Freeze Tag

[Xandria]

You know, I have a lot of fun with this mode and it seems more or less the most busy mode in any Quake game (Unless you play Quakelive where it's not even available)

The basis of it is

You score 1 point per frag

You score 1 point per thaw of a frozen team mate

You only win the round when you have frozen all of your opposition

What are the chances of seeing it in Nexuiz? is there any?
For anyone wondering what it looks like or plays like: Yes there is a all weapons variation of it I just prefer the insta version much more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvmdIDOAuqk

I'd really like to see this along with the sounds of a scoring team, that could be implimented into CTF and TDM also.

How about headshot sounds for all modes also? and some sound effects for hard almost impossible air shots?

I also miss the old sounds from getting 10/15/20/25/30 in a row. Would be nice to see those return. Maybe I'm totally missing something though and they are still there. I would have suggested oddball but it seems thats already being done

If I hit the wrong section I apologize, I saw there was some other mode ideas posted in this area though so I just followed that as a guideline.

[Rad Ished]

Hmm interesting , how do you thaw a team mate, by shooting or touching them?
I think a lot of the other stuff you mentioned is already in nexuiz.
like sounds for amounts of kills, and sounds for airshots.
Nice idea this though, hopefully someone who knows how will chirp up
Prolly need some ice modelled for it too, hmm i wonder if a generic ice cube would do it, as opposed to doing one for every model.
Oh welcome to the forum btw. Your post seems to be in the right place ,could also be in editing i suppose.
Hi!

[Xandria]

Oh ty I've been here a while though I just don't post until I have something productive or argumentive to offer

Ice cube would do absolutely fine, it would at least cut back on time spent modeling.

Thawing is done by standing by your frozen friend, body heat causes the cube/ice to unfreeze - This is probably the harder part of recreating the mode. Maybe theres a easier alternative for doing this. setting the ice limit to 100 and setting a flamethrower to give 20 dmg to unthaw. maximum of 5 / 3 seconds thaw time either way. Anymore than that and you would probably be better off going rambo.

That of course would dismiss the whole idea of minsta but i guess people wouldn't mind switching from nex to flamethrower to help a friend.

People using all weapons would have no problem with that. I actually think the flamethrower thing at least seems more realistic (Could always use the Tuba)

Don't know if it will help anyone, but here is whats included in the Quake 3 modification http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/2549 It uses PK3's also so I know absolutely nothing about this but is that transferable to nexuiz? Would be much easier if it was.

[Rad Ished]

heh, i couldn't see your post count when i was writing and forgot to check
I reckon shooting team mates to defrost could work too, despite being a little counter-intuitive.

[Sepelio]

Do want.

Freezetag is awesome I remember it from my Quake 2 days. Need to be able to laser peoples corpses around the map though

[Rad Ished]

HAAahHahaaaaaa. yeh sepelio is right that would be awesome , freeze enemy player then laser them into a hidden spot or .. shit wait... WHY DON"T WE HAVE A ZERO POINT GUN!!!,
so that you can pick up the frozen players and run off with them, stack them up, use as beer mats.
In fact i remember having an idea like this in a post a looong time ago, about bring able to pick up chatting players and run off with them

[jameshock]

In this version of Tag, one person is ease \"it\", but when they touch someone, that person is \"frozen\" in place. They cannot advise and must stand with their feet apart. The only way they should become melting is if a person crawls under their legs. Play continues until every the players are frozen. Then the last person to be icy is \"it\" for the next game.

[alphonse]

freezetag now available at all warsow-esport.net duel and ffmod servers..I remember when Freeze tag came available for q3. Man those were exciting times. Also, I remember the grappling hook in Freeze tag. Some didn't like it but a lot of us did. It made you more maneuverable and a harder target, but it also was hard to hit people as well. Matter fact..