I dunno if this has already been posted.

An idea just came into mind.  In Quake 2, most or all powerups you picked up were stored in an inventory for later use.

What would you think if this feature was in Generations for the Strogg Class?  Would it unbalance things out too much?  Is it something perhaps planned for a later release.  I think that would be great.

I dunno how hard it would be to implement.  The Medkit in Quake 3 is stored for later use...perhaps it could work off of that.  I'm not sure about cycling through your powerups, but I'll leave that for the team to answer.

The way I see it (although I could be wrong) is this.  Consider the average life span of a respawned player.  In a large game, theres a good chance you'll be fragged a lot.  Carrying items around for later use wont necessarily be an unfair advantage.  As long as you remember to use them when you do and use them wisely.  It can actually put you at a bit of a handicap if you don't remember you have them when in the heat of battle.

When the Strogg player is fragged, the item could be dropped as always, reguardless of whether or not it was activated.

It may be a little unfair if several items are stored away in the Strogg's inventory, keeping them away from the other payers.  And I dunno how fair gameplay would be if a Strogg player was killed and (for example) a Quad, Regen, Invis, and Haste all popped out of his body.

Well anyway, just thought I'd throw this idea out there.  I could be wrong on several accounts reguarding how this could work, but what do y'all think?

Powerups were instantaneous in Quake 2 DM, like Tekhead says. It's also throw the general way Quake 3 flow works off kilter.

Perhaps it could work for the holdable items, since they're holdable in the first place - but what about having two Lost Souls of Vengeance? That'd be odd, to say the least :]

The inventory in Q2 was also featured in coop, Not just single player.

Prehaps resurgence can give all classes inventories or something.

Actually... it was a server-side flag in Quake2. Bit 4 (decimal value 16) of dmflags toggled this feature.

The default settings was to enable 'instant powerups' but you could disable that. And quite a few servers I know of did disable it, 16388 was a common DMFlags setting that I ran into a lot, which was very simple. Quad Drop, so if you manage to kill the bugger you can loot his shiney blue glow from his corpse, and Weapons Stay, much like Q3A. :-)

As for holding 4 quad damages... what was taken care of quite easilly. You could never hold more than one in deathmatch, as I recall.

So, yes, you could 'save' the powerup if the server allowed it, but you couldn't stockpile them.

(Edit: More specifically, you could never 'carry' more than one Quad Damage, for instance. You could 'carry' one while one was in effect, effectively letting you 'chain' together two Quad Damages, but that was the limit.)

I kinda like the idea for Resurgence, but not DM.

Agreed, actually. I was just correcting some facts. Shifting the entire Generations DM to 'Carried Powerups' would so utterly and completely change play-balance it wouldn't be worth the headaches. :-)