Castle Deathstalker in Q3A?

Post by **leonderp** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:42 am

I posted this on another forums but it'll probably get a faster response here...

Me and my dorm buddies always loved playing RA3, Castle Deathstalker in particular. What drove them away from it after a while was the RA3 team based system and the fact that you have to wait for the round to end before you can respawn. SO..

Is there any way to play just Castle Deathstalker in Q3A? I copied ra3map4.pk3 into baseq3 and tried to play it but of course people kept spawning in the other arenas that come along with RA3Map4... All me and my friends want is RA3 style play (full weapons/armor on spawn, no falling/self-rocket damage, FF off) with the options of teams, and no round play (respawning constantly)...

Is there any way to make this happen? I wish Castle Deathstalker was a stand alone map so i could just run it with OSP. Please help or they'll keep playing that damn World of Warcraft =/

Much thanks in advance,
Leon

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:43 am

you're living in a dorm with girls and you're online playing Deathstalker with the computer hackers? :lol:

Post by **leonderp** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:47 am

not co-ed =/
QUICK! they're rolling night elves or some shit

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:47 am

Keep It Real wrote:you're living in a dorm with girls and you're online playing Deathstalker with the computer hackers? :lol:

So why are you here on a Friday night? Shouldn't you be out mackin' the hos and chillin' with the bros?

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:49 am

scourge34 wrote:
Keep It Real wrote: mackin' the hos and chillin' with the bros?

no nerge my life isn't a 1980s anti drug PSA :lol:

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:53 am

Caught that did you? Impressive. Now how about the question?

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:55 am

scourge34 wrote:Caught that did you? Impressive. Now how about the question?

I'm here because I can afford to be bitch :lol: It's my choice to be posting on the internet right now dumbass, it's not like I'm locked inside :lol:

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:56 am

Heh. ok.

Post by **Nightshade** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:58 am

Keep It Real wrote:
scourge34 wrote:Caught that did you? Impressive. Now how about the question?
I'm here because I can afford to be bitch :lol: It's my choice to be posting on the internet right now dumbass, it's not like I'm locked inside :lol:

Yeah, you can afford to be. That's it.

Fucking nerd. :lol:

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:01 am

yeah Nightshade that is it, Im glad you're behind me :lol:

But you're the nerd, Nerdshade :lol:

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:02 am

Wow, a complete testo conversion.

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:04 am

If you mean that I'm the man like Testo I'd have to agree, except no offence to Testo, I think i'm holding it down a little bit harder right now :lol:

Post by **Nightshade** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:06 am

Keep It Real wrote:yeah Nightshade that is it, Im glad you're behind me :lol:

But you're the nerd, Nerdshade :lol:

Sorry-ass troll. I really can't think of much more pathetic than fucking clods like you that get their kicks by acting like retards.

OH SHIT, I RESPONDED TO YOUR TROLL! PUT ANOTHER NOTCH IN YOUR GEEK BELT OF INTER-POWER.

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:11 am

Nightshade wrote:
Keep It Real wrote:yeah Nightshade that is it, Im glad you're behind me :lol:

But you're the nerd, Nerdshade :lol:
Sorry-ass troll. I really can't think of much more pathetic than fucking clods like you that get their kicks by acting like retards.

OH SHIT, I RESPONDED TO YOUR TROLL! PUT ANOTHER NOTCH IN YOUR GEEK BELT OF INTER-POWER.

you sound fucking paranoid Nightshade, relax, stop fantasizing words in my mouth. You have no reason to believe thats how I feel, and all of thats in your head.

:lol:

Post by **leonderp** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:21 am

soo...... how about that Deathstalker question?

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:27 am

There is a way but it would be the unethical route.

Post by **leonderp** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:00 am

do tell. im all for ethics and all but im just trying to get my friends back into Q3 and away form the MMORPG thing. its not like im going to make money off of this or discredit map/mod makers.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:14 am

leonderp wrote:do tell. im all for ethics and all but im just trying to get my friends back into Q3 and away form the MMORPG thing. its not like im going to make money off of this or discredit map/mod makers.

That may all be true, but as this is an official q3 site I'm not allowed to tell you how to do that here.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:35 am

leonderp, check the PQ forums. I answered your question there

Post by **4days** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:53 am

^misantropia^ wrote:leonderp, check the PQ forums. I answered your question there

glad someone's on the case.

poor lad's just trying to make the best of a situation. they can play some q3, bond, then go outside and potentially get some fanny. if they start playing wow they'll be there until they graduate.

Post by **plained** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:31 pm

yea that map is fun and i'm pretty sure weve used it in osp before.

the lounge shoud get that one.

hey while you might be getting, get that industrial buttress map as well

Post by **leonderp** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:39 am

wow PQ sucks (45 views in 1 day) so ill post the update here...

Misanthropia wrote:
If you're somewhat savvy in the C programming language, you could write a small mod that honors the "arena" key in info_player_deathmatch entities.

I wrote:
thx for the info misantropia. I dont know how to make a mod tho. I did try to tinker around with the info_player_deathmatch and arena variables in ra3map4.bsp (opened in it notepad and did things manually) but i get errors and quake shuts down when the map tries to load. Ive tried deleteing info_player_deathmatch entities in arenas that weren't arena 4 (deathstalker) but that caused errors. Then i tried replacing the origin variables in other arena's info_player_deathmatch with those from arena 4, still errors.

in other news i did download a ra3map1 in OSP form so i guess that'll hold the guys for now but they're still bitching about deathstalker. hopefully someone makes that a standalone OSP map one day. I've been messing with decompilers, hex edits and quake only gives different errors. Any tips?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:23 am

leonderp wrote:thx for the info misantropia. I dont know how to make a mod tho. I did try to tinker around with the info_player_deathmatch and arena variables in ra3map4.bsp (opened in it notepad and did things manually) but i get errors and quake shuts down when the map tries to load. Ive tried deleteing info_player_deathmatch entities in arenas that weren't arena 4 (deathstalker) but that caused errors. Then i tried replacing the origin variables in other arena's info_player_deathmatch with those from arena 4, still errors.

Don't tinker with binary files unless you know exactly what you're doing. I'd write that mod for you if I had the time but, unfortunately, I don't. You could try decompiling the map with q3map2, editing the entities and then recompiling it again. YMMV.

And PQ doesn't suck, it's just... a little slow