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I can't really comment on QL as i haven't jumped into that one since 2011/2012 or so, but it no longer has the playernumbers that it used to have, back in the old days.

They (ID Software) kinda put the final nail in the coffin when Quake Champions was released and QL was dropped by QuakeCon, so the pro players also moved over to QC. But even before that, mistakes were made by ID Software itself, they jumped from a Free2Play model to a monthly subscription model and then finally to a single-payment/retail model, and the patches that were released added unnessary things like Loadouts (which was meant to lure new young blood into the game), but nobody really cared about those additions. Quake 3 CPMA (Challenge ProMode Arena mod) is another thing, it's maintained by its own community, pretty similar to what Team Simple is doing for BF1942. It's pretty dead as well, but you should be able to get games going by privately arranging matches through Discord.

The learning curve is indeed steep, in fact, some of those jumps you see in the video (for example to the red armor ledge), takes days or perhaps weeks to learn and months to perfect. It's not a very welcoming game to new players, they often just get raped and never come back again. It's why that whole genre is a niche and so unpopular. But i love those type of games, it took me years to reach a high level, and the feeling you get when you finally start beating pro players is something truly special.

You can head over to playmorepromode.com and DL it for 'free', it's abandonware nowadays so nobody cares (like BF1942), if you need help setting it up etc. give me a PM, i'll be happy to help

edit: ah, actually the core quake 3 game files are not included on that website, for legal reasons... but you can get it from here: https://mega.nz/file/LosA1AJa#H_VxTArD7 … QKMQ8kMlz8
*shhhh, don't tell the internet police*

Technically, BF1942 no longer needs to be installed. It's now fully portable, you can just download the files and run it from the folder. You can also just put it on a USB stick and bring it with you, share it with others etc.

OP, try the one from this link, i'm sure it will run fine as i tested it on many computers, just place somewhere and run:

https://mega.nz/file/GgVXlTCT#M3AGjJxzf … CypoA7-CgU

edit: to clarify, it uses Tuia's installed BF1942 as a base and BFPlus by uuuz, it also has the required DirectPlay file (no need to install that one anymore) and it has the D3D8to9 file already added, which resolves some black screen errors.

Indeed, i compared my changes with the default behavior of the US M10 tank destroyer. With these changes, the Tiger Tank now feels very similar to the M10 but slightly stiffer/heavier/less wobbly in the suspension, which is exactly how it should be if you look at their weights: the M10 weighed 30 tons, the Tiger I weighed 54 to 57 tons (depending on which Ausfuhrung), if you look at footage of a real Tiger I tank driving (see youtube, Tiger #131 of Bovington Museum) you will see that BF's physics simply don't do it justice at all.

We all know BF is not realistic by any means, it's arcadey and fun, but the Tiger should atleast feel heavier and more stable in its maneuverability than for example the lighter M10, this setting enables that. I doubt it has a deep impact on gameplay/balance, it's too subtle for that. I don't think it will make you alot better, but it sure feels less annoying to wait until the bouncing has come to a complete halt.

I wonder if it was really a way to nerf the Tiger, they could have done it in other ways for balancing purposes, for example by allowing more enemy tanks (ratio). It is actually historically correct that a Tiger would be outnumbered and take on many enemy tanks at the same time.

Perhaps you are right though, but maybe they succeeded *too much* in nerfing it, right now i often see experienced players skip a Tiger tank and hop in a nearby Panzer IV, because as you mentioned, the Tiger also has a ridiculous projectile trajectory/bullet drop going on (in reality the Tiger could shoot very far, effectively at 2km), the Panzer IV doesn't have that. So, besides armor, the Panzer IV is actually the better tank to use in many scenarios, especially from far away in maps such as Aberdeen... i doubt that is what the devs intended to accomplish here.

I guess it would be cool if the SiMPLE server would experiment a bit with this subtle change, that's why i made this post, to gauge if there is any interest to change it. Maybe players are also just too familiar with the default Tiger behavior that they will not be positive about any changes.

@Paul, no worries, this doesn't work in multiplayer, i checked it (only works client-side) and therefor it cannot give any advantage, it would only work if the server implements it (serverside).