Lunick, on 19 March 2019 - 04:02 PM, said:
I can understand wanting to keep the game how it was for authenticity but warping was never intended in the first place and is made worse by some ports such as Megaton (albeit a fork) which is the choice port for speedrunning now. As for multiplayer, That's not a huge concern right now :) But the majority of casual players won't care, it's not like other multiplayer Duke source ports are gonna go anywhere.
Of course it was not intended, no one is saying it was. But its already part of the gameplay. The best players (i know this can sound annoying, buts its the truth, not that it matters tho) in the world use it on online matches and on speedruns, just removing it without having an option to turn it back to how it was originally is a mistake. The new behaviour could be the default one, theres no problem with that, but straight up removing it is a mistake.
What comes next? Removing auto aim because everyone have a mouse these days? Cutting the player speed in half because they never intended Duke to be faster than Usain Bolt?
Of course the other ports won't go anywhere, but at the end of the day, it's Eduke32 that will keep duke alive in the long run, the other ports will end up having less and less significance because they simply dont have such dedicated people working on them. Its a shame that old ass ports will be more like duke than Eduke32.
TerminX, on 19 March 2019 - 04:02 PM, said:
I wouldn't personally use words like polluting, but my general opinion is that players who rely on bugs and glitches to win need to "git gud."
Reminds me of how players didn't want to use Atomic Edition when it came out because they couldn't use the "K cheat" anymore.
It has nothing to do with "git gud". We have been playing this game for years and years, we have perfected the respawn and item routes for the main maps, and most of them rely on warps to be effective.
Thats like saying using auto aim is for noobs and you need to "git gud" and stop using it (good luck with your shotgun shots vs a fast moving player, and i'm not even talking about steroids).