The CTF Pickup Demo Thread

Hi people,

A quick breakdown.

What are pickups?

Pickup game's are game's where player's can play against each other in a more experienced/competitive environment, these game's tend to use mumble or teamspeak3 (mumble is the most used at the moment) for communication and run more experienced/comp setting's and maps for better gameplay. Generally the gameplay is of a much higher level then public server's and teamplay is a lot greater, because everyone is communicating and people tend to know when to defend/attack, where to hold positions and how to use the item's.

I hope everyone who plays pickups will post there demo's here and what position they are playing, hopefully people can learn things on map's and I hope it encourages more player's to get playing and how fun organised and communicated game's can be, and hopefully get better with time and help get pickup/clan activity going towards a 1.0 release and player's familiar with the popular pickup maps so we can have good tournament's in preparation for the future and 1.0.

Good quality maps for good 5v5 gameplay TO START OFF WITH: moonstone, attic, courtfun, implosion, geoplanetary, newtonian nightmare. (last 3 not played in pickup yet personally, but have good CTF gameplay).

Hydrophobia still needs to be tested/played on but hopefully it'll be added soon.

Goal is to start off with a small-medium maplist so player's can get used to the maps where and how to defend/attack and so we can can concentrate on learning a small but good quality set of maps.

I will have a short CTF guide up later for these type's of game's just something basic which will explain positions to defend, brief discussion about item's & powerup timing and more, hopefully Dokujisan will put it up once it's done tonight.

To get us started here's my latest demos:

http://kojn.mkzelda.net/kojnPOV_pickup_attic1.dem (Def with a [sh] member I think, defending electro side)

http://kojn.mkzelda.net/kojnPOV_pickup_moonstone1.dem (Midman - FC backup and defensive helper..I normally defend and am not used to this position, first time on this map doing it).

Please post your demo's from pickup games, it'd be nice in the future if we can get a site where we can upload our demo's instead but for now I hope this will encourage activity.

#xonotic.pickup (mainly EU players as EU servers), I hope the US will get something similar going.

More game-mode's to be added in the future, but will need more servers, if anyone can help out let us know.

Lastly a big shout-out and thanks to all player's currently playing, atheros for managing the server and shell clan for hosting the first pickup server.

Get posting your demo's!

We need minsta+hook server on this!

///Nesquick and Mattias

If someone can host/run a minsta server as I said before, it can be added to the pickup bot and you minsta guy's will be able to organise minsta game's there

You minsta guy's have a lot of server's so i'm sure it won't become a problem, just make sure to set it to private otherwise everyone join's and it become's a right mess to get people to leave/spec who see it in the browser list.

As usual I play in these pickups in the last time, too.

Here is my demo from moonstone_nex3
And another one from attic

Ok here my demos of the 5v5 CTF games that we played lately. A little overview about teams and results included. We will play(/test) more Xonotic maps as soon they get on the server. Moonstone and Attic () are nice maps for 5v5!
Everyone who wants to get better and play with decent guys should join #xonotic.pickup !!

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Moonstone:

Position: Attack
Red: [sh]naryl; [sh]atheros; Akari [The Badass Choob]; [sh]lda17h; DMs||Morfar
vs
Blue: [BOT]Mirio; [CON]Sless; DMs||kojn^; ai; [BOT]kuniuthefrogg
Score: Red 3:5 Blue

Demo

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Attic

Position: Attack
Red: [BOT]Mirio; [Die Tunichtguten]Mattias; [Die Tunichtguten]NESQUICK; [PGP]Qz; Akari [The Badass Choob]
vs
Blue: DMs||kojn^; [sh]atheros; [sh]naryl; [MoN]Morphed; [sh]lda17h

Score: Red 0:6 Blue

Demo

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Attic

Position: Attack/Defence (switched)
Red: [unconencted]Debugger; DMs||Morfar; DMs||kojn^; [PGP]Qz; [sh]lda17h
vs
Blue: [sh]atheros; [BOT]Mirio; [sh]waterlaz; [CON]Sless; ai

Score: Red 0:4 Blue

Demo

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Moonstone

Position: Attack(/Defence from time to time)
Red: Kjioj; [BOT]Mirio; [sh]atheros; [unconnected]Debugger; [Die Tunichtguten]Mattias
vs
Blue: [Die Tunichtguten]NESQUICK; LO; DMs||kojn^; [sh]naryl; [sh]waterlaz

Score: Red 5:1 Blue

Demo

Now everyone will know how much do I suck at xonotic :(
Anyways, waiting for a minsta+hook CTF ("crazy settings" as Fruit calls it, right?) pickup so I can kick your butts :P

To you evil bastard who posted demos...
I'll repay that, I’ll repay that ten times over, mark my words...

I added a new folder.

You can now find all my demo's here from CTF Pickups.(They will from now on be time stamped, dd/mm/yy

http://kojn.mkzelda.net/Pickup Games CTF


Uploaded two new one's

kojnPOV_pickup_attic060111.dem (defence) - rather boring game this one, not a lot to defend for first 10 minutes.

kojnPOV_pickup_moonstone060111.dem (attack) - After 1st minute swapped from def to att.

Moonstone is a good watch, as I had some good backup at the middle of the map a few time's due to good comms on mumble..team was unlucky not to get a capture after a 3 man cover back to base.

My perspective of above moonstone match. First time i play attic, so not including that

http://ompldr.org/vNnc3Yg/pickup-2011-01...onstone.7z

I played my first CA3v3 tonight... It was the first fun experience I've had so far with all weapons!

Even if I'm last on the scoreboard I had fun. Thnx for the games

DEMO 1 Runningman

DEMO 2 Campgrounds

Sort of pickup game; that ones remained after the first match. Watch out for the fc fish-kill in the second half

http://ompldr.org/vNnkyYQ/tzork-pickup-c...1_dance.7z

Keep em coming

pickup game on attic
http://ompldr.org/vNzMwdg/tzork-pickup-c..._attic.dem

pickup game on attic
http://ompldr.org/vNzMwdg/tzork-pickup-c..._attic.dem

Same game, my POV (you might want to skip the long warmup with 'slowmo 10'):
Download (Omploader)

Score: 5-3

Teams:

Blue Team

fisume^
ai
Halogene
[MoN]tZork{X}
[sh]naryl

Red Team

Kjioj
DMs||kojn^
[BOT]Grunt
[sh]atheros
shogun assassin

It was an intresting game with good teamwork on both sides.

If anybody wants to see my demo of this game too, just drop me a line. My first CTF pickup game, great experience and very cool teamwork I have to say, and I discovered I actually DO need a special bind configuration for CTF (I hadn't set up any of those teamplay communication binds, resulting in me needing to take my hand off my mouse whenever I wanted to tell anybody that I've seen an enemy. Not clever.)...

Was a pleasure to participate in this game, hope to do more of this soon.

Attic:

Position: Defence

Red Team: DMs||kojn^; Halogene; [sh]atheros; [sh]shogun assassin; ThePWTULN

Blue Team: Justin<DM(crAnk)>; [CON]Sless; IrReeL; [BOT]Mirio; [unconnected]Debugger

Score: 1:5

Scoreboard screenshot
Demo

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mIKEctf2:

Position: Defence/Middle

Red Team: Justin<DM(crAnk)>; [CON]Sless; IrReeL; [BOT]Mirio; [unconnected]Debugger

Blue Team: DMs||kojn^; Halogene; [sh]atheros; [sh]shogun assassin; ThePWTULN

Score: 4:2

Scoreboard screenshot
Demo

Note: Video of the mIKEctf2 will come soon.

Good games + fun!

Same games as Mirio mentioned before.

Demo: Attic on Defense

Demo: MikeCTF on Defense / Middle


yes - same Positions as Mirio played :-)

http://www.own3d.tv/watch/61046

Finally the video of the mIKEctf2 game!

Nice

Attic

Position: Defence

Red Team: Kjioj; [sh]atheros; [sh]waterlaz; nifrek; [BOT]Mirio

Blue Team: fisume^; ai; [BOT]kuniuthefrogg; [BOT]Grunt; [sh]naryl

Score 3:2

Demo
Screenshot

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mIKEctf2

Position: Defence

Red Team: Kjioj; [sh]atheros; [sh]waterlaz; nifrek; [BOT]Mirio

Blue Team: fisume^; ai; [BOT]kuniuthefrogg; [BOT]Grunt; [sh]naryl

Score 10:1

Demo
Screenshot

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Moonstone

Position: Defence

Red Team: Kjioj; [sh]atheros; [sh]waterlaz; nifrek; [BOT]Mirio

Blue Team: fisume^; ai; [BOT]kuniuthefrogg; [BOT]Grunt; [sh]naryl

Score 8:3

Demo
Screenshot

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Summary

Attic was a very close game like usual. Once there was a damn amazing fight for the flag of the Blue team where 3-4 guys of every team met at one place (we had like 4 FCs within some seconds). In the end we needed overtime to find a winner and Red team did it.
mIKEctf2 was some kind of weird from my point of view. Actually it did not feel like that we dominated sooo much. Though I can't get how nifrek got 8 caps. Blue team seemed a bit unorganized.
And actually on Moonstone I thought red gonna lose this, cause we had a bad start and were good in defence for the first minutes and Blue used that time to get a 2:0 (or was it even 3:0?) lead. But somehow we turned this game into our favour then.
Good games that were fun (for me (results might not look like that)).

What I like is..the fact there is no longer a 'dominating' team in pickup, so many underrated player's now in it who SHOULD NOT BE with the experience they are collecting from playing, it is now so hard to know which team will win