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

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From: Matthew Vaughan
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:00

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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.

Yeah, I totally agree. The grappling hook really shouldn't be used in any 
map not designed for it, and virtually all DM maps are not designed for it. 
Otherwise, most of the map design goes out the window. It turns it into a 
totally different game, one that's amusing for a while, but ultimately, I 
think, less interesting than without it.

Zoid added it from the beginning in Threewave CTF for Quake, for whatever 
reason, and then it became pretty much standard in all CTF implementations 
since then. So every CTF map ever made has been designed with the hook in 
mind, and that's just how CTF is.

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