what are the specifics? it seems to me that it's not an one weapon only gametype for normal maps since you can achieve this with the Arena mutator.
I hope it's something like the Arena gametype in the Rune mission pack.
It's somewhat like RA. You spawn in a room where you pick up the weapons, then you move to the next room and there's a number placed on you in a ladder way. when it's your time you spawn in the arena and frag
I think it's an improved version of RA. The mapper has control over what weapons you spawn with in the arena when he places them in the pick up room. I've also seen maps with weapon pickups in the arena. and unlike RA (at least in the last UT) mutators would work (well, perhaps some problems with random spawning mutators)
Yes, this is a question post mixed with a suggestion post
Besides if we and other mutators did that, meaning replace the pawns/controllers (which some do, we do not), then you have confecting issues when you run more than one mutator at a time. And you can really mess things up. So in order to do melee proper, we had to have are own gametypes. Sure we can make a standard ChaosDM game type that is nothing more that plain DM with our controllers/pawn so we can use melee. But that's kind of a cheap hack. We do plan to add our own standard gametypes but only when we have something to make it worth while (like a slomo game winning kill shot, improved bot grapple, ect). And since a few of us are JK2 fans we thought about "Copying" their form of Duel. So for now it it will be something like that. Its a one on one combat with melee weapons. Win stays in, loser goes to end of line and the next person in line tries to beat the current winner. We thought to have a weapons screen so that users can select their melee weapons of choice. And the melees will all have some sort of trade offs (for example a great axe may do great damage, but it slows were as dual daggers are week but much faster).