FOnline: Battleground is a server based on UT-mod written by John earlier this year. Its purpose is to make a place for players interested in FOnline PvP only. Basically, you can jump into the action just few minutes after downloading the client, as all character's experience is given by an NPC and all equipment needed to fight is given by another NPC.There is also no need to set up any tournament, as the process is automated and the matches start on their own, as soon as there is at least one player in both teams.
All players not involved into fighting are able to observe whole battlefield.Game mechanics:Server's basic mechanics (PvP, perks, traits, skills and items) are taken from FOnline: Wasteland 2155, with additional changes or significant rules:
- level cap = 21,
- players can have SPECIAL characteristics lower than 3 and will still be able to gain perks,
- no worldmap.. all takes place in a single map,
- no alt or duallogging limitations,
- no roleplaying rules apply,
- NameColorizing will colour fighters appropriately and automatically,
- members of each team, their frags and total frags are listed on the right and left side of the screen,
- no drugs, poison and radiation mechanics,
- Stimpaks and Super Stimpaks are given at the start of each fight,
- Super Stimpaks no longer cause damage after time,
- no ability to steal or loot other players,
- first aid and doctor cooldown duration changed temporarily to 60 seconds,
- hotkeys for body parts: Y, U, H, J,
- hotkey for reloading weapon: R,
- moving sandbags temporarily disabled.
Tournament mechanics:1. The match will start if at least one player is present in both teams.
2. The match will last until only one team is alive on the battlefield.
3. After each match, there is a short break to rearm.
4. To leave the match, speak to the guy in black robes during the break.
Server's rules are simple:
- don't act like an asshole or you'll be banned,
- exploiting known issues will lead to a ban as well.
As the development of FOnline: Battleground has started just one week ago, you can expect many bugs and balance issues:
- holes in the walls, missing blockers here and there - the map will get improved slowly,
- some perks, weapons and such overpowered, while others - underpowered ,
- lag issues when something wrong is going on with the server machine or its connection, especially when too many players connect at once,
- if the terrible bug happens, the tournament will stop working and all is lost.
Known bugs:- Namecolorizing your own char will work only after you make a quick logout and login. Nothing serious, I guess.
- FA and DOC cooldowns aren't shown correctly (or at all).
Nothing is guaranteed or offered, so you're playing at your own riskThe server will be down sometimes, you can check it's status here:
http://www.newfmc.pl/Fonline2077/status_battleground.php
Have fun!
How to get started:1. Make sure you've read:
Official forum <-- click
http://www.newfmc.pl/wasteland2155/board/index.php?topic=13.0 ,
http://www.newfmc.pl/wasteland2155/board/index.php?topic=33.0 ,
http://newfmc.pl/Fonline2077/images/2155perks.png2. Download the client here:
http://www.newfmc.pl/Fonline2077/FOnline_Battleground_13.11.2011.zip3. Put master.dat and critter.dat into your client directory.
4. Connect to the server: 2155.servegame.com, port 5000.
5. Register a new character and login to the game.
6. Speak to NPCs to gain experience and receive gear, then ask NPC in black robes to join one of fighting parties.
7. Fight!
Thanks to: all who deserve it or contributed to the server. Special thanks to John for his UT mod, all mappers working for 2155 as their work was partially used here, cubik2k for some additional scripting, Nice Boat for writing dialogues and Skejwen for drawing flags.
Future plans (if any):
statistics (kills, deaths, K/D ratio, matches played, won, lost and so on) shown for each player via www.
