Today's results: it went surprisingly well! PVP MvM sure helped shake things up and led to enjoyable game.
Found some interesting tidbits and got a few nice ideas in the process:
- Bot players are able to upgrade their stats and weps via dispensers (the mobile upgrade plugin at work again), and keep them in successive waves (should humans win) and between class changes. They require money to do so, expectedly, which will need to come from admins.
- Confirmed Frey's claims that the bomb can be carried but not deposited by bot players. The key for dropping is the same as the one for dropping intel.
- Custom wave ideas - one 9v1 involving Highlander humans defending from a crazy-powered bot, and a 1v9 where it's the other way around, probably with a slow tank in the first wave to serve as warm-up time.
- Spy player bots are horribly OP with infinite cloak, but they're easy to take care of (somewhat). Other classes get infinite ammo too.
- Having 7 humans fight 3 bot players + AI seems more balanced.
Only noted issues were that airblast didn't work for a while (fixed with restart), and fall damage seems to not take effect (no idea about this one). But otherwise? We did fine.
Friday meet: 2 hours, but it went quite well. Same routine as last time...with possible issues with backstab detection and giant robots' hitboxes (particularly those controlled by players). 7v3 kept the game balanced, but playing that on Normal was a bit too easy so we'll do Intermediate next time we do PVP MVM. Also bot players as Spies or giants are quite OP, so class randomisation will be disabled while giants...I'll think about it.
Began with an overload of dialect stupidity practice from yours truly, and later ended with some cp_gallery football.
It also seems that the playful grudge against Shady, a staple of the Minecraft server, has moved to TF2 in full too. Not surprised given player and now staff overlap. :V
Saturday meet went great too, longer as well. Full server at some points, mostly during the Pyro documentary we did. Server crashed once during a PVP MVM run of Bigrock Advanced2, but until then it was also a blast.