Mysterious Stranger

I've got some really filthy screenshots I'd love to submit but no idea if they'll ever see daylight hahaha

You're all making me sad. Warning, long post ahead. I'll forgive you if you said TLDR Back in 2005 we had this un-admined duel server in 1.00 and somehow the settings were on 15min rotations meaning each two player gets an entire 15 mins while everyone just spectates. Noobs would join and then my friends would trick them into /disco /qui gon etc to shorten the queue. Hiding in a glitch in FFA3 and shooting at people with the DEMP alt fire so it produces no visible shots. Spectating was disabled lol. Standing on folks' heads while they were taking the elevator. I was a backslashing duals noob and no matter how hard I tried picking up single I just couldn't cause I'm a slow learner. Then one of my pro friends in this top clan was laughing at me in front of his other clan-mate who immediately said he'd teach me. After I improved tremendously I found out that he had stayed up til 2AM to teach me. I never forgot that he gave me a chance and sacrificed sleep for it. Now I retain the same attitude he passed on to me. I am in a clan that used to have a great Euro leader. We wanted to be top but he mentioned to me in order to do so we'd have to remove several people including the inactive ones and 'ones that just couldn't be good' (ie mentally slower IRL). I said no because I knew of two inactive guys who were faithfully loyal. My Euro counterpart left together with most his Euro followers. I was grieved but I would never trade loyalty for skills, nor leave slower folks behind and I believe that to this day. In 2003 I played in no-lamer FFA servers so I grew up with that mindset. It made me very Nazi at one point, in CTF I'd be in spectate mode literally following every single person to see if they lamed and kick them. I still dislike laming now, but am less anal about it. Being a coward pre-fixes era. I was in my server with a known pro player who was also known for crashing. A guy joined and asked if my clan had this person in it - which was him actually - and the pro player started dissing that person in my clan. I said no because I was worried he'd crash. Felt damn bad, no way to describe it. Being too hard on a clan member. He wanted a promotion so badly but I felt he could be better first even if my own skills were equally mediocre. He left and later became a very loyal member of another clan. Watching a third party destroy two big clans. This guy infiltrated most of the large clans and made his way to leadership positions and tore them apart. I was in one of those (was multi-clanning) but since I had my own clan decided to just let things play out. The second time he joined a friend's clan I wanted to tell them but it's hard because who knew if he'd changed or they might say I was being a busybody. That clan blew apart and I regret because those players left. I miss teamwork so badly. Loved Siege and CTF with regulars. We played so seamlessly we could turn scores and losing teams around. People would leave when me and my clan-mate or some other friends entered. I'm trying to find such teamwork elsewhere (currently L4D2) and it frustrates me to no end that I can't. Just opening the game and there would be players, better if they were regular people who I know and vice versa. JKA is a graveyard of bots and empty servers. I miss days of full servers without bots. Spending time with clan mates and friends doing stupid stuff. We'd draw pictures, take suggestive screenshots and all. Now that's been reduced to one single Christmas gathering annually. As Art above mentioned. Running a clan. Learnt a great deal from it and it made me a better person. More paranoid too, with all the damn crashers, infiltrators and spies from rival clans. Yea, I have trust issues after my first server provider simply copied my clan server for their new client. Sheesh. Now I run my own. Watching people. I love watching people in the game just playing and enjoying themselves or even arguing, like Polish players insulting Russian players over history, or is Arsenal or Man U better etc. It's entertaining and makes me smile. Learning. As mentioned I'm a slow learner. My mentor threw me into coding, hex stuff (and bloody Linux) when I had absolutely zero knowledge. I must have whined more than the whole planet combined. Somehow I survived through to make changes to Jampded and the game in general. That's years ago though and the idea of going back to what I'd call algebra makes me cringe.

you could add some lights but it won't do away with the problem completely. the darker effect is normal for inserted bsps.

FFA4 is too small to hold another bsp. I tried a long time ago and nowhere would it fit unless you would consider the dark under void. Are you trying to port a default JKA bsp or a custom made bsp into FFA3? Edit: nvm I just read you're importing a custom. Yea check your limits then

Someone should do it. I must have tons of the same files cause I forget the passwords all the time <.<

I remember there's a script somewhere to spawn the NPC as non-solid. Which means you can walk through it or visually it'd be there but do nothing else. Not much fun interacting with that though.

health parameter in a map entity doesn't give invincibility, if you stuff an NPC under an elevator long enough or use noclip in the midst of a saber swing and stick it into them long enough they still die.

Damn. I'm sold. Just gotta catch him in-game.

Funny. And I thought whatever left of JKA had outgrown that 'oh look my server/mod has more people than yours' mindset. As long as one single person plays Makermod or there's a server up, there's a flicker of life in it.

Tried everything in the Universe but couldn't get JKA or L4D2 working.

Lol. I had to do 3 reformats on my Win 8 laptop just to prevent it from going to 8.1 and I didn't update 50% of the updates unless I manually check everyone that it hasn't got a secret thingo inside that forces an update. So far...so good...luckily this laptop is only for gaming :|

No second pc I'm afraid. Bleh. I'm just confused now. I read on the Nvidia forum that lots of people had similar issues and that it wasn't so much of a card but driver. Sad. But I'll find out tomorrow and be sure to get a spare card so I don't have to guess next time >.<

All locked in and seated well. I'm sure its a driver problem now, cause I managed to keep it stable but once the gpu is used all the shit comes in. Getting a tech to see if the drivers can be un and reinstalled as Geforce Experience massively corrupted too. Thanks for the help so far guys. <3

I powered it up earlier and to my surprise it ran fine...so I was stupid enough to update Nvidia...and then kept on screen spazzing and showing me 'driver has crashed and recovered' to the point where it blue screened twice, gave me the funny screen again and I just did a system restore... Still hoping it isn't a card issue. Edit: No it hates me still. Arggh. Also I can't get to safe mode. Lol. Keyboard won't let me do anything til it goes on the logon screen.

Last night I was playing L4D2 on lowest settings on my pc (i5, 8GB RAM, GTX 570something, SSD) when a friend messaged me on Steam. Right after I shift-tabbed back, the screen froze and I saw black and white boxes fill up the entire monitor. Kinda like this but only the black and white boxes lol And then it blue screened. Caught something like unable to display or similar and after the reboot, everything became super low res and looked like this - There was a small dialogue box of the crash report that included something about 'sysdata'. Anyway. Before I rush off to dump money on a new gfx card, Is there anyway to find out if it IS the gfx card broken or it's a software thing? There had been a update for Nvidia on both Windows Updates (which I ignored cause new updates are usually buggy) and then the Nvidia panel at the bottom also informed me there were updates. Not that I remember if it's automatic update or not... Just to note, I've seen single or up to three strands of cyan lines on my screen before but they usually disappeared with a reboot. Entire setup is about 4 years old. Nothing new installed of late.

Virtually every JA SP map could be used for MP with a little bsp editing. Not hard, just tedious.

Damn right ill be watching it opening night. Hope my sandtrooper costume gets done by then

Thanks guys for your replies. Will give it a shot. Static IPs are very expensive $50 per month due to shortage of IP4 worldwide

As the title says, I have a domain name which I bought through someone. I also managed to get past my ISP's shit and now can host JKA servers locally. Except that I have a dynamic IP and you can't really add it to favourites anywhere or put it on a website. So I'm looking for some pointers on how I can use my domain name for others to connect to my ever-changing IP. Would appreciate any help.

It had better be a joke or its fuck shit.

Hope you get it! That'd be superb for us all. But damn, first Caelum and now you

This is a very common issue that's plagued servers from the beginning, which is why you should use the JKHUB master server.

It has always been a great thing and idea, I wanted to contribute until I tried and wow it's not easy to post.

Caelum did some testing, there is no virus in the later releases. There are many people who enjoyed KOTF for what it was, didnt give a hoot about who actually made the maps and all, admittedly its a all in one package thats easier to get than manually downloading all the maps.

We also would need a statue of Caelum.