Couple of suggestions...

lord_kungai · Post by **lord_kungai** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:56 pm

1) Custom music: like in GTA3, can CUT have a special file in which mp3s (or other music files) can be kept and then played in game?

2)Team builder: In the options list, can there be a tab for customising teams? Just as you can customise your character and (if you select bot config) the bots you will be playing with on your team, can you have an option tab for making and saving customised teams (such as ThunderCrash, BlackLegion, SuperNova, etc.) and in the '# of bots' option (when you start a game) you can say 'Load custom teams'. Then, each map has new teams and not individual bots. If you want, you should be able to enable/disable teams to play with and/or make teams constant (you stay on a team for the entire set of games). Maybe this could be taken one step further to make a tournament (an Unreal Tournament, of course) where, like in duel, multiple teams play and have to win a game in order to win a team point (or to prevent getting knocked out) - after a certain number of games, the team with the most points wins.

Weapon purchase (???): make a mutator that does not allow weapons to be picked up - players have to buy them at their base. That means kills get the player money and deaths make the player lose money (the same amount of money as the killer made).

jb · Post by jb » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:59 am

Ohhhh I like the music one!!!

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:46 pm

Isnt the music one a bit like F11?

Me liek 2

3)Well,im quite neatural on this...would make more sense if you had to buy vehicles,turrets,barricades,stations with which to capture cores...etcetera

jb · Post by jb » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:22 pm

I was thining of music that other people hear it...... I mean that Hellbinder has to have a pimping stero system right? Let other people enjoy it to

I mean every time I pull up to a stop light I usally get to hear what the 16year next to me is listening to weatehr I want to or not

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:53 pm

Well,that would pwn,also if yoou could spy chat messages and voice chat by standing near others wouldnt be bad too

Post by **Shadowstar** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:54 pm

I am very much against the music thing.

First of all, there is no way to control that. Some people find certain kinds of music offense, but they would be forced to listen to it anyway, even if from a distance. This is BAD move.

Second, the bandwidth requirements for something like that would basically kill the game. MAYBE if only one custom song at a time was transferred, and only VERY slowly, and only to high-bandwidth players, it MIGHT work, but what if more than one person were playing custom music? Not only that, but it would be severely exploitable. People could spam it and basically shut down the server by lagging it out.

I don't see any way that this could be a good idea.

jb · Post by jb » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:17 pm

I was thinking of more pre-caned music. The BF:V uses it and its a neat effect. Then we could allow the users to replace our music with their own..kind of like what we did with the spraypaints (so a server could have its own music file). Its was an cool effect in BF:V to be sitting in the jungle..then you hear Jimmy Hendrix music..a few seconds later you see the huey fly over you head...cool stuff

neolith · Post by **neolith** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:36 pm

jb wrote:I was thinking of more pre-caned music. The BF:V uses it and its a neat effect. Then we could allow the users to replace our music with their own..kind of like what we did with the spraypaints (so a server could have its own music file). Its was an cool effect in BF:V to be sitting in the jungle..then you hear Jimmy Hendrix music..a few seconds later you see the huey fly over you head...cool stuff

I agree. The music feature in BFV is one of the coolest effects ever. Though it's just simple music, it creates an awesome atmosphere. You get into a chopper or a tank, switch on the player and people jump onboard just to be able to listen to the music while heading for the battle. It just rocks.

Choosing a set of music files could however cause problems. First of all there are the personal preferences that Shadowstar mentioned. BFV solved this brilliantly by sticking to oldies from the time of the war. I don't know if something like that would fit into UT2004. And second: What about copyrights? We could get into a lot of trouble.

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:58 pm

Maybe once someone starts playing music it checks if you have the music too,if not...then you cant hear it

that would fix the bandwitch problem i guess...

ChaosJester · Post by **ChaosJester** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:18 am

Maybe the music is only what is supplied by Chaos, the ECE and the base UT2k4 install? Then if you can play the game you can hear the music. The horns should trigger these tracks so they start/stop playing when someone hits the horn keys.

lord_kungai · Post by **lord_kungai** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:25 am

See: what I meant was that maybe a player sitting at his computer could change only his background music to whatever tracks he had. I wasnt thinking of GTA3 car-playing-booming-music-and-annoying-everybody-else idea, though it sounds cool. I just wanted to change my BG music. For example, I think the Face3 BG music is quite 'unaggressive'. It sounds like an egyptian horror movie gone wrong.

Zachariah · Post by **Zachariah** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:42 am

lord_kungai wrote:See: what I meant was that maybe a player sitting at his computer could change only his background music to whatever tracks he had. I wasnt thinking of GTA3 car-playing-booming-music-and-annoying-everybody-else idea, though it sounds cool. I just wanted to change my BG music. For example, I think the Face3 BG music is quite 'unaggressive'. It sounds like an egyptian horror movie gone wrong.

You can already do that in ut2004. Just import .ogg music files into your Music folder. Use F11 to access the music menu . . .

Post by **Shadowstar** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:01 pm

Actually, you can navigate to any folder on your computer with the F11 music player, and add music files together from different places on your computer. It supports Mp3 as well as Ogg.

You can even assemble a number of playlists, so you're not limited to just one.

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:38 pm

TKATK wrote:Isnt the music one a bit like F11?

umm...gotta bring the 2nd reply up on the top again....

lord_kungai · Post by **lord_kungai** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:02 am

Pepito wrote:
lord_kungai wrote:See: what I meant was that maybe a player sitting at his computer could change only his background music to whatever tracks he had. I wasnt thinking of GTA3 car-playing-booming-music-and-annoying-everybody-else idea, though it sounds cool. I just wanted to change my BG music. For example, I think the Face3 BG music is quite 'unaggressive'. It sounds like an egyptian horror movie gone wrong.
You can already do that in ut2004. Just import .ogg music files into your Music folder. Use F11 to access the music menu . . .

Really???

Cool! I never knew that! Thanks!