VCTF-Andromeda

[plugh]

Name: VCTF-Andromeda
Version: Final V1
Compatibility: Unreal Tournament 3 Patch 2.1 with Titan Pack
Description: On the lost continent of Lemuria lies the citadel of Andromeda, once occupied by an ancient race who worshipped the dead, now a battlefield for your fragging pleasure.
Credits: Map design and build by me. The Hedsteem Crew for beta testing.. Thanks guys : )
Homepage: http://www.plugh.co.uk
Download: http://plugh.servebeer.com/VCTF-Andromeda.zip

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Enjoy : )

[LooseCannon]

Makes me want to d/l UT3 ,,,, again.

[azurescorch]

Looks awesome. Not much of a vCTF player though so I can't comment on how well it plays  :p

Makes me want to d/l UT3 ,,,, again.

I'd say do it, but ne custom nights are dead and public servers are shit (too high of a player count, spammy, filled with idiots, etc).

[Zofo]

I am all for getting a vctf night going, i love vctf

[Nammo]

I'll give this a try as soon as I find some time. Looks great 

[Zofo]

Decent map, tried it out in instant action, just had a look around without bots.  Looking forward to trying it on the server

[azurescorch]

vCTF is still fresh to me tbh so I wouldn't mind playing it on custom nights if we can get them going. I'd be surprised if we can get them going again though. They'd probably flop after a few weeks.

[Zofo]

Theres a few servers that play a lot of VCTF and are quite popular, theres the Raw servers, they are always fun, well apart from a few folk being nasty to me but it certainly wasn't the raw guys, they are all nice folk.  Theres the Dos server, its 20 players so can get a little spammy and they seem to choose the same old maps that are pure spam maps too

yeah a VCTF night would be awesome tbh

[plugh]

All of you guys are more than welcome to join the Hedsteem All custom VCTF server, it's in Washington, US, and I ping about 120 usually from the UK, which is playable. We regularly have in-house tournaments of 20+ players, which are great fun. We also have a 40 man Ventrilo server too, if you have headsets and would like accounts, then PM me, and I will sort it.

We did have talks of a Euro server, and even gave a gameservers.com server a trial, unfortunately it run out of disk space very quickly, so we scrapped that, it was just a test, but, if the europeans show enough interest then we can get another going.

Oh, and sign up at http://www.hedsteem.com/ , would be great to see some of you guys over there : )

[azurescorch]

I downloaded over 2GB of custom content to play there but half of the content was crap tbh (in both playability and visuals). Pinged over 160.

:/ No offence.

Maybe I was just unlucky though and joined when crap maps and mutators were being played.

[Zofo]

Scorchy every map has custom content, what i found was not knowing the 'new' weapons doesn't help, whats more powerful than what else? etc... Its nice though for a change tbh

[azurescorch]

Scorchy every map has custom content, what i found was not knowing the 'new' weapons doesn't help, whats more powerful than what else? etc... Its nice though for a change tbh

Yeah but for example, the first map I got to play was a snowy map. It was pretty much just a few hills and nothing else what so ever. What's worse is the snow was so white I couldn't see fuck all (I have bloom and depth of field off too). The map actually hurt to look at and since it was literally just 2 or 3 hills and nothing else it was boring to play. The new weapons felt and looked like simple reskins to me. Just a line or two edited in the script.

Like I said though maybe I was just unlucky and joined when crap maps and mutators were in play. Some quality control would be nice though, since I had to download over 2GB of information.

[Zofo]

yeah but what I was saying Scorch was that its mostly the same mods for every map apart from a vehicle or 2 changing.  The weapons are just reskinned but its hard to work out what does more damage ie.. whats most effective in different situations, the admins are nice enough on that server though, very helpful

[plugh]

I downloaded over 2GB of custom content to play there but half of the content was crap tbh (in both playability and visuals). Pinged over 160.

:/ No offence.

Maybe I was just unlucky though and joined when crap maps and mutators were being played.

Hedsteem is a community effort, we have half a dozen mappers of varying abilities, and one coder, Rumple, who devote ALL of their free time to giving UT3 players cool new stuff to play with. The vehicles and weapons are constantly being updated/tweaked and the maps do vary in play styles, we don't by any means conform to any standards you may have.

What we do have to offer is a rather large and generous community who donate their time and money towards the greater cause, a successful and fun server to play on. We can easily fill the server up on any given day with Hedsteem members who are thankful for the time and effort we all put into this. We certainly don't need members who whine about stuff they're given for free, if you can do better then please by all means do so. Remember, we are NOT a clan, we are just a bunch of people who like running around and fragging each other, whilst enjoying each other's company on Ventrilo.

[Zofo]

uuum I don't think anyone was actually whining about anything plugh, i actually like the server except for my ping, unless you were just speaking generally