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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?

  • 05.15.2006 1:58 PM PDT
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Hmmm, lots of health, but with melee, does the paddy whack on the back rule still apply, or would the melee only take down 2% of his health?

  • 05.15.2006 2:02 PM PDT
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A tap on the back ALWAYS work, whether on 1 bar no shield, or 400% health and shield and when you just picked up the overshield and you're invincible to every other kind of damage, including having a tank fall on you.

I've tested this.

  • 05.15.2006 2:44 PM PDT
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If you can host a server and tell the IP, I'll be sure to try this gametype.

  • 05.15.2006 2:46 PM PDT
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Hey Igg, PLZ MAKE IT SO!!!!

  • 05.15.2006 2:47 PM PDT
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cool, a hog only game sounds really fun. ill try to find it sometimes and play it. the only thing i worry about is people who come on to be jerks, and uses weapons while everyone else is playing fair...

once i hosted a plasma pistol only gametype. it was so fun, the frustration of trying to get your slow green plasma to hit, etc. etc. lol good times... xD

  • 05.15.2006 2:49 PM PDT
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Wow, this sounds nice, and plus it sounds great for some warthog fun :), and great as well for tatics. :)

  • 05.15.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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I think I should check this server out.

[Edited on 5/15/2006]

  • 05.15.2006 6:40 PM PDT