The Hidden!

[Bluepixie]

It's now 3:58, and the LAN is still going strong. Strings is finding different amusing ways of killing Combine in Lost Coast. The Hidden is definately the game of the LAN, scaring the crap out of everyone stealing AvP2's lime light.

[DAve]

The hidden? Any chance of a link?

[Fyndir]

The hidden? Any chance of a link?

Sure. ;) (http://www.google.com)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[DAve]

Ah, great, cheers.

I thought you would have at least tried this:
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

The reason I asked is that the first ten links I found on google pointed me to the files, but not the homepage of hidden. Which is why I asked if anyone had a link. Gah.

[Fyndir]

Ah, great, cheers.

I thought you would have at least tried this:
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

The reason I asked is that the first ten links I found on google pointed me to the files, but not the homepage of hidden. Which is why I asked if anyone had a link. Gah.

I am amazingly helpful, am I not? =D

Did you see this one? (http://www.hidden-source.com/)

[DAve]

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks very much.

edit: have you got bored of the avitar arms race ;)

[Fyndir]

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks very much.

edit: have you got bored of the avitar arms race ;)

Unless there's some error in my page I'm still on FAMAS which is what my pic is currently set to..

[DAve]

Must have been some sort of glitch in the cache my end.

[Fyndir]

Must have been some sort of glitch in the cache my end.

That's ok. =)

I'm onto the Autoshot, which I assumed refered to the automatic shotgun. =D

[Strings]

Glad you guys really like The Hidden. Was hoping it would catch on like it did.

Lets just hope for a new revision of it before the next LAN :)

[Strings]

Been doing some extensive research on the mod by trawling the forums.

As many people wanted (especially Exuus) you CAN pick up and throw bodies and you CAN nail the corpses to the walls.

Now I think the reason we couldn't get this to work properly is down to 2 things.

1.) The pig sticker gibs them instantly. Which means you cant play around with them after or eat them for health.

2.) Picking up corpses with the use key is apparently quite buggy.

So perhaps some of the probs we were having server wise was just down to the network architecture being somewhat messy.

Either way, reading that you can do all this stuff just makes me want to play it all more.

[Sideshow]

Yeah, I had a big look at the Hidden site and forums on Monday. They've talked about stopping the instagib on the pig-sticker, but want to keep it because they don't want the Hidden to be able to regen health from pig-stuck kills. Sadly, they seem to be very closed source and jealous of their mod, loathe to even put in server controlled options - basically, they want people to play the game their way or not at all. It's a shame, since it has so much potential that I fear is just going to go to waste.

The suggested tactic for getting non-pigsticker kills is to pipe-bomb them first, to get there health into a viable range for the normal knife slashes to finish them off.

[Strings]

If you use a "quick in, quick out" technique when playing as the Hidden. It actually works quite well.

You jump in, hurt some marines, jump out again. And when you do manage to kill someone. Any health you lost before is regained.

I think thats fair enough. Also keeps the marines on their toes. So I think from now on, Im not going to use the pig sticker unless Im pinning someones body to the wall :D

[Sideshow]

:)
The main thing I have against instagib is simply that it looks stupid. The tone of the game otherwise is quite serious. Exploding corpses because someone poked a bit of metal into them is just lame.

[Fyndir]

:)
The main thing I have against instagib is simply that it looks stupid. The tone of the game otherwise is quite serious. Exploding corpses because someone poked a bit of metal into them is just lame.

Dramatic and scary though, you're standing next to your mate looking around and BAM he's fucking GONE. =P

[Sideshow]

Well, no, it's too ludicrous to be scary. Having them slowly slump to the floor would be more dramatic, and wouldn't also result in the immediate erruption of gunfire at the disappeared teammate. The Hidden would get an extra second to get clear.
What would be awesome would be different death animations depending on the location hit - arms coming off at the shoulder, torso halfling, decaptitation - the player would be dead instantly but to everyone else his model could stand there screaming for a couple of seconds. Making bodies split would require some effort, but just having them slump slowly with vast jets of blood would be easily doable.

[Fyndir]

Well, no, it's too ludicrous to be scary. Having them slowly slump to the floor would be more dramatic, and wouldn't also result in the immediate erruption of gunfire at the disappeared teammate. The Hidden would get an extra second to get clear.
What would be awesome would be different death animations depending on the location hit - arms coming off at the shoulder, torso halfling, decaptitation - the player would be dead instantly but to everyone else his model could stand there screaming for a couple of seconds. Making bodies split would require some effort, but just having them slump slowly with vast jets of blood would be easily doable.

Psh, too ludicrous my ass, you were all screaming and crying like babies. =P