Do you use it?

Didn't know there was an instant action button .

Yeah, I use it once in a while to get the blood flowing.

occasionally..

Nope. I just jump on a server and start fragging.

Perhaps the button could be modified to select a random, non-empty/full server with <100ping to play on instead of the bots? Also could be made outside other menus so you can literally start the game, click once and play.

Just a few suggestions.

Ah yeah, quick join sounds nice

you mean F6?

Vordreller wrote:you mean F6?

no. I mean a button that connects to a !empty !full <100 ping server automatically.

Sometimes if i can not play online and want to play Nexuiz.. but usually i use the Create menu

I have used it and I sometimes still do, but what I typically do if I want a bot match is just set one up on the multiplayer menu.

I'm anti-social... I like bots. After having run the game levels... I now just pop the game up and run through some 'Instant action...' It's good for newbies, practice, and fuss-free gaming... point and shoot, click and go.
Don't get rid of it, please, thanks.

Instant action is good. Playing on a private server is good. There are times when the Interweb is broken and there are times when playing bots is more fun (not the same as harder) than real players. Bots don't spam the console calling everyone gay)) for a start.

I believe most beginners start there.
I did.

And said beginners aren't here to vote, most of the time, so this poll is skewed.

I voted "sometimes".

Well, the poll did what it was supposed to: support a decision on whether to keep the button or not.

Given the amount of "sometimes" votes, it will sure stay. I seriously hadn't expected that anyone really uses that button.

Okay


Maybe we could make some more .instantaction files then.

It's the essence of Nexuiz: the patent-pending Nexuiz style of hit-n-run. (connect, frag, disconnect)

You know how OpenOffice has a quick-starter....

I really like fighting against bots as much as I do against other people, and I think the idea of an instant action button is a good idea in general.

The problem is it is not implemented in a very interesting way- always 3 or 4 bots with a below average skill level, always deathmatch and only on a select few maps it seems like.

This is so repetitive and boring that I didn't like it when I first started playing Nexuiz as a newbe in 2.3 and I find it the same way now that I'm used to fighting "Pro" bots.

(I only have a 15" screen atm, on bigger screens I find even Pros are actually cake, since I can see them then and they won't use cover.)

What would make Instant Action worth keeping imo, is for it to have access to almost every bot setting, gametype, map and mutator that ships with the game, to be used at random. 2 Botlikes on Ruiner Deathmatch one match, 1 Godlike on Silvercity Domination with Grapple Hook Mutator on the next match, 6 Experts on Dieselpower Keyhunt with Low Gravity (75%) on another match, etc.

So much random goodness that it never gets old. Kind of like a dynamic campaign mode.

Never used it.

Flying Steel wrote:I really like fighting against bots as much as I do against other people, and I think the idea of an instant action button is a good idea in general.

The problem is it is not implemented in a very interesting way- always 3 or 4 bots with a below average skill level, always deathmatch and only on a select few maps it seems like.

This is so repetitive and boring that I didn't like it when I first started playing Nexuiz as a newbe in 2.3 and I find it the same way now that I'm used to fighting "Pro" bots.

(I only have a 15" screen atm, on bigger screens I find even Pros are actually cake, since I can see them then and they won't use cover.)

What would make Instant Action worth keeping imo, is for it to have access to almost every bot setting, gametype, map and mutator that ships with the game, to be used at random. 2 Botlikes on Ruiner Deathmatch one match, 1 Godlike on Silvercity Domination with Grapple Hook Mutator on the next match, 6 Experts on Dieselpower Keyhunt with Low Gravity (75%) on another match, etc.

So much random goodness that it never gets old. Kind of like a dynamic campaign mode.

That's obvious and to be addressed, but void if unused. Hence the poll.

4m wrote:

Flying Steel wrote:I really like fighting against bots as much as I do against other people, and I think the idea of an instant action button is a good idea in general.

The problem is it is not implemented in a very interesting way- always 3 or 4 bots with a below average skill level, always deathmatch and only on a select few maps it seems like.

This is so repetitive and boring that I didn't like it when I first started playing Nexuiz as a newbe in 2.3 and I find it the same way now that I'm used to fighting "Pro" bots.

(I only have a 15" screen atm, on bigger screens I find even Pros are actually cake, since I can see them then and they won't use cover.)

What would make Instant Action worth keeping imo, is for it to have access to almost every bot setting, gametype, map and mutator that ships with the game, to be used at random. 2 Botlikes on Ruiner Deathmatch one match, 1 Godlike on Silvercity Domination with Grapple Hook Mutator on the next match, 6 Experts on Dieselpower Keyhunt with Low Gravity (75%) on another match, etc.

So much random goodness that it never gets old. Kind of like a dynamic campaign mode.

That's obvious and to be addressed, but void if unused. Hence the poll.

I don't understand what you mean?

i mean your ideas are good.