Vertical banashots? =p

RaGe|DB · Post by **RaGe|DB** » 29-08-2004 17:41

FireCell wrote: Mmm i guess on one plays tennis or any other sport in real life? Because you might understand what happens when you put spin on a ball if you did

i play football you meanie!

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 29-08-2004 21:23

Wouldn't this need an actual round karma-ball to be implemented? :\
To make actual ball movements like this possible.

You'd also have to be able to see the way it's spinning tbh

Then again, it *should* be possible, seeing as a skin could be created with a pattern for example (stripes along an axis?), and Carball actually uses a karma ball

(correct me if I'm wrong o_O)

priior · Post by **priior** » 29-08-2004 22:17

i play pingpong.. and ive never seen the ball do what morningstar drew

no spin will be able to break gravity.. wouldnt it continue going up?

a backspin ball.. travels slower and bounces back when it hits the ground.

topspin ball travels faster, falls sooner, and leaps forward and low when it hits the floor.

Sixty · Post by **Sixty** » 29-08-2004 22:27

Idd, topspin and backspin would be the next best thing to the quite impossible vertical banana.

I like it

Alars · Post by **Alars** » 30-08-2004 04:13

getting back to the controls - i use and intellimouse explorer 3.0 <3 and i use the thumb buttons for curve - big for left and small for right - works fine and its not awkward.

now correct me it im wrong - but most gamers use either my mouse or a MX500, which both have 2 thumb buttons.

wheel + thumb buttons = 4 way curve?

Post by **DavidM** » 30-08-2004 04:16

this stuff is by far not standard yet.
I claim a wheel IS

priior · Post by **priior** » 30-08-2004 04:20

i use a regular logitech optical... one thumb button

but does it matter where the defautl control is? everybody changes those anyways.

Post by **DavidM** » 30-08-2004 04:22

i have to make sure, features we add are good controllable. its gotta be a mouse thing since it sux to release walk buttons for something else

Esorcismo · Post by **Esorcismo** » 30-08-2004 05:59

I suppose in baseball terms an up banana (top spin) would be like a breaking ball and a down banana would be like a rising fast ball? gg... I wish MS would just add tilt to the 3.0 without fucking up the wheel design, that would be perfect...

As for the comment about the IntelliMouse Optical having less accuracy than the explorer, that's actually not true. The WHEEL MOUSE optical is 1/4 the accuracy of the IMO and IME mice... but yeah, don't see how a downward banana would work, but for an over the top pass an up banana could be interesting...

Post by **DavidM** » 30-08-2004 06:03

well to me downward banana makes sense, but upward doesnt

the ball cannot bend upwards, really...
you would never see this in RL

Inphidel · Post by **Inphidel** » 30-08-2004 06:23

a ball can move up and down, it all hasta do with air effects the ball.. like a ping pong would have more curve do to air friction up and down if it had dimples like a golf ball., one reason golfballs.

its possible. but i think up and down shots might over complicate the game for keepers. as much as i like some variety. i like less new players on public servers playing keeper cuz they have a chance to save the ball

speedy · Post by **speedy** » 30-08-2004 10:34

DavidM wrote: well to me downward banana makes sense, but upward doesnt

the ball cannot bend upwards, really...
you would never see this in RL

ok. for the upward banana make the bounce a bit higher and slower than a normal one

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 30-08-2004 13:28

ooh ms paint is fun!

fro · Post by **fro** » 30-08-2004 13:41

nice drawings and idealogy, but i personally cannot see this working, part of the game is being able to predict and read the path of the ball, changing something like that would screw many things over.

taking reliks drawings as an example, passing around (possibly even via the wall OMG GGBB) the middle man would be the most viable option

Fooman · Post by **Fooman** » 30-08-2004 15:14

How about we quit fucking with things that aren't broke.