NewDM Revival

[MasterSplinter]

If there ever was a way to have the bots emulate, let's say a demo file, of you playing on a specific map... hitting all the usual stops, RJ to hiding areas, and stuff... that would be sweet.

[metchsteekle]

If there ever was a way to have the bots emulate, let's say a demo file, of you playing on a specific map... hitting all the usual stops, RJ to hiding areas, and stuff... that would be sweet.

then how will i know if it's the real me or the clone, that bastard ill have to annihilate him first before he can take over my life

[MasterSplinter]

then how will i know if it's the real me or the clone, that bastard ill have to annihilate him first before he can take over my life

You'll have to get use to this song:

[bta.monster]

That song is very annoying but fits well with the concept.

Updated the server with some new features!

-Made axe have increased range and play the knight/sword1.wav with the Ring of Shadows. The axe also does 4x damage with the ring as well. Its quite a deadly weapon now... so remember when you get the ring, sneak around and get in some assassinations!

-Added commands and menu option to see the list of commands that can be entered in the console

-Players who've JUST connected to the server have a 3 second spawn shield to allow them to gather their bearings without being too quickly destroyed.

-When you pick up the LG underwater, it no longer switches to it automatically. No more accidental discharging!

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Played some games with Polarite, peg, aaa, metch, foq, and a few others. So far everyone seems to be enjoying the mod!

Polarite also mentioned that NewDM can be hosted on Flanders as well so the European players can have a NewDM server to ping well too.
Still awaiting reply from Avalanche so the dredd serverbox can be used for NewDM. West-coasters, no more high ping!

[ninjamonkeyz]

yea make a bot that says Go home and shave your giant head of smell

[Neil]

Nice to see an bta member besides lh on these forums

[R00k]

heheh ya can u imagine if BTA-LordHavoc had written CRMOD instead of JP.G (ELOHIM-Metzophiliopbolis...)?

[bta.monster]

There was a bit of resurgence in BTA activity around 2007, when NewDM first came about. Supa, scar3crow, infinity, discolada, pineapple, lordhavoc, and a few others were active around the servers for awhile. We had some fun for awhile...! I remember playing some teamgames versus CA'ers on non-traditional maps... I still have screenshots of our victories! Granted infinity and scar3crow were still very rusty

Most of the people left in BTA now are all coders and modders, who don't really have time to actually play unfortunately.

I did dig up an old bta clan server mod from around 1997, coded by LordHavoc himself... it was some old crmod type stuff. It had an axe-kill counter!

Some more good news otherwise! Polarite has suggested hosting NewDM on flanders, so European players can have a server to ping nice to as well! I've sent the current NewDM version to Polarite and am awaiting his reply to see when the server at Flanders will be up!

[bta.monster]

I've found some more really awesome maps I couldn't resist adding to the mapcycle. I updated the map download link as well.

It's a 7zip now, because adding the maps to the .zip made the file go over the 50MB upload limit at Quaketastic. This kinda sucks because most people don't have 7zip.

Would Baker or any of the admins care to host the mappack at quakeone.com so it can be a .zip ?

The maps I added are:

-Soul Of Evil Maps:
soe1m2
soe1m3
soe1m6
soe2m2
soe2m5
soe2m6

-Soul of Evil Deathmatch Maps:
soedm1
soedm2
soedm4
soedm5
soedm6

-The Beyond Belief Series (minus bbstart)

-I also added a few random ones I found that I thought to be very interesting.
shadow, citdoom, lostwrld, camber, darkfst, stomper

** The warp command does not yet include the new maps. They can still be voted for, they just aren't in the warp command, which is a HUGE pain in the ass to add stuff to.

I may just end up re-doing the whole warp command, and make it a system of menus like in dredd.quakeone.com

[bta.monster]

Updated the server again with a redesigned warp command inspired by ClanArenaX. This makes it much more user-friendly for players to pick out custom maps to vote for. I removed a few maps that after playing a few times I found to be rather boring.

Also added a few other small things and fixed a couple bugs.

Many of the maps I added to the cycle need Frikbot waypoints.

On my waypointing to-do list:
Soul of Evil maps
Beyond Belief series

Mexx9a - Mexx9d
Mexx8, mexx8b
mexx7

Shadow Over Innsmouth (shadow.bsp)
Citadel of Doom (citdoom.bsp)
lostwrld.bsp
The Castle Amber (camber.bsp)
darkfst.bsp
kasteel.bsp
cam0c.bsp

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Still no reply from Avalanche and Polarite yet

Players that have played on newdm.servegame.org say its a great server, just need more players and a better location

I've also gotten a few requests to add a vote-hook option. This will be an axe-hook (no +hook), with slower speed so as to reduce on bunnyhopping/going well over normal speeds. Any opinions on this?

[Baker]

Would Baker or any of the admins care to host the mappack at quakeone.com so it can be a .zip ?

When it is final, sure. Until then, I recommend using FileFront or one of the million free file hosting services.

While it is still in flux, any updates would require me to upload new versions of the map pack and change links and such and that can be time consuming and I would prefer to not be in the middle while you experiment around with your map pack.

But when it is done, it can gladly be hosted here.

[bta.monster]

I understand completely

I may remove a couple more maps to round out the pack a bit, or I might just leave it as it is. I'll have to playtest some more and see how the maps play out in NewDM. The ones I've added have a really old-school vibe to them, their atmosphere is so rich.

I've also gotten a reply from Avalanche He's been really busy, but hopefully will get around to getting the server up at the old dredd serverbox soon

[AAA]

Connection problem

when i connect after about 5 seconds my client shuts down and I get a windows error message saying.
SZ_GetSpaceverflowwithoutallowoverflowset

[metchsteekle]

ya i was about to say that too i get that error now

[bta.monster]

Really strange. Trying to fix it right now. Maybe the vote.qc can't handle over 150 maps or something. sounds like too many things are being sent to the player at once.

sorry for the inconvenience