- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
We have been hosting lan parties for H1 for over a year, and trust me, flag games never get old. To have the sickest games, make sure the teams are perfectly matched, 4 good players can take on 6 decent players in a flag, but the team that has fewer people will win if you are playing a slayer (in most cases)
Slayer games are good, especially 255. Another huge factor is the level. It's useless to play on the larger levels like Blood Gulch if you only have 8 people. Damnation is a perfect level for any number of people (2-16). Chill Out, Hang em High, Battle Creek, Longest, Prisoner and Wizard are also good levels.
Hill is a good one especially if you throw things in to keep it random and interesting. A game that we played recently that was rather interesting was non-moving hill on Longest, snipers only. It turned the hill into a wind tunnel of doom with all the sniper round going by.
Also make sure that you turn off radar, it is -blam!- as well as pointless.
If you can trust the other players to obey the restrictions you can play melee only on wizard, plasma weapons (make sure they know not to shoot or throw grenades)
Thats all I can think of for right now. Write back if this helps and maybe I can come up with some more stuff.