- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I recently (about an hour ago) played on a server called "Hog kills only!"
Basically, it's team slayer on Blood Gulch with hogs only, 400 life, and no shields. You've got to make kills with road-kills or hog gunning skills only, and since there are no shields, it's pretty funky. With the starting plasma pistol weapon and no grenades, it leads to some very interesting tactics, like setting up killfields by putting MG hogs in the corners, and firing at spawns, which can be broken by moving up rocket hogs to safe locations far enough away to bombard with rockets. There's some great innovations in this, and I found it an incredibly fun gametype, even though there were some irritating bastards who kept using normal weaponery. With enough hogs, there wouldn't be too much overpowering, especially as the 400 health allows for quite some damage. Melee was the only other weapon allowable.
I'd suggest that we could try a game like this on the Maw servers once or twice, as a random objective match.
There are some other 'funny game objective' types out there, like 'capture the cave' in BG, or melee only matches - can anyone else suggest any?