First off the game looks great, very nicely polished. Great job on the snazzy menus and background. In the game itself the models look fantastic. You guys put all those commercial PB games to shame. Well done!
Here's my issues though, and don't we users ALWAYS find something to female dog about?
NON_GAME STUFF:
- The menu background as mentioned in another thread can be a real FPS killer. Looks awesome but it'd be nice to have some simpler options.
- The menu graphics don't scale up as you scale your res up, so at 1280x1024 I practically have my head pressed against the glass.
Please make them scale upwards so they always take up the same amount of screen.
- The cursor (practically) has to be right near the center of the menu selection past the main menu making it hard to move through the menu's (which are already lagged by the very awesome looking background ). It should be much easier to make the cursor register on a selection.
IN GAME STUFF
- Users generally want to jump right in and see how all the cool stuff works right after they donwload it. For this reason there should be an intro map where a single player can go in and play with all the different weapons and get a feel for how everything works. If there is a way to do this on a regular level there needs to be some documentation on this. Just jumping onto a server without ever having picked up an item is kind of brutal.
- There's no other way to say this so I'll just say it: there are many incredibly dumb and annoying sound effects included. The sound bites from movies and TV shows really detract from the game making it feel more like something half-assed thrown together which this project clearly is not. That stuff went out of style in 97 when Doom was the big online game.
- Hand grenades? Urgh. Not cool. Not paintball. Why not just add in landmines and a rocket launcher then?
- Team colors: I was just on a server and it was blue versus purple, that's just dumb. Why not light-blue versus a-slightly-less-light-blue or pink versus light-red? That kind of thing also makes serious gamers run from this game.
- Air: When going from the PGP to a semi-auto I still only got 10 shots before I had to change the air. That's not right. I remember using 12gram powerlets on PMI-3's way back in the old days but this is 2004. :-)
I only grabbed it yesterday so I'll expirement some more with it, but aside from a few issues it's looking really really awesome. I've been a serious gamer for about six years and paintballer for more than... ugh 16 years ( yeah I'm old :p ) and so was very pleasantly surprised by this game. After seeing the absolute horseexcrement that has been made in the past this game has really impressed me. Please keep up the good work!
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