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[wicked_lord]

Its strategy phen. Connect play learn to survive and capture the ball. Sounds easier said then done. If you have a good team mate then working together helps. I prefer to defend and assist then to actually capture. Qball offers a new challenge and some very good strategy, after a few games and learning how it works, it becomes awsome and its very fast paced, never a dull moment unless people RQ and ruin an entire game because they are scared to learn and possibly loose at something new. Me and i forget who, beat lenny and mull or wolv at qball big time. Just gotta learn it to enjoy it.

[rambo]

it kind of sucks

[R00k]

You'd say this compared to ctf, not dm.

Tips:
Personally, I like to bind the same key i use for the "hook" in ctf as I do for the AXE just makes it more natural to me. I use mouse2, and mouse1 for attack.
The ball will drop if you switch a weapon, this includes the axe as well. So, using mouse2 i can both grab the ball and drop it.
Pressing attack or jump while selecting the axe(or another gun) will power toss the ball. Just aim press mouse1 and mouse2 a split second after.

I increased the velocity forward when jumping a bit, which doesnt translate exactly to QW style movements, but its a bit faster to strafe jump than normally.

Also, at some times when exiting the water, u can actually double wall jump on the lip of the lower bridge and be lifted all the way to the upper bridge on dm3.

Whenever the game feels too frantic, I will usually just step back and try to play goal tender.
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This is a type of mod that probably would have been up there with CTF and DM if it were made back in the day imho.

[wicked_lord]

This mod is fn grapes bro!!

[bluntz]

I thought the ball went to team base, no wonder I suck at it.
Think it was the maya or tolteks or something that used to play a deathmatch like this.
Kind of similar to basketball too.the goal was a hoop on a wall but it was sideways and no hands were allowed.Loser died.
Would make an EZ mod.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

UT2K4 had that mode,and it was fun [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0MVjDB4f64]Unreal Tournament 2004 (Bombing run) Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

[R00k]

Back around 2004, some old school MPlayer QBALL players asked me to recreate QBALL, as the original mod was absolutely no where to be found. I had to watch 5 demos to get the gameplay down. A year later, everyone i tried to show QBall to just got bored of it after 1 game. I had seen BombRun and liked it's fast paced action, and adapted that gameplay into the QBall mod, calling it QBall Assault. Which again got very few players. So, I ripped out the basics and added it to the round based, full inventory style of ClanArena, thus SpeedBall was born.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaNOUKFPQw]C64 - Speedball - YouTube[/ame]
SpeedBall was actually an old C64 game back in the 80s very similar to what the CAx sub-mod is.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

That was some epic fn history lesson!

[bluntz]

It would be even better if you had to pass the ball through the quad like hockey.

[wicked_lord]

Passing the ball through the quad?

[R00k]

Or a teleporter trigger to shoot the ball into...

[bluntz]

Or a teleporter trigger to shoot the ball into...

Yes, something that would require just a bit of skill would go a long way to increase the excitement.
You could invert the quad to pass the ball under for goals or place it on a wall sideways like the toltek's DM or use a teleporter to return the ball to center ice or wherever.Maybe have some kind of faceoff at the spawn point like Bball or hockey,hell you could make use of a goalie that could deflect the ball with RL with a no splash handicap.

[wicked_lord]

Getting into excitement talkin about a goalie.