Needed for FAQs: Your Cheats, Trainers and Tips&Tricks.

[RichL]

Now that all the explosions have died down a little *g*, I personally am convinced that for TFC, having a low ping is a DISADVANTAGE. Valve have messed with the netcode to even out the LPB/HPB difference, and the result is LPBs seem to suffer from lag kills more than most.
And I dont know if the latest Server patch has screwed something else, but I've been on the recieving end of some weird stuff the last few games.
Like this damn Medic who killed me (a Soldier with full Health& Armour) in ONE shot from his shotgun. The same Medic managed to infect me from the other side of the canyon in Badlands.
A third Medic was seen by me and two other TFC veterans to be doing a LOT more damage with his shotgun than anyone else. Dunno if there is some new hack out for this, but I've been playing TFC for some time, and I've never seen anything like it.
I could almost understand the Soldier who took six very close rocket explosions and still kept going, but the Medics and their magic guns are just too suspicious.
Okay, rant over :-)
My TFC tip? Good comms scripting. If you can tell your team whats going on, thats a big advantage.
A fave script of mine uses the '%i' variable to identify who a spy is disguised as.
On the odd occasions I play with people with a clue about Spies, it comes in handy :-)
Does [MU] have a TFC division?

Rich

[Jorden]

Time to explain something from my point of view, I guess. I started this thread with the thought in mind of helping out people with their games. Possibly the wrong way of looking at it, but still, the thread's here and might be on it's way to the Crapper ( )

I just want to have <u>one thread</u> in the FAQs with the accumulated help for gamers. Not the seperate NFS/UT/Q3/Whichever game threads over there.

So, I'll refrase my question: If you know of any Tips&Tricks that helped you in your favorite game, you can put them here, or send them to my email. I'll let go of the cheats, I'll let go of the trainers. If any of those are posted here, Kruzin may remove them. If you send them by email, I will not place them.

To be honest, I never play online anymore, just because I hate to download all the patches needed for every game these days. Plus my ping times are so low (or high - whichever way you look at them), that I am mostly at a standstill in online gaming, while others rocket past. I only have a couple of the MP games on my harddrives for the LAN weekends we have once every 3 months orso. (One coming up on the 10th of March, at my place )

So... What about the trainers for Project IGI then? I'm writing down a walkthrough at the moment. I heavily stuck at the start of the Trainyard level, but I'll get through that somehow as well. I've died only a 45 times on the level before that, so who cares

(hmmm - I do... just died for the 75th time playing this level... anyone out there who can help me in a civil way?)

Jord.

[omegaRED]

Well well well ... wait just a minute ... how much is a HIGH PING ??? 125-150 ???
Well, try playing UT with ping >300, going up to 1200 ... and finishing among the top three ... i mean, its damn hard, but i do it almost every time i play. I`m in Macedonia, you see ... you know ... south of Kosovo ? Serbia ? anyhow, the ping`s around 150 just to the main ISP`s router, and goes up to 250>400 when on the Link in DE ... so i think that the ping isnt the most important thing in MP ... sure, with a HP you do some blind guess fighting, but when you beat a 50 ms ping player, the feelings just great ... really is ...

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I`m peachy, Kate. The world is my oyster.

[dZeus]

Try telling that to all those people who are calling me names because I have a sub 30 ping

If your ping is high, you will get better prediction skills, and if you use the settings of the game correctly (cl_timeNudge), then it isn't that bad...

however Packet Loss (PL) is a different thing... even with ping 50 and much pl, it can be very difficult to hit somebody. Ping fluctuation also is much more important

[xortam]

Well as I said, I usually ping about 240 at best ... used to ping around 133 or 166 at best. Haven't noticed any difference playing with timenudge but I'll try some more. AFA prediction, I can't even predict what I'm going to eat for lunch. The following stats are about the best I've gotten, usually many more NAKs and blocks resent:

Modulation                  V.34+
Carrier Freq     (Hz)       1829/1920
Symbol Rate                 3200/3200
Trellis Code                64S-4D/64S-4D
Nonlinear Encoding          ON/ON
Precoding                   OFF/ON
Shaping                     ON/ON
Preemphasis      (-dB)      2/4
Recv/Xmit Level  (-dBm)     26/10
Near Echo Loss   (dB)       28
Far Echo Loss    (dB)       60
Carrier Offset   (Hz)       9400
Round Trip Delay (msec)     7
Timing Offset    (ppm)      12928
SNR              (dB)       18
Speed Shifts Up/Down        0/0
Status :

Chars sent              1921203      Chars Received          2638022
Chars lost                    0
Octets sent             1818689      Octets Received         2610331
Blocks sent               44424      Blocks Received           27578
Blocks resent                 7

Retrains Requested            0      Retrains Granted              0
Line Reversals                0      Blers                        29
Link Timeouts                 0      Link Naks                     1

Data Compression       V42BIS 2048/32
Equalization           Long
Fallback               Enabled
Protocol               LAPM
Speed                  31200/31200
Last Call              00:24:23

[dZeus]

hmm... 240ms

what I meant with high ping isn't that bad, I mean a 75 - 150ms ping.... I can't really comment on anything above, since I never experieced that myself.

[APV]

shouldn't this belongs to the soap box? Kuzin are you blind>?

[cjolley]

This one contains no cheating but lots of tactics.
Originaly for Quake I, but several games now.
http://www.weenie.com/

chuck