New era of Private CTF/Duel: Accounts, stats, upgrades

[Watermelon]

Well welly well welly well well. After hearing about this after Shadowcocks came back, I had assumed this'd come much, much later. Buy hey, it's here now.

I have a question though, I know that at the moment it's only for competitive, but when you said the stuff about mod players, does that mean server clusters hosting mods will get it too? That'd kinda be odd since mods really don't count for anything, cept maps because you know, maps.

This is a prototype to show that zandronum can be successful for storing data outside of the client.

If the idea works, this means it can be applied to more than just competitive. Right now the competitive player base is active and gives me enough people to do this with.

I just wanted some assurance, thanks Water.

Anytime ;)

[Torr Samaho]

Welcome to the prototype of the future.

Sounds very promising!

There is a new client that adds new features to make your gameplay experience much better. European and high ping players will notice their shots connect better, and it has a lot of features pulled from the latest Zandronum to help you play better.

Such things that you may find interesting are support for gaming mice, override colors, clientside puffs, and a bunch of server side unlagged things I've done to make the experience bliss.

Would you mind creating pull back requests for the features you added that are not backported from 2.0? I'll gladly integrate features and fixes that improve the player's experience.

For those of you who are wondering, yes, the upcoming Zandronum account system will be integrated into this eventually.

And I hope that this happens sooner than later ;). As remarked in the ticket, the Zandronum side of the authentication protocol is ready for testing and should also work under Linux.

[Kara Kurt]

Aiiiiiiiiiiiight !

[AkumaKing]

Oh my god yes. This will make Zandronum a heck of a lot more addicting for me since I'll be able to see my progress build up and maybe/eventually look at my stats and feels like a god.

I wish you the best of luck and 100 cells on making this as great as it can be. -salutes-

[Tenchu]

"another week" has finally come!!

Seriously though, great work Water. Even if I won't be using it much myself, I'm glad to see that great strides are still being taken to better this game and community. I hope you continue this work until it's perfected, and I hope your contributions to Zandronum don't stop here. It's devs like you, Torr and Alex that make this place so great and I am personally eternally thankful that we have such wonderful developers who dedicate their own time and energy into giving us, the players, a better game to play and enjoy. Seriously, thank you.

Keep up the good work guys! Long live Doom and Zandronum!

[TerminusEst13]

Hmmm.

The new server uses an account system for people to connect. You register in #priv on irc.zandronum.com via IRC and after approval, your account is ready to connect to any server! [...] The reason we need proof that you are who you are is because of idiots like Shadowfox [...] As you can see, nothing can really ban all the VPN's he uses, but this account system will lock him out.

How will the account system lock out people? Will people who don't use accounts be unable to go into servers?

[Catastrophe]

Will people who don't use accounts be unable to go into servers?

Essentially yeah, your account gets manually approved.

[TerminusEst13]

I understand this is primarily for competitive purposes for now, but if this starts picking up on non-competitive server clusters as well, at some point in the hypothetical maybe possible chance future will there be an ability for server admins to opt out of barring people without accounts from coming in?

I like the idea of having a mod being able to read someone's account for things like an experience system, leveling up, achievements, and etc, but I'd definitely not want to keep people from playing it entirely just because they don't want an account.

[Watermelon]

I put a CVAR on my servers that disables people requiring the password to log in. I just enforce it because griefers like shadowfox. It is completely optional.

[infurnus]

I did a scoreboard concept years ago that looked modern like that

Inspired by competitive HUDs for Quake ports and Team Fortress 2 (obviously)

Maybe something like these but for a scoreboard can be done via acs or something in the future.

[mifu]

Watermelon, just shut up and take my money!

This is awesome work man, and I cant wait to add this to my cluster when it is ready.

[Zakken]

Great job, Water. Glad to see your ideas finally coming to fruition.

[Combinebobnt]

Hey water u finally finished something wow this will change doom forever like the Sega Saturn port

[Lollipop]

I am not the person who is into these kinda statistics, I focus on my current skill, not the shit that happened in the past, it's unchangeable anyway.
I like the idea though, as long as it is optional, you have my money.

[Ivan]

Hey water u finally finished something wow this will change doom forever like the Sega Saturn port

Haha, was thinking the same thing!

[Dusk]

This almost makes me want to get into CTF again.

[Razgriz]

Although the finished product had some problems (broken Randteams, missing caps stats) now everything seems to be smooth again, great job.

[Nati46]

All hail Watermelon the reviver of the competitive scene

[Watermelon]

Privs every day have been sweet

[Razgriz]

Yes