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You are activated now get in the game soldier! Hooah?

Right. This is why 127 people are playing the game.

That's at one time and that's not the peak. Lately it's been 160+ but again, that's just the users online at one time. There's almost 1,000 unique accounts online during the course of the day. Just thought I'd clear that up.

New account already made

http://battletracker.com/playerstats/aao/842312/

and provide us with proof, we can give you the same honor. There's nothing we can do to help you restore a battletracker account.

See this is where a competitive community is vitally needed. Testing.

That is a problem we currently have, not many people to test the work being done and when releases do happen, people bitch because they weren't around to help in the first place.

I never really saw the demise, I always hung back a few versions and just played for fun, plus it seems like I came along after a lot of the other people here did oddly enough.

I think you're being a bit harsh when talking about SF maps, especially Hospital and CSAR which seem to be pretty popular.

What we need is a thread to start fresh where tangible ideas are discussed and listed out. Figure out a direction to take this game and then allow the users to vote on it (which will be a lot easier when the new Assist comes out).

FYI, none of us were ever part of any of the dev teams, we're all just fans

Graphics and new maps should never take precident over gameplay. That's what the devs made the mistake on and unfortunately it seems the revive may be going to same way

You ain't kidding, that's why nobody plays my version of Pipeline...

I'm Nate, I've never been to Chicago. I was never part of the competitive scene (I play for fun). Your statements may be true if you're talking 5-7 years ago but not today. I run a 5 year old graphics card that you can pick up on eBay for under $40 easily and while I don't hold a steady 60 FPS everywhere, all the stock maps are very playable at 1680x1050 fullscreen with all settings on high. I just checked Hospital and looking anywhere on the map I get a solid 60, it will drop if I start throwing smokes but it stays above 40. Again, that's a 5 year old GPU on full settings at slightly less than 1080p.

The issue with Weapons Cache versus SF Hospital is that Hospital came out a fair bit later than WC and thus technology had advanced since then. Weapons Cache is a pretty basic design map that is very easy to optimize and run efficiently. Hospital has terrain and a lot of meshes, lighting effects and complex shapes to cope with and isn't as easily optimized.

Mikawe, I would like to edit stock maps and improve them visually as well as fix bugs and add things players would like to see. The problem is, the shitstorm of complaints that come up with even editing minor things isn't worth it. Remember what happened when I added railing and slightly changed the layout of the roof on Hospital? Just a minor place in the map that, on some rounds, isn't even used. The people went apeshit.

Here's the real good news: You'll have to do training again too