«Makaveli» Posted November 27, 2004 Posted November 27, 2004 sorry if this is posted elsewhere. its a suggestion though. it would be nice if there was a freeroam function for spectating, instead of looking through someone else, you look through a ghost and you can go down to ground level, go up to whatever level you want and fly pretty much. This would help look for the people using bots in servers, and you could follow a speedhacker to catch his name etc. since most bot users chill in a spot and then use their exploit panel you could go check out the spots and not have to worry about crashing as soon as you try to spectate the person and cycle through each user. Or even to specify which user to spectate would also be very useful. thats all thats on my mind for the topic now. thanks. -chronic
l2ebel Posted November 27, 2004 Posted November 27, 2004 yeah just like most fps (css, tribes2...) i think this has been suggested before by erorr404 in the suggestions section...
eAi Posted November 27, 2004 Posted November 27, 2004 You're assuming that bot users will be able to have an effect on Blue... Freeroam will be somthing an addon developer could implement fairly easily. eAi
Bungle Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 could it possibly be added into the next release on the current core? - Bungle
eAi Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I don't think so, no. The next release is essentially a maintenance release, not new features (appart from GTA3). eAi
j0keR Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Bot users WILL have an effect on Blue. They have an effect on every other online game out there, and cheat protection for MTA is much worse than a lot of other games out there. Free-roam spectating is a feature that Blue should have, and I don't see why your team isn't adding it. Sure it's possible, but essentially your team is making on online vice city engine. Most mod-builders won't want to have to make a feature that should be in the engine itself.
MAD_BOY Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Bot users WILL have an effect on Blue. They have an effect on every other online game out there, and cheat protection for MTA is much worse than a lot of other games out there. Free-roam spectating is a feature that Blue should have, and I don't see why your team isn't adding it. Sure it's possible, but essentially your team is making on online vice city engine. Most mod-builders won't want to have to make a feature that should be in the engine itself. so you're saying that blue protection is bad while you know nothing about cheatprotection in blue? you're either a psychic kid or just an idiot that likes to say stuff
orappa Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 They have an effect on every other online game out there, and cheat protection for MTA is much worse than a lot of other games out there. Now it is, certainly, but why can't Blue's protection be on a par with other games?
eAi Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I've never seen an "illegal" bot in any other online game. Maybe I don't play enough (bad) games. We aren't adding free roam to spectators because we've got enough to do with blue without worrying about 0.4. We're adding a few minor features to 0.4, but thats about it. eAi
«Makaveli» Posted November 29, 2004 Author Posted November 29, 2004 what are the main focussing issues with blue, if you can't add a free-roam spectate? I know the MTA Blue page said there will be no lag, or something close to that. <- that would be FAAAAAANTASTIC. But blue sounds promising and I believe that BLUE will either "Make or Break" MTA as they say.
orappa Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 Of course there will be lag. It's impossible to avoid lag in online games, but the team have tried their hardest to reduce it. I don't see free-roam spectate as a feature that will "make or break" MTA.
Mike Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 I think he means how Blue turns out will make or break MTA.
orappa Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 I think he means how Blue turns out will make or break MTA. Yeah, that's why I'm saying that they should concentrate on the more important features.
eAi Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 The aim of blue is to create a flexible and future-proof core system that can produce a multiplayer for GTA thats worth playing. I didn't say you couldn't free roam spectate in blue, I said that it probably won't be a core option, and it'll be somthing that can be coded into an addon easily. We may provide the code for this so it can just be copied in and used in any mod. eAi
«Makaveli» Posted December 1, 2004 Author Posted December 1, 2004 The aim of blue is to create a flexible and future-proof core system that can produce a multiplayer for GTA thats worth playing.I didn't say you couldn't free roam spectate in blue, I said that it probably won't be a core option, and it'll be somthing that can be coded into an addon easily. We may provide the code for this so it can just be copied in and used in any mod. eAi thank you.
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