Mortal Online was an MMO in the same vein as Darkfall, Ultima Online or Shadowbane, if you've ever heard of those. It featured an open world with a large map that was seamless, meaning no instances or loading screens when going into any part of the world. They were mainly known for being decent attempts at sandbox fantasy MMOs, with player housing and customization, player built cities, and player driven economies a la EVE.

Mortal never really became a big hit but it did have big dreams and pulled off some pretty big things. There are no AAA developers that have tried to pull of things like Mortal and Darkfall, so you're not going to find many people with that kind of experience to put on your team if you're trying to pull off something similar.

The dev team has admitted it needs to work on Wraith a bit. It has something along the lines of a 70% win rate, where as the other monsters are around 50%.

Only way you can take him out is when he comes to you... You have to be pretty new to die as Wraith before level 3. He's too mobile and his illusion does too much work for so little effort.

For what it's worth, ShootMania had a tournament mode that was 3v1. You'd have a team of 3 and rotated who would be the one to go against the 3. Was interesting, but then again ShootMania didn't end up going anywhere competitively.

A similar thing could be done in Evolve, but it is definitely awkward cause its an even number of players in this game, so you can't have a "best of" with even number of players without leaving someone out of player monster, or having someone place twice. You could also have a dedicated monster player, so 5 player teams.

"I've always played shooters with a controller and even IF I used a keyboard and mouse, players with higher quality keyboards and mice would have an advantage (So you can't play the controller disadvantage card! Let me restate my wins against plat players consistently, for what it's worth)"

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Good game. I'm not sure how competitively viable it is, especially with pay walls for characters and monsters, but it's a fun game nonetheless.

My only complaint right now is matchmaking needs to be slimmed down. You go through 3 different loading screens when one would suffice, and you end up waiting a ridiculous amount of time because of it. Also, if someone leaves during the whole matchmaking process, they are replaced by a bot, and the matchmaking process will happily continue even if no player fills the space, up until the game starts and you're forced to play with bots that have no idea what they're doing.

If you decide to leave to avoid playing with a bot, you have to wait 1 minute before you can begin matchmaking again...

Awesome scout and sniper. We relied a lot on his ability to get picks in stalemates and he never disappointed. Just don't let him play spy and you won't regret picking him up.

http://cdn2.hellogiggles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/stick-stickly.png

You're mistaken. "Paying up" involves paying the one-time league fee. When you pay the league fee, you get "Paid" next to your name. You need 5 (or 6?) people "Paid" on your roster for your team to be registered for S18. You're confusing the league fee with Premium, which is a monthly fee, and is a separate payment that needs to be made to be able to play on ESEA servers. You could wait till your first match day to pay this if you wanted to.

There is absolutely no reason to not pay up right now if you intend on playing ESEA next season, unless of course you don't have a roster of five others ready to pay their league fees as well.

Base arm time is 0.8 seconds after you launch the sticky bomb, in other words, the earliest time you can det a sticky after shooting it. 85% radius might not seem like much, but you really shouldn't be looking at the radius, but the volume of the explosion:

V original = 4/3πr^3
V now = 4/3π(0.85r)^3 = 0.614125(4/3πr^3)

The sphere of damage created by a detonating sticky at the earliest detonation time now covers 61% of the volume it used to. The area in the x-z plane is 72%.

This mostly affects the demoman's ability to deal damage to multiple people at once.

Candles, a leaf-blower, and a toilet seat.

http://i.imgur.com/6ZXJVm6.png

In picture format. Extract the zip file to your desktop. Click and drag the "tf" folder you get from extracting to your desktop, and move it into the base folder for your server (called "/" in my case). I'm using FileZilla as my FTP client.

Maps are as good as its gonna get this season. Don't vote in the next cp_ashville.

Few things I noticed, some things might be design decisions but thought I'd bring them up:

http://i.imgur.com/3GYeqEe.png

You can get up here.

http://i.imgur.com/nMa96SP.png

As you walk along these walls, you get slowed down or stopped completely. I sometimes use these walls to jump off of and I'm sure others do too, so kind of messes that up. Happens on both sides of the map.

http://i.imgur.com/2Plz6S5.png

You can land on the corners of the roof, and move along the arrow, but you can't jump on the roof in other places. Same applies to the other side of the roof. You also can't walk forward (to get to the top of the roof) from this position. Not sure if this is intentional.

http://i.imgur.com/KBvpztZ.png

You can get to the position I'm standing at above the door out of last without any discernible ledge to stand on. You can also stand where the red line is, however you can't get to the area shown in the below link, despite having the same ledge as on the other side of the wall:

http://i.imgur.com/knRN5TK.png

That might be nitpicking, but thought I'd point it out in case. Overall I think you did a fine job.

From their own website, a definition of spawn killing, with an example that says specifically that Dave__AC (note: 2 underscores) is not spawn camping:

As far as I can tell from the video, the player that was "spawn camped" was a Pyro running through the door described above as "safe to camp". He never in that video put stickies at the spawn door.

Hell's Kitchen. Although I never became an official member of their community, I very much enjoyed playing on their servers.

Had my first pug 7v7 experience with their community. After watching an ESEA LAN I wanted to start playing in a more organized setting. That was my first shot at it and I enjoyed it enough to form a team shortly after.