Arrows on/off

[Air]

Im sure you all have though about it, so what you think about playing witout arrows on, sure ill be a caos, but ¿can be funny for a change?:cool:

[Trieb]

Had a real laugh yesterday abt some American player, losing several maps and chosing every time the "wrong" side.
He was yelling at the end "playing with arrows on is sooooo gay" roflmao.
After playing 4 or 5 maps he finally figured it out for himself.

Indeed it can be fun AiR m8 but it should be fun only for more experienced players, and not for the variate players that connect to OMS.
Even the stats site is broken/down/gone forever people play for accuracy, kill/death ratio and their own stats doing objectives.
There will be a mass slaughter on their own team both sides with teamkilling on purpose and unnoticed, or accidental with votes F1 for a kick.
Personally I don't mind to give it a go, but I'm almost sure it will attract a different type of players and those are not the majority of those who still play ETQW.
We're still doing very well, server rank still no.2....that should show us that we're doing fine with this formula:
Spamming our rules, even up crap teams, eject lamer and flamers and.... a vanilla cfg for a ranked pubic server.
I've seen several servers trying it out before.....but where the fvck are they now eh? :))))))

[Air]

well there always will be wankers and whiners, if they loose they start their particular mantra .... gays, loosers,cheaters, and so on.. :))))))

Yes no arrows brings to massive tk, coz people start shooting all that moves even mates, that´s why i think it could be fun, may be just for a week-end or so, not always arrows off, but a week.end.

[Air]

On the other hand you are right m8. "if something works fine better left it the way it is"

[DrDeath]

Well , I haven't really played on any servers with arrows off . Is there a server cvar that alters the distance that the arrows start to show up ? I am inclined to agree with Trieb but also think the "no green/red arrows for saturday night from 8pm to 1am , please bring your friends and have fun and don't complain about tk's " could be a fun deviation from normal.

[ancient]

i am strongly in favor of removing arrows, the usual player on OMS is above average anyways + the lack of arrows gives infantery much better tactical options. you can actually hide from vehicles (let them pass by), also i ran more than once past an enemy (without arrows) hiding in a dark corner or some bushes.
i dont think that it will increase teamkills (it doesnt on the servers without arrows), except the rare occasions were an enemy is ligned up with a friendly player making it look like the green arrow points on the enemy ending with yourself getting killed by surprise.

Maybe it could be disabled for a week to test or like, i doubt that most the players would mind; at least i would not...but i for one prefer to play without arrows :)

i am pretty sure it would piss zelda off though :D

the only servers without arrows i currenlty know are the "lulus", i play them mostly because of no arrows and because i have a real low ping there. the playerbase there is in general weaker though then the usual oms player. thats the main reason i dont believe it would drive players off...
though, whatever happens the GREEN arrows MUST stay.
its impossible to determine disguised coverts else, also the teamkilling *really* gets bad without them.