Hello. Some time ago i downloaded Urban Terror because i was searching good games, that could run under Linux. I don't like quake3, so i decided to add some mods. I really liked Urban Terror, and i wanted to check if there are some other cool q3 conversions. That is how i found Western mod. It is really good and original. It was boooring at first when i played team deathmatch, but 'Rob the bank' is absolutely awesome :) Defending the bank using 2 machine guns on the roof rocks. I have some suggestions:
1) A substiute of radio communication in all good fpp multiplayer games. Instead of it just add shouting... I know it's kinda unrealistic but then, people are using chat to communicate, so why not add a 'shout menu' instead of radio menu in Urban Terror. "They've got the money bag!" , "Cover me" etc ;)
2) Climbing on the smaller crates and walls - like in Urban Terror - it is really awesome and increases playability!
3) Healing your teammate by bandages. You can buy or find a medikit (of course it isn't a medikit with sprays and such things like in the counter-terrorist games) or simply bandages to heal your teammate a bit. The game will be more about helping each other and stuff.
4) Closing and opening doors. Maybe i didn't noticed it but i think that the doors cannot be locked after you open them. If im not wrong then, change it - interaction is a very cool thing.
5)GFX updates :
a) The dynamite animation looks ;/ maybe you can make it better...
b) the explode animation/fire animation really sucks, 2d fire looks pretty ugly...like in Quarantine or Doom ;)
6)Bug: when you're shooting at somebody through a window, you have to break it first because if you won't do that the first bullet just breaks the glass without doing any damage to the opponent. (
update: i think it was my ping - so i was wrong here;) )
I really like the bank robbery and duel modes - they are the essence of this conversion. I will try to make it popular in Poland, get some servers or smth. because all the world servers are empty, only on 1 or 2 are almost full, but my ping is like 390-400 on them :(
I look forward to further updates and a growing community. Dear designers :) please take a while and respond to this post.
PS. The death animations and body hit points are great, really really great.
Western Quake3 - MOD of the month! :
http://mods.moddb.com/200/