and out in pb2. yea thats right zoom in and out. to do so all you have to do is
"bind (key) set fov 60" and then "bind (key) set fov 90" 90 is norm mode btw
you can also change it to anything like fov 30 to zoom in more and fov 120 to zoom out more.
i know know how many guys/gals will use this but its a old school trick i just rememberd
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I never found zooming to be very useful. I tinkered with it back in the 320x240 days of quake, but at 1024x768 you can see people further away than paintballs can shoot, so... *shrug*
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i can see peeps just fine at long ranges too but the farther away he is the harder it is to hit him but with fov its easy. + its easyer to aim in small holes to get that camper.
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used to use it...on some of the big maps, fov 1 is alot.
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You can also set it to be a single key by a script like this:
bind mouse2 +zoom
alias +zoom "fov 10"
alias -zoom "fov 90"
Press the 2nd mouse button and you zoom in. Release it and you zoom out.
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For a good zoom script you need to lower sensitivity, mightI recommend this one I have lying around from a different game :)
bind "mouse2" +snipe
alias +snipe "norm_set;snipe_set"
alias -snipe "re_set"
alias snipe_set "hand 2;fov 10;sensitivity 1"
alias norm_set "set _hand $hand;set _fov $fov;set _sens $sensitivity"
alias re_set "set hand $_hand;set fov $_fov;set sensitivity $_sens"
Its fully functional in Pb I tried it before I posted.
Snipperdag :)
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fov 10 is alot for most pb maps fov 60 is good for 90% of the maps
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Ive been using the code jits posted for a couple of weeks and find it real useful on IcePond and IcePond2
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How is that possible? I only posted it a day ago. ???
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lol he can travel in time :)
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If you have a mouse wheel you can use the wheel to zoom in and out incrimentally. So you can just zoom in a bit in tighter spots, and zoom in more in wider open areas.
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its not on some maps but some maps its good
i started to use it and i have allmost dubled my kills per game
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doesn't build 9/8 not let you do that?
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You can still do it. There's always been an option for quake2 servers to disable changing FOV's, but I've never actually seen servers with that limitation on.
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i have seen some and a few whole mods that did it.
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jit: what's the option
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set dmflags 32768
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alias zoomLevel4 "fov 15; alias prevZoomLevel zoomLevel3; sensitivity 2"
alias zoomLevel3 "fov 30; alias nextZoomLevel zoomLevel4; alias prevZoomLevel
zoomLevel2; sensitivity 6"
alias zoomLevel2 "fov 55; alias nextZoomLevel zoomLevel3; alias prevZoomLevel
zoomLevel1; sensitivity 12"
alias zoomLevel1 "fov 90; alias nextZoomLevel zoomLevel2; alias prevZoomLevel
zoomLevel1; sensitivity 12"
bind mwheelup nextZoomLevel
bind mwheeldown prevZoomLevel
that is to zoom in and out with the mousewheel.
if you dont have a mousewheel you can bind another key to prevzoomlevel and nextzoomlevel ;)
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this was used on dark q2 wod maps, I never used complexed binds but I know those that would camp in a extra dark places and snipe with rail, disrupter, freeze gun, or snipen shorgun its black ball barly visable. It was normally double binded with the push/pull on a bound toggle key usally mouse 3 this was before 7.4 q2 WOD very very effective on OUTLANDS.bsp Dragon showed me how to camp by the rocket by rail and pick off people going for the rail. Sneaky but it one of the most effective tricks in q2 team play even though he complained that I need to learn more complex binds
. Sniper class anything promote good team work.
edit thanks cobo Iv been asking for that bind
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i cant get it to work
matter of fact i did it went to loials server and tried it i scrolled up and it just typed words nextzoomlevel i did it alot and loial had me kicked
NP though i can see where he was comin from
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Looks like the lines got wrapped. The stuff in quotes should all be on one line.
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omg this post is still going? i made it back in march
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Yeah, somebody put Energizer batteries in it. It keeps going and going ...
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I've always found "zooming"... switching hands... and even walking to be things that serve more as a distraction to me than anything (thus I don't use any).
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how do you swith hands??
:o
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hand 0, hand 1, hand 2 ...
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i actually dont use the zoom just in occasions where the person is far far away and camping, i also dont use it because my mouse whhel doesnt work too well and it moves by itself sometimes.
*cobo has to buy a new mouse.
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i cant get it to work
matter of fact i did it went to loials server and tried it i scrolled up and it just typed words nextzoomlevel i did it alot and loial had me kicked
NP though i can see where he was comin from
Capt I did not kick any one yesterday ...hey its a record!!!!!
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are you kidding me i was kicked from some server that had EV1 sorry if it wasent yours
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Not me and not yesterday. Besides did I at least type something or warn? I think you have servers mixed up, who else was there? If we were playing together It mighthame been on SMokeys server which I was playing last night besides airtime on my server.
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noo doesnt captin is in fact ..... drums please tururururuururur SMOKEY! tara
wasnt it when i was there and you sayd that you couldnt make zoom work and i told you ill explain yu later, and i dont remember you saying anything about prevzoomlevel or aything.
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I did kick you wee before bob about talking smack and you were warned.
You and I are kewl :) do it with tact and class,
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i was ALONE and it was a EV1 server noone warned me it was like BAm and i was gone...
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i dont think that you were kicked because you said too many times prevzoomlevel or nextzoomlevel because you would stop by the third or fourth word.
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If you were alone, it must have been an auto-kick of some sort. Perhaps for flooding the server?
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I never found zooming to help, but i did make an alias so when I shoot it switches to center hand, and when im not shooting i can see which gun i have. Paint coming from the right side of my screen just never worked for me.
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hey can you post that for me sound like a good idea