I have a question about the Colliseum board on the cycle server. If you stand at the wall where the hand axe is you can hear a Rune aura noise as if it is behind the wall. Is that true? Is there a way to make it appear? I know if I set up the same board and stand there I hear a bloodlust rune aura from there. I figured it would either come out from the wall or floor or there was some weird way to trampoline there . . .

anyway let me know

thx

Err, I don't think this should be made too public, but in regular Colisum, in the middle all the way up there there's like a hole. Throwing a shortie up to there gives like a key effect and opens the wall under it, exposing a rune. Though some poopheads have been getting it without unlocking, in obvious ways (gee, thanks, Yellow). I thought that was gone now in the Cycle but whatever.

Bloodlust in LC-C = Super lame. Meh.

yep, toss a weapon up high in open space above that wall and it'll open up.

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Though some poopheads have been getting it without unlocking, in obvious ways (gee, thanks, Yellow).

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Heh, Pencil. That's one old trick, you'll see everyone doing that in regular servers. I also know of several maps where you can reach through walls to snatch a weapon. Good for when people are camping the large weapons; nothing like coming up behind them and whacking them over the head with the axe they thought they were guarding.


Are runes off or on in Cycle? Sometimes I see 'em, sometimes I don't... and when they are on, the only rune is the Rune of Spoils, I believe.

Reminds me of a spot in the single player game where you're locked out of a room by a locked gate, and there's a skelly inside... I *still* haven't figured out the "real" way to get in without reaching through the wall and pulling the lever.

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Originally posted by YellowHair:
Are runes off or on in Cycle? Sometimes I see 'em, sometimes I don't... and when they are on, the only rune is the Rune of Spoils, I believe.

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It's coded so that only 1/3 of the runes appear, and it's at random. (always Rune of Spoils) We do that to try avoid rune camping. We also beta tested random weapon placement but found that it actually hurt gameplay.

Aw, bah! The "poophead" wasn't directed towards ye, Yellow. Just somehow got in the same sentence. But the thing in parentheses regarded how you kept doing the reach-in-wall thing .

I think all runes but runes o' health have been taking out. But if he hears a bloodlust rune in our Cycle, then that's just weird. Blargh, :shrug:.

Well hey, who's going to make themselves a target by standing in the middle of the arena and trying to throw weapons up there? Besides, once you do open it there's a good chance someone else will snatch it before you can make it.

Though really it's not worth the hassle for just a Rune of Spoils. Have to keep on your toes in that map; if you have a weapon, you're alive and kicking, you better keep moving and killin' or you're toast...

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We also beta tested random weapon placement but found that it actually hurt gameplay.

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Hmmmm... not enough weapons in Cycle as is. Of course it's fun to punch out people but when you have a full server and most of them already have weapons and a shield, t'isn't no fun anymore and you're one dead duck. Either need weapon stay or a wayyy faster respawn time (as is being said in the Sup Kracka thread)...

We had weapon stay for like a week.. that didn't work well either. A faster respawn time is probably the better answer. I've also noticed it's hard to get weapons on a full server.

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Originally posted by radix:
Reminds me of a spot in the single player game where you're locked out of a room by a locked gate, and there's a skelly inside... I *still* haven't figured out the "real" way to get in without reaching through the wall and pulling the lever.

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If you tell me where you are I may be able to help you . . . I beat the SP game before I ever got online and got HOV. There are some things that seem WAY impossible but they are usually something subtle that got overlooked

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Originally posted by Pencil:
Aw, bah! The "poophead" wasn't directed towards ye, Yellow. Just somehow got in the same sentence. But the thing in parentheses regarded how you kept doing the reach-in-wall thing .

I think all runes but runes o' health have been taking out. But if he hears a bloodlust rune in our Cycle, then that's just weird. Blargh, :shrug:.

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hear a bloodlust rune if I make a game there. If LCC it sounds like either a normal rune of power or life

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Originally posted by Manowar:
We had weapon stay for like a week.. that didn't work well either. A faster respawn time is probably the better answer. I've also noticed it's hard to get weapons on a full server.

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can u put weapons on the wall like in lcc then for lava if you plan on keeping it? (or is that weapon stay too? I did not know if there were any different properties to each)

Well those are original Rune maps Thorgrim. If we edit them I think we have to do more or we can get a lot of crap from the Rune community. I will see what I can do with my time and see if I can brew up some quick maps for the cycle.

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Originally posted by Midknight:
Well those are original Rune maps Thorgrim. If we edit them I think we have to do more or we can get a lot of crap from the Rune community. I will see what I can do with my time and see if I can brew up some quick maps for the cycle.

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Dude trust me I am not really complaining about anything other than the slow spawn on the lava pit . . . I will play whatever the LCC feels is best