14.03.2011, 02:53
The big problem which should be top of priority is the sync.
If you read this topic you will know what I mean: https://sampforum.blast.hk/showthread.php?tid=236152
Bugs like this should be killed as soon as possible because it's killing DM faster than all those inexistent features together. Kye already posted on that topic and acknowledged the bug, so lets hope it's gone on the next versions.
I like this topic pretty much Sneaky because everything you stated about the DM stuff is right, where we DMers can express their opinion knowing theres someone on the same boat with us.
What kills DM even more is the cheating. Nowadays a big major percentage of clans don't trust each other to do Clan Wars and sometimes even on TCWs because cheating is getting bigger and bigger over the time.
New hacks are always appearing and theres always some low-minded player cheating and ruining the fun & fairplay on a match, then it leads to a flamewar, then rage quit and in the end we find out we wasted time on a useless, worthless and boring match.
That's one of the reasons why I suggested to ESL to add SA-MP and develop an anticheat for it. We got a big support from SA-MP Deathmatchers (over 200 supports) on the ESL topic and things are rolling now, awaiting for the anticheat to be complete.
I think that SA-MP Dev Team, with their skills, should develop an anticheat incorporated on SAMP client to stop the cheating for good. SAC - SA-MP Anti-Cheat was once under development and later the code got removed because it stopped being developed for some reason. I think this development should be resumed or restarted because SA-MP, and more the DM community rather than RP communities, needs an efficient anticheat monitoring each players' gameplay. This is very critical and if for some reason ESL Anticheat declines SA-MP, we are into a big trouble then because hacks are spreading faster than a broken tsunami.
About the features Sneaky suggested..
No doubt I agree with them all, specially the OnPlayerHitPlayer with all those params would really help a lot not only for Script features but also for a Pawno-based anticheat which could easily detect if someone is using a modified weapon.dat, godmode, etc.
Well if Kye thinks it that way, then hes making a big mistake. The Deathmatch community is tending to increase nowadays. Some say it's dieing, but it's not as it looks. SA-MP player count is increasing a lot each month and most of those new players come to DM.
Although, the joining flux could be a lot bigger if an anticheat was implemented.
We do need new functions more connected to DM, and since Kye and his team can make them, they should make them because the functions will be used on a lot of DM servers for sure.
The scripting extension should be as longer as possible on SAMP, so that scripters can have a large hand of functions and tools to make their own script.
This isn't only about RP. ESL is on "coming soon" status and we could really use some of these functions suggested here to help us monitor any events occuring during a match.
In my opinion, I don't really care about the hitboxes being the same as a FPS game. One of the reasons why I play SAMP instead of MTA is because I like SA-MP's gameplay and enviroment, it feels more friendly to me and I enjoy having to find each player's hitbox. It's more challenging.
But that doesn't mean I disagree with a sync upgrade.
Knife is really a problem due to its poor sync, and I believe it's not an easy task to solve, but it would be cool to have it synced, specially for Stealth based gamemodes, A/D etc, it could really bring a good addition to the game.
GTA:Tournament (GTAT) is for me, the best DM gamemode script ever made because it offers anything I'd ask for in a DM script. A/D gamemodes are a case apart. I'm not trying to advertise it or anything, the server isn't even mine lol, but if you try to play there and do a quick check of the features, you will really feel the Deathmatch adrenaline going through your veins. Basically it's a very competitive community where you can take part in to fight for the best place you can get, either individually or contributing to rank up a clan where you are a member of.
I assure you can't find any DM server like GTAT, and as Matrix4057 stated, it has one of the biggest databases of SA-MP a big history.
It's not about being lazy to script a DM server. A DM server can be epicly scripted like GTAT is, but it would help a lot to have native functions which would help the servers' performance instead of making it read through a bunch of lines to reach 1 objective. That creates lag if you have many work-arounds.
DM is actually popular, and if ESL starts, it will get more popular than ever and it will pass RP's popularity in a blink. Developers should not apt for developing a feature based on a side's popularity, they should just make a To-Do list for each version, like a roadmap, and develop the feature straight away either if it's popular or not.
If you get an idea going on your brain, write it down and develop it. Don't let it go because of a silly statistic called popularity.
Also just a side note for SAMP Devs:
There are many masterminds on the DeathMatch community. We aren't just lazy people shooting flies and complaining about sync who want a script done with just a few lines with toggles.
There are smart people on the DM side which want and like to work to achieve something, and some of them show very good skills on scripting and plugin making. Take Incognito and Slice as an example of good plugin makers / pawno scripters, or even DracoBlue for his successful GTA:Tournament project alive for over 5 years. You need to see both sides, not just RP.
Kind Regards,
Diablosrouge
If you read this topic you will know what I mean: https://sampforum.blast.hk/showthread.php?tid=236152
Bugs like this should be killed as soon as possible because it's killing DM faster than all those inexistent features together. Kye already posted on that topic and acknowledged the bug, so lets hope it's gone on the next versions.
I like this topic pretty much Sneaky because everything you stated about the DM stuff is right, where we DMers can express their opinion knowing theres someone on the same boat with us.
What kills DM even more is the cheating. Nowadays a big major percentage of clans don't trust each other to do Clan Wars and sometimes even on TCWs because cheating is getting bigger and bigger over the time.
New hacks are always appearing and theres always some low-minded player cheating and ruining the fun & fairplay on a match, then it leads to a flamewar, then rage quit and in the end we find out we wasted time on a useless, worthless and boring match.
That's one of the reasons why I suggested to ESL to add SA-MP and develop an anticheat for it. We got a big support from SA-MP Deathmatchers (over 200 supports) on the ESL topic and things are rolling now, awaiting for the anticheat to be complete.
I think that SA-MP Dev Team, with their skills, should develop an anticheat incorporated on SAMP client to stop the cheating for good. SAC - SA-MP Anti-Cheat was once under development and later the code got removed because it stopped being developed for some reason. I think this development should be resumed or restarted because SA-MP, and more the DM community rather than RP communities, needs an efficient anticheat monitoring each players' gameplay. This is very critical and if for some reason ESL Anticheat declines SA-MP, we are into a big trouble then because hacks are spreading faster than a broken tsunami.
About the features Sneaky suggested..
No doubt I agree with them all, specially the OnPlayerHitPlayer with all those params would really help a lot not only for Script features but also for a Pawno-based anticheat which could easily detect if someone is using a modified weapon.dat, godmode, etc.
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Originally Posted by Matrix4057
I talked to kye about this long time ago, but the only answer i had is that DM isn't that popular, because most of servers are RP, i don't really think we will get these features.
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Although, the joining flux could be a lot bigger if an anticheat was implemented.
We do need new functions more connected to DM, and since Kye and his team can make them, they should make them because the functions will be used on a lot of DM servers for sure.
The scripting extension should be as longer as possible on SAMP, so that scripters can have a large hand of functions and tools to make their own script.
This isn't only about RP. ESL is on "coming soon" status and we could really use some of these functions suggested here to help us monitor any events occuring during a match.
In my opinion, I don't really care about the hitboxes being the same as a FPS game. One of the reasons why I play SAMP instead of MTA is because I like SA-MP's gameplay and enviroment, it feels more friendly to me and I enjoy having to find each player's hitbox. It's more challenging.
But that doesn't mean I disagree with a sync upgrade.
Knife is really a problem due to its poor sync, and I believe it's not an easy task to solve, but it would be cool to have it synced, specially for Stealth based gamemodes, A/D etc, it could really bring a good addition to the game.
GTA:Tournament (GTAT) is for me, the best DM gamemode script ever made because it offers anything I'd ask for in a DM script. A/D gamemodes are a case apart. I'm not trying to advertise it or anything, the server isn't even mine lol, but if you try to play there and do a quick check of the features, you will really feel the Deathmatch adrenaline going through your veins. Basically it's a very competitive community where you can take part in to fight for the best place you can get, either individually or contributing to rank up a clan where you are a member of.
I assure you can't find any DM server like GTAT, and as Matrix4057 stated, it has one of the biggest databases of SA-MP a big history.
It's not about being lazy to script a DM server. A DM server can be epicly scripted like GTAT is, but it would help a lot to have native functions which would help the servers' performance instead of making it read through a bunch of lines to reach 1 objective. That creates lag if you have many work-arounds.
DM is actually popular, and if ESL starts, it will get more popular than ever and it will pass RP's popularity in a blink. Developers should not apt for developing a feature based on a side's popularity, they should just make a To-Do list for each version, like a roadmap, and develop the feature straight away either if it's popular or not.
If you get an idea going on your brain, write it down and develop it. Don't let it go because of a silly statistic called popularity.
Also just a side note for SAMP Devs:
There are many masterminds on the DeathMatch community. We aren't just lazy people shooting flies and complaining about sync who want a script done with just a few lines with toggles.
There are smart people on the DM side which want and like to work to achieve something, and some of them show very good skills on scripting and plugin making. Take Incognito and Slice as an example of good plugin makers / pawno scripters, or even DracoBlue for his successful GTA:Tournament project alive for over 5 years. You need to see both sides, not just RP.
Kind Regards,
Diablosrouge