Decade of Games, I'm back to my roots!

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25. November 2009 - 0:31

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Just registered today and wanted to drop in and introduce myself to all the folks here at excessiveplus.net. Its been nearly a decade since I was hardcore into Mr. Pants Excessive MOD CTF & TDM (remember 'The Proving Grounds' ladders anyone?).

Anyhow, with the recent evolution of gaming these past years nothing seems to have kept my interest like this game ever did. The sheer competitiveness and sense of community is unparalleled IMO (hostile and humble as it can be, hah).

Seeing where the newer FPS market seems to be headed it's left a really bad taste in my mouth. So I figure what better time to get back at my roots here in the excessive community and help contribute to keeping the dream alive :!:

The only real challenge it seems is going to be finding a solid community or group of folks to practice with on US server(. Random pubs are alright, but I prefer working with organized people that practice strats and refine their game play. I've already looked at Spider's selection of servers and it seems the US crowd is seriously under-representing here (dead servers).

Can anyone recommend any personal favorites in the US (E+ CTF & TDM) that actually stay fairly busy? I live in the Midwest, but any server location in the states should suffice (Dallas and Chicago are ala-ping for me). I honestly haven't even been able to find any old community still playing the unmodified Pants version of excessive. Seems everyone has transitioned to E+ since his development stopped (understandably).

Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I got my autoexec built today during my idle time at work. Now I just need to find a decent server to sand the rust off these skills, heh.

Anyone open to allowing me to work with them would be fantastic. I need to get a feel for where this community is at before settling down with any clans (IMO).

Breakneck,

25. November 2009 - 0:39

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Hey mate. good to see some old faces around, Ofc im guessing the cfg your looking at is e5? (plus cfg is not what the excessive cfg was) Well unfortunatly there is rarly any us e5 servers going, Your best bet is to take a trip down memory lane to the 1.30 server which are still standing. Quite a few americans still play there (more than on e+) . The main active server is the borgteam server (ctf)

Oh ye also if you want to play the pants cfg without any modifications you wont find it here in e+ . Unless you callvote the cfg on the server, I think looking at the 1.30 servers is a start, somw of your old mates still play there

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25. November 2009 - 0:44

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oh also

http://www.qxmon.net/q3mon-browser.pl?browser_func=GET+NEW+LIST&q_country=&q_gametype=ALL&q_map=&q_master=Local+Cache&q_mod=&q_protocol=66&q_sort=Number+of+Players&x=1&y=1

that will help you find the 130 servers

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25. November 2009 - 0:51

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WoW, thanks for the prompt response Shadow! I'm glad you mentioned the "E5" thing. As I've been reading through things I haven't clearly established what all these different levels of "Ex" mean in terms of game play modes. I'm gathering one is for rails, another for freeze, etc etc.

What exactly is the breakdown on that? Sorry if that question gets abused a lot. I can dig around and find out if needed.

Its a shame there isn't much of a community for E5 in the US (assuming thats the most similar to old school excessive). I never got into the rails play or freeze really. I dig the trick shots in CTF way too much. Map traversing was sooo fun! I think that's one of the unique things about this game that hooked me so much, the sheer speed of play combined with good teamwork.

I always preferred 1.31-1.32 game play. That's what was required in the matches on Proving Grounds at the time. 1.30 was full of hacks and n00b tubers galore from what I remember. If I have no choice though, I may have to dabble and see what things have become.

Thanks again for the feedback.

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25. November 2009 - 1:20

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Yep mate, There is serveral cfgs, I guess for somone who was only ever use to one cfg it might be a bit to take in. Ill try to help you out.

E5 -EXCESSIVE5 - switch times are fast, NO rail <---- 1.03 e5 Is very similar to the excessive cfg. Only minor changes are bfg splash is not as powerfull. Mg takes i think 9 bullets to frag with.

E5-EXCESSIVE5 1.04 - Slow switch times (I think in a bid to be more like the excessive 1.30 ) Bfg damage improved not sure what much else (this is very similar to excessive 1.30 ) The good news is that it is the official cfg of the latest ctf cup.

E5R- EXCESSIVE5RAIL EDITION 1.03 - fast switch times, basically the same as e5 1.03 mate but with an insta rail. Sadly its the cfg which is used on the last known public 1.03 ctf servers but its not to bad.

E5R - EXCESSIVERAIL EDITION 1.04 - slow switch same as the 1.04 E5 but with an insta rail.

EXCESSIVE6 - Which is very similar to the 1.04 e5 but was created for 1.03 in a bid for the game to have more of an excessive pants style to it. But since the new slow switch e5 i tend not to see the cfg played much anymore.

So thats one half of the community and cfgs (probly got alot wrong )

Then you have PLUS

PLUS is a different cfg with a completly different clan database, PLus = alot more active than e5. Anyway

wont go into detail on the plus cfgs as i dont know much about them. Mainly i know its rail based.

Come and play on the borg ctf server. Its the same ctf action but even more fast paced (with less skill ) . But if you want to check out a war in the new 1.04 e5 pm me (ill let you spec an upcoming war for sure )

Or ill send you demos anyway good to see you and np

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25. November 2009 - 2:53

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Hey there breakneck, if you are really interested on bring up some nice games on Ctf or FFA, count on me.

IM hk spider leader of HK clan, or at least what is remaining of this clan. We have servers very customizable so we can turn up any server as we wish if we want to make some activity on the US side.

If you got msn pm me with it so we can keep it up, we need people with your will here more than ever.

I have contact with most of the remaing american players and im pretty sure that we can come out with something to atract some more.

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25. November 2009 - 10:08

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I was hardcore into Mr. Pants Excessive MOD CTF & TDM (remember 'The Proving Grounds' ladders anyone?).

nick and clans?

in E+ even e5 is far from what you know from Pant's excessive... weaponswitcing became much faster and damage much lower. Anyways it is pretty much fun

!!newest e6 (E+1.04)!!
e6 (E+1.03)

25. November 2009 - 13:16

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I was hardcore into Mr. Pants Excessive MOD CTF & TDM (remember 'The Proving Grounds' ladders anyone?).

nick and clans?

in E+ even e5 is far from what you know from Pant's excessive... weaponswitcing became much faster and damage much lower. Anyways it is pretty much fun

i was wondering too.... who are you?

25. November 2009 - 14:14

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=TKC=Olympus
His_Own ILLness

two names he used, took from events - e5 last man standing post

25. November 2009 - 17:52

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ow i remember... one of this TKC tdm cheaters

25. November 2009 - 18:00

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I was hardcore into Mr. Pants Excessive MOD CTF & TDM (remember 'The Proving Grounds' ladders anyone?).

nick and clans?

in E+ even e5 is far from what you know from Pant's excessive... weaponswitcing became much faster and damage much lower. Anyways it is pretty much fun

i was wondering too.... who are you?

Yeah, Monkey called it. I was a bit of a late bloomer during this era. His_Own was 2nd generation when I joined it. This was the start of my 'serious' game play. I had always played Q3 X under random alias's and hit up LAN with friends.

Later on some of us formed STnT and =TKC= (both short lived). Maybe you guys remember a TinkyWinky & Rocafella? They owned most folks that got in their way back then. I think their last clan was |U9| (Crazy8 comes to mind too). =D= had some of the best players in their roster at their pinnacle too. -DS-, MGA, Pyro, and others I can't remember off hand all had great folks tearing it up as well.

I spent most my time practicing with Nikon and Porn*Star (His_Own Dumbazz & His_Own Cannabis respectively). Those guys both rocked and I learned a lot from them. They taught me the ropes in the early years. It was only because of them that I learned the importance of autoexec's and proper trick shots / map traversing. The rest was history and tons o' fun!

I hopped on some Plus v2.0a last night and all I can say is what a disappointment that was. Absolutely nothing like what we used to play. Soon as I realized you could multi-hop any sense of hope in that particular server .cfg went out the window, lol. Sorry, but if you fall you should die...

BFG and MG were kings of excessive with SG and LG probably second down the line. My whole play style is totally kaboshed with this new MOD. Juding from what I've heard I need to maybe check out E5 v1.03 or v1.04.

But for the life of me I can't find anything substantial on these servers. It sounds like nobody has really dedicated any servers to 1.04 yet and most folks still play 1.03. I haven't been able to find the files I need for these game types yet, just discussion of them. Are the two versions just referring to the difference in server cfg's that are based off the excessive + MOD itself?

I may just end up trying to get a hold of some folks and see if we can't bring some life back to Pants 1.32. Things sure have changed.

Breakneck,