Re: Strange Easter Egg in Quake II! WTF is it???

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From: Margolis
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:13

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"rjdriver" <rjdrivers@cox.net> wrote in message 
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>
>   The hook was an interesting toy, bit I never adopted it for DM play. 
> Call me a purist, but I always though it completely negated the mapper's 
> intentions.  Why bother with stairs, ramps, ladders, elevators - the hook 
> made them all superfluous.  It was fun - but......
>
> I'm probably going to get slammed for this, but that's how I viewed the 
> hook.
>
> Bob
>

consider yourself slammed ;op

jk

but as McGrandpa pointed out, a lot of maps were designed with the grapple 
in mind, especially ctf which is what I always played.  I never really went 
in for the deathmatch games, I liked working with a team in ctf.   Remember, 
the grapple was not some thirdparty mod but was actually a part of the game 
that is just activated or deactivated by the server. So imho, it is a little 
innaccurate to say "the designers didn't intend for it to be used".

just my 2ó



-- 

Margolis
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