Wish I'd had a teacher like you when I was in school.

don't know , did you make that  13x13meters generations arena loga and hang it outside the schoolwindows ?  

no seriously , he has some point , I cant keep spamming the gamespy arcade channels forever .

Accourding to "the deathmatch manifesto" (Robert E. Waring 1996) a nailgun fires Flechettes (right spelling this time!) which are "small pieces of titanium or stainless steel with little fins on the back end" (quote). that are driven by 1 cubic millimeter (25th of an inch to our american cousins) of metallic hydrogen. Now this is not exactly discribing the Q1 nailgun but a real weapon i know, but it does show that the nails are little itsy bitsy things. rather than being 9 inch long. I think the name of the band has added to any confusion here.

Ive just been looking at:

http://www.wireheadstudios.org/gallery/vie...203&id=shot0151

and they do look big, but everything in Q3 is kinda big, its the style.

...and why do we discuss the size on the nails!? does it matters? this is not a combat simulator you know.. the nails looks fine to me! and you're supposed to see them.. i don't want an almost invisible nail, i do want to see them comming.

It's all good with the slipgaters.

Heres the run down on how to use their weaps:

1) axe: Best to get a berserk with this, or if you se a bunch of players duking it out in a small room, let them damage themselves awhile and then jump in their swinging that axe. Still good to use berserk though

2) shotgun: a great fleeing weapon, use this at close to medium range against a few targets that won't stop following you.

3) super shotgun: I call this the conventional party crasher. Use the same way as the axe (-the besrsek) and go into a small room brawl guns blazing

4) nailgun: This is best used at semi-short range on unsuspecting opponents, that way you get some shots in before they respond.

5) super nailgun: This is the super fleerer. If you have a medium sized group on your a$$ then let them have an occasional steady stream of nails.

6) grenade launcher: Hmm.. never used this much. Best to find a small to medium-small room and use it flush out players, if they don't move then too bad for them .

7) rocket launcher: This may not be as powerful as Doom or Strogg rockets, but they are fast as hell. Also since they are't as strong you can do rocket jumps without sacraficing too much heath. Some may not agree on this but its a long range weap whether you are a camper or a runner, I say this because since it has such a high speed not much lead is needed.

shaft: Or lightning gun whatever the hell you want to call it. Well the last version I used was .99c and they still never added the one effect that was on quake that I call PUSH. In Quake the shaft would not just damage enemies but shove them in the directin the bolt was flowing. Either way this is one of the best "big gun" weapons due to its only way to cause self damage is if you are in the water. But that will kill you either way. It is good at any range


Also Those at wirehead, Pho Tab anyone you never really took my suggestions too seriously but please add the PUSH effect to the Slipgate weapons that had it.

Thanks.

And just for the benefit of those claiming that the nails are too slow, just change \cg_fov to 100 and you'll see just how accurate they are. 'Nuff said.

I originally started this tread because whenI ran to the top of the bouncy map, all I found was a SNG! What a let down. Same for that Q2 map, the remake, with the railgun that you have to get thou a water tunnel to reach. I like the SNG, but why does it seem to be the equivilent of the railgun? surely the RL should be at the top if you are a slipgater.
Just my thought.

Yes, but Q1 has a slightly higher default FOV than Q3 anyway. Try them side by side and you'll see what I mean.