Ace of Spades General

Ace of Spades Beta 0.60 is OUT!

1. -SMG no longer sucks
2. -global killfeed
3. -configurable controls
4. -added windowed mode
5. -spade now has alt-fire (replaces pickaxe functionality)
6. -server can reset map or load new map without restarting
7. -map transfers now compressed
8. -wireframe block placement
9. -can now hear other players reload
10. -score page is now sorted
11. -out of ammo indicator
12. -clearer chat console
13. -better hit registration
14. -actual .ini files
15. -separate configs for client and server
16. -network protocol improvements

 

Yay! Now what's there left to do, are some default map servers! I love the default map, but almost no one hosts it anymore. Could someone from these forums host a default map as 'Official EU TW'? It was much on in the early times, and I think that the name would attract much oldfags to play.

 

Yeah, I kind of miss the default genned map. There's just something about how natural it feels for blue to be tunnel rats and green the fortress builders, instead of the usual maps like pinpoint where there's no strategy at all, it's just building random walls and pictures and shooting at the other team. Also, most servers using pinpoint make the water hurt you, so you don't even have the choice to sneak around all the shooting, nab the intel and take a few potshots at the enemy, and return victorious.

 

nice game,too many griefers.

 

Grievers are a mechanism in that game, they're the actual challenge.

 

I played the game and I like it, Though I think its a tad to easy to rack up kills with the rifle since the heads of the players are so frikkin huge!

The new Territorial control seems like a fun gamemode but I have yet to find a decent server that hosts it.

 

I can't get it to run! It won't connect to the server or something.

 

I like it okay, mostly since it plays decently on my quite old laptop I use while at work.

It feel like its mostly dumbeddowndeathmatchminecraftwithguns

 

How did they make the rifle shit? It was fairly good even when the other two weapons were put in, it beat the other two pretty awesomely.

 

Yay I completely missed the nerf saga!

 

Yeah, the rifle was given a huge firing cone :/

I really wish I could still play some of the earlier builds. The new weapons aren't entirely useful. It was great when the game was actually like a WW1 snipefest :D

 

Just played the new build on an original gen server (the only gen server in the entire lobby!), and it was great fun. I like the territory gametype; it promotes teamwork, and battles are a lot more condensed.

But I dislike the new HUD. The game still has some major issues such as unbalanced teams (shouldn't get to choose), game lobby, lack of accounts, bad interface as well as how difficult it is to kick griefers.

 

i like the rifle as it is now,too powerfull before the nerf.
and the SMG and shotgun both have their advantages and disadvantages.

 

I think the SMG has it's place, yes, but the shotgun; not so much.

 

What destroyed the atmosphere and strategy in this game was the autoclimb.
Otherwise it hasn't changed very much.

This image is a bit exaggerated, especially on custom maps, but sure is right.
AoS before autoclimb, AoS after autoclimb.
http://i.imgur.com/efEoy.jpg

Honestly, smashing space button was annoying at times, but the autoclimb is just too fast. And not to mention it usually blows your cover, when you accidentally walk a block up. You don't either need to plan your manuevers very much, you just have to run & gun. Everyone lone-wolfs because they need no team, and it is so fast to run across a map that death isn't even any penalty.
Green forts used to be glorious massacre lines - lasting for hours, without blues ever seeing them falling down. People built bridges and tunnels for faster transport, and this became TC mode in itself - they offered the other team so much advantage, that usually all the enemy team forces were used just to bring them down - and this led to forts near the transport systems, oh, it didn't happen every time, but when it did, it was AMUSING.
Now it never happens.
Now there is no need for bridges. No need for tunnels. No need for great Green forts. All because of autoclimb. (and slightly because of the sucky community too).

You don't need bridges, it is easy and fast to move from A to B without any flat route.
You don't need tunnels, no need for intel capture, no need to be in cover from Green fortifications, no need for faster transport.
You don't need big forts, reaching mountains is fast, you need no extra cover.
You don't need to do anything other than running and gunning, even in genmaps.
You don't even need a team around you, it is usually a 1vs1 situation because there are no green forts.

4/5 of this only because of a very little feature, called autoclimb. And yeah, 1/5 the internet kids.
Server hosters play a quite big role in it too, tho, all hosting shitty maps.

For the people that were angry about their thumb-medicine bill, duh, they could have just held their space down instead of hitting it.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure in some of the earliest builds, there was an auto-jump feature. Ben knew that smashing the spacebar was ridiculous, so all you had to do was hold space and the character would jump automatically.

 

i liked holding space.
meh maybe he should put some kind of workshop like at KAG so buildings have at least SOME use* other then being camp and hiding spots.

 

Yes, I think it's unfortunate that all an effective defensive structure needs to be is a wall with a hole in it for sniping from.