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The big XPM / competitive gaming thread

#51
Oh, sure...

What the total clueless one sees: ultra.cfg + everything else maxed out:
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What the casual gamer (like me) sees: normal.cfg
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What you can actually achieve without any console magics:
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What the self respecting competitive player sees, with more knowledge on the game:
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What the evil 1337 prö player sees, who not even tweaks the settings even further with the console, but replaces content too:
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Edit:
Oh, asyyy pointed out a thing: the normal and ultra are a bit spoiled, because if the enemy under the crosshair uses forced models against me, he should look like the green blob anyway.

I'm not saying that those who know more about the game are needed to be punished by any means. No, that's really far from my intentions. But as you can see, some knowledge can lead you to truly unfair advantages against your opponent ingame.
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#52
FUCK YEAH KINDERGARDEN!!!!!!!!11

HONESTLY, YOU GUYS BEHAVE LIKE LITTLE KIDS!! BE MATURE!!
If some people want a competitive mode for duels and tdm, so what? As long its only on servers dedicated to competitive its alright. When there are people who abuse weak spots in the game, there always be a solution for that. Nobody forces you to play the competitive mode. As long its separated from the normal game everything is alright.
Why is this what is xonotic about stuff such a big topic now? It's just annoying. First the "problem" with the cts server, then the overkill "problem" and now this. JUST LIKE NEXUIZ, XONOTIC IS JUST ABOUT FREEDOM. YOU CAN MODIFY IT AS YOU WANT. IT WILL ALWAYS STAY XONOTIC. MODIFYING STUFF IS THE REASON WHY XONOTIC IS WHAT IS NOW.
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#53
LOL, is playing @ultra settings sign of cluelessness now? I like my games how I like my women: vibrant, good-looking and free.
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#54
Arguing about this is pretty pointless and heres why.

Most "serious" competetive teams allready have impecable timing, thus making it all about who has the better weapons and positioning anyway.
Heres the kicker, if your timing items your most likely are ALOT better then your opponent (who isnt timing), making the item timing debate pointless as you 9/10 times would likely kill the other team anyway (if they take the item somehow...)

Also heres a pro for having the waypoints. They will make "low skill" games alot more even and would pretty much teach players how to respond and react and make teamplay "work itself out" Tongue
If they are just jumping around ignoring stuff anyway then i really doubt it would make any difference..

As for gl_picmip and other settings the whole argument is moot.
We have allread been through this with q1,q2,q3,q4,pk,wsw and hell even CS had its time.
All in all, it made absolutely no difference to gameplay and competition.
Hell, one could argue that shadows are cheats because you can see them coming around the corner... -_-


Tho i agree with checksum and keeping the server/clients pure. Stick models are a pain in the ass and where abused to death in q2 and cs.
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#55
I give my config to anyone who wants it btw, it's even linked in the OP. Anyone who is interested in competitive gaming will end up on irc or on the forums at some point anyway. Those who don't have a clue about the game yet wont be able to challenge an experienced player no matter if they use picmip or not. When my exams are done I might set up a short config guide, with the most important stuff for competitive gaming. But now let's get back on topic please.
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#56
asy7um IF you do that config guide, I would like to include it in the manual. PM me when you've got something, ok? Good luck with your exams.
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#57
You know something which really annoys me? A lot of the requested features/"fixes" in this thread require a decent amount of coding or other such work... and none of the people suggesting these things submit a patch or even contributes any further part to the idea.

Someone poked me earlier complaining that I didn't check out this thread and haven't implemented any of the features here -- Sincerely, my signature.

(To everyone else who is being polite though, you're fine and I appreciate the input.)


I will be fixing some of the bugs pointed out here though, however: I am upset that they weren't posted onto the bug tracker -- we don't see the bugs unless they're actually where they should be posted. http://dev.xonotic.org/
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#58
The main purpose of this thread was to put those ideas and "fixes" up for discussion before finally submitting them to the devs / bug tracker. But can't post a single thing here without the "informed" forum crowd flaming it which makes this thread kind-of useless now.
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#59
Looking for info regarding server setup for competitive duels (XPM).

I would like to add a U.S. ping to the 'Competitive' section in the servers listing as of 2022 going into 2023.  I know this thread is old, but I would like some input on server setup if things have changed since 2012.  Also, this thread is listed as "The big XPM" thread, so maybe it should be kept up to date?

Where do I find the ruleset config files?

I am not seeing this info online or in the forums, please provide some working links which could be shared with me and the community if possible.

Thanks!
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#60
(11-23-2022, 12:37 PM)Joff Wrote: Looking for info regarding server setup for competitive duels (XPM).

I would like to add a U.S. ping to the 'Competitive' section in the servers listing as of 2022 going into 2023.  I know this thread is old, but I would like some input on server setup if things have changed since 2012.  Also, this thread is listed as "The big XPM" thread, so maybe it should be kept up to date?

Where do I find the ruleset config files?

I am not seeing this info online or in the forums, please provide some working links which could be shared with me and the community if possible.

Thanks!

Thank you to trashman, kch, and x86_64 for answering some of my questions while gaming.

All the ruleset/balance files are located in the pk3 for the version which is being run (there are also available rulesets from the community, but you have to download them and add them to the pk3 file yourself).  XPM has a few different files, so you need to read through them to understand their hierarchy for loading order.  I added the ruleset for XPM to the config file for the server in .xonotic/data which worked great to load the necessary files I needed for the competitive server.  It still did not load duel, but I realized that the server-config file from the pk3 listing overwrote data from the config file.  I ended up changing the name of the server in in the server-config and I also added gametype duel to the server-config file.  Great! Seems to be working.  Please inform me if there are supposed to be any other changes to the server which I am missing for duel purposes.

( I also found this great document online to assist with ideas on how to manage servers well. You can search it in a browser with "Welcome to Xonotic Server Management Suite’s documentation!" https://xonotic-server-management-suite....en/latest/ )
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#61
Indeed, adding exec ruleset-XPM.cfg to your server config is the way to go.

Other relevant settings for an XPM duel server are:
  • g_powerups 0 (having strength enabled in duels is weird imo)
  • g_superspectate 1 (it enables advanced spectator features, useful for streamers)
  • timelimit_overtimes 999 (the default is 0, it means there won't be any overtime if the two players have the same score when the game ends).
  • timelimit_override 10 and fraglimit_override 0 (feel free to change these values), it sets the game duration and an unlimited frag limit, even if some map specifies it otherwise in its mapinfo. timelimit and fraglimit also work, but some maps may override these settings.
  • sv_timeout 1 can also be useful, it allows a player to call a timeout (if he's interrupted IRL, for instance). The game will resume automatically after 120 seconds by default.
See https://xonotic.org/tools/cacs/#0a/0/ for the complete list of cvars.
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#62
I'd like to know how to get into XPM on Linux. I wouldn't mind playing in some tournaments soon (I specialize in Instagib 1v1).
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#63
I don't think flat colours and textures are needed, I think players can play comp games without them.
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