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Article #698153Re: Pentagrams, Goat heads, Upside-down crosses: Woo Hoo Quake 3
From: Justisaur
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:54
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:54
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On 8/12/2017 7:06 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > That said, T.O. had two things going for it over Counterstrike. First > and most obvious, the graphics were far superior (Remember, this was > back before the HL2 era of the game when CS was still using the Gold > engine). Second, it supported bot players thanks to Unreal > Tournament's robust AI. This was important to me as I was still stuck > on dial-up and going online for long-periods of time required > scheduling (only one phone line, you see), so it was nice to have a > single-player option. Plus T.O. didn't have the most robust of > communities, so it was great to have bots fill in a match when there > were only a handful of players. CS had bots - well sort of... You could play an offline game with bots, but online with others, no bots. - Justisaur
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