its growing on me quickly...had a sunday with nothing to do, hopped between playing and chatting on irc for about 8 hours off and on throughout the day. egads, last time i did that was for rtcw.
having a config made a huge difference for me, went from running 15-40 fps to 60-100. thats probably the biggest jump in any game ive ever played. and thats just copy n pasting a etqw cfg over to this game.
couple observations....
grenades blow, satchel charges ftw if you can plot them out right
want to see if the final version changes the "skins" problem at all. the player skins are rather difficult to tell apart, so default server settings have team colored arrows over everyones head (el-o-fucking-el). can easily turn it off server side, but then u can just stay in the veil always, which without any other bonus powers, turns it into basically a hack where other teams skins turn bright green. basic veil seems to run for about 30-45 seconds, and with the small maps its easy to just stay in it at all times you are in combat situations. I dont even know what half the maps look like with regular color, cause as of now i spend 90% of the time in the veil.
reviving blows at this point unless your team really has control over the area. i swear everytime ive been revived so far its like on a shrub server with no revive protection. i just die immediately afterwards. i'd rather just tap out. plus the maps are so small and the spawns so fast that its almost better to just respawn to get the jump on the enemy.
...and yeah the spawn system and times make no rational sense at all.
but otherwise i love it so far!
